INTRODUCTION TO BUILT

ENVIRONMENT
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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

PRODUCTS
INTERIORS
STRUCTURES
LANDSCAPES
CITIES
REGIONS
EARTH

Interrelations between these components are very
important aspect to the formulation of the Built
Environment. Integration of these different disciplines
are 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
CITIES
Grouping 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
REGIONS
Grouping 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. LANDSCAPES
LANDSCAPES ARCHITECT
AND PLANNERS
HUMAN SPECIALIZATION FOR THE COMPONENTS
5. CITIES
URBAN DESIGNERS AND
PLANNERS




6. REGIONS
REGIONAL PLANNERS
7. EARTH
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS, NATIONAL & GLOBAL
PLANNERS AND POLICYMAKERS.