ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1 - INTRODUCTION TO

DESIGN
Monday, 16 August 2021 9:32 am

Introduction to the Basics of Design

Architecture
• the art of projecting and constructing buildings
- The Royal Spanish Academy

• "Architecture is the starting point for anyone who wants to take humanity towards a better future "
- Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris / Le Corbusier

• “Form ever follows function.”

- Louis Sullivan

• “Less is more.”
- Mies van der Rohe

• “I call architecture frozen music."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Design
• it is the process of envisioning and planning the creation of objects, interactive systems, buildings, vehicles, etc.

• Its user-centered, i.e. users are at the heart of the design thinking approach. It is about creating solutions for people,
physical items or more abstract systems to address a need or a problem.

• to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to
design a new bridge. to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. verb (used without object) to make drawings, preliminary
sketches, or plans.

Figure 1.2b leonardo da vinci's design of a flying machine

Factors that affect design:

• Totality
• Value
• Time
• Resources
• Change
• Iteration the repetition of a process or utterance.
• Relationships
• Competence
• Service
Limitation or restriction.

Figure 1.5 Basic concepts of design

San Nicola Stadium Bari, Italy - 1990 Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia - 1998

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 Figure 1.5 Basic concepts of design

San Nicola Stadium Bari, Italy - 1990 Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia - 1998

Renzo Piano Sketch: Renzo Piano Sketch:

What is design?
• The organization of parts into a coherent whole.
• A creative endeavor to solve a problem.

COHERENT UNIFIED

What iF THERE IS NO design?

• Chaos..

• No meaning

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 • Disconnected

• Useless

Why WE NEED design?

• The desire for order..

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What is design?
• The objective of a design is to create new objects for the mind to feast upon.
• major characteristic features about design;
- PROCESS
- PROBLEM SOLVING
- CREATIVE ACTIVITY

DESIGN AS A PROCESS
• Any process is expected to have a definite beginning that sets it in motion and a definite end where the motion stops.
• A design activity is therefore triggered by some stimuli that starts a process.

DESIGN AS PROBLEM SOLVING

• The trigger that sets things in motion is usually the need to solve a problem.
• This in turn implies that the activity that we call design starts by identifying a problem to be solved and tries to use inpu ts
from the human mind (the designer) to come up with possible solutions

Divisoria Before

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 Divisoria After

DESIGN AS CREATIVE ACTIVITY

• There might be more than one possible solution to a specific problem.
• A designer is expected to explore possibilities and use his power of imagination to generate the best solution that is unique
and original at the same time.

WHO IS A DESIGNER?
• A designer is an individual that produces an original work of creation.

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WHO CAN BE DESIGNER?
• Everybody

What it takes to undertake A DESIGN ACTIVTY?

• Knowledge: Set of accumulated information
• Imagination: Power of visualizing various layers, sides, Dimension & Possibilities of information
• Skill: The ability to execute our ideas

Observer’s PersPective
• The ultimate goal of any design work is to stimulate the observer and get an emotional response.

What is architecture???

• Architecture is something that gave purpose to a structure.

• Architecture draws emotion of the users or the occupants or the audience of the structure.

Architecture
• Architecture is a work of art that employs the sciences to put up structures that draw emotional responses from users and
observers.
• The art, science or profession of planning, designing and constructing of buildings in their totality taking into account the ir
environment, in accordance with the principles of utility, strength and beauty.
• RA 9266
- This Act shall be known as "The Architecture Act of 2004."
- AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A MORE RESPONSIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE REGULATION FOR THE REGISTRATION, LICENSING
AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE, REPEALING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 545, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS "AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES," AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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 A Frozen Music?

More than a seat?

What is beautiful and what is ugly?

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 Architecture as I told you earlier should also motivates you,
enlighten you. So when we designed a space perhaps on the
exterior it would look funny. Like in the picture, but then when
you enter that space we feel uplifted because of how the light is
play magnificently inside the space. So, Architecture on the
superficial we can classified as something very simple word.
There is something very pure or very awkward but then when we
experience the space it brings out something different. It can
either relax you or it can either energize you or it can motivate
you.

NOTE (August 22, 2021)

Reading Assignment

Read about the following terms

• Perception - the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
• Sensation - a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into
contact with the body.
- a widespread reaction of interest and excitement.
• Imagination - the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not
present to the senses.

Books to refer
• The language of architecture
• Understanding architecture
• Illustrated dictionary of architecture

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