massing is what makes an building impactful. in this slide you will know how unity and harmony and repitition is main principle.

1. #DETERMINES FORM
#BOLD
#DIFINES ATTITUDE
#CAN WITHSTAND
CIRCUMSTANCES
#CLEAN GEOMETRY
#LESS IS MORE
#MORE MYSTERIOUS
LESS SHOW OFF
#VOLUME
#FIRST IMMPRESSION
MASSING
FUNCTION
FOLLOWS
FORM

2. what
is
building
massing ?
What you see is a building , that volume is
mass.
And what an architect did to create that volume
is massing.
so massing is the decision of the architect that
WHAT AND HOW the building will speak of
itself.
Architects decides the mass of a building and
what building speaks of decides the lifestyle of
the area, affects the mentality of people, make
them FEEL something. Sometimes they hate it,
other times they feel connected. So when you
decide a building you actually decide the
environment for a very very long time.
SHAPE of a built form is outcome of massing.
it’s
a
process

3. what is
the
process
of
massing
massing
involves making
composition of
diffrent volumes
of same shape
or different
shape.
There is
basically two
way of doing it…
1. to make an
amalgamatio
n of volume.
2. to take out
volume from
a whole
mass.
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4. COMMONL
Y USED
PRINCIPLE
IN massing
?
The most popular key factors for developing massing involves
volumes of same shapes. Hence it can be stated that
AMALGAMATION of REPETITION and PROPORTION that leads
to UNITY in design is the main principle of process of massing.

5. Unity is
followed by
focus
created by
contrast.Focus is brought into design to create a SENSE. That sense can be sense of
direction, sense of art etc. An element is highlighted by using the principle of
contrast. this , the chosen element to be highlighted acts as the leader of the
unity. It becomes the focus of the sense attached to the building. Its avoided to
highlight two or more element, so as to not overpower the main element. No
competitive element is generally created.
The quality of the
crowd is
determined by it’s
leader.
Here the browns part
is standing tall
defining itself as gate
keeper and creating
a sense of direction
or entrance. All other
volumes around it
are kept subtle and
of light colour to
avoid the sense of
confusion and give
clear sense of
direction.
A prominent shape is
protruding out. It is
being made very
clear, where the
architect wants your
focus. A very sharp
angle is also
provided to the slab
to make a bold and
sharp statement.
everything around is
at 90 degree and this
portion is leading

6. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.
BOX i.e cubes and
rectangles or 90
degree are most
commonly used
shapes of volumes
in massing .

7. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.
CURVES are
considered great
option due to
connectivity and
circulation property
of curve
curves
generate
flow.
freedom
of
movement.
only handful
of architects
master the
curve.

8. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.
CURVES
generally
comes out
of a story, a
concept and
rebel
contradicting
it’s soft
curvilinear
politeness
admiring it’s
nature of flow
of freedom.

9. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.
RARE
SHAPES
IN
MASSING
one of a kind

10. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.mixed
shapes of
volumes
Although these
are mix of two
very different
volumes, still
repetition can be
seen of both the
type of
geometries.
And there isn't any
highlighted
element, but only

11. SHAPE
IN
MASSIN
G.
EXCEPTIONS
These two are exceptional
building massing, because
there is no repetition of
same shape, infact there is
no repetition at all.
Exceptional is the fact that
all the masses are standing
out individually still there is
Highly
contradicting
massing still
simplicity
at it’s best.

12. …… that constructing buildings that are boxy are cheaper
to build because everything stacks up nice and
easy. They can build one level and then stack the next
level on top, then repeat. Now the con of going this route
is that a lot of times the beauty suffers…or the building
lacks beauty all together. Architecture is ultimately
subjective and what one person likes another may not. It
is very much like being in love where beauty is in the eye
of the beholder. I can tell you this though, in my humble
opinion I have never looked at a building that resembled a
box and found beauty in it. I don’t care how you clad the
building, it is still just a box. There are a lot of modern
buildings popping up that are literally boxes with roofs on
them where the architects are looking to add beauty by the
cladding or the materiality. Some people might refer to
this as the “skin” of the building. Some have used
recycled wood, metal, concrete panels, metal panels,
siding, and other cladding materials to dress up the
building but in the end, when my eye looks at it, it still
registers as a box. Now it may be a cool box, but it is still
a box!
A lot of Commercial
buildings are boxy
for the simple reason…..

13. This brings up another topic
entirely that concerns massing: to
be or not to be
honest? Sometimes we can look
at a building (in most cases) and
immediately understand it. We
can look at a strip mall and see a
bunch of storefront glass and
immediately know that it is a one-
story building with space
inside. We can do the same for
most office buildings – we look at
them no matter how tall they are
and right away realize that they
have different horizontal levels
and each window is approximately
at the eye height of most
people. Now there isn’t anything
wrong with this…as a matter of fact
most people not only expect this
in architecture but they crave
it. Now on the other end of the
spectrum, there could be a
building that has so many different
massing elements and so many
fluctuations in the buildings
fenestration (arrangement of
windows and doors) that how the
building actually works may be
hard to figure out. Once again we
go back to my humble opinion: I
personally love buildings that
aren’t completely honest.
Ikea is another example of a big box company except instead of trying to
dress up their box, they go out of their way to accentuate the “boxiness” by
not having any frills on their building at all. The word “Ikea” actually stands
out very boldly on their building because of the stark facades. Now this I do
think this is sort of cool in that they are allowing the building to be what it
wants to be. They aren’t trying to make it into something it isn’t. They aren’t
saying their building is Falling Water or the Taj Mahal…they are telling people
that according to them, less is more. I like this as an architectural concept
because the architecture of their building trickles down into what they do
which is create furniture that is extremely utilitarian and inexpensive…but in
doing that their furniture is very effective and some may even consider it
beautiful. In architecture we might say that the building is “honest”…or that
there is honesty in the architecture.
They have an edge
honesty

14. mainly deals
with the
colour
contrast
created,
cladding
material.
Talking about
FORM & FACADE
work on skin level creates facade.
work on
volume
level
develops
form.
it’s all
about
maths.

15. EXAMPLE
of massing with
SAME
GEOMETRY
used as
facade & form.
elevation is
freedom on facade
& massing forms form.here is example of U
geometry used in
diffrent dimensions.
only 3d can be considered
proper massing, others are
show off.
massing form and function
a sense of unity !
hiding a box behind curve.
a lie !
mysterious!

16. Level of massing
“In what PROPORTION
the geometry is
used defines massing.”
Spatial design level.
ornamentation,
noeffectonfunction.
function is majorly dependent.
dependentonfunction,
createschangesinform.
ElevationLevel