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D E S I G N R E S E R C H
In empirical research study
the hypothesis form of
verification.
In an architectural design
the hypothesis this design will
work.
form of
verification execution or model.
In Design research
as soon as a design has been
completed, it may be studied empirically.
O b j e c t s a n d C o n t e x t s .
Types of design-related study
Object
Formal and functional analysis, existing
material, context, precedents are studied for
possible means of design.
(Offices practice) An object must be designed for
a specific context, new possibilities are sought
usually using demands.
variable
determined
Context
Design research Design study
Typological research Study by design
determined
Interaction between object and context, subject
to scale during changing design.
variable
Study the complex of characteristics of
buildings, independent from context.
But
Can one selectively search for similarities using
earlier experiences when carrying out design
research using a definition of a problem with
pre-determined-concepts and stated hypotheses
therein?
2. How can we do this comparison?
3. Can this analysis gives you the mean for a
design?
1. What can we compare?
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1. E l e m e n t s o f c o m p a r i s o n
C o n t e x t
Architectural context
the situation, the site, the programme,
historical, spatial, ecological, technical,
economic, cultural administrative
contexts.
Each design differing from any other design in
space and / or time, differs in context and
perspective. This evokes questions concerning the
possibilities of comparison, although these are
often neglected during the study.
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Also, this context will change
... Does the building still have the same
characteristics in a context that has changed ?
To what extent is the concept, the type, the
model still applicable in different contexts?
This is already a subject of typological study.
G r o u n d s f o r C o m p a r i s o n
Red and round can not be compared. While
comparing designs or their parts, known and
identified from other designs, the question
whether they can be compared and, if so, in what
sense, can not be avoided. In other words which
ground of comparison is chosen?
When comparing design the inevitable question
arise are they comparable or not, in which
respect? Examples of pre-supposing bases of
comparison are legend (material), form,
structure, function.
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2. C o m p a r I s o n a n a l y s I s.
O p e r a t i o n a l i s a t i o n
Risselada placed two characteristics of
architectural design opposite to one anotherThe
research for such computable variables is called
operationalisingHowever, does the
characteristic x cover the whole range of
difference, or is that only a half truth ? The
aim of operationalising is to make characteristic
R, that alone is an immeasurable characteristic,
accessible for more quantity research.
A I m s o r M e a n s O r I e n t e d A p
p r o a c h
If the design, context and perspectives wherein
the design has been made are sufficiently
described, various aspects can be analysed. The
methodical, most developed analysis confirms if
the design has achieved its goal within the given
context (aim oriented research) means
(aim). There are, in fact, numerous
architectural solutions in order to achieve the
same aim, from which the variation cannot be
explained measuring efficiency. The potential to
accommodate numerous or unexpected functions is a
researchable quality as well.
The question can also be inverted if these means
are utilised in the design, which aims do these
serve aim-means? This is means orientated
research. A design can have numerous functions
that are verbally indescribable. (hospitality, or
transparency for example). This can also concern
the structure of form in design. In this case the
total focus is on the formal design means, the
designer's toolboxOnce these questions have been
asked the structural action of such combinations
can be looked at on a higher level structure
form.
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3. M e a n s o f d e s I g n.
L e g e n d , F o r m , S t r u c t u r e ,
F u n c t I o n , P r o c e s s .
The study into the means of design is a study
into instruments that could bring us beyond the
probability of empirical reality in the field of
what is possible. In this the relation between
form and function in the design is
crucial People do experience form, but form is
not the same as that experiencing value.
Form
(form is outward shape) has perceptible and
conceptual functions, expressible on
legend.
Legend its
units emerge in the drawing as a situation of
spreading (as material in reality)
Function
program. Experience of the form.
Structure
concept between form and function. Set of
connections and separations with which
the constituent parts form a more than
incidental whole.
So, the designing process of Architecture and
Urban Design can take as a point of departure
form ( morphological
analysis) function ( functional analysis)


structure
(structuralism)
When should the designer translate the usage
function desired to form (functionalism), and
when is it allowed to give a form concept pride
of first place (formalism) The question is then
should one always design from a programme, or is
it possible to generate functions from a design
study, for instance of the potential of the
location?
Statement. The first instrument of study in a
design process are the human acts (experience)
related to a certain context and function.
Design research gives comprehension of the
elements involved in that design process.
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Technical Design. Edited by T.M. de Jong and
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