Concept and Parti

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Concept and Parti
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Asimows diagram of the design process (1962)
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Asimows diagram of the design process (1962)
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FINISH with Built Project
START with Pre-Design
provisional
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Archers diagram of the design process (1963)
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Inductive reasoning from particulars to
principles Deductive reasoning from principles
to particulars
Architects
From all with vested interest
Architects
Observed and organized by architect
Pre-Design
Concept
Parti
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Objective and Subjectiveinput in the design
process
Architects Philosophy
Clients (all w/ vested interest)
Architects Pre-Design
Architects Subjectivity
Architects Theory
Architects Skill Talent
Concept Parti
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RATIONALISM EMPIRICISM
IRRATIONALISM
Plato Descartes
Aristotle Hume
Neoplatonism
Pragmatism
Augustine
James
Positivism
Idealism
Popper
early Kant
Transcen- dentalism
Phenomenology
Heidegger
Emerson
Existencialism
Sartré
Deconstruction
Derida
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RATIONALISM EMPIRICISM
IRRATIONALISM
Plato Descartes
Aristotle Hume
Vitruvius
Neoplatonism
Pragmatism
Functionalism
Renaissance
Augustine
James
Gropius Corbu
Palladio
Positivism
Extreme Functionalism
Idealism
Popper
early Kant
Corbu Mies Van Doesburg
Meyer
Transcen- dentalism
Phenomenology
Organic Architecture
Expressionism
Heidegger
Wright Mies (Barcelona) Scarpa Zumthor
Borromini Gehry
Emerson
Wright
DADA
Existencialism
Sartré
Schwiters
Deconstruction
Derida
Eisenman Liebeskind
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Objective and Subjectiveinput in the design
process
Architects Philosophy
Clients (all w/ vested interest)
Architects Pre-Design
Architects Subjectivity
Architects Theory
Architects Skill Talent
Concept Parti
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Concept
Parti
One proposes a concept for a design by way of an
inductive thought process (from the particulars
to the general). It is an idea and is formulated
as the objective. It is not yet a form idea. It
is usually expressed in words or through
illustrations that are not of buildings but by
metaphoric images or very abstract models not
meant to be the building parti yet.
Parti comes from the French word partir which
means to depart or a point of departure. A parti
is described in diagrammatic form. The parti
shows the basic spatial organization or
organization of elements of the project. It is
not a massing model. It is sketched in plan
section or in an abstract model. The parti is
the translation of the concept into form, It and
the concept are used as a guide through all the
myriad of design decisions throughout the
project. It might get revised or aborted during
the very first stage of design.
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Sources for concepts
Some examples
The site urbanistic fit fabric bldg or
public monument? figural space / residual
building? the earth its contours
(shaping of that land and floors to respond
to slope To be of the earth quality
of natural elements To be of the sky a
gossamer To be a set of groves or
gardens quality of natural
forces Delightful experience of wind,
light, fire, water The program
interpretation of its essence What is the nature
of a school? type of endeavor
technical? artistic? competitive?
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Sources for concepts
Some examples
Progressive or rooted in wisdom transient /
permanent from the past. Education as
enlightenment. Transformation (of the
student from existing bldg to knew
one) The community (social groups) There
are many communities School as city that
of the neighborhood, the Transitions public to
semi-public students, the faculty, clubs.
To semi-private to private Interlock Pr
ecedents as source of meaning The quad the
urban campus Information Age network
architecture architecture of simulation /
reality smart building
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From broad and different ideas/partis to studies
along one direction
Schematic Design
concept A
concept B
concept C
concept D
parti C1
parti D1
parti A1
parti B1
parti B2
parti B3
parti D2
study B1.1
study B3.1
study D1.1
study B3.2
study D1.2
study B3.3
study D1.3
study B3.4
study B3.5
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The Exeter Library by Louis I. Kahn
Concept
. . . The readers should be able to take the
book to the light. He commented appreciatively
on the great imperialistic room of
Étienne-Louis Boullées Library project of 1785,
which conveyed a feeling for what a library
should be - you come into the chamber and there
are all the books.
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