Co-design in architectural practice: Impact of client involvement during self-construction experiences

This paper investigates how self-construction processes, considered as the utmost form of clients’ involvement in the realm of building a family house, impact clients’ and architects’ interactions. The study of four cases (two involving “traditional” processes, two involving “self-built” processes) and the drawing of Experience Maps for each of them nurture reflections about satisfac-tion assessment, perceived quality and clients’ integration to the architectural design process (potentially including co-design attitudes).