Collaborative Design: The Lost Ring in Architectural Design Education

Abstract

Collaborative architecture is considered as a strategic and contentious subject in the success of today’s architecture. As we know, a group does not only act as a set of people, but also goes beyond the sum of people’s abilities in some way. In such design, the building is the gradual expansion in design being beyond a single building, and it contains the social communications and the group of people who deal with design process. The purpose of this article is moving in the course of basic principles of thought in collaborative design. On the basis of such approach, this paper, studies the concept of group and team work in architecture so that recognizing collaborative design steps, we accompanied with a group of students in a student team design and defined their weak and strong points of movement in different steps. According to the importance of participatory architecture in the current age, the impacts of trainings for applying this activity are studied in the students. In order to study the training effects in increasing teamwork quality among the students, Isfahan art university students have been tested. This test has been done as two-hour sketches in groups of five people. This test had been in the research method in Univariant Hypothesis Test and according to the independency of the groups and equivalence of their variance in the society as students’t test (single variable test) for independent groups. These tests included a pre test done in ignorance. The students became familiar with teamwork and then a post test has been taken by the given students after their training course and explaining team work for them, the test results have been studied in this article.

Keywords

• group architecture
• analysis rules
• architectural design process
• design behaviors
• group communication