CHAPTER 5

c i r c u l a t i o n

Approach

The first phase of the circulation system is approaching a building’s entrance along a path before passing into its interior. The approach to the building and its entrance depends on the paces before the entrance and lengthy and circuitous route.  Normally there are three kinds of the approaches including a frontal, oblique, and spiral path. The spiral path lets us walk around the building before passing into its interior. The oblique path lets us redirect one or more time to access the building. The image below presents the frontal approach that leads us to enter directly into the entrance of a building along straight.

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Entrance

An entrance is a vertical plane that divides inside and outside of a building. The entrance may be a hole of the wall or two columns with an overhead beam. A change in level that can create a threshold with marking the passage from one area to another is also described as the entrance. The image below presents a projected entrance which forms a transition area and provides an overhead shelter.

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Configuration of the Path

All paths are linear and have a starting to destination point. There are several kinds of the contour which depend on a mode of transportation. Even though pedestrians can tolerate changes in direction, they require a greater volume of space and greater freedom of choice along a route. On the other hand, a wheel vehicle may need a smoother path which reflects its turning radius. Any intersections of paths provide people to make decision. The scale of each path also can tell us how difference between a important paths that leads us to the important place and a secondary path that leads us to lesser places

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Path-space Relationships

Relationships between a path and space are composed of passing by spaces, passing through spaces, and terminating in a space. Pass by spaces is the path passes the spaces which maintained their integrity. Passing through spaces may cut in some parts, center of a space, or along its edge. Terminating in a space presents the location in the space which creates the path.

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Form of the circulation space

Spaces between activities or for movement can form the circulation space. With functional linking device, the circulation space may be corridor spaces. With its scale, the circulation space may be the area that people can stroll, rest, or walk in a view along a path. Generally, there three kinds of a circular space including spaces which are enclosed (private corridor), open on one side (balcony), and open on both side (colonnaded passageway).

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CHAPTER 4

ORGANIZATION

Space within a Space

Space within space means a small space enveloped and contained by the large space. The contained space may be different from the surrounding space to provide different functions. This image below has only one panel beside the tree and has an empty space of over head plane. Therefore, it feels of space within a space.

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Interlocking Spaces

Interlocking Spaces begin when two spaces are sharing the overlapping area. However, the interlocking space still maintains both original identities. This image below has two different materials and color of the stove and the counter island. It overlaps each other at the corner to make it feel interlocking space.

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Linear Organization

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Radial Organization

A radial organization is made from combining centralized organization that dominates at the central space and linear organization that extends in the radial way. Even though the centralized organization focuses inward on its central space, the radial organization reaches out its context. This image below is an aerial view from Google Earth. It is a radial organization because there is linear and centralized organization that combines together on this image. 

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Grid Organization

A grid organization is composed of forms and space that are designed in a three-dimensional grid pattern. A grid is built from two sets of parallel lines which create a regular shape at their intersection. This image below is an example of grid organization. The grid which we see it likes cube table that transformed into a set of repetitive, modular units of space.

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CHAPTER 3

FORM & S P A C E

Form and Space: The Unity of Opposites

The Unity of Opposites is formed by among the elements of form and space together. It cannot happen if the figures, the positive elements that attract viewers, could not contrast with the background. The image below is the park which is used to explain the unity of opposites. The fountain and walk ways around it represnt the positive elements to attract viewers while the green garden represents the background that contrast the fountain and its walk ways.

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Defining Space with Horizontal Elements:  Elevated Base Planes

Elevating a part of the base plane provides a specific domain that influences the whole space. However, if changing in level that happens along the edge of the elevated base plane, this changing will create the boundaries of the space and affect the flow of the space across its surface. The image below shows the elevated base plane at the center of a space to create the living room. The color and texture of this elevated base plane is different from its surrounding area to determine the boundaries of the living room.

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Defining Space with Vertical Linear Liner Element: L-Shaped Planes

The vertical linear element can be described as the perpendicular edges of the volume and space. Like a column, obelisk, or tower, it can also establish a point on the ground plane, make it visible for viewers, and lead them to the position in space. The image below presents two L-Shaped Planes that were created as a column and beam at the connerof the house. These L-Shaped Planes were built to enclose a field of outdoor space to which its interior space relate.

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Qualities of Architectural Space: View

While some rooms have an internal focus, others use a view to the outdoors or an adjacent space as an outward orientation. Normally, window or skylight are built to provide the view and to create relationship between the room and its surrounding. The size and position of the window also provide the nature of outlook and the level of privacy for interior area. However, the view should not be limited to only outdoors or an adjacent area. Interior design figures can also give the visual attention. The image below is the big window in the living room. This window plays as the focal point of this room by let a resident to look at the outside while staying in the internal space.

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Openings in Space-Defining Elements: Between Planes

Between Planes are separating the floor and the ceiling or a vertical opening, and across a wall plane or horizontal opening. Under a horizontal opening, an opening will not erode the identity of the wall plane if it is not very deep. However, if the opening is very deep, it will become a positive element. Under a vertical opening, if the opening is located at the corner of the room, it will erode the identity of the room because it will provide connecting between the outside and interior and affect the degree of privacy for an internal space. The image below shows another type of opening between planes which is combination a window-wall with a large skylight that creates a sun room. This skylight enhances the brightness of the space and allows incoming light to wash the wall surface.

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Form

Primary solids


Primary solids are cube, sphere, cylineder, cone, and pyramid. They are volumetric forms which are regular and easy to recognize.

                                              Cone     Pyramid  Cylinder   Sphere      Cube

Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton Omotesando Store Design

This image represents a sphere which is a centralized and highly concentrated form. Also, it has a dimension and diameter.

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Dimensional Transformation

Dimensional Transformation a form that can be transformed by changing one or more of its dimensions but still keep its original character as a subclass of forms.

The new National Grand

This image is a sphere, but it is transform the length to be an ellipse. 

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 Subtractive form

Subtractive form is a form that can be transformed by subtracting a portion of its volume. However, the form can maintain its original character or be transformed into a form of another family.

Brutalism in the UK

This building is subtractive form. There are a lot of windows on this building that has been subtracted. It uses rectangular and triangle form for subtracting.

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  Additive Form

Additive Form is a form that can be transformed by adding the portions to its volume. The additional portion that attached the original form can retain its identity or altering.

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Radial Form

Radial Form is a form that is composed of linear forms extending from the center point of the element to its outside in a radiating manner. Besides, this form is composed of the features of centrality and linearity into one particular combination.

The Coin Building

This image is a radial form. The building is shaped like a large coin, with a square hole in the middle which is a center of its.

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