Perceptual Bases for Architectural Design

Architectural Statements
Good architecture are those buildings which contain communication in themselves and express them gently and elegantly.Architecture itself is a statement.Everyone has is own style.The way how we approach to the materials,compositions.In the Architecture Mode of Communication are included
;vision,temperature,humidity,sound, texture.All of this should be implented properly.If we want ourselves to communicate such kind of image we have to select properly those modes.Then we should select the tehnique that we're going to use.If any architectural form is not thought as a total misleading or irritating information.As the building form develops in the design process the architect most evaluate the appropriateness and success of the visual stimulus or visual communication.
The Source of Architectural Statements
This are 6 main sources that architecture use to communicate to state something:

• The Building Program(room shapes,sizes,who uses the space and for how long, equipment,environment control)
• Building type like schools,hospitals,houses etc
• Site- means technical information concerning the site potential  facility,soil bearing capacity etc
• The Architect's Style- its another way of communicating and statement.Style is the distinctive qualities of form given a project that allow us to group projects as representatives of an individual's efforts.
• Environmental and Behaviour Studies- researches on human behavior and the environment are important sources for architectural statements that architects can predic behavior on space as it designed
• Building Technology- technology has advanced and the design can be faster,cheaper

Visual Ordering Technique

• Proximity Diagramming: is an analysis technique that is useful in generating a preliminary sense of the building's potential form.It has 2 hierarchies: -scale of the different spaces of the diagram and the location of the elements
• Signs and Symbols- are used in Architecture to focus the attention of building on space within the building
• Gestalts is how our mind plays in organizing or grouping distant things that are related
• Center of Gravity- the relationship of the parts to the center
• Configuration-when our mind simplifies the visual element in order to understand
• Similarity-objects form,color are grouped to show similiarity
• Proximity-relate two dissimilar objects by placing them near each other
• Symmetry-produces visual groupings within other grouping
• Figure ground- figures on the background
• Patterns-the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.
• Closure and good continuation-visual competition of incomplete object
• Form Reproduction-reproduce the rest of the image from memory
• Vignettes-images of spaces that have emotional connotation
• Archetypes-specific patterns

Design Objectives:

1. Maintaining the desired hierarchies between the parts of the building
2. Maintain clearly the expression in the design
3. Developing interest and enjoyment in the design
4. To mesh the concerns of hierarchy,clarity,and interest with the requirements of physical enclosure