PreDesign Services I Fundamentals: Developing a Program

Gathering information is a basic human activity. We use information to learn, to help us solve problems, to aid our decision making processes and to understand each other more clearly. During the PreDesign phase of a project, the interior designer along with key stakeholders, take part in PreDesign services, the purpose of which is to map the project including identifying the goals and anticipating the challenges. 

This service produces clearly crafted program documents that serve as a road map to the entire planning and design process and helps bridge between theories, ideas, drawings, construction, and occupancy. Many consider this phase as potentially the most important of all and the resulting decisions shape the scope of work, identifies desired functions of spaces and their probable sizes, describes the relationships of the spaces to each other, and influences both the budget and the schedule. 

Questioning is the key to gaining more information and it is fundamental to successful communication. This course outlines the essential definitions, tasks, skills and inquiry techniques required to establish the strategic, functional, and programmatic objectives that guide every aspect of a project from start to finish

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