CONCEPT VOCABULARY

Common concepts addressing a specific concern when used in combination with other concepts results into a building composition
1. Concepts used to address functional grouping and zoning 2. Concepts used to address architectural space 3. Concepts used to address building form and circulation 4. Concepts used to address building envelope 5. Concepts used to address response to context

Concepts for functional grouping and zoning

Functional grouping and zoning is space organization and space arrangement. How will you achieve a functional and efficient arrangement of spaces? What are the concepts we can use to achieve it?

1. Need for adjacency one idea on how to plan functional spaces is to determine which spaces needs to be adjacent and which spaces need to be separated

Criteria: a. Critical adjacency b. Necessary adjacency c. Desirable d. Neutral e. Undesirable f. Necessary separation g. Critical separation

 To apply the criteria, a space relationship matrix is used as an analysis tool to determine the adjacency of spaces e.g. Residential building

e.g. Furniture store

e.g. Bank

e.g. Penitentiary

2. Similarity in General role

e.g. Transportation Hub

e.g. Health Care Facility

e.g. Foodcourt

e.g. Recreation Facility

3. Relatedness to Goals, Departments and Systems

E.g.: Residential building

E.g.: Hospital

4. Sequence in Time
E.g.: Museum

E.g.: Sports Arena

5. Buildings are a Synthesis of Systems that Intersects at Certain Points

E.g.: Parking Building

E.g.: Airport terminals

6. Required Environments
a. Need for View
E.g.: Residential Building

E.g.: Residential Condominiums

b. Need for Ceiling Height and Shape

E.g.: Theater

c. Relative Security
E.g.: Bank

d. Need for Vents and Exhaust

e. Need for Visual and Sound Privacy

E.g.: School and Offices

f. Need for types of light

g. Need for types of HVAC Control

h. Types of Natural Light

i. Degrees of Privacy

7. Types of Effects Produced

8. Relative Proximity to Building

e.g. Country club

e.g. Bank e.g. School

e.g. Marina

e.g. Car Dealership

9. Relatedness to Core Activities

e.g. Maternity building

e.g. Airport

10. Characteristics of People Involved e.g. Housing e.g. Office building Complex

e.g. Church

e.g. Laboratory

11. Volume of People Involved

E.g. Learning Complex E.g. Housing Complex

12. Extent of Man or Machine Involvement

E.g. Manufacturing Facility E.g. Office building

13. Degree of Emergency or Critical Situations

E.g. Hospital E.g. Air Traffic Control

14. Relative speed of Respective Activities

15. Frequency of Activity Occurence

16. Duration of Activities

17. Anticipated Growth and Change