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Strategy: During Design Concept Formation Consider Design Alignment

by Maria Lorena Lehman

Image Strategies

Featured Image Takeaway Design Strategy:

When preparing your design concept, do you ever look beyond your site to study nearby design alignments? As the image above shows, architectural design alignment can be visual as the obelisque visually connects with the Eiffel Tower. But you might not simply stop there. What about aural alignments? Are there certain sounds that you wish your architecture could connect to? For instance, in certain towns, church bells and traffic can be heard. I would imagine that you might want your architecture to connect with one over the other. Thus, you should be careful what your architecture aligns with when studying your site and its extended surroundings.

To Apply This Strategy, Ask Yourself:

Does my design concept incorporate more than just visual design alignment that extends beyond my site? Am I stopping to consider aural alignments as well? And if so, how might I design to let some of these alignments in, while buffering other alignments out?

Image Credit: © innusa | Flickr

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