PERCEPTUAL BASES FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Buildings represent a form of communication that architects use to express themselves to society.Architecture expressions has developed with time but something that there is still there are the visual image or visual ordering techniques that are used to create architectural statements.

ARCHITECTURE STATEMENTS

We say that good architecture are those buildings which contains communication in themselves and express that gently and elegantly. You select a communication image--make a hierarchical list of concepts that will form the building ,you select the design techniques. This way you think in terms of the whole composition and achieve the final project without misleading.

THE SOURCE OF ARCHITECTURAL STATEMENTS

A logic order of building construction that will develop the visual image while providing good physical enclosure.

APPROACH SOLUTIONS TO IMAGE COMMUNICATION IN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.

1)THE BUILDING :

---room shapes and sizes,who is going to use the space and for how long,environment control.

2)BUILDING TYPE:

--it has to do with the kind of building you will be creating like a school,houses,hospitals,banks,churches etc.

--each type is symbolic of its function in the society and has a traditional place in that society,meaning that they have a specific image that you can refer to which type they belong.

3)SITE DESIGN:

Technical information concerning the site where you probably will built the facility. You have to study the soil bearing capacity,surface water drainage ,access to utilities etc.

example-- the traditional building like the saltbox style

4)THE ARCHITECTS STYLE:

It has to do with the distinctive qualities of form given a project that allow us to group projects as representatives of an individual's effort .An individual evolves a style not adopt one and this happens by expressing new concepts of space,building technology etc.

example--CHARLES--EDOUAD JEANNERET(LE CORBUSIER)

5)ENVIRONMENTAL AND BEHAVIOR STUDIES:

For architects it is important to do some research hon environment and human behavior because these sources mean that the architect can predict behavior on space as it is designed . 6)BUILDING TECHNOLOGY:

VISUAL ORDERING TECHNIQUES :

1)PROXIMITY DIAGRAMMING --an analysis technique in generating a prime sense of the building potential form.

2)SIGNS AND SYMBOLS-they are used to focus the attention of buildings like churches mosques etc

3)GESTALTS--human mind is structured to perceive the environment in a way that it organizes our visual field into distinct and related parts and it is studied by the gestalts psychology .

4)DESIGNER HAS 2 OPPORTUNITIES TO CONFIGURE FORMS

5)FIGURE--GROUND

6)CENTER OF GRAVITY --how we relate some forms or parts of a composition to the center the main one.

7)CONFIGURATION --our mind simplifies the visual environment in order to understand it better

8)SIMILARITY --objects can be similar in forms color size texture etc and they cnbe used to develop a relationship between objects.

9)PROXIMITY--elements grouped together places together are perceived as belonging in the same group.

10)SYMMETRY -

11)CLOSURE AND GOOD CONTINUATION --it involves the concept of the visual competition of incomplete objects and continuation in the other hand .

12)FORM REPRODUCTION --if we have seen the complete form of an object than we can reproduce the other part if at some point we don't see it anymore just by memory.

13)VIGNETTES.--images of places that we have emotional connotation to.

14)ARCHETYPE --specific patterns ed on careful research for their specific use

15)PATTERNS

DESIGN OBJECTIVES

1--YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE DESIRED HIERARCHIES BETWEEN THE PARTS OF THE BUILDING

2--CLARITY EXPRESSION IN THE DESIGN

3--DEVELOPING INTEREST IN ENJOYMENT IN THE DESIGN

4--COMBINING ALL THESE THREE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF PHYSICAL ENCLOSURE.

A GOOD ARCHITECT KNOWS HOW TO PUT IS USE ALL THE VISUAL ORDER TECHNIQUES AND MAKE A STATEMENT THROUGH HIS BUILDINGS.