Semantics and Concept acquirization

Question 1

shape semantics, Visual Rhythm

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VISUAL PATTERNS

Question 2

provide ways to interpret shapes. is a visual pattern
of relationships of shapes which is represented explicitly and intentionally.

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primary shape semantic

Question 3

can be treated as the visual semantics of the
design and is perceivable by designers.

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Visual organization

Question 4

provide ways to interpret shapes

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SHAPE SEMANTICS

Question 5

the perception of patterns of relationships of equivalent objects or
groups of objects such that the patterns contain repetition along one or more axes.

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VISUAL RHYTHM

Question 6

4 types of shape semantics

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Visual Symmetry, Visual Rhythm, Visual Movement and Visual balance

Question 7

Emergence
of visual rhythm in architectural designs may be discovered when repetitions of what?

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visual patterns of
shapes exist.

Question 8

traffic lights give commanding signal as to when a vehicle can stop or go at
a certain road or intersection.

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Signal and Signs

Question 9

Something which had an existential relation between
signifier and signified.

Example:
1. A door indicated itself as a symbol of an approach to a building or
structure. For a glass door, it also signals what is behind it.

2. A window indicated a view and lets the viewers see what is
   beyond it.

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INDEXICAL SIGN

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Examples:
1. One glance in the shown image of a good stand would
immediately give off the idea that it is a hotdog stand.

2.Most ‘functional’ architecture example of this sort is common
shape of an auditorium.

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ICONIC SIGN

Question 11

Conventional usage sets the arbitrary relation between
signifier and signified.

1. Use of animals (especially those related to hunting as the usual
   emblems on pub interiors.
2. English Cottage houses denotes a sense of retreat and living
   close to nature in a countryside setting.
3. The use of classical Greek elements such as the columns are
   common for government building to denote formality and authority.

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SYMBOLIC SIGN

Question 12

assumes primary importance as the basic strategy of
perception whereby learning and perhaps heredity establish what symbols define
the important features of the sensory milieu.

Used to indicate forms, direction, tangible elements that provides additional context to a design in Architecture

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Symbols

Question 13

still used in design with new materials plastic
skin inflatables, suspension structures, etc.

. Ex. Tensile roof of the Munich Olympic Stadium designed by Frei Otto.
In which available materials are used (ex. Earth, stones, animal skins,
tendons) and were put together initially by trial and error until a building
form was achieved which actually worked.

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PRAGMATIC

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Often encouraged in various cultures by legend and/or traditions
which describe the design process, by the mutual adaptation which has taken
place between way of life and building form.

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TYPOLOGIC

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the form is generated by some two or three dimensional
geometric system. Aside from the use of the Egyptians and the Greeks, it was
also utilized in the design of the Gothic Cathedrals.

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CANONIC

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ideas that integrate various
elements into a whole. These elements can be ideas, notions, thoughts, and observations.
Concepts are the antithesis of notions, which do not make any pretense about being appropriate.

Concepts are the antithesis of notions, which do not make any pretense about being
appropriate. A concept implies appropriateness; it supports the main intentions and goals of a
project and respects each project’s unique characteristics and restrictions.

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CONCEPTS

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are concepts that have been reduced to a formal architectonic
concern like daylight, space, sequences of spaces, integration of structure and
form, and sitting in the landscape.

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Architectural Ideas

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is a specific pattern or idea that recurs throughout the design of a
project. Charles Moore suggests that his work is a search for the particular way in
which each of several themes or principles that interest him can be developed.

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THEMES

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refer to the general geometric configurations or hierarchies
that the parts of a project should respect. Urban design and campus planning
provide some clear examples in which overall organizing patterns are established
and the pattern idled in.

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ORGANIZING IDEAS

Question 20

the conceptual and graphic
products of a particular method of instruction developed in Beaux Arts Schools of
France during the 19th century. This method demanded that students develop their
conceptual skills to a high level.

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PARTI & ESQUISSE

Question 21

Meaning of “Parti and Esquisse”

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Scheme and Sketch

Question 22

is a phrase used to describe the goal of developing a concept
and diagram that can become the simplified plan for the project. The concept for a
project should be expressible in the kind of sketch one might do on a napkin.
Presumably, according to Edward Barnes, that original diagram would be just as
visible and identifiable in the finished building as it was on the napkin.

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LITERAL TRANSLATIONS

Question 23

specific, concrete thoughts we have as the result of an understanding insight,
or observation. Building design are composed of many small decisions, and it is important
to develop skills in generating ideas and concepts that respond to the wide variety of
issues that emerge.

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IDEAS

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are very similar to ideas except that there is a connotation of randomness. ideas that are presumed to be insubstantial, unsubstantiated, or often trivial
when tested against other ideas

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NOTIONS

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identifies how various aspects of the requirements for a
building can be brought together in a specific thought that directly influences’ the design
and its configuration.
the result of a
concentrated and imaginative effort to bring apparently dissimilar things together.

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CONCEPTS AND IDEAS