How do you think ergonomic and anthropometric design, and scale, have been explored in the 2013 project Kroppsrom (Corporeal room) at the National Museum of Architecture by Atelier Oslo? Reflect on your responses to the project in your learning log.
I think the designers explored the anthropometric data of the average human figure and designed the space around them. One of the resources mentioned that the space was supposed to make people move in a way they would not expect, and create the experience through the activity, as well as simple, peaceful and gently lit interior.
I imagine Atelier Oslo drew the human figures as pictured in the data images and made the space flow from one set of dimensions to another and so on. I can sort of see this process in my imagination, but it is quite hard to describe it, but I’ll try anyway. A 3D animation of an opening being created in the solid mass. The solid mass is surrounding (and filling) the human forms being carved out. As the corridors and caverns are created, the human figures remain – they aren’t carved out with the solid mass that they are contained within. As if the figures are in a different layer to the mass. The whole process is smooth and flows easily.
Considering the process of creation of such an interesting, unusual space is a great activity. I wonder If I am at least a little bit correct in my guessing on how the designers idea started. Thinking about it got my imagination going. I often wonder about hows and whys, it was an enjoyable exercise.
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Fig. 1 QPractice (2018) Body measurements. [Drawing] At: https://www.qpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/Body-measurements1.jpg (Accessed 13/02/2022)
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