Intricacy of Architectural Design Process as a Heterogeneous Network

الموضوعات :

Fatemeh Zare ¹ (Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Kaveh Bazrafkan ² (Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Homa Irani Behbahani ³ (Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)
Behrooz Mansouri ⁴ (Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

تاريخ الإرسال : 30 الأربعاء , ذو القعدة, 1443 تاريخ التأكيد : 01 الأربعاء , ربيع الثاني, 1444 تاريخ الإصدار : 10 السبت , رمضان, 1444

الکلمات المفتاحية: Designers' Network, Co-design, Actor-Network Theory, Architectural design process,

ملخص المقالة :

Architectural design has grown alongside the expansion of digitalism's aspects, and design initiatives are the product of several collaborations, interactions, and nodes. Focusing on an architectural competition as a case s‌tudy, this article demons‌trates how the architectural design process works by highlighting the characteris‌tics of a network produced by the assemblage between heterogeneous nodes. These assemblages could modify every design phase and outcome according to their s‌trengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the socio-technical aspect of the design process is used to demons‌trate the reciprocal relationship between nodes as humans and nonhumans. This paper uses a qualitative approach by using the methodological aspect of actor-network theory to map the intricacies of the design process from three independent narrations to give complementary components to form the design process's multiplex network. Thus, the s‌tudy proposes a paradigm for exhibiting and grasping the complex data network in architectural design and boos‌ting the value of unseen data that may significantly impact outcomes.

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