Will Your Design Vision Work?
So often, as a designer, you must think about how your design vision will impact your occupants — planning for a not-to-distant future where your vision will be realized and used. For this, you may rely heavily on your own experience of what you think works and what does not, and you may probe into your occupant’s life to understand their likes, dislikes and so on.
Still, there is so much left to simply “hoping” you made the right design decisions for your occupant; and it is time that will tell the success or failure of your built work. Yet, there are new and arising fields that can and will help your architectural design process, as you strive to make informed and talented decisions with your building designs — helping you to stand apart from the rest.
These fields include neuroscience, biomimicry and nanotechnology.
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Sharpen Your Innovative Edge
Eventually, new findings in neuroscience will meet head on with other rising fields like nanotechnology and biomimicry, and this meeting will certainly yield some new techniques for you, as an architect, to greatly expand upon (and in some cases completely revamp) what goes into your building design stages.
As it is, architects already must “predict” the future to some extent, but the best way to increase your probability of creating a successful design that works well is to learn more about Read more
Light has many faces, and many forms. As an architect, you can “paint” with light, “sculpt” with light and guide your occupant to “touch” it.
The following slideshow takes a look at how light can “set off” built form, and how built form can “set off” light. When the two fuse poetically, they can showcase your materials, an experiential path or even “warm” an otherwise “cold” space.
So, the real question becomes…
WHY Do You Inject Light into Your Building Designs?
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- To bring “lift” to your building form.
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- To capture a breathtaking vista.
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- To mark the time of day.
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- To cast texture and rhythm.
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- To shelter through purity of form.
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- To touch the heavens.
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- To build an “invisible” connection.
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- To filter a kaleidoscope of colors.
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- To bring celebration to the world.
Architects are constantly defying gravity. We built into and with the sky, and the way in which we engage it says a lot about our work. Building upward involves more than just getting your occupants to look up.
The following is a 10 image slideshow presented with hopes to inspire you to think about the sky creatively. These captured moments, ranging in complexity, illustrate just how delicate the balance is between our built forms and the sky which surrounds us.
Here are ten ways to built into and with the sky, to defy gravity and to help you design architecture that is more balanced, harmonious and awe-inspiring.
How To Build Into the Sky…
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- Frame it, to capture your own horizons.
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- Travel into it, provide activity from high above.
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- Listen to it, through a funnel of flutes.
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- Capture the sky and bring it to ground-level.
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- Move downward, changing your “ground”. Peek up at it.
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- Transition into the sky while writing in it.
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- Lead the eye upward along a path.
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- Move through it, like the wings of a bird.
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- Build into it. Filter in all of its light.
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- Remove boundaries. Blur the sky with your built form.
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