Integral design instead of integrative design between engineering and architecture

Design is currently understood as a highly complex process that requires the support of multidisciplinary design teams. In a recent work at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, in order to aid this multidisciplinary process, a supportive design approach. Integral Design (ID) has been developed. ID combines an engineering design method with an innovation strategy, thus creating new possibilities for reflection in action for building design. This synthesis between architectural concept and engineering functionality is, as such, a good example of integrative design. The ID process approach results in transparency of the design steps and the design decisions. Within this approach, during the design process the prescriptive methodology of ID, guided by the logic of C-K theory, is used as a framework for reflection on the design process itself. Morphological Overviews (MO), which are produced by combining morphological charts, provides a tool to structure and give an overview of the communication and reflection between design team members, while C-K theory supplies the theoretical framework for the reflection on the ID itself as an example of ID.