ABSTRACT

This chapter seeks to distil key concepts and other findings into a more condensed form in a so-called systems terminology for architecture and construction that furthermore tentatively establishes a taxonomy relating some of these key concepts to each other. A considerable amount of the vocabulary introduced above can seem unfamiliar for use in architectural design. Integration and nesting are almost aligned in the present definition and become conceptually the opposite of modularization. Modularisation and integration/nesting are like opposite sides of the same coin. The notion and the underlying concept of system structure are central to and a main contribution of the present monograph. Conceptually, system structure fuses the closely related concepts of product architecture and supplychain. The standardisation dimension describes the level of standardisation of the delivery when it leaves one location in order to be inserted into another, being a building or subsystem of a building.