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Functional Zoning Handout

While design projects may start with an overall direction, building design incorporates many concepts from different sources and scales. Concepts can emerge at any stage and help organize information to provide successful architectural solutions. They respond to design problems and require development. Common concepts include functional zoning, adjacency needs, sequences over time, and environmental requirements.

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Functional Zoning Handout

While design projects may start with an overall direction, building design incorporates many concepts from different sources and scales. Concepts can emerge at any stage and help organize information to provide successful architectural solutions. They respond to design problems and require development. Common concepts include functional zoning, adjacency needs, sequences over time, and environmental requirements.

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THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2 Although design projects may begin with a

Functional Zoning single overall direction, any building design


By: Ar. Chris Luna, uap comes is in fact composed of many concepts.
 Concepts may be product or process
Approaches in the Design Process oriented and can take place in any stage
in the design process
Techniques, models, paradigms, idioms and  Can occur in any scale
processes for designing  Can be generated from several sources
 Serve as a vehicles/catalysts for  Have a hierarchal nature
improving the effectiveness of a
designer
 They broaden and deepen the
designer’s understanding of design
activities
 Use to organize and present information
for designing
 To provide successful architectural
solutions

Functional Zoning

Need for Adjacency

Concepts have been the designer’s way of


responding to the design situation presented in
the program
 They are derived from problem analysis
or initially prompted by it.
 They are rudimentary in character
 They both require and must embrace
further development

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Similarity in general role

Sequence in time Required Environment

Types of effects produced

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Relatedness to core activities Degree of emergency or critical situations

Frequency of activity occurrence

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Duration of activities Anticipated growth and change

Topic Reference:

 Concept Sourcebook by Edward T. White


 Architectural Graphics Standards
 The images in this paper came from
various sources from Google images

THIS PAPER IS FOR


ACADEMIC PURPOSES ONLY

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