The transformation of architectural design practices has been underway for almost forty years, given the development and democratization of computer technology. Since then, architects have been continuously confronted with digital challenges; among those, the implementation of parametric modeling tools. While those challenges have been studied in the context of large companies, very few studies have focused on strategies and practices developed by small offices, even though they represent the largest part of the European market. In this underexplored context, researching the practice of five architectural firms lead us to reconsider and complete the typology of design process models developed by Blessing (1995), and to suggest a design process model mirroring how parametric modeling tools re-shape the design processes in small architectural offices.

鉴于计算机技术的发展和民主化，建筑设计实践的变革已经进行了将近40年。从那时起，架构师一直面临着数字化挑战。其中包括参数化建模工具的实现。尽管已经在大型公司的背景下研究了这些挑战，但很少有研究关注小型办公室制定的策略和实践，即使它们代表了欧洲市场的最大部分。在这种探索不足的背景下，对五家建筑公司的实践进行研究，使我们重新考虑并完成了由Blessing（1995）开发的设计过程模型的类型学，