Intricacy of Architectural Design Process as a Heterogeneous Network

Subject Areas : Architecture

Fatemeh Zare ¹ , Kaveh Bazrafkan ² , Homa Irani Behbahani ³ , Behrooz Mansouri ⁴

1 - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2022-06-29 Accepted : 2022-10-26 Published : 2023-04-01

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

Abstract :

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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