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Functional Concepts and The Interior Environment

The document discusses key principles for planning functional interior spaces and circulation, including adjacency needs, similarity of general roles, relatedness to departments and goals, sequence over time, required environments, types of effects produced, and relation to core activities. Proper consideration of these principles is necessary for efficient building layout and use.

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Functional Concepts and The Interior Environment

The document discusses key principles for planning functional interior spaces and circulation, including adjacency needs, similarity of general roles, relatedness to departments and goals, sequence over time, required environments, types of effects produced, and relation to core activities. Proper consideration of these principles is necessary for efficient building layout and use.

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Functional concepts and

the interior environment


A power point presentation prepared
by Architect Gregoria M. Mercado for Theory 2
Based on the Concept Sourcebook by Edward T. White
 Planning for potential circulation
 Structures are built to be used and the purpose
for efficient functioning is defeated unless:
a) people can go easily and directly from one area to another
and
b) the related areas are adjacent to each other.

Adjacency –
synonyms:
Proximity, closeness, immediacy, nearness, contiguity,
antonyms:
Distance, remoteness

Functional concepts and the


interior environment
 Planning for potential circulation
 Architecture begins with a two-dimensional plan which is
translated into foundations for vertical development.
 If the plan is properly laid-out, there will be no problem
with regards to proper circulation.
 Lay-out would depend on the principles related to function.

Functional concepts and the


interior environment
 Planning for potential circulation
 Principles related to function:
a) Need for adjacency
b) Similarity in general rule
c) Relatedness to departments, goals and systems
d) Sequence in time
e) Required environments
f) Types of effects produced
g) Relatedness to core activities

Functional concepts and the


interior environment
 Need for adjacency
◦ There is a relative need for buildings, departments,
spaces or activities to be adjacent.
◦ Adjacency Need Range
1. Critical Adjacency
2. Necessary Adjacency
3. Desirable
4. Neutral
5. Undesirable
6. Necessary separation
7. Critical separation

Principles related to function


 Need for adjacency

kitchen dining living

T/
bedroom
B

Principles related to function


 Similarity in general role

Mechanical
engineer Interior designer
Furniture store

architect

Real estate Structural


Landscape
Urban and Engineer Electrical architect
design development Engineer

Principles related to function


 General roles aside from design are:

◦ Transportation
◦ Health care
◦ Recreation
◦ Athletics
◦ Food Industry

Principles related to function


 Relatedness to departments, goals
and systems
Nursing Departments
Intensive Care

Coronary Care

Orthopedics

Medical
Surgical

Diagnostic-Therapeutic Departments Post Partum

Radiology Laboratory Emergency

Surgery Resp. Therapy Physical


Obstetrics
Therapy
 Relatedness to departments, goals, and
systems are also evident in the ff. buildings:

◦ Furniture stores
◦ Management consultancy
◦ Bank
◦ Elementary schools and other schools
◦ Designer Plaza
◦ Art museum
◦ Hospital delivery suite

Principles related to function


 Exercise:
◦ Arrange the following spaces in an art museum
with regards to relatedness:
◦ Entry/Exit
◦ Prehistoric display
◦ Ancient display
◦ Medieval display
◦ Renaissance display
◦ Contemporary display
◦ Circulation
◦ Bookstore, toilets, refreshments

Principles related to function


 Relatedness to departments, goals
and systems – Art Museum
Contemporary

Renaissance

Medieval

Circulation
Ancient

Prehistoric

Bookstore, toilets,
Entry/Exit refreshments
Guggenheim Museum by
Frank Lloyd Wright
Guggenheim Museum by
Frank Lloyd Wright
 Sequence in Time

Customer

Enter Garage Check car Get ticket Exit by Foot

Attendant
Get
car Get Give Park Check Return
and Ticket Ticket Car Keys to Entry
Keys

Manager

Make Wait for


Give Store Next
Parking Ticket
Ledger
Entry
Keys Customer

Garage
 Most buildings are a synthesis of systems
that touch at certain points. In any
building, there are usually main activity
sequences and feeder or supporting
sequences.

Principles related to function


 Other buildings where we observe this
sequence in time would be:
 Architectural displays
 Museum
 Gymnasium
 Library
 Restaurants
 Groceries

Principles related to function


 Required Environments

Fourth level Living and Dining

Study Kitchen
Third level

Second level Master’s Bedroom Toilet

First Level
Bedroom Toilet Bedroom

Need for a view


 Other needs or requirements which
can dictate how we lay-out spaces
are:
 Types of furniture
 Special electrical needs
 Need for ceiling height or shape
 Access to ground or roof
 Need for vents or exhausts
 Relative security
 Need for visual and sound privacy
 Need for acoustic control

Principles related to function


 Other needs or requirements which
can dictate how we lay-out spaces:
 Noise control
 Relative maintenance
 Plumbing involvement
 Need for types of light
 Need for types of HVAC control
 Degrees of privacy
 Relative contamination
 Relative visual access

Principles related to function


 Types of Effects produced

Reception Disposal
Conference

Waiting Hot lab

Examination
Office Treatment

Radiation produced
 Other areas of concern as to the types of
effects produced are:
 Chemical treatment and disposal in laboratories
 Smoke and fumes produced in car cleaning areas
 Relative heat produced
 Observation intensity in hospitals
 Potential for contamination
 Asset to public image
 Revenue produced
 Relative weight of areas in buildings
 Noise produced
 Vibration in buildings
 Separation of wet and dry areas
 Thrash production
 Odor production
 Relative visual clutter

Principles related to function


 Relatedness to core activities

Tertiary
House-keeping Janitors closet
Support
Secretarial Offices Nurses Station
support

Primary Clean Doctors


Support and Lockers Nurses Medication
Waiting preparation
Sterile and Lockers
Utility Sleeping

Post
Principal
partum
Sequence Prepa Observa
Entry Labor Delivery
ration tion

Nursery

Labor Hospital

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