Factors Influencing Architectural Design
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ScribdTranslationsVARIABLES THAT AFFECT THE DESIGN OF
Architectural Space
HUMAN
FUNCTIONAL
AMBIENTAL
CONTEXTUAL
Constructive
FORMAL
SPACIAL
VARIABLES THAT AFFECT THE DESIGN OF
ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
ARCHITECTURE:
The art of building spaces that require human activities.
ART BUILD SPACES ACTIVITIES
KITCHEN to cook
DINING ROOM EAT
BEDROOMS REST
BATHROOMS
CLEANING
TO BE
RECREATION
HUMAN VARIABLE
NEEDS
CUSTOMS
CULTURE
MATURATION
VARIABLES THAT AFFECT THE DESIGN OF
ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
THE MAN:
It is a BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL entity, our role as architects is the
covering their needs through the design of spaces.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHICS SOCIAL
COMFORT SECURITY COMMUNICATION
THERMAL AGRADO ISOLATION
LIGHTING BEAUTY CULTURE
ACOUSTICS tranquility CUSTOMS
PHYSIOLOGICAL
VARIABLES THAT AFFECT THE DESIGN OF
Architectural Space
FUNCTIONAL:
It is the property that architecture has to satisfy the use.
FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS TO CONSIDER IN THE
DESIGN:
•Characteristics of the activities to be carried out (User interview or
client).
Group activities according to the degree of compatibility.
Specify the type of relationship between the different activities and the people.
involved (direct, indirect, visual).
Define frameworks and functioning schemes (Zoning).
Define the necessary Equipment and Furniture to carry out the different activities.
Define the area and the dimensions of the space required to carry out the
activities according to the number of people and equipment.
Determine the expressive intentions of the FORM according to its function
(Meaning).
Basic activities that define
a Space
Circular - Stay.
•Types of Organization Tour (Linear,
Centralized, Radial, in Mesh.
•Public Space - Semi-public - Private.
VARIABLE CONTEXTUAL
LOCATION: City,
Sector, Lot, Premises.
ZONING: According to
activity
(commercial, residential), according to
regulations.
BUILDING STYLES
AND CONSTRUCTION.
VOLUMETRY, TYPE OF
GRAIN, APPLE.
•LIMITS, ACCESS, ROADS,
VISUALS, MILESTONES, NODES.
ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLE
ORIENTATION
TOPOGRAPHY
CLIMATE
ISOLATION
VENTILATION
VEGETATION
VISUALS
FORMAL VARIABLE
FORMAL VARIABLES
It is the Aesthetic Variable that accompanies the Variable
Functional in the sense that the Form must express the
meaning of the function of the building as a
observer orientation element.
•FORMAL ASPECTS TO CONSIDER IN THE DESIGN:
Determine the creative intentions of the designer when it comes to
conjugar el significado de la edificación con su envolvente formal en
as for
FIGURE- GROUND
COLOR
TEXTURE
SIZE-PROPORTION
•FORMAL RELATIONS: Union, subtraction, Exclusion,
Intersection, Tension, Inclusion.
Vertex-Vertex, Vertex-Side, Side-Side.
TYPES OF ORGANIZATION: Linear, Centralized, Radial, Grouped
in Plot.
Form - Function
Arch. RCR - Nursery The Colors,
Barcelona, Spain.
SPATIAL VARIABLE
SPATIAL VARIABLE
It is the variable where the functional and formal elements are integrated.
environmental, contextual together with the intentions in
regarding the Gravity and the Light of the designer in an enveloping
three-dimensional called Architectural Space.
SPATIAL ASPECTS TO CONSIDER IN THE DESIGN:
•Typologies of Spaces:
Open - Closed.
Dynamic - Static.
Horizontals, Verticals, Joints.
•Niveles de Publicidad:( públicos- privados).
Types of Spaces: Connected, Contiguous, etc.
Quality of the plans that compose it: Solid, Perforated
Transparent.
Visual Relationships: Interior-Exterior. Interior-Interior.
Organizing Principles: Balance, Symmetry, Rhythm, Repetition, Movement,
Unity, Variety, Hierarchy, Axes.
Spatial Variable
Stimulus to Sensitivity: Proportion: Visual Relationship
Fostering moods and of the architectural work in
emotions about art, regarding the concordance between
beauty and harmony through the the genre of feelings that
use of Light and Gravity motivates the work (perception) and
the quality of the materials and the basic objectives to which
its textures, the color and the obey its construction.
ornament of the work Unit: Maintain criteria
architectural. congruent that integrate the
The Spatial Conception: The various aspects that
design criteria, contribution they constitute a problem
creative of the designer architectural.
significado, volumétrica, Originality: Spirit
internal and external expression of innovative and creative of
building, hierarchization of designer in the solution of a
spaces and visuals. design problem.
SPATIAL - FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION
BASE PLAN:
SPATIAL VARIABLE
Supporting platform or floor.
Settled horizontal surface
ELEMENTS
GENERATORS OF
SPACE
throughout its length about a
plate of dimensions greater than
serves as a background.
VERTICAL PLANS:
Vertical surfaces that
assembled with the arrangement
whatever is desired, will be defined,
containing, limiting to
space and simultaneously
generating a shape.
-. VERTICAL ELEMENTS:
WALLS AND LINES
VERTICALS: PLANS
They are isolated supports, HORIZONTALS
columns, poles, that
they virtually create plans
space definers.
COVERAGE AREA:
It is the element that closes the
"Parenthesis" opened with the
base plan and the elements PLANS
verticals (it gives the
interiority characteristic to
VERTICALS
space ).
Form - Function - Space
Arch. I am Fujimoto, Japan.
CONSTRUCTIVE VARIABLE
It is important to analyze the
alternatives to define the most mode
suitable in terms of the system
structural and finishing that are
adapt to the FORM AND THE
ACTIVITIES that are going to be carried out
inside the building.
ASPECTS TO CONSIDER IN THE
DESIGN:
Temporary Pavilion Toyo Ito and Cecil Baldon 2001
Determine the characteristics
constructive according to the operability of
the architectural spaces.
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS:
Support or Sustenance of the Form.
Foundations, Columns, Beams; Slabs.
TECHNOLOGY: New Systems
Constructives (Spatial Meshes,
Reinforced Concrete, Prestressed,
Prefabricated, Trusses, etc..).
FENCING ELEMENTS:
Walls, Floors, Windows; Doors, Ceilings.
FINISHES: Materials.
ECONOMY: Feasibility regarding
construction costs. Water Pavilion Architect: Diller & Scofidio
Expo 2002, Switzerland