Abstract:
Beyond the classical planning goals, design processes for sustainable
buildings feature a high number of integrated planning
objectives that link economical, ecological and socio-cultural
aspects.
With increasing demands on building performance, the number of tools
for evaluation, prediction and simulation of the energy, cost and emissions
efficiency is rising, as is the number of experts and the relevant
professional languages applied in their planning processes. Therefore
we argue that the design and planning processes for sustainable buildings
represent dynamic social systems characterised by a high level of
complexity. The communication and decision making mechanisms as
well as the organisational structures used in the planning processes
deserve particular interest as they directly influence the achievement
of the desired building performance. This paper presents the interdisciplinary
research project:”Cost-Benefits of Integrated Planning,”
(Co_Be) and the experimental study conducted within this framework.
This experiment was organised as a student-competition role-play for
the design of a temporary smoothie-bar in order to compare the integrated
with the traditionally sequential planning practice. Preliminary
qualitative and quantitative results of this experiment are provided.
Keywords:
Integral design,
Integral Planning,
Sustainable Building,
Planning Process
Analyses
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