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Fundamentals of Architectural Design

* before concepts Architectural design as a creative process engages to the following considerations: Sense of place - site and context

Andy Goldsworthy – artist Architecture in context

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Program - function and inspired-use/ celebration of use

Assyafaah Mosque, Singapore by Forum Architect

Igualada cemetery, Spain by EMBT


Human dimension - experience, celebration of human spirit and social values

Atelier Muji, Japan Ashimizu – cold footbath, Tokyo

Assyafaah Mosque, Singapore by Forum Architect


Making – poetics of construction: materials, assembly and detail A poetic act of revelation related to experience and meaning.


Igualada cemetery, Spain by EMBT


“In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.”

Peter Zumthor

Bruder Klaus Chapel, Germany by Peter Zumthor


Mood board - conceptual expression Potential to become powerful factors in informing/forming a strong conceptual basis for architectural form, space, experience, and meaning.



Concepts - conceptual thinking

* ideas and issues that have value and provide meaning.

* explore how ideas originating from program, site, social/ cultural/ political circumstances, personal values and interests in architecture, human and experiential considerations, tectonics, etc…

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sketches models sketches Image source: World wide web


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Design process - * intuitive + rational Is the essential mechanism and understanding of how one can successfully move conceptual and poetic ideas and inspiration (intuitive) into the realm of architecture and built work (rational). Simple terms ‘from concepts to making’

DESIGN PROCESS

linear sequence

testing and scanning

systematic production of

several alternative

productions

forming alternatives in a

multi-step process

Source: Christian Ganshirt - Tools for ideas, An introduction to Architectural Design

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Mediums to show exploration during design process could be in the form of sketches, drawings, paintings, physical models, digital modeling, & etc…



Above all… Your own personal values and agenda “… I explore the idea of the journey. Through the journey you arrive at the idea of variations and you learn that these are as important as the final results... The end result is no more than a more defined vibration that grows out of all changes that have been between the initial project and the final construction. In its very formation, architecture incorporates the idea of the journey, of the variable.”

Enric Miralles, EMBT (1955-2000)

Vat Now?

Guide to design process

Stay out of politics. Observe, breathe and experience architecture. Be critical and engage in an architectural dialogue. Architecture is a multi-disciplinary art. Be experimental and open. Take risks with precision. Design is self discovery. You’ve got to give a damn. Have faith and believe in yourself. lecture notes prepared by Lisa Foo

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