Research

Design Experimentation Development

While this information is not so relevant for Architecture and Assignment 2 it is worth mentioning it for later in Assignment 3. I was wanting to find basic theory behind achieving a successful design experiment and came across this book 'Practical Guide to Experimental Design'. While it descibes a very complex system for developing design experiments for products and services, I came across a useful chapter for a simple way to prepare for a designed experiment that can be related to architeture.

Basically it is to break the VOC to three types of customer experience - Expectations, Desires and Delights. And identify the nessesary elements to achieve customer (or habitants) satisfaciton.



This helps me define and think more to a spiritually uplifting architecture that synergisers habitant delight with experimental vigor.

Reference

Practical Guide to Experimental Design, Normand L. Frigon and David Mathews. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. NY, 1997.