“Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Design Decisions In Architectural Design Process during the Pre-Design Stage”

Abstract-To understand the importance of rational decision method over the intuitive decisions, an architectural studio project was explored with the design brief as to develop a morphological variation to create the alternatives as design solutions. All those design alternatives have been evaluated by different stakeholders namely the fellow students, faculty members, and post graduate students who are mainly the architects. The objective of the evaluation is to develop an empirical analysis and evaluation of framework for assessing the Architectural Design to check is there a correlation between the different value judgment for intuitive method of decision making and rational method of decision making, of the pre design alternatives. Design studio in architectural education is a traditional process, based on the methodology related to the aims and objectives of those respective studio curriculum, and the experience and expectation of the faculty members as what they wants the students to learn, and expected to synthesis their knowledge gained from other sources and previous studio experiences. One of the weaknesses of the traditional studio practice is that the design exercises were given so much attention to the compositional aspects of design rather than attempting to study complex and multi-criteria approach for those decisions