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02 Design Principles

Ordering principles provide guidelines for designers to create order and understand visual composition in architecture. The key principles discussed include: 1) Axis - An imaginary line that induces movement and terminates in significant forms or spaces. 2) Symmetry - The balanced arrangement of equivalent forms on opposite sides of an axis or plane. 3) Hierarchy - The degree of importance reflected in forms through their size, shape, or placement. Larger, uniquely shaped, or strategically placed elements appear most important. 4) Repetition and rhythm - The patterned recurrence of visual elements like lines, shapes or textures that create a visual tempo or "beat" in a design. 5) Transformation - The

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02 Design Principles

Ordering principles provide guidelines for designers to create order and understand visual composition in architecture. The key principles discussed include: 1) Axis - An imaginary line that induces movement and terminates in significant forms or spaces. 2) Symmetry - The balanced arrangement of equivalent forms on opposite sides of an axis or plane. 3) Hierarchy - The degree of importance reflected in forms through their size, shape, or placement. Larger, uniquely shaped, or strategically placed elements appear most important. 4) Repetition and rhythm - The patterned recurrence of visual elements like lines, shapes or textures that create a visual tempo or "beat" in a design. 5) Transformation - The

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ORDERING PRINCIPLES

AXIS
SYMMETRY
HIERARCHY
DATUM
REPETITION
RHYTHM
TRANSFORMATION
Ordering principles is how different
aspects of architecture are put together
to create order in architectural
composition.

Visual methods that allow the form and


space of a building to co-exist in order to
make a design complete.

When things are arranged in a line or


circle, by shape, size, color, or in a
group, it is said they are in order.
Are GUIDELINES for designers

Help to understand what looks GOOD


and why a design or composition seems
RIGHT

Help to EXPLAIN your ideas, and why


they work
AXIS
An axis is established by two
points; a symmetrical condition
required the balanced arrangement
of equivalent patterns of form and
space on opposite sides.

Is imaginary and not visible except


to the mind’s eye.
It has qualities of length and direction,
and induce movement and promote
views along its path.

An axis must be terminated at both


of its end by a significant form or
space.
V I L L A M A DA M A S , Rome
Plan and Façade of TA J M A H A L , India
DATUM
A line, plane, or volume that, by its continuity and
regularity, serve to gather, measure, and organize a pattern
of forms and spaces.
LINE as datum.

An axis can also serve as


datum.

However, a datum need not


to be a straight line.

v
FORM as datum.

A plane can gather the pattern of


elements beneath it.
VOLUME as datum

A volume can collect the


pattern of elements within its
boundaries or organize them
along its perimeter.
SYMMETRY
The balance distribution and arrangement of
equivalent forms and spaces on opposite
sides of a dividing line or plane, or about a
center or axis.
Two fundamental : BILATERAL symmetry
RADIAL symmetry

Bilateral symmetry radial symmetry


Symmetry in Photography
CHARMINAR, Hyderabad.
monument and mosques serve as
a landmark and has become a
global icon of Hyderabad.
V I L L A C A P R A ‘ L A R O TO N DA’,
Italy
HIERARCHY
Hierarchy reflect the degree of importance of the forms and
spaces, the functional, formal, and symbolic roles played in
the organization.

Must be made uniquely visible and appears more important


in comparison to other elements in a design.
Three fundamental : Hierarchy by SIZE
Hierarchy by SHAPE
Hierarchy by PLACEMENT

SIZE SHAPE PLACEMENT


The visual emphasis can be achieved by endowing a form or
shape with:

▪ Exceptional size
▪ A unique shape
▪ A strategic location
Plan of an ideal church
FLORENCE CATHEDRAL, Italy
MASJID ZAHIR
Alor Setar, Kedah

GREAT MOSQUE OF SAMARA, Iraq


RHYTHM &
REPETITION
Repeating visual elements such
as line, color, shape, texture,
value or image.

Rhythm refers to any movement


characterized by a patterned
recurrence/repetition of
elements or motifs at regular or
irregular intervals.
The simplest form of
repetition is a linear pattern
of redundant elements.

Elements need not to be


perfectly identical but to be
grouped in a repetitive
fashion.

Repetition of size, shape,


detail characteristics.
A visual tempo or beat.

Repetition of elements of art to produce the look


and feel of movement.
Achieved through the careful placement of repeated
components which invite the viewer's eye to jump rapidly or
glide smoothly from one to the next.
TRANSFORMATION
The act, state or process of changing, the conversion from one
form to another

The principle of transformation allows a designer to transform a


typical architecture model through a series of manipulations in
order to respond to the specific conditions and context of the
design task at hand.
THE END

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