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