Facade Requirements and Objectives

Sound facade decisions start with a clear understanding of the project’s starting point.

• Priedemann organises the available project information, design intent, use, and facade-related technical and external requirements.
• Together with the project participants, objectives, priorities, constraints and unresolved questions are made visible.
• This creates a reliable basis for the next design steps and for decisions before the facade concept is developed in greater detail.
• Priedemann identifies and structures the project information, requirements, objectives and constraints relevant to facade planning.
• These may include design intent, use, technical and energy-related requirements, local conditions, and quality, cost and programme objectives.

• Unresolved questions, dependencies and competing priorities are made explicit and translated into clear decision criteria.
• This creates a reliable basis for early facade design and subsequent planning.
• The subjects reviewed and documented depend on the project stage and agreed scope.

Decision criteria and priorities

• Not every facade requirement has the same priority within a project.
• Design intent, use, technical requirements, local conditions, quality, cost and programme objectives can influence one another.
• Establishing the project basis therefore also means structuring these requirements and making potential conflicts visible.
• The resulting criteria provide a shared basis against which later options and decisions can be assessed consistently.