Details of Article: Arrays analyzed in the housing facilities for the new functionality.

L os that we are eternal students of architecture, we learned to know the importance for any student or professional application of design method Kuss, which we started to discuss different activities that allow us, get to make the zoning within a architectural design or an architectural design pattern (the same repertoire of a group of works the same on demand), both for individual works, as well as large urban architectural ensembles. Sorting as a valid method for both scales of work.

Many professionals link their knowledge of their experience, an;

d often do not realize the implementation of this innovative and scientific method, which many professors of architecture we begin the complex world of scientific projects and not to blossom, so it is always an exercise fun, creative, and enterprising, in our professional work.

Before you start thinking with the method Kuss, analyze the Argentine Livyngston Method:

Those who have had the opportunity to read and practice a method of participatory housing design as the Argentine Lyvingston may have noticed the differences with the method Kuss, since we believe more than all the method developed by him, valid on your way to reach the architectural pattern is its participatory approach, or are: participatory interviews and participatory games nominated: the type + - (psychologically assessing what more we like the house and the least we like ) and the ideal house (in which the user creates and explains the ideal home of your dreams independent financial resources and land available) and how you want to be your home (or what is He was appointed the PC, which with the help of the architect, wants to initially drawn as the architectural design of your home). So here is a great inter-relationship with the client, as we discover what is bothering you, what makes you feel bad inside the house, and discover the ideas that has to his house to restore it when , amend, extend or make a new home.

But we think differently about the method he uses to get housing solution for the customer, which Lyvingston as part of the following criteria:


- Subjecting the form to function. Leaving defined an initial form.

- Ignore the constructive rules in force, so it is not a constraint for the design (which actually went against the current law and Housing Iso-9000).

- Exercises that use the architect as a design method such as: PC, Kayaz I and II, to achieve the ideal solution to housing in accordance with the interests of the owner.

As a working method to achieve an architectural solution is very lengthy design process, which is designed as a game of kayak, which is not fruitful as it is very dependent on the material resources of the client, the land available, physical limits that owns the house, etc.. ).

As know if there are other methods of design in the world and considering that it is much better design method Kuss, not only because it is more scientific, but because it forces us to think like designers in the form of black box, looking for the solution from Initially, that does not mean you can go driving two or three alternatives, since from the analysis of functional compatibility matrices, space and height, which states that: R + V = A + 2, it can be to the zoning of work concerned. Define three alternatives before making the final sketch. Up faster is the conclusion of the project itself, and with a much better analyzed, organized, and complete, that if we use the method of Livynston kayak or even if we are guided by the intuition of professional experience.

I remember as a 4th year architecture student, we had to make the design of a hotel, and when I start to make the parent wanted to achieve three fundamental aspects:

1 -. That the Hotel did not have a ground level entrance, but in a very hilly, less than 3.30 m height of the terrain.

2 -. That the hotel had then interior slopes up to the 0.00 level were observed in recreational areas, in a panoramic view.

3 -. The cabins were isolated around a dam, and should it reach them by boats and on foot. But in my idea, to another tower of rooms at the top of the Hotel, the lobby and services. To provide future growth if they were going to build.

I made all my arrays, based on these three conditions imposed by me, the first two, and forced the third condition.

When I get poles activities include Cabaret excel me, the hotel lobby, service entrance, cottages and recreational areas.

I was very pleased with the analysis made, and the plot got an interesting hotel. In the sketch to take constructive studied system: SAE, there were some differences by Building System limitations in terms of modulation and to adjust the areas there were small changes, but were minimal, with respect to the initial sketches.

In 4th year, I had to project an Obstetric-Gynecologic Hospital for the province, where each plant should respond to a functional organization based on parent and pre-established, but to which each project defined the functional relationships between all plants because in them were women: postpartum, cesarean section, gynecologic problems, room obstetrics, gynecology ward, Intensive Care Unit, the Emergency Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and so on., truly functional compatibility matrices defined us Hospital shape, and variability of each plant. Were not equal, so conducive to meeting rules of urbanism, in the passes that should exist so that air could circulate. I remember we did a Y-shaped building with a central core in a circle in which the premises were: entrance hall, stairs, elevators that connect each leg of the Y. On the ground floor with the other volumes were guard, and the basement, with parking for cars and ambulances. There were plenty of activities poles, but as it was by number, were units such as surgery centers, delivery rooms, wards, etc., Who were giving priority to one over another. And the study of functional flows, which was another way to prioritize activities within each plant poles.

In 5th year, the same thing happened to me with a Center for Political Administrative 10 000 inhabitants, but with the help of computers, we arrays of functional analysis, spatial compatibility and height, and the result was very positive. The square was marked by poles activities: Socio-administrative buildings, and around each of those buildings were placed in installments activities generating activities poles, so that the center was balanced day and night, and could do a journey in every way directional, and each trip was lively, as activity defined pole sections.

Since I started I wanted to work that engineers can make a computer program to make these matrices by computer with an interactive program on Windows, for any project, but so far I have failed. It is a shame because every day I keep seeing the importance of this design method.

In practical work, I had to render complex projects and always when I've matrices proposed by a need for the kind of work I have been designing, I have handmade. (For example, production of medicinal plant Labiofam, CREE-Building for Plant and Soil, coupled with laboratories for such purposes, etc.).

We wanted to make this disclosure by way of conducting our reflection and exchange of ideas based predominantly in the Kussaran method in the importance of functional compatibility matrix, and the aspects that we believe must be taken into account to conduct the analysis such a matrix, and a good result. I hope it is of interest to architecture students and professionals who always like to work in an organized fashion and with a scientific method.

Reflection based on a review of some of the following criteria:


Basic idea of what a parent (weighted) functional compatibility: this refers to functional compatibility matrix, the set of activities, which analyzed each other can be determined that relate to one of the form:

- Very strong.

- Strong.

- Weak.


Other architects believe that these activities are related as:

- Very strong.

- Strong.

- Moderately strong

- Weak.


According to this type of comparison, it may provide a list of each activity, to see which it relates: Very strong, Strong, Moderately strong or weak. For in this way to reach the formula Kussaran which proposes that: R + V = A +2.

If we take the experience in conducting this type of matrix, it would be good to explain some of our forms of analysis to undertake a project.

The primary:


For us it is the work itself, or the code, which may well be: a housing, a hotel, cafe, etc.. But we know first answer these questions:

ü What type of work is?

ü What happens within its walls, and what was done outside the walls?

ü How can I change those activities inside their walls, and outside?

ü What is the main activity that is done there, and what or what activities I generate other activities around you, to declare hierarchical-poles activities - most important activities?

ü How does each of these activities within the premises, as their operators working there, and how they want to work premises?

Only after knowing the essence of what we want to project, and especially its operation, is that we can carry out an array of functional compatibility.

Take a simple example:

- The work is: a store building materials for self-made construction, the houses affected by the cyclone, and products for the maintenance of housing.

- Within its walls is made:
Expect to be treated.
Buscarte find a listing for your name.
Despacharte the product.
Go to the bathroom.
Go to a café.
Go to an exhibition and sale of alternative materials.
Go to a sales conference, or products.
Go to a restaurant.
Go to box office workers.
Go to store searching for the product.
Go to the manager, or administrator.
Sign the card entry and exit of workers.
Receivables.
Store products.
Stow products.
Predespachar products. Etc.

- Outside the walls is made:
Expect to open the Store
Find and hire a transport medium for carrying purchases home.
Despacharte the product.
Go to the bathroom.
Go to a café.
Go to an exhibition and sale of alternative materials.
Go to a sales conference, or products.
Go to a restaurant.
Go to box office workers.
Go to store searching for the product.
Go to the manager, or administrator.
Sign the card entry and exit of workers.
Receivables.
Store products.
Stow products. Etc.

- To vary these activities must be only a little imagination, because there you can do other things like:
Car paint gun.
Hire staff to arrange plumbing, electricity.
Rental welding machines, etc..,
Sale of equipment repaired.
Repair construction implements.
Etc.

The most important thing is to declare your activities poles - hierarchical - or more important, and this is very true for when making urban projects:
First tip: Do not despair and try to visit a work equal to what you are doing.
Second tip: Always think about the present and the future as always is to be built for posterity, and once you decide, try not to be wrong, because then the result of his work is not the best.
Third tip: Click consultations and exchanged with the investor, with the user, owner, etc.., Or someone who dominates the activity which you are designing. See Neufert, and / or Cuban law in this regard.

According to the example we discussed poles have four activities:

- The action of selling the product. (Store-yokes showcase product)

- The action of downloading the product, store, predespacharlo. (platform-store)

- The action of bringing the product. (buy the product-transporting)

- The action to do other things while selling the product. (smoking, toileting, lunch, snack, watch a exp. of products, make phone calls, view product catalogs, etc.).

Activities would therefore poles:
Despacharte the product.
Store products.
Find and hire a transport medium for carrying purchases home.
Go to a café.

Logically, each pole activity relates to other activities, but he explains the importance of defining, for the work to function properly:
Despacharte the product.: Generates by logic input, a wait, a classification name, choose which product to buy, and bought after renting a means of transport to take it home, if you want to catch you later or go to café, the restaurant, the product expo, perhaps buy other items, etc. (This flow would be for the user).
Despacharte the product.: Logic generates an entry for workers, and a staff that handles, a director, an administrator, a paymaster, lockers and bathrooms, dining room worker and the workplace, either as a stevedore, store operator, guide showroom, and so on. (This flow would be for the worker).
Store product: That would take two streams, one for the action of discharge, transfer, store, and one for the user who will buy.
Rent a means of transport to carry purchases (inmagínense cement, aggregates, tiles, etc.).: That may well be in the following ways:
The user brings the leased means of transport.
The user has the service provided by the store to get the product to your home.
The user, a time to rent out the means of transport to another location, or phone to come the means of transport to pick him and the product.
Go to a cafe: Generally in big chain stores, coffee shops and restaurants there, if the user wants a snack or lunch, since it can take much time shopping, and could be an optional recreational type.

It is important to define the poles activities, because according to the specific analysis in the matrices, we find the functionality of each room, and each work.

But it is good analysis and criteria of each architect. Thus, for example as a shop for polo activities are described, perhaps in another analysis of the action be another architect of the store, and never include the cafeteria as polo activity, because guess the architect to be out to lunch to three blocks away, for example. Or any other kind of analysis which changes the way of linking the activities between them.

How we make an attempt to begin implementing the formula plotting, in order to arrive at the future zoning