Diversity and Unity, Morphology of architects and engineers

The new demands for a more sustainable built environment, as well as the need for a comfortable and healthier indoor environment, lead to a more complex design process. This has consequences for the role of the different designers involved in the building design process. Their different expertise must be used more effectively to reach together better solutions. In this research the effect of using morphological overviews was investigated, as well as the relation of morphological overview as a kind of mental mdel of the design team. The effect of application of morphological overviews was positive on the overall team performance. However the results were different for architects, they evaluated the appropriateness positive but still it was found that there was decrease in the number of functions and solutions generated by them. Unifying different disciplines is complex given the diversity of the building design team members. More research is necessary to determine if it could prove to be useful to use of morphological chart in combination with a mental model of the design team