INTRODUCTION TO BUILT

ENVIRONMENTAED 1233

Definition of Terminologies

What is Built Environment?

BUILT ENVIRONMENT The manmade surroundings that provide the setting for

human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.

Humanly made, arranged or maintained to fulfill human purpose needs, wants and values to mediate to overall environment with results that affect the environmental context.

What is Environmental Design?

The science of understanding and shaping our environment through renewed awareness of ecology and its study of the interactions of organisms and their environments. The applied disciplines (e.g. the design and planning fields) are combining into a general field of “Environmental Design”.

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

PRODUCTSINTERIORSSTRUCTURESLANDSCAPESCITIESREGIONSEARTH

Interrelations between these components are veryimportant aspect to the formulation of the BuiltEnvironment. Integration of these different

disciplinesare crucial.

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

PRODUCTS

Materials and products, generally created to extend human capacity to perform specific

task: tools (pen and pencils, hammer and saw)

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

INTERIORS

A space defined by an arranged grouping of products and within the walls of a structure, generally created to enhance activities and mediate external factors (living room, work rooms, public assembly halls and stadiums)

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

STRUCTURES

A planned grouping of spaces defined by and constructed of products, generally combining related activities into composite structures (housing, school, office building, mosque, factories, highways, bridges, tunnels, etc.) Generally, structures have dual internal spaces and external form characteristics.

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

LANDSCAPES

Exterior spaces and or setting for planned grouping of structures and spaces (courtyard, malls, parks, landscapes, sites for home and other structures, farm, countryside, national forest)

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

CITIESGrouping of structures or landscape of varying sizes and complexities, generally clustered together to define a community for economic, social , cultural and environmental reasons (Subdivisions, neighborhood, villages or town and cities of varying sizes)

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

REGIONSGrouping of cities and landscapes of various sizes and complexities, generally defined by common political, social, economic and environmental characteristic (the surrounding region of a city, a country or multi country area, a state or multistage area, a country, continent)

COMPONENTS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

EARTH

All of the above, are the components of the built environment.

HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE COMPONENTS

1. PRODUCT PRODUCT/GRAPHIC/

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS

2. INTERIORS INTERIORS DESIGNERS

HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE COMPONENTS

3. STRUCTURES ARCHITECT AND

ENGINEERS

4. LANDSCAPESLANDSCAPES ARCHITECT AND PLANNERS

HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE COMPONENTS

5. CITIESURBAN DESIGNERS AND PLANNERS

6. REGIONSREGIONAL PLANNERS

7. EARTHENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS, NATIONAL & GLOBAL PLANNERS AND POLICYMAKERS.