- The document summarizes a French workshop on math and architecture held in Finland for students from France, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic, and Turkey. - During the workshop, students will draw a 1:20 scale plan of the cafeteria, discover an architect's tool called a kutsch ruler, and use body measurements like hand widths and arm lengths to take measurements. - The workshop discusses Leonardo da Vinci and the Roman architect Vitruvius to provide historical context on architects who developed measurement systems based on the human body.

1. Projet Erasmus + Maths is everywhere
French workshop : Maths and architecture
18-22 May 2015
Finlande France Grèce Pologne
République Tchèque Turquie

2. Objectives :
- draw up a scale plan (1/20) of the room (here the canteen)
- discover an architect’s tool
- using a measurement system based on the size of your body parts (hand’s width, arms’ length etc…)

3. Do you know Leonard de Vinci ?
He is one of the greatest painters of all time. But he was not only a painter :
sculptor, musician, engineer, inventor, anatomiste, geologist, cartographer,
botanist, writer, mathematician and architect, which is perfect for us
1452-1519
Linear perspective The Vitruvius Man

4. Why Vitruvius ?
He is a roman architect who lived during the first century BC.
He said that 4 fingers are 1 palm ; 4 palms are 1 foot ;
6 palms are 1 cubit and 4 cubits are the height of a man.
Vitruvius used these measures to build monuments .
Not very far from us, a swiss-born french architect,
Le Corbusier developed his own measurements system,
based on the height of a man with his arm raised.

5. Now you are going to work as architects and with a real architect’s tool called kutsch.
Kutsch is a specialized ruler designed to facilitate the drafting and measuring or architectural drawings.
e for you by two architects, Kristo and Christine. The measurements system is based on the size of children pro
-first measure is the arm’s width
-second measure is the cubit
-third measure is the distance between thumbs and little fingers on hand’s width.
-At last, we know that 4 hands are 2 cubits.

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a solution plan A2