为了满足对更可持续的建筑环境的需求，需要更复杂的设计过程，以及建筑和工程领域之间的协同作用。为了应对这种额外的复杂性，架构师需要专业工程师的更多支持。必须更有效地利用工程师的不同专业知识，尤其是在概念设计阶段，以寻求新的解决方案。这会对相关工程师的角色产生影响；他们必须在概念性建筑设计过程的早期进行操作，更多地充当设计师，而不是传统的计算工程师。因此，工程师们必须发展新的技能。此外，建筑师不仅要学会在概念设计阶段分享自己的想法，还要学会真正敞开心扉，与工程师一起进行真正的设计。 重要的是，建筑师不再是设计过程的领导者，而是建筑师和工程师团队领导设计过程:建筑设计已经成为设计概念阶段的团队工作。为了支持这些多元化的多学科建筑设计团队，我们与荷兰建筑师和咨询工程师专业组织合作开发了一种支持性设计方法。这种设计方法基于形态学图表和形态学概述。它帮助建筑师和工程师在概念设计阶段发挥新的作用，因为它能够构建设计任务的每个角度，以及构建可用的领域知识。我们的设计方法表明，在概念建筑设计阶段让工程师参与进来并让其他学科向他们学习是可能的。 作为工业培训计划的一部分，在车间测试了该方法后，该设计方法被转移并应用于建筑系硕士研究生的多学科硕士项目整体设计。在这些项目中，由建筑师和工程师组成的学生团队必须设计净零能耗建筑。在过去的9年里，举办了多个集成设计大师项目，并进一步改进了支持建筑师和工程师之间合作的方法。我们的设计方法表明，在概念建筑设计阶段，有可能聘请工程师，并让其他学科向他们学习。引文:ASHRAE论文CD:2014 ASHRAE年会，华盛顿州西雅图

To fulfill the demand for a more sustainable built environment led to a more complex design process and a need for synergy between the architectural and engineering domain. To cope with this additional complexity architects need more support from specialized engineers. The different expertise of engineers must be used more effectively especially in the conceptual design phase to reach for new solutions. This has consequences for the role of the engineers involved; they have to operate early in the conceptual building design process and act more as designers and less as traditional calculating engineers. As a consequence engineers have to develop new skills. Also the architect has to learn to not only share his ideas in the conceptual design phase but to really open up his mind and to truly design together with the engineers. It is important that no longer the architect is the one that leads the design process but that the team of architect and engineers leads the design process: building design becomes a team effort already in the conceptual phase of design. To support these diverse multidisciplinary building design teams we developed a supportive design method in cooperation with the Dutch professional organizations of architects and consulting engineers. This design method is based on the use of morphological charts and a morphological overview. It helps architects and engineers with their new role in the conceptual design phase as it enables to structure each perspective on the design task as well as to structure the available domain knowledge. Our design method showed that it is possible to engage engineers within the conceptual building design phase and let other disciplines learn from them. After testing the method in workshops as part of a training program in industry, the design method was transferred and applied at the department of architecture for master students for their multidisciplinary master project Integral Design. In these projects student teams consisting of architects and engineers had to design net Zero Energy Buildings. In the last 9 years several master projects Integral Design were held and there was an going process to further improve the method for supporting the cooperation between architects and engineers. Our design method showed that it is possible to engage engineers and let other disciplines learn from them within the conceptual building design phase.