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Parti, Concept or Idea in Architectural design - Manish Jain - 02-14-2023

A design parti (short for "parti pris" in French, meaning "chosen party" or "decision taken") is a basic concept or idea that serves as the starting point for a design project. It can be a guiding principle, theme, or central organizing idea that influences all aspects of the design, from the overall form to the details. The parti helps to define the project's goals, constraints, and parameters and provides a framework for the creative process.

Parti is the most basic organizational principle that expresses your architectural design. It is the scheme, main concept, or idea that explains better than anything else the character and appearance of your design. It’s the position your design takes in front of the world of infinite architectural possibilities. Very much like what a political party does in the midst of the many political ideologies, it could embrace or address the state of affairs of a country, people, crisis, economy… After all, parti comes from the French word similar to the Spanish word, “partido”. In Spanish arriving at a
parti requires “toma de partido”, literally to “take a position”. So selecting a parti demands your declaration of affiliation, the commitment to a major idea of architecture that resolves a given set of architectural challenges…

Evaluate alternative conceptual design frameworks, or diagrams that respond to established design intent. Focus on the design parti, or big idea rationale, a diagrammatic depiction of the most fundamental organizing philosophy of the proposal. The parti announces the driving force behind the emerging schematic idea, in a simple yet compelling fashion. “The parti
is the widest yet most profound description possible of [the] act of making.”

A parti diagram is an thought sketch, an preliminary response to a site, a consumer’s program or another circumstances that start to find out the order for designing a mission.  They don’t actually characterize what the mission will appear to be in plan or elevation, however are a highway map of the concepts of the mission.  Concepts of ‘threshold’, ‘tension v. repose’, ‘horizon and heart’, or ‘territory and enclosure’ all will be merely diagrammed within the parti as an preliminary response to the issue posed by a brand new mission.

“… a freehand sketch diagram that was on the tangent between thought and creativeness…if the parti – the primary essential diagram – is just not made effectively, it will likely be tough for architecture to comply with.  If there isn’t a parti, there will likely be no architecture, solely (at greatest) little greater than the utility of development.  Buried inside their early sketches is the germ of a story or language.  The early diagrams are reflective conversations with the language of architecture.”

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