Staging the Collaborative Design Process: The Potential Catalyst for BIM-Based Design Studio

Danfulani Babangida Idi^1*, Khairul Anwar Mohamed Khaidzir¹

1. ¹Department of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

Published in The Second NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8 December 2016, pages 81 to 91. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print).

Abstract

Designing is a major activity that supports the introduction, development and implementation of products, services, practices, and systems. Contemporarily, the collaborative approach to designing is considered more efficient than the conventional silo design practice. However, the collaborative design approach tends to be underresearched. Therefore, this research investigates on identifying key components of collaboration as they unfold in the architectural design studio through, student-tutor design interaction in the conventional studio environment. Fifteen (15) weeks of student-tutor design interaction was followed, during which seven students present their designs to the tutor for consultation on a weekly basis. The verbal communication that unfolds between the students and tutor was the data used for the study. After careful study of the data, the study identified the key components of collaboration within the design studio environment, which includes problem framing (issues, scene, difference, and clashes), information searching, idea generation, communication and knowledge transfer. The study recommends possible supports for the identified components in staging the collaborative design studio as expound by the Building Information Modeling (BIM) concepts. To this end, this study has proposed a staging for the collaborative design process which will serve as a potential catalyst for the BIM-based design studio. Future studies can explore on the identified components for possible empirical and methodological research.

Keywords: Design; Collaboration; Studio; Building Information Modelling

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