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Table 7 The students’ comments regarding working with other disciplines

From: Interdisciplinary design education: development of an elective course in architecture and engineering departments

Student 1

I could understand the way of thinking of the other disciplines that is beyond the architectural way of thinking.

Student 2

it was hard to communicate with the students from the other disciplines because we were not standing on a common ground of knowledge. For example, we as architects had to make decisions regarding the electrical discipline because of the lack of communication with the ELEC Students.

Student 3

Other disciplines could not understand architecture work, which caused communication difficulties at the first stages of design. In contrary, we as architecture students could grasp other disciplines’ work in accurate.

Student 4

communication with the other disciplines was somehow useful. However, the more important was the deep research of the proper design systems and applying them to the project as models with taking into consideration the other disciplines’ systems to avoid clashes.