Strategy: Find Creative Ways to Detail within Your Building

Featured Image Takeaway Design Strategy:

For your building, it may help for you to develop an architectural language that relates to your building’s scale, material, and location. And as part of this language are the all-important details. Use sensory design to make your details come alive, just as the Ronchamp image above uses its details to bring poetics through its form. Thus, you should use detail to do more than “fill in” a design void. Instead, use it make architecture more than the sum of its parts — by tapping into sensory design for poetics.

To Apply This Strategy, Ask Yourself:

It may help you to look to nature for inspiration on how it details its forms and functions. Notice the language of a leaf, a tree, or a flower. Find the beauty and function revealed within them. Then understand their purpose, just as the details within your own building design must have their purpose as well.