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Design Development: Building Configuration
431.3.5
Block Plan Concept
The block plan concept to be developed and refined in schematic design
will be that building configuration which satisfies and resolves all the
requirements of program, budget, site and system discipline in the most
effective manner. Many modifications to the block plan concept may
occur in the schematic design stage when requirements are considered at
a more detailed level, but typically these modifications will occur within the
framework of the general building characteristics established.
It may be that two or three equally satisfactory schemes may all have to
be taken to the more detailed levels of schematic design before the final
selection can be made.
It is also possible that none of the configuration options are sufficiently
satisfactory in which case new space modules and/or new configuration
options may have to be developed.
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