Programming is your earliest opportunity to create clarity around project goals and align those goals with feasibility

With the right direction, programming can also smooth the path from design to construction, ensuring a project is completed on time and on budget. At TBA Studio, we believe that the best programming balances an understanding of client needs with experience preempting typical hurdles to project delivery.

Gain clarity on project needs and goals

Through decades of experience, TBA Studio has developed a robust program for teasing out the details critical to project success. Our programming process is guided by an in-depth questionnaire that aligns project stakeholders around project function, specific facility needs, community context, site analysis, and budget considerations. This is followed by an observation period and field surveys that uncover insight into how the existing space is used. This comprehensive approach ensures the design meets all space requirements and owner expectations.

This understanding of project needs effectively defines the earliest stages of conceptual design. At programming’s end, project owners can expect preliminary space and sectional diagrams, as well as preliminary block plan diagrams. With owner approval, these documents form the foundation of a written details space analysis that defines the client’s spatial needs and informs a more efficient developmental design process.