The method of Design/Build is known for its practicality and skillful
designers and builders. However, high quality buildings produced by this
method suggest there is an intellectual wealth hidden beneath this technical
practicality. To uncover this wealth, a definition for the processes of design
used in this method must be constructed to clarify its intellectual aspects.
Such a definition begins with the assumption that design is an
intelligent process through which people arrange their environment. To uphold
the intelligence of design, the interaction between human (designer,
tradesperson, client, or inhabitants) and architecture must be maintained
throughout the process. The unique conditions in the method of Design/build
allow the human intellect to freely interpret and intervene in the processes of
architecture.
To fully exploit these conditions, a designer must develop a particular
view, seeing architecture as combined processes rather than as an end-result.
Via this view, it becomes evident that the arrangement of lines, forms, and
structures of buildings is just a material manifestation of a deeper reality, i.e.
the agreed values that an individual or society holds. These values are
translated into two groups of design principles in architecture. The first group
is geometrical and includes proportion, symmetry, order, and unity. The
second group is relational and leads to consideration of adaptability, nature,
need, tradition, and material. These principles define the relationships of
architecture, humans, and the environment, expressing the role of intelligence
in man-made settings.
In Design/Build, these principles can be incorporated into the
processes of design far more than in any other method, because architecture
is intimately connected to environment (social and natural), and there is a
dynamic interaction between designing and building. This method sees
architecture as a combination of processes, considering design not as rules
and regulations, but as a process that is empowered and motivated by the
events of everyday life. This method arrives at the rules and regulation of
architecture only after recognizing this fact. Without the attendance of life in an
architectural process, the geometrical and relational principles of design are
dull and meaningless.
By establishing this view, this paper hopes to construct a definition for
the design process of Design/Build, a definition that does not deal solely with
the technicality and practicality of this method but rather with the intellectual
aspects of the process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11907 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Poorzand, Mahmoud |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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