Exploring the Panel Exercises in the Modulor as presented by Le Corbusier

Abstract

In this study, the possibility of using the Modulor in the digital era is explored by employing computational methods to solve "The Panel Exercises" that Le Corbusier presented in his well-known book "Modulor" and confirming the explosions of their combinations. First, the mathematical characteristics of the Modulor are reconfirmed. Thereafter, we present the gradual bisection method to generate combinations of the first panel exercise and a program of the depth-first search to enumerate all the possible solutions of the second panel exercise. It is also demonstrated that the other panel exercises that evolved from the previous two exercises can be solved with these methods.