How to Design ....?

Or we might call it "Design Process which could be the backbone of any architectural design process. Below is a Sample project of Rasheed National Museum - Egypt - special thanks to Dr. Yousri Azzam Professor of Architecture Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt for his helpful information and notes.

1.      Photo showing the project requirements in tabs to enable the Architect to calculate the required area for the project foot prints.

2.      Form Study from square, Circle, conical shape, cubic and sphere etc.

Site Analysis is 7 steps process, each could have sub elements depends on the project circumstances:

2.1   Adjacent Roads and the Surrounding Roads.

2.2   Traffic Analysis.

2.3   Environmental Studies.

2.4   Climate Analysis.

2.5   Visual Studies.

2.6   Surrounding Areas and its Urban Theme.

2.7   Entrance to the Project.

2.8   Project Entrances

3.      Project Entrances, Define the Project entrances depends on both importance and type of entrance (Main entrance, secondary, private or emergency) and the road (Main road, secondary, quite or has huge traffic).

4.      Study The Shape.

5.      Developing the circular Shape as an example.

6.      Square shape and part of its implementations.

7.      How to repeat one shape.

8.      Traffic and Climate analysis.

9.      Playing with multi shapes and its scale.

10.  Study of Form.

11.  Study of Solid and Void areas.

12.  Study of Materials, Colours, Textures.

Now i will leave you with the gallery....