Façade Design- ARCH 203
Elements of façade and Design Principle 1
FACADE
The protective envelope
Material and construction
Form
Socio-cultural environment
Facade and building services
Elements of façade and Design Principle 2
FACADE
Elements of façade and Design Principle 3
POSITION AND LOCATION
Location relative to its environment or visual field direction of a form relative to the ground plane, the compass
points, other forms, or to the person viewing the form.
Elements of façade and Design Principle 4
ARRANGEMENT AND ORIENTATION
How the forms are related to one another and organized to form a coherent pattern
Two forms can be arranged together as:
Form within another form Interlocking forms
Elements of façade and Design Principle 5
ARRANGEMENT AND ORIENTATION
Adjacent forms
Similar forms linked by a common form
Elements of façade and Design Principle 6
ARRANGEMENT AND ORIENTATION
Centralized: a central dominant form
Linear :Linear sequence of repetitive form
Elements of façade and Design Principle 7
ARRANGEMENT AND ORIENTATION
Clustered : grouped in close proximity or sharing of
common visual trait Grid : Organized within a grid form
Elements of façade and Design Principle 8
SCALE
Mechanical scale: the size or proportion of something Human scale in architecture is based on the dimensions and
relative to an accepted standard of measurement. proportions of the human body.
Visual scale: the size or proportion an element appears to
have relative to other elements ofknown or assumed size.
Elements of façade and Design Principle 9
REPRESENTING MATERIALS
Elements of façade and Design Principle 10
SPATIAL DEPTH CUES
Elements of façade and Design Principle 11
