ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS

LECTURER: MR. SUNNY B. OJEDA

CIVIL & ARCHITECTURAL ENG’G SECTION

SALALAH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Architectural Concepts

It is the designers way of responding to the design situation presented. They have been the means of translating the non-physical problem into the physical building product.

Some categories under which the concerns and issues of a building may be listed and addressed in design are :

1. Functional Zoning2. Architectural Space3. Circulation and Building Form4. Building Envelope

Building concerns & issues:

1. Functional Zoning - is a term used to describe the phenomenon when buildings of the same function cluster together in an area of a city or town. Sometimes zoning laws require that uses be concentrated in a particular area.

Building concerns & issues:

2. Architectural Space – it means that the design must be spatially relevant to social use of architecture.

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Building concerns & issues:

3. Circulation and Building Form - refers to the way people move through and interact with a building that is interrelated to the form of the building.

Building concerns & issues:4. Building Envelope - is the area

that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air.

Context For Concept Getting

1. General philosophy and life values of the designer

2. Design philosophy of the designer

3. View of the problem by the designer presented with a specific design project

Categories of concern under specific design

project Function Space Geometry Context Enclosure Systems Economic Human factors

Architectural Design Values

Aesthetic Design Values Social Design Values Environmental Design Values Traditional Design Values Gender Based Design Values Economic Design Values

Contemporary Architecture

is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time.

Modernism Post Modernism Deconstructivism Expressionism Neo-classicism