architectural design process

design process
Initiation
Identifying a problem preparation
and its context Collection, analysis of data
Establish goals and criteria

synthesis
SWOT analysis
reevaluation
assessment hypothesis
preliminary draft

Action
Final drawings:
alternative
Selection and
feedback Schematics:
implementation
- develop, modify, refine,
Inflect, transform
evaluate
To simulate, test
and modify
architectural program

problem Project brief

goals Project objectives Design objectives an approach

Design considerations influencing

factors

criteria Programming

studies Design schematics

answer Design solution

design considerations

Aesthetics form and composition

Natural Environmental natural site considerations

Man-made Environment ingress/ egress, traffic, landscaping

Spatial function and zoning, acccessibility, proxemics

psychology, anthropometrics & ergonomics,

Human Determinants
culture, religious beliefs

structural, electrical, sanitary, mechanical

Building Technology
special building systems

Local Regulations land use, codes, laws, ordinances

form, space and order
primary elements of form

point indicates position in space

primary elements of form

line indicates length, direction, and position in 1D

primary elements of form

plane indicates length and width, shape, surface,

orientation and position in 2D
Base plane
Base plane
Base plane
Base plane
Wall plane
Wall plane
Wall plane
Wall plane
Overhead plane
Overhead plane
Overhead plane
Overhead plane
Overhead plane
primary elements of form

volume has length, width and depth, it indicates form, shape,

surface, orientation, and position in 3D
form is the primary identifying characteristic of volume.

shape

size

color

texture
position

orientation

visual inertia
Perception of form
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Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
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transformation of form

dimensional

subtractive

additive
additive form

spatial tension

edge to edge contact

face to face contact

interlocking volumes
principles of organization

space within a space

interlocking spaces

adjacent spaces

spaces linked
by common space
principles of order
axis

symmetry

heirarchy

repetition

datum

transformation
circulation
approach

entrance

configuration
of the path

path-space
relationship

form of
circulation