Beltramin, Renata Maria Geraldini (2020) A graphical-systematic approach to architectural programming for office buildings and spaces. PhD thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
Abstract
The architectural program is the source of information from which design solutions are conceived. Since the architectural program should allow for the inclusion, manipulation, and classification of any information regardless of the design¿s stage, architectural programming must be supported by an information registration and communication system that not only enables continuous and flexible flow of data, but also promotes clear and accessible data representation. Drawings and diagrams are strategic to the architectural programming because they express synthetically several requirements and criteria. Despite the strategic importance of graphical representation in the design process, it is absent in the reference programming methods specific and detailed guidelines for the use of drawings and other representation strategies in the development of the architectural program, as well as representation systems that allow for concise and synthetic representation of programming information. In this context, this research aimed at the development of a system of organization, characterization and graphical representation of information to support the architectural programming of the design process of office buildings and spaces. The outlined research method comprised five steps: 1) literature review, problem identification, and hypothesis formulation; 2) selection of literature to support the architectural programming of office designs and the graphical representation of data; 3) characterization and classification of programming information based on its nature regarding graphical representation; and 4) graphic system development based on the association of graphic strategies with programming information. Based on the outlined method, the research obtained the following results: identification of the set of graphically representable information pertinent to the architectural programming of office buildings and spaces; establishment of quantitative and qualitative parameters for each of the identified information; mapping of limits and relationships between the identified information; attribution of appropriate graphic strategies for the representation of the identified information, as well as their relationships; and unified graphical representation of the identified information. Regarding its main contributions, this research not only investigated and proposed graphic strategies that facilitate the architectural programming of office buildings, but also investigated and mapped how the information supporting the architectural program relates and complement each other, thus attesting and emphasizing the systemic character of the architectural programming.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Moreira, Daniel de Carvalho |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | architectural design; data processing; information architecture; decision-making; offices design; office construction; graphical representation |
| Index terms: | graphical representation, program, drawing, architectural design, mapping, decision-making, office building, literature review, office construction, strategy, design process, programming, data processing, office design |
| Subjects: | design methods, technical documentation, specialized design, software systems, design practice, management, decision analysis, data science, visualization, building construction, spatial and geospatial analysis, programming, data analysis and analytics, construction type |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Risk Management, Construction Technology, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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