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    This document outlines basic design principles and elements of architecture. It discusses primary elements like point, line, plane and volume. It also covers principles of design such as unity, proportion, emphasis, balance, repetition, contrast, symmetry/asymmetry, and theme. Elements of design that are used to organize a structure are discussed, including form/mass, line, texture, space, and value. Patterns are created through the repetition of lines and shapes in a regular manner.

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    Basic Design Principles

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    This document outlines basic design principles and elements of architecture. It discusses primary elements like point, line, plane and volume. It also covers principles of design such as unity, proportion, emphasis, balance, repetition, contrast, symmetry/asymmetry, and theme. Elements of design that are used to organize a structure are discussed, including form/mass, line, texture, space, and value. Patterns are created through the repetition of lines and shapes in a regular manner.

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    This document outlines basic design principles and elements of architecture. It discusses primary elements like point, line, plane and volume. It also covers principles of design such as unity, proportion, emphasis, balance, repetition, contrast, symmetry/asymmetry, and theme. Elements of design that are used to organize a structure are discussed, including form/mass, line, texture, space, and value. Patterns are created through the repetition of lines and shapes in a regular manner.

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    BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES Color - Applied or inherent to the building

    material
    Primary Elements of Architecture
    Pattern I Repetition
    Point - zero dimension. Indicates position in
    space. When lines and shapes are repeated, they
    create a pattern.
    Line - 1D – point extended becomes a line.
    With properties of length, direction & Patterns can be regular or irregular, however,
    position. architects try to repeat elements of design in a
    Plane - 2D – line extended becomes a plane regular manner.
    with properties of length, width, shape,
    surface, orientation, position
    - Shape is the primary identifying
    Principles of Design are the concepts that
    characteristics of a plane. determine how a design is organized.

    - Supplementary properties are surface, color, Unity - All parts of the design work together
    pattern, texture, affecting visual weight and as a whole.
    stability.
    Proportion - The size relationship of a part to
    - Plane serves to define the limits or the whole.
    boundaries of a volume.
    -describe the relationship between two things
    Volume - 3D – a plane extended becomes a of different size.
    volume with properties and length, width,
    depth, form, space, surface, orientation, Emphasis - The focal point of the design.
    position. Balance - Symmetrical or asymmetrical
    Form - The primary identifying characteristics organization of elements.
    of a volume. Established by shapes &
    interrelationship of planes. A volume can be -characteristic of equal weights opposing one
    solid space displaced by mass or void another.
    contained by planes. Repetition - Creates a visual rhythm.
    Contrast - The variation of opposites.
    Elements of Design are the tools you work - exists when two adjacent parts are very
    with when you design. different from one another.
    Form/Mass - The volume of a structure
    Symmetry I Asymmetry - When there is
    Line - Creates visual direction correspondence in size or shape of parts on
    either side of a bisected whole we say it is
    Texture - Surface pattern or physical
    symmetrical.
    materials
    - is the apparent look or feel of the surface of Theme - dominant feature of a work of art that
    an art object. is carried throughout the piece.

    Space - Interior or exterior enclosure


    - is the relative position of one three-
    dimensional object to another.
    Value - The play of light & shadow on a
    structure
    - Light and dark are relative perceptions of
    light.

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