External Influences on Building Design

External Influences on make initiationMany people presumet realise how hard it thunder mug be to image something. Especi whollyy edifice, this is why clothes jut outers job isnt easy. The massing and overall design of the construction is influenced by number of different factors and how important they argon differs for each design. I would resembling to highlight the most important sensations, and highlight which one of them cross lineament quite often. As Richard Rogers said form follows profit, and this is aesthetic principle of our times, unfortunately this is important factor impacting the design and all the other processes in intriguerure. Although its not the only one. Other utilization is often on the very beginning of the device the site. Size configuration, topography this has huge impact on design. Sometimes we can change slightly topography, but site shape would be much of an issue. Often in extreme cases this becomes the asset of finalised vagabond, like it happened in Tokyo project A life with large opening often called gap house designed by ONDESIGN. Next factor is often one of the most influential in good and also in the bad way. These are and include number of people, starting from client all the way to neighbourhood, which sometimes influences the design. Probably one of most important stakeholders is user/client, they often provide driving force for the design.As they whitethorn be personally involved in process of design and then construction. Possibly the best example of this could be STAMP HOUSE designed by Charles Wright Architects. This project in was directed and influence by dissimilar factor of which the most challenging was client, that desired carbon neutral, off-grid architectural statement that would be new face of tropical architecture. Effectively this particular project was as highly influenced by clients introduction of environmental design. Final design was to minimalize impact on environment (as client requested), so that ecosystem somewhat it would not be affected. Therefore architects had to work very closely with experts and various organisations. Effectively this lead to zero carbon project that is take aim 5 cyclone proof and therefore classed as a cyclone shelter, additionally its flood proof and wouldnt suffer from any natural disaster as it uses on sight solar panels and rain water collected in 25000 litres tank that is also located on the site. Another very influential stakeholders are neighbours and community groups. They often effect not only design but also whether manikining will be completed or not. Good example could be found in Manchester where public was picketing construction of new Manchester metropolitan University campus building, the site chosen by MMU has previously been picketed by same group of people and that was probably what ca employ investment funds to fail.This time it was different partially due to professional manner of architects, MMU and local government. Although as umteen people claim the main role in this case was played by another influential and sometimes critical factor economic status. As the economic crisis emerged rate of investment started drastically falling down, MMU used this fact to gain planning permission for Birley Fields proposal and convince authorities and residents. This just reinforces and relates back to famous Rogers abduce Form follows profit, is the aesthetic principle of our times. This briefly mentioned local government as they are stakeholder representing local and public interests. They are often main system that appoints people to ensure, that building at it final stage is safe to use. Which obviously fates to be considered and included during design stage. Unfortunately not everything could be predicted like 9/11 terrorist attack. Although government and designers with engineers do their very best to prevent similar disasters from happening.This includes meeting and exciding building regulations, fire regulations and many another(prenominal) more. These also relatively potently influences the design. Number of people work to make sure building is safe the most important and influential of which is engineer or team of engineers. They do all the hard calculations, and this is what they have done in case of WTC. Architects and engineers jointly admitted that they designed World Trade Center to withstand air plane collision.Although it was impossible for building to handle this with so intense fire inside it. This leads me to another factor that strongly influences design that makes it possible and functional.Even greatest building on the hide out without sufficient services and structure to support it is a disaster. This is why engineer and sometimes ME engineer effect design. Often especially in big projects architect and structural engineer work in collaboration to create final design. This is evolution from the sentence said by Louis Sullivan about his new Wainwright Building form follows function. Even if architect and engineer work close together they are often limited by construction methods and processes, like it about happened with Beetham Tower in Manchester. The design caused a lot of dispute on how and whether it would be possible to safely construct four-metre cantilever which is definite land severalize in Manchesters skyline. Frank Lloyd Wright found similar problem when he proposed Mile High Illinois which was proposed in 1956 and never been built, simply because construction methods wouldnt cede it then and possibly even now it could be challenging to construct this proposed building. Although this shouldnt be a reason not to design it there are number of projects that has been designed and either not build or changed during construction because this coordination betwixt architect and engineer wasnt successful. Similar cooperation would be good between ME engineer and architects. Although services that ME is taking c are of often are not of particularly important at the design stage and therefore sometimes they range to be pushed to blank box where they should be transportd or they not even included at all. Unfortunately this is often not enough rig and highly effects aesthetics of interior. This wasnt case in Pompidou Centre in Paris where all the services are on the external faade and therefore services engineer strongly effected or actually created the appearance of this building. This innovative design created very industrial appearance, also its good place to realise how many services and work goes into parts of building that are usually hidden.Possibly hiding all this causes people to think anyone can build a building and call it architecture and this is incorrect. Another influencing factor is unquestionably sustainability. This factor is more and more often mentioned in clients requirements as its good for PR. Although due to global warming and heat island effect more and more gover nments and authorities include some form of sustainability in their building regulations. And therefore its emphatically outside of architects influence. Although sometimes this as well as other restrictions allow great designs to be created and to emerge, similarly like it was with Pompidou Centre with services, they allowed it to be great building. Often sustainability of the building doesnt cause huge effect on the design, although it has to be considered from the start. Another strongly influential factor that I would like to mention is time. As we know time is money this is what Benjamin Franklin said, and its still valid. Different people need quick design for number of different reasons. No matter of reason this influences the design. It may be that because architect need to finish design very speedily and he cant refine all the. It could be that someone works really well under pressure and therefore final design may come out brilliantly. In most cases where time is importa nt factor client decide to use unconventional building process called Design and Build this means that construction starts as soon as architect creates rough shape. That causes that some of the expatiate cant be changed as they may already been built. This isnt something new, its happening for long time, one of best examples is Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, this Roman Catholic basilica designed by architect Antoni knickknack, construction started in 1882, this is 122 years ago, and its still not finished.This wouldnt be possible without this construction method, and hopefully if finished in 2028 as incumbent estimates show it would be definitely one of the longest construction processes in the history. As visible on photo above its not surprising, because as its being build, the attention to the details and the beauty of construction is at the highest possible level. Other influential factor that in my opinion is fundamental is the function. The role of architect is to find the so lution for many, sometimes very hard problems. This is what in my opinion defines good architect. Its not only how pretty the building is, or how tall, its about how well architect or even designer thought about potential issues and how he solved it. Otherwise building is just a shed. Functional but without thought putted into it, althought because form follows function or at least it should, the design supposed to reinforce the function, and definitely not to go against it. This is what many people claim that has happened in case of Vitra Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, even though she is great architect, specific to her design style.As many people claim, the sculptural fanciness of designer caused building to be not functional as fire station and had to be handed over, and now its used for exhibitions and events and continues to be one of the highlights on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. And Im not disputing fact that its obviously architectural highlight of the area. Alt hough its definitely in its design more suitable for exhibition area rather than fire station, because in case of fire it was hard for fire engine quickly leave, to the extent that some people called it dangerous. And therefore I think its important to create great designs, but not to forget about primary winding needs of the place, even factory or storage buildings could be architectural statement not only a building.There are many, many more factors that affect architectural designs all over the planet. Some more and other less, it all depends on client , and situation that the building is being build, however definitely most important and most influential is function followed by site, money and the client.ReferencesShoebox dwelling. 23 Oct 2012. House in a Gap. Online. Available athttp//shoeboxdwelling.com/2012/10/23/house-in-a-gap/ Accessed 22 louse up 2014Ondesign. Unknown. 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