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Building and Body -- Yap Jia Cherng



BUILDING . BODY


         The relationship between building and body nowadays in expressed in several ways, some of it is related to the key concept of space planning of the building, some of it is related to the anthropometry of the building, some of it is related to how a building looks in the end. In my opinion there is no absolute way of relating both human and body in architecture, the two will always influence each other, as architect we must self find a balance within it, according to what we want to design, we find a point where the two should meet.

        Among the others, what I think is that anthropometry in architecture is one of the most direct response between architecture and human body. I would like to use House NA by Sou Fujimoto to furthermore discuss about this.





        This house is designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 squarefoot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home.

        Bring on to the space planning, the house act as a single room and a combination of rooms at the same time. The loosely defined program of the individual floor plates create a variety range of activities that can take place at different scales. This loose define space creates an interaction between building and human, is not just about how the space is defined for, is also about how the user define the space.



        A table may be a chair, a chair may be a bed, a bed may be floor, a floor may be a table...

        Each of the floor plate is linked by a stairs and ladders, some fixed short runs and also movable steps. Floor plates are desgined in a furniture-like scale allows the structure to serve many type of functions, such as providing for circulation, seating and workings spaces.

        Sou Fujimoto states, “The intriguing point of a tree is that these places are not hermetically isolated but are connected to one another in its unique relativity. To hear one's voice from across and above, hopping over to another branch, a discussion taking place across branches by members from separate branches. These are some of the moments of richness encountered through such spatially dense living.”

        This kind of design is very interactive and responsive to human behaviour in daily life. In the fixed structure it remain some sort of freedom that can adapt to the users different desire in different days. 





        In my point of view, architecture today should have stronger response and interaction to human, this conversation betweeen building makes architecture more alive, and more true to the one who use it. The combination of both should exist in a harmony form with the consideration and constrains of practical functionality. Just like Lance Hosey said : " The distinction between archaic and modern conceptions of the body provides a convenient contrast, but it is not an absolute split, for much of the canonical discourse of modernism reveals an emphasis on both sacred harmony and mechanical efficiency. "


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