SCALE OF COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE

Presented by: SALAZAR,

ADRIAN L.
DALUSONG, ZJAY M.
BS ARCHITECTURE
INTRODUCTION
What is Community Architecture?

• Study of communities, the forces that cohere them, and that pull them
apart. Its purpose is to understand the changing nature of communities, in
their historical and cultural contexts, and the value of communities in
sustaining and enhancing our quality of life.
• Its vision is to mobilize the potential for increasingly inter-connected,
culturally diverse, communities to enhance participation, prosperity,
sustainability, health & well-being by better connecting research,
stakeholders and communities.
HUMANITIES RESEARCH INTO URBAN
AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS
DESIGN
• The core practice of architecture is the design of spaces for inhabitation.
This includes the design of buildings, the spaces between buildings, spaces
without buildings, conglomerations of buildings, parts of buildings
(inglenooks, details, the parts of buildings we touch, the parts we never
touch), and other aspects of the built environment.
• Architecture has the capacity to imagine new forms of living, new patterns
of occupation of the surface of the earth, new spatial and aesthetic and
social relations. It is a concrete form of the imaginary.
ABSTRACT

• Multifunctional space is perhaps the most appropriate

representation in architecture of the changes through which
passes the contemporary society.

• The relation between multifunctional space and the scale of

community Architecture.
SCALE IN DESIGN

• Scale and proportion in art are both concerned with

size. Scale refers to the size of an object (a whole) in
relationship to another object (another whole). In art
the size relationship between an object and the
human body is significant.
HUMAN SCALE IN ARCHITECTURE

• Human scale in architecture. ... Buildings scaled

to human physical capabilities have steps, doorways,
railings, work surfaces, seating, shelves, fixtures,
walking distances, and other features that fit well to
the average person. Humans also interact with their
environments based on their sensory capabilities.
CREATING A HUMAN SCALE THROUGH
PLACEMAKING

• Nature, society, human himself the meaning of cultural activities, it is

improves the character, the cultivation of all components of human
existence.

• The ability to show the rights limits in the form of goal-setting, designing the
ideal image of human and world.
CREATING A HUMAN SCALE THROUGH
PLACEMAKING

• The main obstacle to developing at a human scale are municipal

departments and the real estate developers who exercise an undue
influence on those government officials.

• Planning departments look to make city-wide changes in zoning instead of

neighborhood specific ones, resulting in controversies
Contemporary principles of Community related
to their size

• Contemporary society trends, globalization and population are reflected

also in the contemporary principles used in designing communities.

• The scale of community reflects a significant criteria of analyze by defining

elements of principles, typologies and functions, users-public, community
and spaces.
Hybrid multi-functionality

• Most of the contemporary community provide

spaces for clearly defined spaces but also spaces
with polyvalent features.
Polyvalence Adaptability

• The most used multi-functionality formula in thinking of

contemporary community that integrates an array of
spaces with specific functional destinations, flexible,
adaptable, and non-finite spaces .
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