Needs

When designing a building or a city, there are many needs an architect or an urban planner shall fulfill in order to get the best or most profitable result.

An architect must be very considerate in order to design a good building. As a designer, an architect must be wise about his decisions and must apply all the knowledge he owns to create the best interaction between the 3 basic groups of needs of architectural construction. These needs are also challenges because it's difficult to find a way to avoid their constant confrontation. The interaction between the groups of needs are called the dynamic of the project. While the activities, uses, and staff of the building constantly change, the dynamic won't be regular and the architect shall manage this changes with cleverness.

The first group of needs are the needs of the people. As human beings, the people shall get enough comfortability to perform their work and basic human activities. A building must have the right proportions according to human scale and elements like water, light and air ought to be always present. However, hazardous elements like polution have to be kept isolated from the building. The structural needs of the building correspond to a different group of basic needs. A building also works as a shelter, that's why people need to feel a safe enviroment. The structure must be able to support the building and its whole content. It has to be endurable and able to face extreme weather situations and some natural disasters. Concerning the insides of the building, specific distributions are given depending on the use of each space.The last group is the contextual needs. A building can't work as a single isolated entity nor as disruption to the comunity where it stands. It should be available for further changes and accessible to comunication channels of water and many electrical services.

These are the most important needs that an architect has to fulfill during the designing of a project, otherwise a building wouldn't accomplish its right purpose.