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Design
Considerations
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Using This Chapter
This chapter addresses the process of turning the plan-
ning concepts and building programs into designs for
Community Activity Centers. It presents the design
goals, considerations and relationships essential to
design criteria setting, preliminary design, and design
development of these centers. Most critically, it provides
an approach to consolidated design, for organizing and
relating the multiple functions and spaces of Community
Activity Centers. Design criteria for the individual func-
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tional areas within centers are covered in the Design
Guides for the respective facility-types, which are
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Using This Chapter
excerpted and referenced in Chapter 7.
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Design criteria requirements, pre-concept control data,
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Design Goals
and concept design stages of project development are
a. Increased Use
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the primary responsibility of the District Engineer. How-
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b. Better Space Utilization
ever, Morale Support Activities personnel, other using
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c. Effective Staffing
services, and involved post user groups influence these
d. Sense of Community
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efforts through the programmatic requirements included
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e. Family Support
in the PDB and 1391, which should reflect an under-
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f. Convenience and Choice
standing of the general design considerations presented
g. Design for People
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here. The concept design stage also provides a final
h. Phased Development
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opportunity for all these on-post participants to provide
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i. Energy Conservation
input to the project through review and approval of the
designs, before final design proceeds. The considera-
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Design for Consolidated Activities
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tions and recommendations in this chapter should pro-
a. Accessibility and Supervision
vide a general basis for reviewing concept designs.
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b. Zoning
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c. Achieving Consolidated Design
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Relationships
a. Specific Program-to-Program
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Relationships
b. General Program Relationship
Considerations
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