PROBLEM SEEKING: AN o Interviews used for asking
questions and collecting data
ARCHITECTURAL
during the first three steps
PROGRAMMING PRIMER~ o Work Sessions used to verify
information and to stimulate
Programming Design
clients decisions which is the
* Architecture is common sense. fourth step
Programming Concerns The 5 steps raised these questions:
1. Establish goals. 1. Goals What does the client want to
2. Collect and analyze facts. achieve and why?
3. Uncover and test concepts. 2. Facts What do we know? What is
4. Determine needs. given?
5. State the problem. 3. Concepts How does the client want
to achieve the goals?
The design considerations (or design 4. Needs How much money and space
determinants): function, form (Di ko na and what level of quality?
nakopya yung iba rito.) 5. Problems What are the significant
condition affecting the design of the
Programming is a process. building?
Process leading to the statement of What are the general conditions the DESIGN
an architectural problem and the should take?
requirements to be met in offering a
solution. Transformation from program to
schematic design
Programmers and designers are
separate specialists. Programmers are for Basic relationship between function
analysis. Designers are for synthesis. Position and orientation
Analysis parts of the design problem are
separated and identified
CONCEPTUALIZATION
Synthesis parts are put together to form a
coherent design solution
TECHNOLOGY OF
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN~
The Separation: Programming precedes
design just as analysis precedes synthesis. Design process aimed at expanding the
Separation is central to understanding of a range of possibilities through exploration
rational architectural process, w/c leads to
Architects opportunity seekers as well as
good buildings and satisfied clients.
problem solvers
Thumbnail sketches conceptual sketches
Exploration systematic investigation or
and schematics
traveling through an unfamiliar region in
order to learn about it
Goals, Concepts and Problem Elaboration in design process
Solving are qualitative. Deviation from norm
Expansion of thinking
Programming is based on combination Development of imagination
of interviews and work sessions.
3 Approaches to Exploration Hammer and tent
Pitcher and recreational house
1. Open-minded images that suggest a
number of different perceptions or Analogous:
interpretations.
2. Transformation of images Symbolic a comparison between
3. Structuring or ordering images general qualities of two objects
Direct compares parallel facts or
Basic Types of Transformation operation
Personal the designer identifies
Topological community
himself directly with the elements of
o Cut & Fill
the problem
o Follow the contour
Fantasy uses description of an ideal
Ornamental grammar clearly
condition desired as a source of ideas
illustrates the application of
ornamental grammar to building Sources of Analogy:
massive scales
Reservals changes in image from its o Physical
first characteristic to opposite o Organic
characteristic o Cultural
o Example: Yin Yang
Sub-categories:
4 Basic Manipulations of Ornamental
Structural referring to shape or
(Thomas Beeby)
relationship
Translation simplest Mechanical the way something
Rotation operates
Inversion Control maintaining a condition
Reflection Plant goal orientation and
differentiation
Figure-ground drawing simplest form of Animal Behavior
reserval experience Man imagination and choice
Society
Lines can be used as spines for collecting Symbolic
and organizing a number of different
organizations. Concept Formation referred to as the
part used by the architectural designers to
establish the FUNDAMENTAL ORGANIZATION
of a building and guide the entire process of
THE DISCOVERY PROCESS~ design development of the designers
response to the determinants of form,
Two parts:
program, objectives, context, site, economy,
Invention seeks the basic etc.
discovery, the original idea for the
A boundary around a set of decisions
project
Concept Formation converts the that will be the focus of the designers
responsibility
discovery into graphic and verbal
A way for future design activities
statement that can give the basic
An image that arouses expectations
direction to the full development of
and provide motivations
the project
Figures:
The Ideagram the sketches that have Degree of energy for critical
already been described as flowing from situation
analogies, known as ideagrams are the Relative of speed and
starting point for concept formation; respective activities
extension of analysis diagrams that can used Frequency of activity occurrence
as: Duration of activities
Anticipated of growth and
o Aid to investigation and change
synthesis in the design process Architectural space
o A frame in the design thinking Space
process that leads to the final Expressive or
design product artistic/aesthetic space
o A literal model of the final created space to express
product mans structure of his
o A explanation of the design word
concept Expressive space
done by builders
planners,
architects,
Checklist in Design Solution
designers
Space volume required by activities Aesthetic space
Context site and climate studied by
Systems mechanical, electrical, etc. architectural
Human Factors perception, behavior, theorists and
etc. philosophers
Economic first cost, maintenance
cost Architectural space concretization of
Enclosure structure, places and mans existential space
openings, enclosing
Euclidan space 3D geometry
Geometry circulation, form and
Building systems:
image
Function activity grouping and roof, wall, floor
Space frames
zoning
Utopian city
Concept Categories planning
Divisions and
Functional zoning partitions
Need for adjacency Space within a space a set of a
Similarity in general role larger space and a secondary space
Relatedness to departments, A space/form or a
goals and systems free standing
Sequence in time object with
Required environment separate functions
Types of effects produced Interlocking space
Relative proximity to building Interlocking
Relatedness to core activities position of the
Characteristics of people volumes can be
involved shared by each
Volume of people involved space
Extent of man and machine Can merge
involvement
Can develop its and forming a
own integrity that linear sequence of
serves to link the spaces
two As a linear form
Adjacent space schemes in linking distant
separating planes spaces
Limit visual access Can be a large
between two dominating space
spaces and organizing a
accommodate their number of spaces
differences about itself
Appear as a free The forms and
standing plane in a orientation of the
single volume spaces being
Be defined as a linked or related
row of columns but Spatial organization
allows high degree Configuration to
of visual and form after an
spatial continuity arrangement of
between two parts or a form or
spaces figures determine
Be merely implied the by the
with a change in arrangement
level or surfaces Context a joining
articulation together. The
between two whole situation,
spaces background or
Spaces linked by a common space environment
the following are ways of linking relevant to a
common space particular event,
Intermediate space personality or
can be equivalent creation.
in shape and size Circulation
Response to context
