Example:

furniture types, need for view, ceiling height, access to roof, need for vents exhausts, security, acoustics

• Similarity in General Rule

• Types of Effect Produced

• Required Environments

Example:

newly married, mixed singles, elderly, married with kids

• Required Environments

• Types of Effects Produced

• Characteristics of People Involved

Example:

single house, duplex, condominiums, apartments

• Volume of People Involved

• Relative Proximity to Buildings

• Need for Adjacency

Example:

radiation, chemicals, smoke, fumes, heat, noise from gymnasia or mechanical rooms, vibration from machinery

• Types of Effects Produced

• Relatedness to Departments, Goals, Systems

• Volume of People Involved

Example:

incoming passengers, parking and services, outgoing passengers, loading and unloading taxis, runways

• Relatedness to Core Activities

• Required Environments

• Relative Proximity to Buildings

Example:

kitchen to dining room;

master bedroom to toilet

• Similarity in General Rule

• Required Environments

• Need for Adjacency

Example:

delivery, unloading, storage, preparation, craft, sales

• Characteristics of People Involved

• Extent of Man or Machine Involvement

• Similarity in General Rule

It deals with the development of a plan arrangement to serve in a purely mechanical way the functions of the building.

• Need for Adjacency

• Functional Design

• Required Environments

Example (in hospitals):

delivery room to recovery room to post partum

• Relatedness to Departments, Goals, Systems

• Sequence in Time

• Need for Adjacency

Example:

In sports, tennis, golf, swimming pods.

In malls, fast food chains, clothing, food.

• Relatedness to Departments, Goals, Systems

• Similarity in General Rule

• Relatedness to Core Activities