Architectural knowledge is about the system structure & configuration and also linkages & interactions between different subsystems but what is it in exact? For example what a company should know about the interactions between components or about the configuration of a system so that it can develop a system?
Architectural design decisions (ADDs) have been used in recent years for capturing
design rationale and documenting architectural knowledge (AK).
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It is a foundamental question and usually answered in first few years of Architectural School as far as I can remember.
Refer to your given example, look at any example created by mother of nature like, human body, or a plant and see it for yourself. In the course caled "Human, Nature and Architecture" the main topic was to address such consepts for students and help them to understand that Architecture is not an isolated fact. It should be treated as transforming and aging fenamena which has roots to societies, cultures, building science, technology, climate, economy, poletics and so on.
Architectural knowledge is a very broad concept (it covers for example understanding of buildings, people's experience & behaviour of the environment, knowledge how to design, and so on) - however, from your question I understand you are looking actually for tectonic knowledge (how things work together) and building systems. To make a "generic system" which can tackle all of that, is a mission impossible. For example, Building Information Modelling/Industry Foundation Classes are aiming just at a comprehensive description of buildings, let alone how to bring them together. Therefore, you need to limit the technology & materials first, before you can hope to come up with a system.
Thanks for your answers but I mean complex industrial products and systems such as automobiles, get engines, some home appliances, etc. What does architectural knowledge of such products mean and what are its different elements in exact?
Dear Mahdi, outside the field of architectural design the term 'architecture' is used to indicate in a very general sense the structure of something - such as the architecture of computing systems. Every field has a specific understanding to the term 'architecture' there, so I am afraid as architect I cannot be of much help further.
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