An Examination of the principles adopted in the design of royal assembly buildings

Abstract

Art it considered medium of expression for human thoughts,desires,emotions and ideas.The sign and symbolic act as the vehicle for the communication of the different expressions. In architecture too. various signs and symbols are used to communicate ideas through architectural expressions of the spaces an forms. In art or architecture. these Symbolic expressions are carried to perceptive minds through a language, like any other language, architectural language, too, has certain linguistic principles of grammar and vocabulary to convey a massage. Various qualitative environment often manifest in various regional architecture and their achievement in different cultures are according to respective philosophies. The main function of a Royal Assembly building is providing facilities to the chief executive and his officers, to held the official activities and make relationship with the citizens. The majesticity and the power of the king should be reflected by the royal assembly and the citizens should feel the structured, secured and strengthened power of the king. The formal majestic and dominant environment provides the background necessary to the way of governing a nation, as well as to behave before a supreme executive. These environmental qualities have been traditionally achieved by in royal Assembly places by the interplay of architectural principles such as axis, symmetry, hierarchical order, rhythm etc., and determinant factors such as proportions, scale, color, texture, ornaments and moldings etc. Hence architecture is a process of concretizing suitable built environments to accommodate the human pattern and is a process of concretising the human patterns by the built forms, once built.