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Design and order : perceptual experience of built form - principles in the planning and making of place /
"This book outlines the fundamental characteristics that are evident in the creation of built form and illustrates how they determine the experience of resultant places. It consolidates the key criteria that need to be taken into consideration in the development of built form or urban spaces. W...
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Outline xix Preface xxiii Section I The Environment 1 Part I The Environment - Natural, Ecological and Historical (Topography) 3 1 Natural Sites and Places 5 1.1 Nature and Landscape 5 1.2 Natural Places and Characteristics 5 1.3 Creation of Man-Made Places 6 1.4 Existential Space and Place 7 1.5 Natural Landscape and Sensing 9 Further Reading 10 2 Ecological and Climatic Context and Basic Protection Needs 11 2.1 Primitive Needs 11 2.2 Climatic Zones and Natural Materials for Shelter 11 2.3 Shelter Types, Uses and Purposes 13 2.4 Socio-Cultural Factors and Human Needs 14 2.5 Theory of Human Needs 15 Exhibit 2.1 Basic Human Needs 18 Further Reading 19 3 Historical and Regional Development 21 3.1 Historic Eras and Development 21 3.2 Regional Variations,
- Early Cultures and Settlements 22 3.3 Topography, Climate and Materials - Form Determinants 23 Exhibit 3.1 Individual Dwelling Types 24 Further Reading 27 Section II Human Behaviour and Design 29 Part II Human Behaviour (Neuro-Physiology) 31 4 The Brain, the Mind and Sensing 33 4.1 The Brain and Neurological Systems - Seeing, Touching and Hearing 33 4.2 Seeing - Visual Processing and Memory 33 4.3 Touching and Hearing 35 4.4 The Mind - Mental Learning and Thinking - Cognition 36 4.5 The Mind - Visceral Feelings - Emotion and Motivation 38 4.6 Consciousness and Self 39 4.7 Human Body and the Sensing of Form 40 4.8 Meaning,
- Intentionality and Imagination 41 4.9 Metaphor and Consciousness 42 Exhibit 4.1 The Human Brain - Neurological Sensing 45 Further Reading 52 5 The Eyes and the Visual System 55 5.1 Visual Perception 55 5.2 Visual World and Visual Field 57 5.3 Visual Perception and Affordances 61 5.4 Perceptual Experience - Visual System 62 5.5 Visual System and Optic Arrays 63 5.6 Recognition, Eye Movements and Analogue Theory 65 Exhibit 5.1 The Human Eye 66 Exhibit 5.2 Affordances 72 Exhibit 5.3 Perspective - Sensory Shifts 73 Further Reading 74 6 The Senses 75 6.1 The System of Senses 75 6.2 The Senses 76 6.3 Further Senses 78 6.4 The Senses and Multi-Sensory Experience 81 6.5 Multi-Sensory Emotions,
- Feelings and Aspirations 83 6.6 Pleasure 85 Exhibit 6.1 The Human Ear 86 Exhibit 6.2 The Human Senses 88 Further Reading 89 Part III Perceptual Experience of Form (Psychology and Phenomenology) 91 7 Aesthetic Theories and Perception of Built Form 93 7.1 Perception 93 7.2 Theories of Perception 93 7.3 Schematisation and Phenomena 94 7.4 Equilibrium, Wholes and Re-centring 96 7.5 Parts and the 'Whole' 96 7.6 Perceptual Properties 98 7.7 Perception of Form 98 7.8 Psychology of Form 99 7.9 Dynamics of Space 100 7.10 Perception and Cognition 102 7.11 Meaning and Symbols 104 7.12 Synopsis - Perceptual Experience 106 Exhibit 7.1 Principles of Configuration 108 Exhibit 7.2 Perspective 111 Further Reading 113 Part IV Grammar and Syntax of Form,
- Methods and Approaches 143 9.1 Problem Formulation 143 9.2 Setting 143 9.3 Fitness and Fit 144 9.4 Self-Conscious Design Approach 145 9.5 Affordances and Behaviour Settings 146 9.6 Programme Requirements 146 9.7 Designing and Design Approaches 147 9.8 Design Process, Reflection and Appraisal 149 9.9 Intended Results and Evaluation 155 9.10 Design of 'Good' Form 157 Exhibit 9.1 Nature of Design Requirements, Invention and Making 158 Exhibit 9.2 Modern Design Approach - Programme,
- Brief and Process 161 Further Reading 164 10 'Pattern Language' Approach 167 10.1 Form Language 167 10.2 Order and Life - 'Wholeness' 169 10.3 Life-Creating Transformations of Centres 171 10.4 Language of Form 173 10.5 Fundamental Maxim - 'Unity' of the 'Whole' 175 Exhibit 10.1 Pattern Language - Properties 176 Exhibit 10.2 Rules of Scale in Order 180 Exhibit 10.3 Ambience 184 Exhibit 10.4 'Well' Building 186 Further Reading 188 Section III Form,
- Function and Fit 189 Part VI Form and Fit 191 11 Physical Built Form in Space 193 11.1 Form - Mass and Spatial Volume 193 11.2 Transformation of Form 193 11.3 Additive Form 194 11.4 Integration of Forms 196 11.5 Form and Space 196 11.6 Horizontal Planes 197 11.7 Vertical Planes 197 11.8 Architectural Space, Enclosures and Vistas 200 11.9 Spatial Qualities and Layout 201 11.10 Light, Sound and Atmospheric Qualities in Built Form 202 Exhibit 11.1 Principles of Articulation and Conjugation 204 Further Reading 205 12 Geometrical Layout and Organisation - Axes,
- Shapes and Repeating Patterns 207 12.1 Datum and Axes 207 12.2 Ordering Principles 207 12.3 Hierarchy and Scale 208 12.4 Rhythm and Repetition 208 12.5 Symmetry 208 12.6 Transformations 209 12.7 Generative Design Processes 211 12.8 Fractals 212 12.9 Other Forms of Geometry - Non-Euclidean 212 12.10 Patterns of Repeating Elements for Decoration 213 Exhibit 12.1 Principles in the Design of Decorative, Geometric and Motif Patterns 214 Further Reading 216 13 Proportion,
- Symmetry and Harmony 217 13.1 Proportion - History 217 13.2 Proportion and Physical Relationships 220 13.3 Symmetry 220 13.4 Human Proportions 222 13.5 Room Proportions 222 13.6 Regulating Lines 224 13.7 Latent Geometric Relationships 226 13.8 Good Proportioning 226 13.9 Anthropometrics and Human Factors 227 13.10 Scale 227 13.11 Harmony 228 13.12 Expressions of Form 229 Exhibit 13.1 Principles of Proportion and Symmetry 230 Exhibit 13.2 Types of Series, Proportion, Symmetry and Natural Growth 233 Exhibit 13.3 Principles of Rhythm and Harmony 249 Exhibit 13.4 Essay on Harmony as It Relates to Building - Robert Morris 251 Exhibit 13.5 Mu