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Topic 4 Orientation & Identity in Community Architecture

An architect working in community architecture extensively investigates the needs of the local community and designs housing and amenities in consultation with local inhabitants. They use various participatory exercises and tools to understand the community's resources, tasks, needs, culture, and environment to inform the design. These include assessing resources, analyzing gender roles, creating logical frameworks, observing the community, creating seasonal diagrams, and holding village meetings. The goal is to design spaces that have a strong sense of place and meet the community's needs.

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Topic 4 Orientation & Identity in Community Architecture

An architect working in community architecture extensively investigates the needs of the local community and designs housing and amenities in consultation with local inhabitants. They use various participatory exercises and tools to understand the community's resources, tasks, needs, culture, and environment to inform the design. These include assessing resources, analyzing gender roles, creating logical frameworks, observing the community, creating seasonal diagrams, and holding village meetings. The goal is to design spaces that have a strong sense of place and meet the community's needs.

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04

What does an ARCHITECT do for


COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE?
Architect:
Investigate the needs of the community extensively to ensure
a suitable design for the location

An architect works in consultation with local inhabitants in


designing housing and other amenities
Orienting Exercises for Development Planning and
Action in Community Architecture
Orienting Exercises for Development Planning and
Action in Community Architecture
▪ Access to Resources
▪ Analysis of Tasks
▪ Logical Framework
▪ Assessment of Needs
▪ Participant’s Observation
▪ Seasonal Diagrams
▪ Socio-Cultural Profiles
▪ Village Meetings
▪ Identifying Sense of Time and Place
01 ACCESS TO
RESOURCES

▪ series of participatory exercises-


allows development practitioners
to collect information and raises
awareness among beneficiaries
02 ANALYSIS OF
TASKS
▪ gender analysis tool- raises
community awareness about
the distribution of domestic,
market, and community
activities according to gender
and familiarizes planners with
the degree of role flexibility
that is associated with different
tasks.
03 LOGICAL
FRAMEWORK

▪ matrix that illustrates a


summary of project design,
emphasizing the results that are
expected when a project is
successfully completed.
03 TYPICAL
LOGICAL
FRAMEWORK
FORMAT
04 ASSESSMENT OF
NEEDS
▪ tools that draws out information
about people’s varied needs,
raises participants’ awareness of
related issues and provides a
framework for prioritizing the
needs
05 PARTICIPANT’S
OBSERVATION
▪ fieldwork technique used by
anthropologists and sociologists to
collect qualitative and quantitative
data that leads to an in-depth
understanding of peoples'
practices, motivations, and
attitudes.
06 SEASONAL DIAGRAMS
Show the major changes that affect a
household, community or region within a
year such as those associated with
climate, crops, labor, availability and
demand, livestock, prices and so on.
06 SEASONAL DIAGRAMS
07 SOCIO-CULTURAL
PROFILES
▪ Detailed descriptions of the social and cultural
dimensions that in combination with technical,
economic, and environmental dimensions serve
as a basis for design and preparation of policy and
project work.
08 VILLAGE MEETINGS
▪ Meetings with many users in participatory
development, including information sharing
and group consultation, consensus building,
prioritization and sequencing of interventions,
and collaborative monitoring and evaluation.
09 IDENTIFYING SENSE OF TIME &
PLACE
▪ growing number of planners and architects are
seeking to design communities that have a
stronger "sense of place”

COMPACT PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT


- mixed use
- strong pedestrian orientation
- active civic and community life
- closer links between public transit & land use
-higher housing densities
TYPES OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN
PLANNING
▪ Centralized Form - A number of secondary
forms clustered about a dominant, central
parent-form

Villa Capra (The Rotunda), Vicenza,


Italy, 1552–1567, Andrea Palladio
▪ Linear Form – series of forms arranged
sequentially in a row

Runcorn New Town Housing, England,1967, James Stirling


▪ Radial Form– composition of linear forms
extending outward from a central form in a
radial manner Secretariat Building, UNESCO Headquarters,
Place de Fontenoy, Paris, 1953–1958, Marcel
Breuer
▪ Clustered Form– collection of forms grouped
together by proximity or the sharing of a
common visual trait

Habitat Montreal, 1967, Moshe Safdie


▪ Grid Form– set of modular forms related and
regulated by a three-dimensional grid

Conceptual Diagram, Museum of Modern Art,


Gunma Prefecture, Japan, 1974, Arata Isozaki
BUILDING ORGANIZATION IN PLANNING
▪ Centralized Organization– central,
dominant space about which a number
of secondary spaces are grouped
Villa Farnese, Caprarola,
1547–1549, Giacomo da Vignola
▪ Linear Organization– linear
sequence of repetitive spaces

Unite D’ Habitation, Le Corbusier


Andrew Melville Hall, University of St. Andrews

▪ Radial Organization– central space


from which linear organizations of
space extend in a radial manner
▪ Clustered Organization– spaces grouped
by proximity or the sharing of a common
visual trait or relationship

Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), near


Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania ,1936–1937, Frank
Crystal Palace, London, England

▪ Grid Organization– spaces organized within


the filed of a structural grid or other
three-dimensional framework
VISUAL PROPERTIES OF FORM
Shape
-characteristic outline or surface configuration
of a particular form
-principal aspect by which we identify and
categorize forms
Size
- physical dimensions of length, width, and
depth of a form.
-While these dimensions determine the
proportions of a form, its scale is determined by
its size relative to other forms in its context.
Color
-A phenomenon of light and visual perception that
may be described in terms of an individual’s
perception of hue, saturation, and tonal value.
- attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form
from its environment. It also affects the visual
weight of a form
Texture
- The visual and especially tactile quality given
to a surface by the size, shape, arrangement,
and proportions of the parts.
-also determines the degree to which the
surfaces of a form reflect or absorb incident
light
Position
-The location of a form relative to its
environment or the visual field within which it is
seen.
Orientation
-The direction of a form relative to the ground
plane, the compass points, other forms, or to
the person viewing the form.
Visual Inertia
-The degree of concentration and stability of a
form
-depends on its geometry as well as its
orientation relative to the ground plane, the
pull of gravity, and our line of sight.

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