I read the excerpt of Jose Louis Mateo's "How to Draw up a Project". He addresses the process of building design as a fixed direction, involving a dialogue of truths. He begins a project with its induction as a phantom, manifesting questions that dictate which issues to address. With these issues further investigated, he states that the second phase involves managing a heiarchy that organizes the systems into structure. The guidelines of this process involves the natural order of operation, seeing where the elements fall into place harmoniously. After that, he addresses space and envelope. The space, as he explains, is a formulation of building use and its limits. The envelope is the material that gives the building a role of expression.
Although this summary of the reading is my attempt at concisely explaining his intent, it is merely an assumption of his general idea. Throughout the reading, Mateo seemed keen on treating the project as organic body that has a place for each cell. I think this analogy can be pushed to further investigation in regards to building performance. I believe that the more and more projects are designed for the ecosystem, the medical institution will be closely tied to architecture, far beyond safety and comfort levels, directed towards advent standards of living.
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