Collaborative design in a multidisciplinary architectural design approach

Sgambi, Luca [UCL]

The architectural profession is multidisciplinary. Only few weeks in an architecture studio is enough to be convinced of it. From the identification of a need, to the construction of a building, the architect seeks the cooperation of a lot of experts from various disciplines, from the jurist to the mason via the engineer, to conceive and make build. It is not so much the multidisciplinary character of the profession of architect that is to challenge, but the consideration by the architect of the constraints/potentialities generated by this multidisciplinarity in the early phases of design process, and the conditions of possibility integration. In this paper the subject of teaching the Conceptual Design in the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano and Université catholique de Louvain is dealt with.