This document discusses key concepts in urban design and community architecture, including how sociocultural factors should inform the design process. It outlines several participatory tools that can help planners understand a community's social and cultural dimensions, such as gender analyses, needs assessments, and village meetings. These tools ensure buildings and spaces are culturally relevant and socially inclusive. The document also covers different architectural forms and patterns used in planning, such as centralized, clustered, and grid forms, and how they impact a community's orientation, identity, and sense of place.
This document discusses key concepts in urban design and community architecture, including how sociocultural factors should inform the design process. It outlines several participatory tools that can help planners understand a community's social and cultural dimensions, such as gender analyses, needs assessments, and village meetings. These tools ensure buildings and spaces are culturally relevant and socially inclusive. The document also covers different architectural forms and patterns used in planning, such as centralized, clustered, and grid forms, and how they impact a community's orientation, identity, and sense of place.
This document discusses key concepts in urban design and community architecture, including how sociocultural factors should inform the design process. It outlines several participatory tools that can help planners understand a community's social and cultural dimensions, such as gender analyses, needs assessments, and village meetings. These tools ensure buildings and spaces are culturally relevant and socially inclusive. The document also covers different architectural forms and patterns used in planning, such as centralized, clustered, and grid forms, and how they impact a community's orientation, identity, and sense of place.
This document discusses key concepts in urban design and community architecture, including how sociocultural factors should inform the design process. It outlines several participatory tools that can help planners understand a community's social and cultural dimensions, such as gender analyses, needs assessments, and village meetings. These tools ensure buildings and spaces are culturally relevant and socially inclusive. The document also covers different architectural forms and patterns used in planning, such as centralized, clustered, and grid forms, and how they impact a community's orientation, identity, and sense of place.
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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE Vernacular landscapes are landscapes that
evolved through use by the people whose activities or occupancy shaped
SignageLighting those landscapes. Parking Landscaping Architectural conservation describes the process through which the material, Service Areas Fencing historical, and design integrity of humanity's built heritage are prolonged through Building Materials Building Articulation carefully planned interventions. Transportation Public Areas ORIENTING EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND ACTION SOCIO CULTURAL BASIS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Socio-cultural is of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and cultural factors. IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE Sociocultural factors are customs, lifestyles and values that characterize a society or group. ACCESS TO RESOURCES: A series of participatory exercises that allows CULTURAL ASPECTS- Include concepts of beauty, education, language, law and politics, development practitioners to collect information and raises awareness among beneficiaries about the ways in which access to resources varies according to gender religion, social org., tech. and material culture, values, and attitudes. and other important social variables. SOCIAL FACTORS- include reference groups, family, role and status in society, time and available resources. ANALYSIS OF TASKS: A gender analysis tool that raises community awareness about the distribution of domestic, market, and community activities according to IMPORTANCE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL BASiS OF DESIGN OF COMMUNITY ARCH. gender and familiarizes planners with the degree of role flexibility that is associated socio-cultural bases of design in community architecture ensure that buildings and spaces are with different tasks. not only functional but also culturally relevant, socially inclusive, and sustainable, contributing to the overall well-being and identity of the community. LOGICAL FRAMEWORK: A matrix that illustrates a summary of project design, emphasizing the results that are expected when a project is successfully completed. SOCIO CULTURAL FACTORS BASIS ASSESSMENT OF NEEDS: A tool that draws out information about people's varied needs, raises participants' awareness of related issues, and provides a Demographic Structure Size and density of population (Growth, age, sex, structure) framework for prioritizing needs. Ethno-linguistic Characteristics Division of the population on the basis of physical PARTICIPANT’S OBSERVATION: A fieldwork technique used by anthropologists characteristics (race, tribe, clan or language) and sociologists to collect qualitative and quantitative data that leads to an in-depth Social Structure Leadership structurs, division on the basis of class or caste, understanding of peoples' practices, motivations, and attitudes. gender relations and forms of cooperative activity. SEASONAL DIAGRAMS: Show the major changes that affect a household, Inheritance Systems including land tenure community, or region within a year, such as those associated with climate, crops, Religios Beliefs and Practices Particular customs, ceremonies, taboos, prejudices labor availability and demand, livestock, prices, and so on. Individual and Group Attitudes Social Structure, religious or cultural beliefs SOCIO-CULTURAL PROFILES: Detailed descriptions of the social and cultural History Conditions of the land, territorial aspects, landmarks, and the like dimensions that in combination with technical, economic, and environmental dimensions serve as a basis for design and preparation of policy and project work. PROS VILLAGE MEETINGS: Meetings with many users in participatory development, -Sufficient data for analysis, you will be able to gather great including information sharing and group consultation, consensus building, prioritization and sequencing of interventions, and collaborative monitoring and information that would help support during the analyzing phase evaluation. -Adaptation, so for that the community will be able to consider the IDENTIFYING SENSE OF TIME AND PLACE: A growing number of planners development from the other neighbors and they will not have the feeling of and architects are seeking to design communities that have a stronger "sense of being alienated place." -Distinguish, any area or community will be noticed according to ambiance, TYPES OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN PLANNING people, architectural character, etc. Centralized form Radial Form CONS Ideal/Practical aspect, because of modernity, as the generation goes by, Clustered Form Grid Form activities become more realistic, ideal, or practical. BUILDING ORGANIZATION VISUAL PROPERTIES OF FORM ORIENTATION AND IDENTITY IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE -Linear Organization -Shape -Position -Visual Inertia Community architecture involves actively engaging people in the design and -Centralized Organization -Size construction of buildings and neighborhoods, particularly in housing projects. It -Clustered Organization -Color seeks to address social conditions and consult with future users to empower -Radial Organization -Texture them to work directly with architects in creating their homes and communities. -Grid Organization -Orientation SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEM SOCIETY- is a number of interdependent organisms of the same species. URBAN DESIGN CULTURE- is the learned behaviors that are shared by the members of a - Deals with groups of buildings and the urban spaces between these society, together with the material products of such behaviors. buildings SYSTEM- is a collection of parts which interact with each other to function as - Open spaces like “streets- pedestrian paths- gardens- squares a whole. - Concerns with aesthetics of physical environment” landscape- furniture of SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS IN COMMUNITY DESIGNS open spaces 1. GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY - Design spaces that focus on the users “Design for people 2. ANTHROPOLOGY - Concerns with the environmental issues in the scale of urban design 3. CULTURAL LANDSCAPE SO HOW THIS INFLUENCES THE DESIGN? Urban Design deals with: AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL MATERIALS Most designers design with available 1. Built environment “Buildings- Spaces” “Functional- Aesthetical” materials. It is not common for people to design with materials which are not 2. Users’ needs available or which are difficult to obtain. 3. Environmental issues ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Major current environmental issues may include ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN climate change, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource depletion -Relates to single building etc. DISASTER PRONE AREASThe word sustainable is defined as using a -Insists on function of the building (residential – commercial – office) resource so that it is not depleted or permanently damaged - Form of the building (colors – materials) DIVERSE LAND Architects design on many places. And each of these places - No focus on spaces between buildings have unique terrain. -Limited Scale Micro Scale ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present. URBAN PLANNING Vernacular architecture is an architectural style that is designed based on local -Organizes the physical components of the city. needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local traditions. -Such as districts- neighborhoods FACTORS AFFECTING VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE -CLIMATIC CONDITION -Deals with functional relationships between the elements of the city such -CULTURE as uses of the buildings- streets- transportation- infrastructure -TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT -Focus on function more than aesthetics. CULTURAL LANDSCAPES are landscapes that have been affected, - Large Scale Macro Scale influenced, or shaped by human involvement. URBAN DESIGN IS A TOOL FOR MAKING PLACES THAT ARE : ETHNOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE The term “landscape” has a wide range of -Good to lve and work in meaning in natural, cultural, and social research, from “a picture of natural -Conserves Heritage and Historical building and urban fabric and creates inland scenery” to “a composition of man-made or man-modified spaces to community identity serve as infrastructure or background for our collective existence.” - Attractive to visit HISTORIC SITES Historic sites are cultural landscapes significant for their -Successful both socially and economically association with a historic event, activity or person. -