site approach and building entrance with pick points..

1. Site approach & building
entrance
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2. Element of circulation
• Approach
• entry
• Circulation of the path
• Path-space relationship
• Form of the circulation space
Today we are going to describe about site approach and
building entry

3. Site approach
When in motion, we are acted upon by the physical environment through
which we pass. It would seem, therefore, that when moving toward a goal
we could be prepared, by design, for that goal, or when moving toward an
anticipated experience, we could be prepared for that planned human
experience.
• First phase of the circulation system
• Distant view
• Obscuring the distinction between inside and outside
• Use of the space within a building

4. Types of approach
Frontal
• Leads directly to the entrance
• Along a straight axial path
• Visual goal
• Entire front façade of a building or an Path
prolongs the sequence of approach
Villa barbarao,Andera Palladio

5. Oblique
• Enhances the effect of
perspective on the front
façade & form
• Path prolongs the sequence
of approach
Glass house, Philip jhonson
National parliament house, Bangladesh

6. Spiral
• Prolongs the sequence of the approach
emphasizes the three dimensional form of
a building as people moves around its
perimeter
• Building entrance might be viewed
intermittently during the approach to
clarify position or may be hidden until the
point of arrival
Villa hutheesing, Le corbusier

7. entrance
Entrance is a space within a space of a defined
field of exterior space, involves the act of
penetrating a vertical plane that distinguish one
space from another.
• Should be usable by everyone
• Entrance should always be identifiable within the
building façade and allow views into the building
for reassurance
• Good lighting entrance must be well lit and
whereever possible weather protection must be
provided

8. entrance may be grouped formally into three
categories:
• Flush entrance
• Recessed entrance
• Projected entrance

9. • Flush entrance
Maintains continuity of
the surface of the wall
The Pantheon, Rome

10. • Projected entrance
Announces its function to the
approach and provides
overhead shelter
Recessed entrance
The Oriental Theatre

11. • Recessed entrance
Provides shelter &
receives a portion of
exterior space
East Building, National Gallery of
Art, Washington DC

12. The entrance can be signified by
• Establishing two pillars or
• An overhead beam and
• Even by changing in level
An entrance is accommodated by an opening in the plane of the wall. The form of
the opening can range from a simple hole in the wall to an articulated
gateway.
The entrance into the space can be signified by establishing a real or implied
plane perpendicular to the path of the approach

13. • A vertical plane that distinguishes one space from another
• Change in level can establish entrance and mark the passage
• A passage through an implied plane established by two pillars
or an overhead beam