SPACE PROGRAMMING
Space programming is the consolidation of all the requirements, standards, rules and regulations for
the design proposal.
Space programming is an exercise for the student to concretize abstractions of space relationships
into units of measure as well as the flow or circulation.
This detailed approach in programming leads later the thesis proponent in creating schemes and
plans.
A. Behavioral Analysis
B. Interrelationship Analysis
C. Qualitative Analysis
D. Sample Information Index
E. Quantitative Analysis
F. Sample Table for Quantitative Analysis
G. Guidelines for Site Development Cost
A. Behavioral Analysis
Analysis of users’ activities and schedule in their departments or units.
Study on how the departments or units relate to one another.
Identification of the magnitude and level of sensitivity of service for the significant or critical spaces.
Relevance to the provision of certain areas for the visiting public.
Articulation to why and how the analysis will affect significantly the overall concept of the thesis
proposal.
B. Interrelationship Analysis
Preparation of matrices to facilitate organization of spaces.
Presentation of Bubble Diagrams for various type of users and structures to illustrate the circulation,
arrangement, interrelationship and conceptual scale of spaces and proximity of distance of spaces.
Analysis could be required also to specific furniture requirements, building services and utilities for
certain projects like hospitals, laboratories, factories, and the likes.
C. Qualitative Analysis (Soul of Design)
Preparation of the pertinent qualities of the thesis proposal in matrix form which will become the
bases for the design.
The process in the analysis involves five (5) major concerns:
1. Establishing GOALS.
(What does the client want to achieve and why?)
2. Collecting and analyzing FACTS.
(What is it all about?)
3. Uncovering and Testing CONCEPTS.
(How does the client want to achieve the goals?)
4. Determining NEEDS.
(How much money, space, and quality?)
5. Stating the PROBLEMS.
(What are the significant conditions and the general directions the design of the building should
take.)
These 5 concerns interact with four (4) considerations:
1. FUNCTION
(It implies, “What is going to happen in their building?”)
(It concerns activities, relationship of spaces, and people with their number and characteristics.)
2. FORM
(It relates to the site, the physical environment, (psychological too) and the quality of space and
construction. It is what you will see and feel. It’s the “What is there now” and “What will be
there.”)
3. ECONOMY
(It concerns the initial budget and quality of construction but also may include consideration of
operating and life cycle costs.)
4. TIME
(Time has 3 classifications, past, present, and future. It deals with the influences of history,
the inevitability of changes from the present and projections into the future.)
The data in this presentation may be retrieved from the first two chapters and the latter parts in the
thesis book.
D. Sample Form of Information Inde
E. Quantitative Analysis (Body of Design)
This is the process which translates the qualitative matrix to a more tangible thing. While the
qualitative speaks of the abstract, the quantitative talks of the more realizable output – something
which can be grasped by the readers at once.
Enumeration of the areas and spaces needed in the thesis proposal based on the Qualitative Analysis.
Preparation of the Schedule of Accommodations.
This requires the computation of Unit Area for Each Person, Capacity of Unit, Net Area, Grossing Area,
and the Total Area. The Grossing Area is computed by multiplying the Net Area by the Grossing Factor.
(Establish a Rule of Thumb for the Grossing Factor.)
Quantitative Analysis tackles not only Schedule of Accommodations but also
Construction Costs
Operation Costs
Life Cycle Costs
Maintenance Costs and
Return of Investment (ROI)