FUNCTION Flashcards
Newly married, mixed singles,
elderly, married with kids.
CHARACTERISTICS
OF PEOPLE
In a parking garage for ex: tollin,
park, toll-out
SEQUENCE IN TIME
(primary) proportion, labor, delivery, nursery, (secondary) waiting, clean and sterile utility, doctor's and nurses lockers, (tertiary) house keeping, janitor's closet.
RELATEDNESS TO
CORE ACTIVITIES
Delivery, unloading, storage,
preparation, craft, sales.
EXTENT OF MAN
OR MACHINE
INVOLVEMENT
Incoming passengers, parking
and services, outgoing passengers
loading and unloading,
taxi, runways.
RELATIVE PROXIMITY
TO BUILDINGS
Single house, duplex, condominiums,
apartments.
VOLUME OF PEOPLE
INVOLVED
In sports, tennis, golf, swimming
pods. In malls, fast foods, clothing,
food.
SIMILARITY IN
GENERAL RULE
Deals with the development of a plan arrangement to serve in a purely mechanical way the functions of the building (sizes of rooms, HVAC)
FUNCTIONAL
DESIGN
In hospitals ex: Delivery room
to recovery room to post
partum.
RELATEDNESS TO
DEPARTMENTS,
GOALS, SYSTEMS
Kitchen near to Dining room,
Master’s Bedroom to toilet.
NEED FOR
ADJACENCY
Radiation, chemicals, smoke, fumes. heat, noise from gymnasiums, mechanical rooms, vibration from machinery wet-dry toilets, labs.
TYPES OF EFFECT
PRODUCED
Furniture types, need for view,
ceiling height, access to roof,
need for vents exhausts, security,
acoustics.
REQUIRED
ENVIRONMENTS
