Fatemeh Zare - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Kaveh Bazrafkan - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Homa Irani Behbahani - Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Behrooz Mansouri - Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Architectural design has grown alongside the expansion of digitalism's aspects, and design initiatives are the product of several collaborations, interactions, and nodes. Focusing on an architectural competition as a case s tudy, this article demons trates how the architectural design process works by highlighting the characteris tics of a network produced by the assemblage between heterogeneous nodes. These assemblages could modify every design phase and outcome according to their s trengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the socio-technical aspect of the design process is used to demons trate the reciprocal relationship between nodes as humans and nonhumans. This paper uses a qualitative approach by using the methodological aspect of actor-network theory to map the intricacies of the design process from three independent narrations to give complementary components to form the design process's multiplex network. Thus, the s tudy proposes a paradigm for exhibiting and grasping the complex data network in architectural design and boos ting the value of unseen data that may significantly impact outcomes.

Actor-Network Theory, Co-design, Architectural design process, Designers' Network