Needs



//While designing, an architect must be aware of different factors or// needs// that should be fulfilled to make a good construction. These needs can be can be generalized into three categories: The needs of the people who will use the building, the structural needs the building has, and, at last, the needs of the context where the building is made.

Those needs are dynamic, thus they vary according to the place or region, and so, the buildings need to be flexible enough to comply with those local requirements. For this reason, a building is is often metaphorically compared as an extension of the people skin, and from this comparison we know that buildings provide to the people different kinds of information in the form of feelings or perceptions. Thus, the building itself must be carefully designed as a place that complies with the psychological, physiological and sociological factors who are the true people needs, aside from the necessity of shelter or protection, flow, comfort and a good space distribution that covers the second general need, which are the structural needs.

The structural need is one of the most important need of all, that is because is the foundation of the building itself, in the form of beams, lintel, columns and piers. Without these ones, the building will not withstand its very own weight and it would fall.

Finally, we have the contextual needs. These needs demands that the building needs to be flexible enough to adapt to the environment where it's placed, and also it should be a place of connection that responds to the people's culture and the region economical status, as well as a place that complies with the other two needs, to finally be considered a building that truly responds to its context and the people.

So, it's important to remember these needs to project a building that truly can be a place that let the people flow while they feel protected, and that its truly connected with the environment it's placed in.