Relative Importance of Functional Elements

You have by this time been able to identify the different functional elements required for the planning of various types of buildings. You have also learnt that the actual aim of planning is to organize or synthesis the different functional elements of a building in order to achieve a comprehensive whole. There may be difficulties in organizing the different elements until you are able to appreciate the relative importance of different functional requirements and focus upon those which are the principal functions of a particular building: and commence first with locating these in the planning of a spatial synthesis. A proper analysis will show that the following functions are relatively of greater importance rather than various other subsidiary functions.