The digital transformation toward an integrated design process

Abstract

This research focuses on the evolving nature and concepts of digital-computational designs and attempts to elucidate the impacts on the architectural design process. It intends to take into account a holistic approach to the integrated design process and some of the key potentialities that emerge from its application in the discipline with the rise of digital design tools in architecture. As a result, the purpose of this research is to examine this new paradigm and provide a conceptual framework based on its models, levels, and systems that aid in the integrated architectural design process. This framework may help architects realize the potential of digital tools by using and thinking of parameterization as a general procedure from the initial stage of form-finding to the final design. Therefore, an awareness of both the potentials and limitations of digital paradigms is imperative in the effective use of these models and in understanding how they will continue to change the architectural profession. It concludes by highlighting the need to sensitize and raise the awareness of professionals and students on the benefits and potentials of the Integrated Design Process enabled by computation.