Step 1: Establish goals

Description

Goals are established at the very beginning — while the client has the total project in mind and before thinking gets pulled into details. State the goals across all four considerations: functional goals (how the home will support its activities), form goals (site, character, environment), economic goals (the budget limit, which always exists), and time goals (when, and for how long).

Why this exists

Goals are the direction-setter for everything that follows. Without explicit goals, fact-collection and concept-testing have nothing to aim at, and the resulting program is shaped by whatever question got asked loudest.

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Solver enforcement

Browsable only — the solver does not currently enforce this directive (no spec-level data to check against). This entry exists so the architect personas can cite it in conversation and the user can read what the rule says.

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