Integral Building Design Workshops; comparing students and professionals

Following the developments in (Dutch) building practice, where besides specialist skills a integral design approach is increasingly being asked, the Building Services chair of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) initiated a multidisciplinary masters project ‘Integral Design’. As basis for this project served a learning-by-doing workshop approach, developed and tested with/on experienced practitioners from the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA) and the Dutch Association of Consulting Engineers (ONRI). In this paper the results of the first two multidisciplinary masters project editions are discussed. A comparison with BNA-ONRI workshops for practitioners is made.