Sie sind auf Seite 1von 12

Developing a Design Parti

Architectural Design Process


CONCEPT, PROGRAM, FORM
Parti Pris: Outline
• Contexts and Definition
• Concept Words
• Images
• Shapes
• Volumes
• Communication
Design Iterations (Elements of the Parti Pris)
Conceptual Parameters of Design

Heuristic Concepts that lead to (both) Architectural Programs


and Forms; using diagrams, and architectural communication
(manual or digital sketches for plans, elevations, sections,
perspectives, etc; as well as architectural scale models or
macquettes)
Start with a Diagrammatic Image of your conceptual parti then proceed
with;

PROGRAM FORM
Spatial Organization, Bubble Diagrams Formal architectural language (incl.
and Matrices, Spatial Distribution, theoretical, historical, critical form and
Planning Strategies, Spatial Hierarchy, massing), Structural Concepts and
Experimental Intents and Strategies, Form, Materiality (sense-oriented
Spatial Patterns for events, experiences) and Material Form,
atmospheres, etc. Spatial Qualities, Specialized Design
Forms, etc.
Contexts
• Design parti – a long-standing architectural strategy for design that responds
to problematized issues, conditions and experience

• The parti pris crystallizes the decisions for concepts, program and form

• “concepts” are developed from design research that are theoretical,


empirical (evidence-based) and analytical, and usually formulated through a
“framework”

• “Design” strategies consider the limitations posed by the problem, leading to


formulations of program and form
Definitions
• “parti pris” – any set of design decisions that lead to architectural solutions
accompanied by sketches, and informed by research

• “framework” – any visionary and unifying outline (usually 3-6 elements) that
distributes, maps, or diagrams the main set of concepts or ideas

• “concept” – any idea or thought that functions as articulations of architectural


solutions and guides the program and form

• “program” – plans focusing on spatial organization, patterns, characters and


experiential intentions on events, atmospheres and use of function

• “form” – the spatial qualities, materiality, structural translations of architecture


via articulations of the visual, material or “object”
Concept Words
a sample architectural design strategy exercise

• Words of signification and spatial experience


• Words from language, theory and culture
• Words with “urban” qualities
• Words that are associated with Design
• Words associated with industry: building and construction

Exercise:
Discuss among yourselves that words will fit into your proposal. These words must resemble a complete
conceptual “story” of your architecture.
Informed Conceptualization
Ask the ff. questions:

• What architectural stories (PHL, global) are we conjuring up to


support our concept for an architecture of the future?
• What images can we start “drawing up” in order to
communicate this architecture?
• Imagine how the architecture “story” you are offering will
inform the “readers” and users of and about architecture,
theory and culture.

Exercise:
Write or outline a (“dream”) framework that will define the “vision” of your project.
Templates
Templates offer basic information, and corresponding guidelines
about:
• Anthropometrics (or human-scale mensuration)
• Codes and Standards
• Disciplinary (architectural) Limitations
The templates re-define and re-scale the concepts in the
developed parti.

Exercise:
Start drafting scaled “templates” that you can trace into iterated designs (repeated trial and
error), and integrate these templates into the concept/parti pris.
Images of Ideas
• Images from informed concepts
• Images from imagination
• Images from playing with forms
• Images from (actual) images

Exercise: Translate your architectural story, concept, templates into imaginative forms that can be
communicated. Keep in mind the putting-together of the templates into 3-dimensional actual conceptions.
Use your imaginations to visualize the experience of spaces.
Shapes and Volumes
SKETCHING Program and Form
• Plans visualize flows and organization
• Elevations visualize outdoor details (e.g., scale, proportion,
material, etc.)
• Sections visualize the experiences you intend to achieve (e.g.,
shadows, ventilations, staircase heights and access, etc.)
• Simple perspectives can visualize unexpected elements in
your imagination not seen in the plans, elevations and sections
(e.g., human activities, etc.)

Exercise:
Develop iterated translations of your images by drawing up plans, sections, elevations, perspectives, and
range of other “realistic” elements of your architectural imagination. Show the important trajectories of your
iterations.
Communication
using poster boards and scale models
• Create a presentation script
• Organize your way of presentation
• Limit your framework
• Visualize your parti into workable diagrams
• Summarize your concepts, program and form plans in the end
• Use poster boards and macquettes to strengthen your
presentation

Exercise:
Outline a “script” that will help you (1) define your terms. (2) explain your concept-process, (3) describe your
plan (via program and form), and (4) show your final design proposal. Use at most thirty (30) “titled” points.

Das könnte Ihnen auch gefallen