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A building is most compelling when it can be clearly perceived in the mind as a single coherent whole, rather than a collection of only loosely related parts
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Supporting Patterns | To tie a building together into a single coherent whole, choose one or more themes to carry throughout the building. This may be a material/color, an iconic shape, or specific type of structure. |
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 | A building that has a single, clearly expressed overall form that is easy for someone to grasp makes a much stronger impact than a vague and uncertain building. At its most grand, this pattern can lead to the iconic buildings and structures that become synonymous with a city or place, and truly capture the imagination. However, this pattern is equally important for even the most modest of ... |
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A successful building or other built environment must be a synthesis of solutions to competing demands. It has often been said that architecture is a response, not a statement.
This response needs to grow out of a dialog between outer conditions (context, site), and inner needs (the program). |
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 | A building should clearly be the same building as perceived from the inside and outside.
Express the same structural elements and overall form both inside and outside of the building. |
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 | Seek to connect indoor and outdoor spaces by as many of these methods as possible. Your goal should be for the whole site, not just the building placed on the site, to form part of the environment that the occupants inhabit.
A building should seem to grow out of the site, and become an integral part of the site. |
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| This category contains patterns pertaining to the messages and impressions that a building or other structure can communicate. |
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 | The best buildings have a single defining theme or overarching element.
Decide what is the single defining theme that you want your building to communicate. It could be love of people, nature, complexity, simplicity, or technical wizardry.
Also decide what emotion you want to foster. Is it awe? Delight? Resentment? |
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 | A room, or even an entire building, benefits a great deal from having a key element that creates a focal point. This gives somewhere to direct one's attention, and helps to create a sense of purpose for a space.
To create one or more focal points, it is important to reconcile conflicting demands on people's attention. Everything cannot be a focal point. Instead, each element must be ... |
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 | Architectural styles can be thought of as a collection of patterns that work well together and build off of one another. This category lists various architectural styles and identifies the patterns that are that the core of those styles. |
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