The Infinity Dimension

At this stage, you must:

 

• Understand the projects’ requirements such as; the type of the building, the location, the number users, and when the deadline to submit is. This will help you in setting the program to manage the project.

 

• Analyse the site conditions and context, which include studying the social, historical, and environmental aspects, natural physical features, and the man-made features, such as local climate, surroundings, neighbourhood context, infrastructure, utilities available, the site topography and type of ground, the skyline of the city, landscape, circulation, and transportation. This will help you to understand the potential and limitations of passive design strategies to meet your goals of thermal and visual comfort. You will also understand opportunities for renewable energy, and you will explore the role of material selection.

 

• Study local regulations and the law will help you to know what is the maximum built-up area, number of floors permitted, minimum and maximum heights, the offsets that you must leave between the building and neighbours this will help you to understand where you can build and the permitted building area too.

 

• Study the architecture standards, where you can understand the spatial requirements for the project, their order and relation, layout, dimensions, recommended building modules. This will help you to minimize wasted area.

 

• Look at similar projects helps in understanding the relations between spaces, the flow of functions.

 

• Set targets to achieve either net zero energy or a certified program like LEED. You will develop and revisit these quantitative and qualitative goals as you move through all of the stages.