Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol I by Ali Sayigh

Author:Ali Sayigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

42.3 Experiments

After extensive experiments with different setups for implementing the ID approach, in which well over 100 professionals participated [23], it was concluded that a good way to test our design approach was a workshop setting for professionals. Therefore, workshops were arranged as part of a training program for architects and consulting engineers (structural engineers, building services engineers, and building physics engineers) [23]. Since 2000, together with the Dutch Royal society of architects (BNA), the Dutch Association of Consulting Engineers (ONRI), the Dutch Society of Building Services Engineers (TVVL), and different roofer associations, in total 14 series of workshops were organized in which more than 200 experienced professionals from these organizations, with at least 10 years of experience, voluntarily participated. The design exercises were derived from real practice projects and as such were as close to professional practice as possible. The design tasks during the 2 days were on the same level of complexity and have been used in all workshops. In the workshops, stepwise changes were introduced in the setup of the design sessions to the traditional building design process type, in which the architect starts the process and the other designers join in later in the process. After each session the teams were rearranged to avoid learning effects between team members. The first two design sessions on day 1, provide reference values for the effectiveness of the involved of all designers from different disciplines right from the start. On the second day, the morphological overviews were introduced. The application of morphological overviews during the setup of the third design session enabled structuring of design functions/aspects and the generated (sub)solution proposals. Additionally, the third setting provided the possibility of one full learning cycle regarding the use of morphological overviews. After the feedback to the participants about their use of MCs and the morphological overview, all teams had the basic knowledge to apply them correctly in the fourth setting. During the design sessions in the 2011–2014 versions of the multidisciplinary master design project, students performed different design assignments which were based on the assignments tested in the workshops for professionals. Characteristic of the ID process is the use of MCs by individual designers which were combined into one morphological overview by the design team. All the assignments were related to aspects of nZEBs and had a similar level of complexity to make the results of the different sessions comparable. This enabled us to compare the results of the students with those of the professionals.

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