Vocab

Question 1

Which programmatic concept is a designer addressing for the programming of a health club if they opt to provide additional room in an indoor pool area beyond the space needed for the pool and circulation?

Answer 1

Tolerance

Question 2

What are the 5 steps in programming?

Answer 2

Establish Goals
Collect and Analyze Facts
Uncover and Test Concepts
Determine Needs
State the Problem

Question 3

programmatic concepts

Answer 3

a designer’s abstract ideas about how to solve a performance problem. Not a physical solution to the problem.

Question 4

design concept

Answer 4

is a specific physical response that attempts to achieve a programmatic concept.

Question 5

“Precept” drawings are what type of design document?

Answer 5

Idea sketches developed during programming about how the final design solution might respond to the identified design problems.

Question 6

a napkin sketch is most synonymous with _________

Answer 6

parti diagram

Question 7

The study that takes a holistic and human view of data to tell us not only what is happening, but also how and why it is happening is called:

Answer 7

Behavioral Analytics or sometimes called, predictive analytics

Question 8

Ideas are sketched, during the schematic design phase, in abstract forms/shapes in plan view that represent the program’s spaces, activities, and circulation patterns. What are these conceptual sketches referred to as?

Answer 8

Bubble Diagram

Question 9

A special type of adjacency diagram that shows the locations of major spaces or departments when a project occupies more than one floor of a multistory building is?

Answer 9

stacking diagram

Question 10

Which diagram is part of the schematic design phase and used to move from verbal and simplified graphic notation toward true scale and the eventual realization of architectural form?

Answer 10

Block Plan or block diagram

Question 11

Parti Diagram

Answer 11

is usually a sketch, diagram, drawing, doodle, or some other graphic that represents the direction, concept, or theme of a design. It can be very rough; the proverbial back of a napkin sketch.

Question 12

True or False a parti diagram is always a sketchy informal drawing?

Answer 12

False

A parti is a communication tool. It communicates the intent of your design concept. The parti should communicate something about the form as well as the concept.

Ideally, your parti will communicate the experience you intend to create. It should depict something about the functional, sensory, and /or emotional aspects of your design concept.

That said, a parti does not have to be a diagram or sketch. A picture, an object, maybe even a Pinterest board may serve the purpose of a parti.

Question 13

criteria matrix

Answer 13

includes reasons not related to adjacencies, such access to views, plumbing, etc.

Question 14

adjacency matrix

Answer 14

matrix that records the relationships between rooms in a plan and identifies the required levels of closeness and reasons why rooms need to be near each other.

Question 15

test fit plan

Answer 15

generally shows most of the furniture and equipment and is drawn to scale. This gives designers and students an opportunity to see if the actual spaces will “fit” into the proposed building space.
The test fit plan is part of the overall space-planning process as it addresses the physical and functional aspects of a project and will allow the designers to coordinate corridors and adjacencies.

Question 16

Prometrix

Answer 16

is the study of the cultural and spatial needs of people and their interactions.

is the study of how human beings relate to a space based on their cultural background?

is the study of the use of space by human beings in a particular culture.

Question 17

Dion was promoted and now has his own office. He has been busy adding his own personal touches to the space to include his diploma, and framed award certificates, photos of his wife and kids, and photos of his fraternity brothers. What type of human behavior is this an example of?

Answer 17

Territoriality

Question 18

The measurements of a person standing at a kitchen counter washing dishes are an example of?

Answer 18

dynamic anthropometrics

Question 19

the term prometrix was created by who?

Answer 19

an anthropologist Edward T. Hall

Question 20

Intimate distance

Answer 20

allows actual physical contact and generally exists from skin surface to a distance of approximately 1 1⁄2 feet (457 mm)

Question 21

Personal distance

Answer 21

approximately 1 1⁄2 feet to 4 feet (457 mm to 1.2 m)

Question 22

Public distance

Answer 22

the space that extends beyond the 12-foot (3.65-m) limit of the social zone

Question 23

Anthropometrics

Answer 23

is the measure of the size, proportions, and range of motion of the human body.

Question 24

Static anthropometrics

Answer 24

measures the human body at rest

Question 25

Anthropometrics

Answer 25

is the measure of the size, proportions, and range of motion of the human body.

studies the size and proportions of the human body including variations in cultural populations.

Question 26

human factors

Answer 26

involves the correctness of fit between objects and spaces and the needs of the people using those objects and spaces, as it relates to the human scale — an environment designed to fit a person as opposed to equipment, such as a vehicle.

Question 27

Ergonomics

Answer 27

is the study of human beings and their responses to various working conditions and environments.

Question 28

Form

Answer 28

element of design is created with lines, planes, volumes, and to a lesser extent, points

Question 29

Form, function, economy, and time are?

Answer 29

4 major considerations of any design problem

Question 30

This is the relative size of an object or element in comparison to another element of known size:

Answer 30

Scale

Question 31

Proportion

Answer 31

is simply the relationship of parts of a composition to each other and to the whole.

Question 32

The degree of lightness or darkness of color in relation to white and black

Answer 32

value

Question 33

it provides a diversity of ways to allow maximum participation

Answer 33

Inclusivity