CONCEPT VOCABULARY

Common concepts addressing a

specific concern when used in
combination with other concepts
results into a building composition
1. Concepts used to address functional grouping and
zoning
2. Concepts used to address architectural space
3. Concepts used to address building form and circulation
4. Concepts used to address building envelope
5. Concepts used to address response to context
 Concepts for functional grouping and
zoning
• Functional grouping and zoning is space organization and space
arrangement.
• How will you achieve a functional and efficient arrangement of
spaces? What are the concepts we can use to achieve it?

1. Need for adjacency – Criteria:

one idea on how to
plan functional spaces
is to determine which
spaces needs to be
adjacent and which
spaces need to be
separated
a. Critical adjacency
b. Necessary adjacency
c. Desirable
d. Neutral
e. Undesirable
f. Necessary separation
g. Critical separation
• To apply the criteria, a space relationship matrix is used as
an analysis tool to determine the adjacency of spaces
2. Similarity in General role
e.g. Transportation Hub e.g. Health Care Facility
e.g. Foodcourt e.g. Recreation Facility
 3. Relatedness to Goals, Departments and Systems
E.g.: Residential building

E.g.: Hospital
4. Sequence in Time
E.g.: Museum
5. Buildings are a Synthesis of Systems that
Intersects at Certain Points
E.g.: Parking Building
 6. Required Environments
E.g.: Residential Condominiums
a. Need for View
E.g.: Residential Building
 b. Need for Ceiling Height and Shape
E.g.: Theater
c. Relative Security
E.g.: Bank

d. Need for Vents and

Exhaust
 e. Need for Visual and
Sound Privacy
E.g.: School and Offices
f. Need for types of
light

g. Need for types of

HVAC Control
h. Types of Natural
Light

i. Degrees of Privacy
7. Types of Effects
Produced
8. Relative Proximity to Building
e.g. Country club

e.g. School
9. Relatedness to Core Activities

e.g. Airport
10. Characteristics of People Involved e.g. Housing
e.g. Office building Complex
e.g. Church
e.g. Laboratory
 11. Volume of People Involved
E.g. Learning Complex E.g. Housing Complex
 12. Extent of Man or Machine Involvement
E.g. Manufacturing Facility E.g. Office building
 13. Degree of Emergency or Critical Situations
E.g. Hospital E.g. Air Traffic Control
14. Relative speed of Respective Activities
15. Frequency of Activity Occurence
16. Duration of Activities
17. Anticipated Growth and Change