| Summary: | A major concern in establishing
a global project's operation is ensuring the
movement of knowledge amongst the team
members for a timeiy and within the budget
implementation. Already operating in the
complex property development process, a
global project team must also work in a
situation where professional, cUltural, spatial
and technological differences would add the
complexity. This paper presents a conceptual
framework for an architectural-construction
integration (A-CI) design studio curriculum in
the context of an architectural graduate
program. It aims to apply transdisciplinary
principals to educate competent graduates in
sustainable global design-build practice.The
A-CI curriculum emulates the computerintegrated
Project Based Learning
laboratory (PBl) model developed at
Stanford University, with a focus on the early
design phase of a project's design
development process. The A-CI curriculum
builds on the PBl's framework and
principles, extending it to include the project
financial and regulatory decision-making
process along the planning and architectural
design processes that integrate Modular
Coordination dimensions for open building
systems. C The proposed extended model
shares PBl's advantages and costeffectiveness
of working collaboratively in a
cross-disciplinary environment. The A-CI
model will initially build bridges across
disciplines by addressing different
stakeholders' issues in earlier development
life-cycle phases. The paper will first present
the literature review, followed by a
description on the framework and principles
of the PBL model before proposing how we
extend the PBl model to integrate the early
architectural design phase.
|
|---|