The process of designing condominium

 There is a significant development in infrastructure these days in Cambodia since many new
buildings had appeared during the last decades. Cambodian people are more likely to live in the
condominium rather than the apartment, flat or residential block. Consequently, condominium are
increasing more and more in the city, especially they are not only beautiful but also livable. In order to
build a condominium, it is required some vital steps in designing which are responsible by the architects.
First of all, it is about studying the project and functioning it. The designer must know where the
project will take place as it is extremely important for analyzing the site location. For example, if a
condominium is planned to build, being an architect should examine the location clearly to know about
the strengths of the area, also the weakness, the opportunity and the last thing is the threats to deal with.
After that, functioning is also an indispensable task. Designers should use the space to its optimum as
they have to design floor plans at this stage. All types of rooms must be carefully divided and comfortable
to live in. For instance, designer need to know how many rooms that can be put in a unit and where they
are located. Another thing is a landscape of the condominium like the swimming pool, gym area and
green space.
Moreover, drafting the concept also plays a very important role for designing the condominium.
Most of the famous building in the world are well-known due to their concepts. Concept is an invention
of idea toward a project. Animals, plants and geometry forms are the good examples that are mostly used
to create or propose the concepts. In addition, after finishing the concept, they are able to start to develop
their elevations of the building. In this stage, they have to design each view such as right, left, rear and
front. Normally, they ought to be skillful in computer programs. Using the graphic design is easier to see
whether the whole building is nice-looking and acceptable or not. When the first draft is completed, it is
time for the developer to present or indicate the plans and concepts below to customer.
Last but not least, after discussing with customer, the designer must produce the final draft and a
complete information within the project. There must be some controversy over the opinions or ideas on
the project. For instance, the owner somehow does not like the function of the rooms since they are kind
of small and unusable. Therefore, architect needs to bring out the solutions or new ideas without
disturbing other parts of the work too much. Then they again have to show what they had changed to
owner and decide for a final draft. In this part, all the information’s and data’s such as the floor plans,
elevations, sections, details and others must be sum together into a book and give it to engineer to start
the construction.
To sum up, designing condominium is not an easy thing since a lot of steps are taking. To my
mind, being an architect is holding a high responsibility. What they design must be comfortable,
attractive, sustainable and livable. If they were not to do this, it would cause adversely affects to not only
the users but also the environment and communities.