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Information Index Matrix Programmers establish order so that information can make sense and be used
effectively in discussions and decision making. Programmers organize and classify
information. They extract information and display it.They stimulate decisions from
lent groups. They organize the client's vast world of information within a rational
framework. Without this framework, their verification with the client and their
handoff to the designer would not be possible.
With this framework, programmers can classify information, placing it into broad
compartments. Since the main search for information is made in the first three steps,
28 it can be expected that the largest quantities of information will be found in those
first compartments. Refer to the accompanying diagram. Note thatthe space
ey representa diminished amount of
requirements and their economic feas
information in the fourth step. And, of course, the fith step represents the least, yet
‘most important, information, the Problem Statement.
‘The handoff package—the programming document, including a clear, simple statement
of the problem—must represent the epitome of organized, edited information free of
irrelevance.
29 TWO-PHASE PROCESS
Schematic Program
Program Development
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Schematic Design
Design Development
Schematic program and program development provide the information needed at the
two successive design phases, going from the general scope to particular details,
Programming is a two-phase process related to the two phases of design:
schematic design and design development.
Schematic design depends on major concepts and needs, which should not be lost in
the mass of information unusable in this phase. Designers must have information that,
clarifies major design determinants—those factors that will shape the broad composi-
‘ton of the building, The schematic program must provide this important overall
information useful in schematic design, However, equally critical is the filtering out and
Postponing of information that is not needed in schematic design. Give designers only
the information they need at the time they need it.
30 Design development is what the words imply: the detailed development of schematic,
design. Program development provides the specific room detalls—furiture and
equipment requirements, environmental criteria (atmospheric, vsual,and acoustic),
and service requirements (mechanical and electrical).The second phase of
programming may be in progress when the designer is doing schematic design.
It should be pointed out, however, that the programmer, in dealing with an unfamiliar
building type and eritiel functional areas, must seek and collect specific deals earlier
than normally needed in order to establish adequate and generalized space require-
‘ments for schematic design.
We have to establish the
major concepts fora project,
‘and the flood of details to
‘follow will not cover up
what is real in planning.
—Bill Caudill
31 DATA CLOG
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The amount of information received from a client can be staggering. Don't let the
flood of information bother you. One trick is to determine when the information
will be most useful, in schematic design or in design development. Any quantity of
