PPP Flashcards
What is the Programming Process?
- Establish goals
- Collect facts
- Uncover concepts
- Determine needs
- State problem
What are Programming Goals?
Indicate what the client wants to achieve and why.
What are Programming Facts?
Describe the existing conditions and requirements of the problem.
What is Programming?
An attempt to define the problem and establish all the guidelines and needs on which the design process can be based.
What are Programmatic Concepts?
Abstract ideas that are functional solutions to the client’s problems without defining the physical means that should be used to achieve them.
How are Programming Needs determined?
Balancing the desires of the client against the available budget or establishing a budget based on the defined goals and needs.
What are the four elements of cost?
quantity, quality, budget, and time
What are problem statements?
Statements the client and programmer agree describe the most important aspects of the problem and serve as the basis for design and design criteria by which a solution can be evaluated.
What are the four major considerations of any design problem?
form, function, economy, and time
What are Design Concepts?
Physical solutions to the client’s problems that reflect approaches to satisfying programmatic concepts.
Priority
The order of importance of things such as size, position, and social values.
Relationships
The affinities of people and activities affecting the organization of spaces and rooms.
Hierarchy
The idea of the exercise of authority and expressed through physical symbols.
Character
Response to the desired image the client wants to project.
Density
How a parcel of land or an individual building space is used to respond to goals such as efficiency, compactness, or interaction.
Service Groupings
Mechanical services or other functions that support the use of the building.
Activity Groupings
Concept that states whether activities should be integrated or separated.
People Grouping
The degree of massing of people derived from their physical, social, and emotional characteristics.
Home Base
A place where a person can maintain their individuality; territoriality.
Communications
Response to the goal of promoting the effective exchange of information or ideas.
Neighbors
Concept that refers to how the project will promote or prevent sociality.
Accessibility
Entry into a building and macing the facility usable by the disabled.
Separated Flow
Segregating the movement of people, automobiles, service access, and other activities of a building.
Mixed Flow
Promoting interaction among people.
