The Brief

Being as though we have complete control over what our building should be / look like / do, we also have control over our brief.

This means you have to start to wonder, who will use this building? What will they expect from the building? How are people going to use it? What do you want this building to do?

And from this, we can start to draw up a list of rooms or spaces. Later, we can arrange these spaces in accordance with which spaces have relationships with other spaces.

As the minimum floor area for this building has to be 500 metres squared, it is quite a large building and so will need a fair number of rooms.

The list I came up with was this;

-Amenities

-Gallery

-Dark Rooms

-Photo Balcony

-Equipment Storage

-Foyer

-Access

-Staff Offices

-Parking

-Interactive Scenes

-Computer Labs

-Printing Rooms

-Cafe

-Store

Then I inserted these spaces into a matrix to determine the relationships.

From here I could then draw a bubble diagram to start laying out spaces.