Marina Santos is an architect based in California.








Python, Data Visualization

Architecture, Research
Architecture, Research

Research

Urban Design
Architecture, Competition
Architecture
Architecture
Architecture
Architecture
Architecture

Urban Planning, Publication

Brand, Experience

Sculpture

Sculpture

Photography, Video






Non Bodies



Jury’s Citation for Research 2018
Full Thesis Publication Special thanks to Lydia Xynogala for helping edit this  publication


Historically, the representation of the human body, from Leonardo DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man to Le Corbusier’s Le Modular, depicts the ideal man. Ernst and Peter Neufert’s “Architect’s Data” presents spatial guidelines for men. Henry Dreyfuss and Associates’ “The Measure of Man and Woman” and “Humanscale” represent a larger portion of the population and offer anatomic measurements and spatial blueprints for men and women as well as young and old.

These anthropometric handbooks serve as canonical guidelines that influence how architects and designers understand bodies and how they design architectural details and spaces around us. However, these guidelines are limited to the universal body.


The following drawings juxtapose drawn universal bodies throughout architecture discourse with a cast of real humans, with varying ages, shapes, abilities and external or mechanical appendages. The result is an ensemble of five fictional imagined individuals who are have varying abilities and personas and who in which New Spaces are imagined for.


Part 1 // Thesis // Master in Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture // Spring 2018

Non Bodies examines how anthropometric representation can better reflect the diversity in human bodies, how varied bodies move in space, and how an understanding of the non-universal body can inform design.