Architectural Design I
The objective of Architectural Design 1 is to learn
and apply the concepts of;
Form (additive/subtractive, mass/void)
Space &
Volume (definition, patterns, systems, and associations)
Spatial
relationships (abutting, overlapping, space with-in space)
Path-Space
relationships (outside, along the edge, terminate in a space)
Circulation
patterns (linear, radial, grid, network, spiral, composite)
These
projects were all out-of-the-box ways of learning the architectural concepts of
Form,
Space/Volume definition, and Spatial
Relationships. Common shapes like squares, triangles, and
circles can
interact in different ways. There are of course different variations of the
common
shapes and when
they are made into 3D shapes there are even more possibilities (mass/void,
space-inside-space). All this
was used in projects 1-3. ( Click
link for Projects 1-3 )
Project four
was to learn the concept of circulation, it started out from a given site plan
in which
a series of
spaces and circulation paths were created to connect them. The project then
progressed
to adding buildings and landscaping to define the spaces and circulation path.
A main
building was
created with the same process, but with the restraint of connecting the path back
to
the main
site path. Also the building had to help define the site spaces. The final
stage was to turn
the
buildings and landscaping into 3D elements and make adjustments to better
define the spaces
and circulation
with a 3D layout. ( Click link
for Project 4 )
Project five was the final project which had a scenario
to give the design some direction and
Constraints to follow. However the
main point was not to design a real house, but to add ordering
concepts to all the previous concepts, then apply them all to the
design. Ordering concepts are Axis,
Symmetry, Hierarchy, Rhythm, Datum, and Transformation. ( Click link for Project 5 )