1390812020 ‘Adjacency Matix Decoded — Carolyn Matthews-Daut
Carolyn Matthews-Daut
Adjacency Matrix Decoded
ENTRANCE & RECEPTION
RESTAURANT.
CAFE,
RETAIL STORE
ROOF GARDEN
HEALING GARDEN
ART GALLERY
RESTROOMS:
CONFERENCE ROOM.
EXERCISE SPACE:
(MULTI PURPOSE ROOM,
MASSAGE THERAPY ROOMS (8)
MEDICINAL BATH AREAS (8)
(OFFICES (6)
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STORAGE
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In this post I will show you first how to read an adjacency matrix, and then will share a few tools and templates
you can use to create your own,
‘The programming phase of your project is complete! Lists have been made of required spaces,
questions have been asked, preliminary concepts approved, and now you sit with a blank building
footprint, trying to draw the first wall.
Moving from programming to schematic design is difficult. It’s about taking abstract concepts and
requirements from your client and shaping them into a usable preliminary plan. Luckily, tools exist
to help bridge the gap between program and plan. One of these tools is called The Adjacency Matrix.
In this case we use the word ‘adjacent’ to mean: “lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining;
neighboring,” In simple terms, to be adjacent is to be near to something. In interior design an
adjacency matrix is a table that shows what spaces should and should not be near to each other on
plan.
Spending the time to draw this matrix means that you no longer have to leaf through your program
every time you can’t remember if the client wants the Board Room close to the Break Room. If done
correctly, all of that information is right at your fingertips. In my experience, the adjacency matrix is
not particularly useful as a space planning tool, but is useful as a reference. You use it to easily make
sure you are giving the client what they want when you move on to space planning via bubble
diagrams and block diagrams,
Reading an Adjacency Matrix.
Google search “Interior Design Adjacency Matrix” and you will find tables so complex you will
shudder at the thought of creating on yourself. For example, this matrix from my undergraduate
capstone project at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has a lot of good information, but can
be an intimidating place to start. Harmonique Adjacency Matrix
(https://carolynjeanmatthews.com/2013/01/26 /harmonique-health-spa-a-center-for-the-visually-
impaired-hearing-impaired-and-deaf/?iframe=trueg