Logic and methodology of design – Lecture 4

Logic and methodology of design – Lecture 4A

Lecture 4 : - Design process : Many writers have tried to chart a route through the process of design from beginning to the end; logically it seems that the designer must do a number of things in order to progress from the first stages of getting a problem to the final stages of defining a solution.
The first map we will examine was laid out for use by architects in the RIBA architectural :
-Phase 1 : assimilation , Phase 2 : general study , Phase 3 : development , - Phase 4 : communication .
Tom Markus (1969 ) and Tom Maver (1970) produced rather more elaborate maps of the architectural design process
The communication of one or more solutions to people inside or outside the design team

Figure 1
A map of the design process according to the RIBA plan of work



- These four phases are not necessarily sequential although it may seem logical that the overall development of a design will progress from phase 1 to phase 4.

- It is quite difficult for the designer to know what information to gather in phase 1 until there has been some investigation of the problem in phase 2.

- The detailed development of solutions (phase 3) rarely goes smoothly to one inevitable conclusion. , In other words there is a need to return to phase 2 activities
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- Although it may seem logical that activities listed here should be performed in the order shown in the map, the reality is much more confused, as the map tell us that designers have to gather information about a problem, study it, suggest a solution
and draw it, but not necessarily in that order.