Plan Composition

Ok as we start to touch on design, it is important to discusson how to begin your design.

We start with the planning to allocate the space needed by the client in such a way that the person would be comfortable in that space.

Good planning is not placing areas aimlessly for the sake of filling the requirement. You must have a reason or a scheme behind every element we place. If you are going for symmetry or monumentality like say government buildings or other structures you want to invoke in a formal character then you may go for a plan that is arranged in a balanced manner and about a central axis.

Complexity will depend upon the use or number of units required. But simple geometric shapes are often times the most recognizable and they emphasize a specific area of a building .

Axial Arrangement of your plans may be utilized where the basic is that you have a Major Axis and a Minor Axis. There are many techniques in producing a plan but I have always based it on a the principle that the spaces must work in harmony where if you take or augment one part of it, the other parts would be affected, for me good planning is such that the user would not feel that the spaces are isolated but rather working in unison.

Reference: Architectural Theories of Design by George S. Salvan