Questions to carry forward
- users and activities
- flows and adjacencies
- shared versus dedicated space
- equipment/storage/support
- growth/change assumptions
- area and utilization assumptions
Use the question to test the project
The value of the exercise is not a universal answer. It is making criteria, assumptions, responsibilities, and unknowns explicit enough that the next phase can respond to them.
Professional boundary
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What changes when activities replace labels
Two rooms with the same name can require different adjacency, acoustic, equipment, supervision, storage, daylight, service, or circulation relationships. A program becomes useful when it describes those relationships and tests how much space they actually require.
That richer brief can reveal opportunities to share space, reduce duplication, separate conflicting flows, or challenge a requested area before the project treats it as fixed.