FUNCTIONAL PLANNING

The functional planning is a pre-requisite of any type of building.A good planning imparts good environment or living, working and recreation.Good homes means the house which are well
build and well planed or efficient and comfortable living, with an environment required for building up of happy, healthy, beautiful, cheerful and peaceful lives. Also good planing of factory buildings or business buildings improve  working environment.The working conditions should be planned and developed in such a way that people working there should feel pleasure rather than feel boresome.This will increase efficiency and out put of work, which in end is beneficial to national growth and uplift.

ESSENTIAL FACTORS OF PLANNING

There are certain general essential factors which an architect should bear in mind while planning a structure.These principle are not rigid like the laws of mathematics or physics. But they are of very general nature and they have to be applied on individual merits only.Following are such essential factors of planning.

• Aspect

• Circulation

• Economy

• Elegance

• Flexibility

• Furniture requirements

• Grouping

• Privacy

• Prospect

• Roominess