Assignment No.

1
TOPIC: ORIENTATION AND IDENTITY IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE
INSTRUCTIONS:
Research and look for answers to the following questions. Please make sure to indicate your references or sources.
Put your answers in this document for uniformity. 

1. What does an architect do for community architecture?

Architecture should benefit the community in a socially responsible and long-term
way. To do this, the architecture profession must lead change by recognizing human,
environmental, social, and cultural concerns, as well as the repercussions of professional
work. Community architects, according to Sage Journals, assist communities in seeing new
possibilities and solutions for community development. When faced with a "design challenge
or circumstance," architects may immediately envisage a multitude of solutions and design
alternatives. Architects are the best people to provide and create ideas from a problem.
Architects' existence is inextricably linked to their social, economic, and environmental
duties. While, according to the duly recognized organization of architects here in the
Philippines, the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP), Architects' responsibilities in
community development may be an important element of the process of moving a community
from "weak" to "strong" sustainability. Architects must include the notion of sustainability
into both of their responsibilities. To encourage sustainable community development,
architects' jobs must include not just being professionals but also being community members.
Furthermore, Architects conduct thorough research on the requirements of the community to
ensure that the design is appropriate for the site. They consider the client's interests as well as
the community's, the environment's, the building's function, and sustainability. These design
decisions have an impact on the community's experience with the building and space.

2. What are the orienting exercises for development planning and action in community architecture?
Orienting Exercises for development planning and action in community architecture are the
following:
1. Access to Resources
A set of participatory activities that allow development practitioners to collect information and create
awareness among beneficiaries about how access to resources differs based on gender and other significant social
characteristics. This user-friendly tool draws on users' everyday experiences and is beneficial to men, women, trainers,
project staff, and field workers.
2. Analysis of Tasks
A gender analysis tool that improves community knowledge of the gender distribution of home,
market, and communal activities and familiarizes planners with the degree of role flexibility associated with certain
duties. Such knowledge and awareness are required to plan and carry out development programs that benefit both men
and women.
3. Logical Framework
A matrix that depicts an overview of project design, highlighting the intended outcomes when a
project is successfully finished. These outcomes are expressed in terms of objectively observable metrics. The Logical
Framework project planning concept has been developed for use in participative methodologies.
4. Assessment of Needs
A method for gathering information about people's various needs, increasing participants'
understanding of associated concerns, and providing a framework for prioritizing requirements. This type of
instrument is essential in gender analysis because it allows for the development of an awareness of the specific
demands of both men and women as well as comparative study.
5. Participant’s Observation
An anthropological and sociological fieldwork approach used to collect qualitative and quantitative
data that leads to a comprehensive knowledge of people's habits, motives, and attitudes. Participant observation
comprises researching the project's history, researching the general features of a beneficiary group, and living among
beneficiaries for a lengthy period of time, during which interviews, observations, and analyses are documented and
discussed.
6. Seasonal Diagrams
Show the key changes that influence a home, community, or area over the course of a year, such as
those related to climate, crops, labor availability and demand, animals, and pricing. These diagrams illustrate moments
of restriction and opportunity, which may be useful for planning and execution.
7. Socio-Cultural Profiles
Detailed explanations of the social and cultural factors that, when combined with the technical,
economic, and environmental dimensions, serve as the foundation for policy and project planning and preparation.
Data on the types of communities, demographic features, the economy and livelihood, land tenure and natural
resource control, social structure, variables impacting access to power and resources, conflict resolution processes, and
values and attitudes are all included in the profiles. The socio-cultural profile, in conjunction with a participation
strategy, helps ensuring that proposed programs and policies are culturally and socially relevant, as well as possibly
sustainable.
8. Village Meetings
Participatory development meetings involving a large number of users, including information
exchange and group consultation, consensus building, intervention prioritization and sequencing, and collaborative
monitoring and evaluation. Village meetings are significant forums for beginning initiatives, reviewing progress, and
receiving input on analyses when several approaches such as resource mapping, ranking, and focus groups have been
employed.
9. Identifying Sense of Time and Place
A growing number of planners and architects are attempting to create communities with a stronger
"sense of place," promoting: a more compact pattern of development; mixed use (where residential areas are not
isolated from places of employment and commerce); a strong pedestrian orientation; active civic and community life;
closer links between public transportation and land use; and higher housing densities.
 3. What are the types of Architectural Forms in planning?

 Centralized Form
Centralized forms are frequently self-contained and isolated within their setting.
 Linear Form
A linear shape is frequently a reaction to topography or site context. They usually show a variety
of shapes along a line.
 Radial Form
A radial shape has a centrally positioned core with linear forms radiating outwards from it. Radial
forms can be used to construct a network of centers that are linked by linear forms.
 Clustered Form
A clustered form is a group of several shapes. They are not always regular or formal, and are
generally based on a more utilitarian demand. Among other things, a clustered shape can be interlocking,
face to face, or edge to edge.
 Grid Form
A grid form is an example of a form that focuses on a grid arrangement. These shapes are often
examined in the third dimension and have a modular basis.
4. What are the visual properties of forms?
Form refers to both the internal structure and the exterior contour, which is frequently in the shape of a three-
dimensional mass or volume. Formal qualities include the following:
Shape - the form's contour
 Size- to the form's size, proportions, and scale.
 Color - the form's color will influence its perceived weight.
 Texture – the texture of a form will affect how light is reflected or absorbed
 Position – where the form is located in relation to its environment
 Orientation – the position of the form in relation to the ground, compass points or the person viewing the
form
5. What are the types of Building Organization in planning?
The arrangement of these areas helps clarify their relative importance. relevance and functional or symbolic
role in constructing organization the choice of which form of organization to adopt in a given scenario. will be
determined by:
 Construction program requirements, such as functional proximities dimensional requirements, space
classification hierarchy, and access, light, or view requirements
 External site conditions that may limit the organization's shape or expansion, or that may inspire the
organization to address certain issues parts of the website while ignoring others
Here are the types of building organization in planning are as follows:
1. A centralized organization is a steady,
concentrated composition made up of a
number of subordinate areas clustered around
a big, dominant center space. The central,
unifying space of the organization is generally
regular in form and large enough in size to gather a number of secondary spaces about its perimeter.

2. A radial organization contains

characteristics of both centralized and linear
spatial arrangements. It comprises of a
prominent center area from which a number
of radial linear groupings extend. A
centralized organization is an introverted design that focuses inward on its center area, whereas a radial
organization is an e extroverted scheme that stretches out to its surroundings. It may stretch and attach
itself to certain objects or aspects of its environment using its linear arms.
3. A clustered organization relies on physical close ness to
connect its areas. It is frequently composed of repeating,
cellular regions with comparable functions and a shared
aesthetic feature such as form or orientation. A clustered
organization can also accommodate places that are distinct in
size, structure, and function but are linked by proximity or a
visual ordering device such as symmetry or an axis. Because its
pattern is not based on a hard geometrical notion, the structure
of a clustered organization is adaptable and can easily
accommodate growth and change without losing its identity.
4. A grid organization is made up of shapes
and spaces whose spatial placements and
connections with one another are governed
by a three-dimensional grid pattern or field.
A grid is formed by two, generally
perpendicular, sets of parallel lines that cross to form a regular pattern of points. The grid pattern is turned
into a series of repeated, modular units of space when projected into the third dimension.
5. A linear structure organization is fundamentally made
up of spaces. These spaces can be linked directly or
indirectly through a separate and different linear space.
A linear organization is typically made up of repeating
spaces that are similar in size, shape, and purpose. It
 might also be a single linear space that organizes a succession of spaces that differ in size, shape, or
purpose along its length. Each space in the sequence has an outside exposure in both circumstances.

References:

10, E. on D., & *, N. (2022, April 6). Architecture Design Basics - form -. First In Architecture. Retrieved
September 24, 2022, from https://www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk/architecture-design-basics-form/

AuthorKanchi Modi She is an architecture student, Modi, A. K., & student, S. is an architecture. (2021,
March 2). Co-designing with users- building community architecture with the community - RTF:
Rethinking the future. RTF | Rethinking The Future. Retrieved September 24, 2022, from
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a2556-co-designing-with-users-
building-community-architecture-with-the-community/#:~:text=Community%20architecture%20is
%20a%20practice,a%20vital%20role%20in%20designing.

Bayanihang Arkitektura. United Architects of the Philippines. (n.d.). Retrieved September 24, 2022, from
https://united-architects.org/members/bayanihang-arkitektura/

Ching, D. K. (1979). In Architecture: Form, Space, And Order, (3rd ed., pp. 183–238). essay, 1979.