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Architectural design must be based on ergonomics

Ergonomics is a study of human anatomy, physiology, psychology, and other factors in the work environment, it can also be considered a study of human, machine and environment system of the various components in the working conditions and how to achieve the optimization problem. The reasonable coordination between the structure of the interior environment and the human body is studied, which is suitable for people's physical and mental activities and obtains the best use efficiency. So the architects have to design for the ergonomic body.

As mentioned in the article “One might even say that for Merleau-Ponty – to use an architectural analogy that he himself may well have resisted – the body was the cornerstone of his whole philosophical project. In one sense he described it as the implicit foundation for everything wecome to know about the world, and for the reader he revealed a progressively clearer picture of this typically hidden founding function”1.(9) In thisformulation we can see already why embodied experience was so fundamental to Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy and why it should also be of interest to anyone concerned with the understanding and organization of space. A key component of this form of bodily awareness is the sense of our own physical limits and capacities. To explain this Merleau-Ponty borrowed a notion from previous research in psychology regarding the function of the so-called‘body schema’. The idea “effectively a whole array of ‘body schemas’ to suit the demands of specific situations”2(16) is impotant,because it forms the basis for a new definition of the self, based on the principle that to be embodied is to be always already engaged with the world. Therefore, architectural design must be based on ergonomics.

In today’s practice, the various skins of a building have become more complicated and porous as the field of architecture extends itself into “systemic” conditions. It follows then that the body survives the interaction and communication.Architecture is beginning the process of aligning itself with a new moral code—one that is inclusive of biological reality, the embodiment of ideas, systemic evolution, and ecological necessities. So architecture is an embodied process in what other ways.