Sustainable flexible process innovation: towards a new building design approach
conference paper
Developers and investors of residential and office buildings are facing large risks. A yearly loss of capital of approximately 50 billion EURO can be reduced by improvement of the design process. The need for more sustainable and end user oriented buildings on a background of the dynamics of ever changing needs is indisputable. This paper gives an outline of a project paying attention to the design process. The project is called 'Duflexpronovatie', which is a Dutch acronym for 'sustainable Flexible Process Innovation'. The project, situated at Leidsche Rijn Utrecht, became a nominated project in 2000 in the long-term experimental program 'Industrial, Flexible and Demountable Building' initiated by the Dutch Department of Economic Affairs and the Department of Housing. The project demonstrates an alternative arrangement of the design process based on Rutten's outline of the Strategic Design process. Main steps of the process are: strategic briefing, total building concept and detailed design. Important design principles are: thinking in levels, fixed and flexible, thinking in value domains, thinking in concepts, interdisciplinary design and disentangling technical systems. These principles are explained and demonstrated by practical examples, Application of the Strategic Design framework and principles results into better-balanced building concepts. The integral approach on the several abstract-, scale- and building-levels is shown as necessary to close the gap between HVAC-consultants and building designers/architects in order to create consciousness about the several different aspects by the different participants during the process. Further practical application of the framework and design principles is necessary to improve this theory. Therefore it is necessary to involve more building professionals in the near future.
TNO Identifier
329961
ISBN
90-5269-291-2
Publisher
Delft University of Technology
Source title
Agile Architecture, proceedings of the Conference of the CIB W104: International Open Building Conference, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 3-4 October 2001
Editor(s)
Cuperus, Y.J.
Collation
7 p.
Place of publication
Delft
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