Constructional Design

Constructional design, which is the main focus of this book, is embedded within the overall conceptual building design and has a close relationship to general architectural design issues, which sometimes exert a notable influence upon it. Being a planning process, it needs to incorporate various parameters deriving from the manufacture, transport, and final erection of building components, which eventually make up the final building on site. This planning procedure is often not perfectly linear, but can be subject to recursive iteration loops when no further progress appears to be possible after having followed a particular design solution. In any case, distilling basic principles of effect which provide a better understanding of the problems to be solved and make available a broader range of possible solutions is a sound and promising strategy for any constructional designer.