Introduction The design is a set of steps leading to the complete definition of an artifact that, once acquired, will perform the functions for which it was designed.
comes natural, then, to start a project seeking to know the functions
that the article should play, such as in the case of a dwelling, sleeping and resting, eating, heal the body, being together with family and friends, the study or carry out a hobby that is, roughly, the goals it is intended that when searching for a house to live there.
is also natural to ask if you
must be designed home, or what kind of people are those who live here, who have culture, traditions which they observe, what is their standard of living, that is, how much money they have.
It is clear, therefore, that design is not good enough to be a simple technique but it should know the different ways of life of people.
Of course you need to know how many
lived in that house, for example, whether frequently or occasionally host other people and get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow many will be.
If we reflect on one of the features we've mentioned before, such as eating (in a home), we find that it is composed of other functions and that in all of these functions, it performs the function of the overall " eat ". For example, eating in a home means that you can perform a number of elementary functions, for example, in addition to eating pure and simple, even cooking, washing up the kitchen after eating, the ability to store food purchased.
addition, it was realized early on that a simple function such as cooking, for example, is composed of other activities such as taking food from their places of storage, treat them properly, such as peeling, cutting, cooking, the 'support that comes from cooking up a plan to avoid the heat of the container to produce damage, throw rubbish all those processes that take place before eating. And, even before any of these operations should be extracted from a drawer the knife to peel, pots for cooking, put the bag in the waste container.
In essence, to design even a simple kitchen for a dwelling should be thoroughly analyze the operations that are required by the function of cooking, first understand what is and what they are after and consequent need for each other or each other, although consistent, were mutually independent. You must know which operations are among their contemporaries, many players take part at the same time that function in that space, or whether, despite being carried out by a single operator in the space they are other people like, for example, the son of the cook. In addition, the group of people who will use that kitchen ocorre know the eating habits and culinary traditions because, for example, provide a space to store the meat may not be worthwhile if the family is vegetarian.
examining all these things, however, necessary to provide solutions that are not too specialized and almost valid only for those people because the house is a durable, that is usually built to be operated 50 or 100 years or more, and This period can also happen very different families, so in passing from one family to another would be required expensive retrofitting.
From the above we can understand how the knowledge they need to mature into good design are vast, in Qanta to topics, and thorough in the knowledge of each of them. But do not be discouraged because even complex things can be learned a little at a time breaking it down into smaller easy to study. It will be necessary, of course, be careful that, when examined various aspects, we can put together the studies on each individual topic, since it is always necessary to eventually be able to see if they do not, inconsistencies or conflicts arise.
In this case you can trace back the whole process that has been done before, in search of when we made the mistake, and soon after, repeat the whole process forward was made in the first phase until the end . Only then should we re-analyze all together, the new decisions resulting from this second phase, still searching for Any remaining inconsistencies, to try to eliminate as much as possible, in a process that, overall, is called
optimization.
Since this blog is about designing for people who have not yet acquired the necessary knowledge almost none of it, you think you can not move at least some argument that it is not in itself too complex, and is immediately faced with the easy to apply, as are the dimensional aspects of design. It will be in the study of dimensional aspects and questions that arise questions which we will try to give answers, or at least people are aware of need to "deepen" even if we do that, for convenience, not immediately but at a later time.
Therefore, if we decide to depart from the dimensional aspects, a first question is: how high a male of the human species? And a female of the same species? Weight in their bodies? How can spread the legs apart? Well, these questions are answered in the discipline of '
anthropometry we will discuss in the next post
.