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• Design is the activity of generating proposals that change something existing into something better
• Design includes purposeful changes to the physical environment
• All environments are designed as they embody human decisions and choices
• Design happens when activities change the earth's face and create built environments
• Two types of environments: natural environment and built environment
• Functional Zoning:

  • The need for adjacency
• Architectural Space:

  • Concretization of man's existential space
• Circulation and Building Form:

  • Circulation is the perceptual thread linking spaces of a building or series of spaces
  • Building forms are conceived as structures
• Response to Context:

  • Depends on the environment and the meaning of the structure in that environment
• Building Envelope: The imaginary shape of a building indicating its maximum volume - Used to check the plan and setback with respect to zoning regulations
• Creativity is essential in design and involves generating new ideas
• Ideation:

  • Mental process giving the ability to think or ideate
• Idea Quantity:

  • Capacity to produce the largest number of ideas per unit of time
• Imagineering:

  • Letting imagination soar and then engineering it back to reality
• GENERAL CATEGORIES BY WHICH CONCERNS AND ISSUES MAY BE ADDRESSED IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN:

  1. Functional Zoning
  2. Architectural Space
  3. Circulation and Building Form
  4. Response to Context
  5. Building Envelope
• THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN

  DEVELOPING CREATIVITY

  1. IDEATION
  2. IDEA QUANTITY
  3. IMAGINEERING
• Space is the most influential aspect of design problem

  solving.
• Context can also refer to the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs, such as the environment or setting.