[A Round Table]
Integration of Systems in Architectural Practice Spring 2024 |Thesis Project, UC Berkeley| Neyran Turan and Yasmin Vobis Individual Work
In both academia and profession, architects typically wield predominant influence over the design process, as the head of a long table. Consultants / specialists often become involved only in later phases, to solve problems created by an already established project. All the phases, from schematic design to construction documents, due to their late arrival, gets increasingly complicated by those rounds of back and forth and alterations. What if engineers and designers sit down at the round table on day one, participating in the overall design concept? What if there were a new construction phase, a phase of conceptual or abstract system design that integrates SD and DD, to disrupt the typical order of construction phases? This design project is an experiment on integration, imagining a scenario in which all the parties of equal weight are involved at the very beginning. Instead of starting from the lens of designers or architects, it is started by integrated systems to question the conventional hierarchy and explore the possibilities when the traditional order is abolished, or, disrupted.