Needs

There are many things that an architect must be in aware of once he or she begins to work on a building. There are three different areas to be considered: the people who will be using the building and their needs, the context in which the architectural piece will take place and the structural needs of the building itself. Besides these three different needs it is also an important fact to keep in mind for the architects while he or she designs a building: the dynamic and the constantly changing of the needs.

 The people needs, the context and the building itself have each one some basics needs that the architects must consider to be fulfill, such as: protection, comfort, flow, weight, distribution, culture, environment, flexible, connections, economic, psychological, sociological and physiological needs.

 The main objective is to create a building that can be comfortable for living and working, based on the human scale, with spaces of quality that brings good ventilation, light, air temperature, services like energy and water, protection against the weather, structural resistance against the extremes, with public and private spaces and also that can fits appropriately in the context, with the culture and with the place.   