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Architect Intern Ellen Augst explains architectual programming in about 90 seconds. www.dewberry.com Hi, I'm Ellen Augst. I'm in the architecture department, here in Fairfax. Today, I'm going to try to briefly explain programming from the architecture side. So, programming is collecting and analyzing data, pertaining to the room and spacial requirements provided by the owner. The first part of it is quantitative, which is providing an actual list of all the rooms required in your building and the minimum square footage requirements for each space and how many of each type of space. Once that's done, the other part is qualitative, which is the overall quality of the building, which can be the adjacencies for the room, so breaking down the room types, and then, what rooms need to be adjacent to each other, nearby, or unrelated altogether, and this can be done graphically or diagrammatically. So, diagrammatically, you can do it through a room adjacency matrix. The one shown is a heliport. On the left, you see the room spaces listed for the program requirements, and then, the dots... each color refers to whether it needs to be nearby or just adjacent to, or if it's white, it means it doesn't really matter. Or you can do this graphically, through a bubble diagram. The one shown is a small healthcare suite within a medical office building. The size of the bubbles relate to the square footage requirements, and then, the lines drawn show what needs to be adjacent to each other. The other part of programming is the qualitative aspects of your room. So, things like ceiling height requirements, mechanical, electrical requirements, FF&E, which is furnishings, furniture, and equipment for each room. Then, once you have all of this data, you can start laying out block diagrams, and that will give you the project size, roughly. You can do a base cost estimate, which can be used for comparison throughout the rest of the project life, as well as the overall form of your building. This is all important because in the end, you have to be able to analyze your site, make sure the site allows this big of a building, make sure it's a feasible project, and it acts as a point of comparison as you develop the project going on.