No concept without context
HENN Programming® is a communication method to professionalize the early pre-design phase. It is a thought and work approach that focuses on the holistic context of the project to make it visible. In in-depth dialog with our clients, we discuss the core issues and weigh their relevance. After conducting workshops with the stakeholders, we structure, condense and visualize the results and then specify the requirements in terms of quantity and quality. From this, we develop a target image as a basis for the subsequent design and planning process.
We offer Programming® both as an integral aspect of a construction project and as an independent consulting service. This includes requirements planning, spatial and functional programs as well as strategic master plans and concepts for new work environments.
Exploration: identifying the users' needs
In collaborative workshops, interviews, and extensive analyses, we closely explore the users' needs and goals while applying tools that provide data visualization in real time.
Consolidation: defining requirements
The results of the exploration phase are being analyzed, structured and condensed into specific requirements on cardwalls, yielding dynamic data models that visualize spatial correlations and processes. For example, we translate the users' needs into specific spatial and functional programs that serve as a basis for further planning.
Conception: developing a target image
Visualizations and concept models lend an initial shape and palpable identity to a vision. Doing so, it is paramount to choose the right degree of abstraction to convey ideas with visual clarity and yet leave room for the freedom of interpretation that is essential to the subsequent design process.