CONCEPTUALIZATION TECHNIQUES OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

• Concept


  An initial generalized idea, a germination which is to be expanded and developed later into more detail, an embryonic framework which is to accommodate a richer complexity, a perception about space and form resulting from problem analysis, a mental image deriving from the project situation, a strategy for moving from project needs to building solution, the designers' first ideas about building morphology
• Concepts


  • Derived from problem analysis
  • Are general and rudimentary in character
  • Require further development
• Categories of concern in concept getting

  • Functional Grouping and Zoning
  • Architectural space
  • Building envelope
  • Circulation and Building form
  • Response to Context
• Examples of buildings with different conceptual approaches

  • Turning Torso by Santiago Calatrava
  • Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry
  • Vitra Fire Station By Zaha Hadid
• Active concept getting


  Deliberate, conscious and methodical way of arriving at concepts, involves understanding and predicting the concerns and problems before addressing it with concepts
• Passive concept getting


  The designer waits for the concerns or problems to come to his consciousness and waits for the concepts to "bubble up"
• Factors that influence the designer when designing

  • General philosophy and life values of the designer
  • Design philosophy of the designer
  • View of the problem by the designer
• Concepts addressing architectural space

  • Motivation and need
  • Mechanisms in Perceiving Space
  • Forming Space
  • Spatial Qualities
  • Scale Types and Sequence
  • Scale Flexibility
  • Tailored Space
  • Anonymous Space
  • Space and Space Relationship
  • Inside-Outside Space
  • Multi-use of Space
  • Circulation of Space
• Concept vocabulary addressing different design concerns

  • Concepts used to address functional grouping and zoning
  • Concepts used to address architectural space
  • Concepts used to address building form and circulation
  • Concepts used to address building envelope
  • Concepts used to address response to context
• Concepts used to address functional grouping and zoning

  • Need for adjacency
  • Similarity in General Role
  • Relatedness to Goals, Departments and Systems
  • Sequence in Time
  • Buildings are a Synthesis of Systems that Intersects at Certain Points
  • Required Environments
  • Types of Effects Produced
  • Relative Proximity to Building
  • Relatedness to Core Activities
  • Characteristics of People Involved
  • Volume of People Involved
  • Extent of Man or Machine Involvement
  • Degree of Emergency or Critical Situations
  • Relative speed of Respective Activities
  • Frequency of Activity Occurrence
  • Duration of Activities
  • Anticipated Growth and Change