1. ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS LECTURER: MR. SUNNY B. OJEDA
CIVIL & ARCHITECTURAL ENG’G SECTION
SALALAH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

2. Architectural Concepts
It is the designers way of responding to the design situation presented. They have been the means of translating the non-physical problem into the physical building product.

3. Some categories under which the concerns and issues of a building may be listed and addressed in design are :
Functional Zoning
Architectural Space
Circulation and Building Form
Building Envelope

4. Building concerns & issues:
1. Functional Zoning - is a term used to describe the phenomenon when buildings of the same function cluster together in an area of a city or town. Sometimes zoning laws require that uses be concentrated in a particular area.

5. Building concerns & issues:
2. Architectural Space – it means that the design must be spatially relevant to social use of architecture.
SM Mall of Asia, Philippines

6. Building concerns & issues:
3. Circulation and Building Form - refers to the way people move through and interact with a building that is interrelated to the form of the building.

7. Building concerns & issues:
4. Building Envelope - is the area that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air.

8. Context For Concept Getting
General philosophy and life values of the designer
Design philosophy of the designer
View of the problem by the designer presented with a specific design project

9. Categories of concern under specific design project
Function
Space
Geometry
Context
Enclosure
Systems
Economic
Human factors

10. Architectural Design Values
Aesthetic Design Values
Social Design Values
Environmental Design Values
Traditional Design Values
Gender Based Design Values
Economic Design Values

11. Contemporary Architecture is generally speaking the architecture
being made at the present time.
Modernism
Post Modernism
Deconstructivism
Expressionism
Neo-classicism