Notes from Arch 21 class - Design I

Some notes that I have taken in class that will help me in my design process.

- Consider the proportions
- Relocate the images with Architecture (Sell your product)
- How do the images act upon one another?
- Different views of the images
- What kind of emotion(s) do you see?
- Contrast between each object
- How do we turn things into unnatural things (Architecture)?
- Space (both positive and negative)
- What are the elements?
- Framing the moments; differentiate the most & less significant place
- Creating & thriving the entire set
- Boil it down to it's essence; signify it over the entire place
- Set of mid-ground elements with space
- Look at it in a architectural view
- Recreate the diagram of the relative height, plan, & sections
- What are the ingredients and organization?
Background elements --> Natural --> Urban
- What's in a urban fabric?
- Geometry, volume, solids, hard edges, scale
- What did the landscape architect try to convey?
- Contrast, recipe, pattern, scale, essential qualities
- Re-interpret through the natural environment
- Color, Climate, Soil, Conditions, Sun, Rainfall, Shapes
- What are the essential elements?
Answer: It's not absolute!
- What feelings would you feel if you were to move certain things?
- How are they arranged?
- Know and learn the environment
- What is the purpose?
- Design --> Compose --> Time --> Adventure --> Mind
- Experiences: Set up before & after
- Modulate the distance and light.
- Find interesting complex pattern
- What does (the object[s]) mean to you as a designer, an architect?
- Direction
- Placing, Function vs. Other stuff
- What made it inviting?
- Form, Felt, Nature of Path, View, Qualities. Essential?