Arch - Specific
Often described as the outer layer of a building.
Facade
Refers to the relationship between two or more objects, one that has a commonly known size.
Scale
By placing two positions, each with their own identity in close proximity to each other, their defining characteristics and differences stand out.
Juxtapose
Explores the Notion
One refers to the main focus of a picture, while the other refers to the background.
Negative/Positive Space
Is the taxonomic classification of characteristics commonly found in buildings and urban places, according to their association with different categories, such as intensity of development, degrees of formality, and school of thought.
Typology
A horizontal orthographic projection a building on to a vertical plane, the vertical plane normally being parallel to one side of the building
Elevation
Refers to economic processes, typically an infusion of funds that leads to other infusions of funds, or, at a gross scale, it means that one development makes additional developmental projects look like good investment risks.
Catalyst
Spaces that involve and curate activities open to everyone.
Public Realm
Surfaces create partial visual separation with either full or partial physical separation.
Transparency/Opacity
An architectural style developed in the 1980s, characterized by unconventional, often arresting design elements, suchas curved or sloping walls, slanted columns, and asymmetric structures and spaces.
Deconstruction
Is about understanding why some parts are emphasized and carry more visual weight than other elements.
Hierarchy
Primarily associated with treating the whole person through the built environment.
Holistic
When one designs the location of walls and cultivates space.
Spacial Composition
An empty volume, while a mass is a filled volume.
Ug2 Premise for Me
Solid/Void
An architectural style that is designed based on local needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local traditions.
Vernacular
Means the possibility of organizing an environment within an imaginable and coherent pattern.
Legibility
A repeated figure or design.
Motif
When someone makes a design choice.
Plays With (ie light, materials, space)
Is essentially a collection of services.
Served and Service
An aspect of philosophy researching into the experience of built space, and as shorthand for architectural phenomenology, a historical architectural movement.
Phenomenology
A hierarchical structure for the classification or organization of data, historically used by biologists to classify plants or animals according to a set of natural relationships.
Taxonomy
That does not last long.
Ephemeral
Pragmatic Adjacencies
Both strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering, used in a variety of fields including software, humanistic and scientific theories (see systemics), and management and organization.
Bottom up/Top down