A THREE LEVEL APPROACH FOR EXPLORING ICT IMPACT ON ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT APPLIED TO A HOSPITAL

An understanding of how ICT impacts the building design process and the architect’s role and contribution within it can be crucial for ensuring good architectural design and management of building projects. This paper is based on a possible approach of organizing and structuring design process actions and roles, and how ICT impact on them. The approach is founded on the recognition of three levels within the building design process and focuses especially on four essential, interdependent and iterative aspects: the generation of design solutions, the communication, the evaluation of design solutions and the decision-making. This approach aims to contribute to a better overview of how ICT impact the building design process in general, and the architect’s role and contribution in special. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how this approach can be used to explore several architects ’ experiences due to use and implementation of ICT in a large hospital development project in Norway. The main experiences regarding the ICT implementation and use are summarized within an ICT impact matrix