Needs

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The purpose of any architect or urban planner is to satisfy the necessity of the client. The expectation and desires of the clients may vary, so any professional working on this areas must have the capability to adapt and work with these particularities.

Because of that, the needs of any construction have been classified on three categories:


 * 1) The needs of the people who will be using the building:
 * Physiological: may consider the balance of temperature, must provide air, good lighting. Also may consider the comfort in terms of noise, smells, humidity, etc.
 * Psychological: the building must provide sense of safety and must provide privacy to the people who is going to be using the building. Also have to support ego and self-stem-in on the people.
 * Sociological: must provide spaces for the interaction with others.

2. The structural needs of the building by itself: The building is not just an art creation that will be suspended on the air... The building needs an structure that keep it up and avoid a collapse. Also it has to take in count important elements like weight,flow, and distribution to guarantee the comfort of the people who is going to be using the building

3. The context where the building is placed: the building must be in harmony with the environment. Also the building must take in count elements like: culture, connections with the outside (electrical power, telephone...) and have to have the capability to be flexible with an eventual change of needs.