A Decentralized Autonomous Organization framework to facilitate Architectural Design Evaluation

Design evaluation is a crucial aspect of architects’ education and professional practice, yet it has often
been overlooked and undervalued within professional working environments. This research aims to address
this problem by exploring the potential of applying blockchain technologies and decentralized autonomous
organizations (DAOs) to facilitate architectural design evaluation among architects. The research
presents a theoretical DAO framework developed through insights from previous research and interviews
with architects, comprising a membership system and an evaluation system with extensive design evaluation
criteria. The membership system ensures the quality of evaluation feedback by only granting
qualified architects to join the DAO, while the evaluation system provides an extensive design evaluation
with comprehensive evaluation criteria. Through simulation tests and expert reviews, the framework’s
effectiveness is validated, generating optimism among architects and promising expectations. The findings
highlight the potential of DAOs to promote efficiency, transparency, and innovation in architectural
design evaluation or other industries. At the end of the research, several directions of future research are
suggested regarding the extension of existing DAO framework with broader functionalities.