6.3 Suspended Ceiling Design Process - Bilkent University

6. CASE STUDY 1: SUSPENDED CEILING
DESIGN
6.1 Introduction to the Case Studies
The research questions of this dissertation posed in Chapter 1 have been
the following:
1. What is the information dependency pattern for design processes of
architects and building design engineers?
2. Can the parameter-based design structure matrix method be utilized
to analyze these processes? If so, how?
In order to explore these questions, two case studies have been designed.
The main objective of these case studies is to apply the proposed method
to real life building design problems to represent information dependency
pattern of decisions. Aiming to be innovative in design process modeling,
the case studies tend to be exploratory and qualitative and they are
expected to guide future research.
The scope and content of the two case studies were designed to reflect
different aspects of the framework proposed in Chapter 5. The first case
study is based on an analysis of suspended ceiling design process for a
public building in Turkey. The DSM analysis for this case aims to capture
the information flows in a specific design configuration. The second case
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