Needs

The text //Needs// talk about three main areas that architects have to consider when designing a building. Those areas are: the people's needs, the stucture's needs and context's needs. The people's needs are related to the aspects that satisfy and make confortable the life for people. The structure's needs are related to all the aspects that make the building a firm and secure place to live, and the context's needs are related to all the aspects that the architect has to include in the desing that has a connection with the exterior that surround it.

The needs of the people are physiologycal, psicologycal and sociologycal it means that architects have to consider the light, air and water needs and the human scale of the people who will live in there. Also the building has to provide a sense of security and privacy and it must provide interactions with others, it means, public spaces.

The structure's needs are related to the proteccion, the weight, confort, flow and distribution it means that the building must protect against the weather and extremes such as earthquakes and fires, it must be able to support its own weight, it has to provide a stable and confortable living and working enviroment, it needs to has a good circulation and it must be well organized inside.

Finally the context's needs are the culture, the environment, the connection, economics and flexibility so it has to include the historical, religious and polical elements, the building must work with its surroundings, it must be connected with outside channels, has to be economically flexible and it must be designing to change with changing needs.