ON THE FUNCTION-BEHAVIOR-STRUCTURE MODEL FOR DESIGN

Abstract

There are many proposals regarding the design model which are related to such notions as function, behavior, and structure. They have created some confusion about and debates on which one should be the most appropriate one. Naturally, a question one may ask is whether they are actually the same thing but with different names or whether they have different scopes of applications for different design problems. In this paper, we evaluate these proposals and attempt to clean up the confusion and comment on the debates. As a result, we are able to conclude a unified and general one and to show how it can be shaped into specific ones, proposed by others in literature, which are applicable to specific design problems.