7M505 Design Project

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7M505 Design Project

• Part Architectural Design
• Design Theory

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Design project

• Learning goals
• Acquiring insight in the nature of design, design
  problems, and design processes.
• Hands-on experience with making a design.
• Structural reflection on the aspects of a design
  process.
• First overview of possibilities for Design
  Decision Support (addressed later in the project).

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Design project

• Learning goals
• Acquiring insight in the nature of design, design
  problems, and design processes.
• Hands-on experience with making a design.
• Structural reflection on the aspects of a design
  process.
• First overview of possibilities for Design
  Decision Support (addressed later in the project).

Part one of the design project
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Design project

• Learning goals
• Acquiring insight in the nature of design, design
  problems, and design processes.
• Hands-on experience with making a design.
• Structural reflection on the aspects of a design
  process.
• First overview of possibilities for Design
  Decision Support (addressed later in the project).

Part two of the design project
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Referred literature

• Roozenburg, N.F.M. and Eekels, J. (1994). Product
  Design Fundamentals and Methods. Wiley,
  Chichester.

key book DDSS Master programme
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Items discussed previously

• Brief statement what is required by client.
• Analysis understanding the brief.
• Site characteristics of the location.
• Type information about the building type.
• Other sources inspiration and information.
• Representation how to depict the design.
• Evaluation understanding progress of design.

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Theory Basic Design Cycle

• There are many different kinds of activities when
  designing analysing, creating design, making
  representations, evaluation, etc.
• The order of these activities is not
  pre-established.
• Yet every design process has all these
  activities!
• This leads to the Basic Design Cycle

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Theory Basic design cycle (BDC)
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Approved design
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Theory Basic design cycle (BDC)
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
How does it work?
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Approved design
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Products/documents in BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Approved design
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Activities in BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
General statement what needs to be designed
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysing the function that needs to be realized
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
From the analysis follow the criteria that the
design should meet
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Creating ideas that solve the design problem
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Designs that are aimed to solve the design problem
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulating the expected behaviour of the design
understanding what the design means
Simulation
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
From the simulation follow expectations what the
design actually achieves
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
On the basis of the expected properties, the
design can be evaluated. This is explicitly based
on the criteria established before.
Expected properties
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
From the evaluation follows an assessment of the
design, expressed as some kind of value
(numerical or more expressive as a feeling)
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Elements of BDC
Function
Analysis
Criteria
Synthesis
Provisional design
Simulation
Expected properties
Based on the evaluation and value of the design,
the designer decides whether to continue
designing, or if the design is finished
Evaluation
Value of the design
Decision
Approved design
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Theory Basic Design Cycle

• The BDC does not strictly prescribe the order of
  activities!
• The BDC distinguishes the various activities and
  documents in the design process.
• The BDC identifies the general relations between
  the activities and documents.
• But any of these activities must have been at
  least once in a design process.

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What to do?

• Analyse your complete design process in terms of
  BDC
• Use your time-stamped drawings and texts as a
  basis.
• Describe per drawing/text what kind of document
  it is (function, criteria, provisional design,
  expected properties, value of the design, or
  approved design) and from which activity it is
  the result (analysis, synthesis, simulation,
  evaluation, or decision).

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Tips n Tricks

• Do not remake your design just because you are
  now analysing it. Use whatever you have now.
• There is no described format for each of the
  documents or activities it can be a word,
  thought, or a large drawing or lengthy document.
• Work through your process in the same order as
  you designed the house.