Collaboration matters

Master´s thesis | MA Program in Collaborative and Industrial Design | Department of Design | Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

User involvement in its varied forms is becoming a reality in many building projects. The year 2020 marks a rise of service design in the context of building planning in Finland as new guidelines in the building and real estate industries were introduced by a respected Building Information group. . . .

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Master´s thesis

Collaboration matters – A retrospective of three user-centred building projects at Aalto University. The entire thesis will be available at the Aalto University online library, AaltoDoc, after June 2020. Most of the figures are presented below.

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Figure 2. A picture of strategic actions and building projects at Aalto campus based on the documentary research (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 3. Practitioners of built environment within scales of planning (adopted from Erickson et al., 2001; March et al. ,2015).

Figure 4. Phases of a typical building planning process (adopted from The Building Information Foundation RTS, 2016).

Figure 5. The four-point complexity and sensemaking scale of design (adopted from Jones & van Patter, 2009).

Figure 6. Evolution of participatory approaches in the context of design and urban planning (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 7. Clusters of approaches connected with modes of working and a participant roles (adopted from Hyysalo & Johnson, 2015-2017).

Figure 8. Collaborative design framework: collaboration maturity based on four stages (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 11. A visualised map of the campus level planning and development with connections to the three cases studied (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 12. A visualisation of the activities performed during the building planning process of the case Väre Building (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 13. Analysis of the modes of collaborative acts during the process (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 14. A visualisation of the activities performed during the building planning process of the case BIZ Building (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 15. Analysis of the modes of collaborative acts during the process (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 16. A visualisation of the activities performed during the building planning process of the case LeC Building (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 17. Analysis of the modes of collaborative acts during the process (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 19. Levels of action in user-centred building planning process based on the findings of this study (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 20. Scales of building planning creating a framework for collaboration (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 21. Different roles of the users and perspectives in a building planning process (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 22. Different levels of action combined with design objectives and knowledge creation aims. (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 23. Three primary goals for user involvement during building planning (Nevari, 2020).

Figure 24. The matrix of sometimes contradicting aims of client and users with a collaborative design modes and degree of participation (Nevari, 2020).

Collaboration matters