Creating Lean Spaces: Utilizing Lean Methods to Achieve Optimal Architectural Design (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper focuses on creating a lean environment for the end user of the building. There are many studies on lean thinking, yet there is a few about utilizing lean methods to optimize the space performance of the architectural design. Some architectural concepts and tools, which may be utilized to enhance the end user's experience, were developed during the history of architecture. The problem is that there is not a holistic ground to define their aims for providing valuable space. Since lean aims operational excellence and looking for possibilities for continuous improvement, it may offer a framework for the techniques of enhancing the end user's experience. The objective of this study is to demonstrate architectural concepts' parallelism with lean principles and what can be derived from lean principles in order to contribute to the end users' experience. This paper is conducted from a conceptual perspective. The correlation between the fundamentals of lean thinking and the well-established architectural concepts is examined via narrowed literature research.

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