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_id	fe09
authors	Morozumi, Mitsuo and Homma, Riken
year	2001
title	A Design Studio Program that Applied Groupware to Stimulate Students’ Interactions - A Case Study of Junior Studio
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2001.317
source	Architectural Information Management [19th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-8-1] Helsinki (Finland) 29-31 August 2001, pp. 317-322
summary	Since 1996, Kumamoto University has repeated several experiments to apply web-based collaborative design techniques to a junior design studio to stimulate students’ interaction in the class and to enhance their design abilities. As it became evident after a two-year experiment that writing web pages and uploading them to a web server was a barrier of communication for students, the authors developed a web-based groupware called GWNotebook, and started using it in 1998. In the fall semester of 2000, the authors tested the groupware in a revised version, and a new program of studio instructions that assumed the use of the groupware. This paper, referring students’ answers to two sets of questionnaire respectively carried out in 1997 and 2000, discusses the effectiveness of groupware and the instruction program.
keywords	Design Studio, Groupware, Www, Information Sharing, Design Communication
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ijac20042403
id	ijac20042403
authors	Morozumi, Mitsuo; Homma, Riken
year	2004
title	Assessment of the Use of 3D-Viewing and Mark-up Tool for Rich Network Design Communication
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 2 - no. 4, 462-473
summary	Though there have been many successful examples of Virtual Design Studio, there still exist unsuccessful cases in which participants felt dissatisfied or even frustrated, especially at synchronous stages of design_communication. A discussion that required designers to refer to 3D models was one of the situations where technical support was insufficient to satisfy the expectation of designers. Assuming that an interactive viewing of 3D models and use of a markup utility on a shared PC window could enhance such design communications (though this also requires network bandwidth and computational power) the author conducted experiments in design discussion between two designers to test the capability and effects of these tools for network collaborations. This paper discusses the framework and results of the experiments, and proposes the next step for system developments.
series	journal
email
more	http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ijac.htm
last changed	2007/03/04 07:08

_id	3e1c
authors	Mortenson, M.E.
year	1997
title	Geometric Modeling
source	New York: Wiley Computer Publishing
summary	A comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of all the indispensable core concepts of geometric modeling. Now completely updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field, Geometric Modeling clearly presents and compares all the important mathematical approaches to modeling curves, surfaces, and solids, and shows how to shape and assemble these elements into more complex models. Its thorough coverage also includes the concomitant geometric processing necessary, e.g., the computation of intersections, offsets, and fillets. Written in a style that is virtually free of the jargon of special applications, this unique book focuses on the essence of geometric modeling and treats it as a discipline in its own right. This integrated approach allows the reader to focus on the principles and logic of geometric modeling without requiring background knowledge of CAD/CAM, computer graphics, or computer programming. Supported by more than 300 illustrations, Geometric Modeling appeals to the reader's visual and intuitive skills in a way that makes understanding the more abstract concepts much easier. This new edition features a host of new application areas, including topology, special effects in cinematography, the design and control of type fonts, and virtual reality, as well as numerous application examples. For computer graphics specialists, application designers and developers, scientific programmers, and advanced students, Geometric Modeling, Second Edition will serve as a complete and invaluable guide to the entire field.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	2076
authors	Holmgren, Steen and Rüdiger, Bjarne
year	1999
title	IT in Urban Regeneration Projects
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.708
source	Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 708-713
summary	This paper is about the development of new tools for the residents to use for participation in the planning process and by the professional generating proposals for projects. It deals with two actual research projects, which might be described as transition projects. The projects are Digital 3D City Model of Copenhagen and Urban Architecture in Urban Renewal, - in dialogue between professionals and residents. These projects take their point of departure in the architects traditional working methods and working tools, but they focus on new methods for the dialogue between professionals and inhabitants and on a new visual language based on the digital technology. In this transition situation we see the educated architect as well as the politician and the inhabitant as students in a common learning process. In the end of the paper we introduce a planned project about IT in Urban Renewal. The project is based on an ongoing governmental experiment with involving inhabitants actively in the renewal of their urban area. This project is intended to combine dialogue methods with the use of interactive 3D-digital City models on the Internet.
keywords	3D City modeling, Urban Regeneration, Participation, Dialogue Method, 3D Digital City Model, Urban Architecture
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	a6a5
authors	Mortola, Elena
year	1989
title	The Interface for Designing
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1989.x.a2q
source	CAAD: Education - Research and Practice [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 87-982875-2-4] Aarhus (Denmark) 21-23 September 1989, pp. 8.5.1-8.5.15
summary	A case which supports the use of computer graphics in design process is presented in this paper. The case is put forward in three stages: the first stage analyzes the relationship between drawing and design (design-by-drawing) and explores the transformations generated by the computer graphics. The second stage describes a didactic experience in the Faculty of Architecture of Rome. The third stage describes a project related to design interface.
keywords	Design, Computer, Drawing, Methods
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	caadria2022_281
id	caadria2022_281
authors	Moscovitz, Or and Barath, Shany
year	2022
title	A Generative Design Approach to Urban Sustainability Rating Systems During Early-Stage Urban Development
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.171
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 171-180
summary	Sustainability rating systems (SRS) aim to guide decision-makers in the planning process by defining clear guidelines and metrics. Nowadays, this process usually requires further tasks and the involvement of multiple professional advisors that eventually increase planning complexity and lead to lower SRS implementation. In this paper, we explore generative urban models and multi-objective optimization of SRS metrics to potentially enhance SRS use in planning processes. Furthermore, we apply this framework to a case study that has not reached its SRS planning goals due to contradicting trade-offs between municipal and stakeholder objectives. The urban model reflects the stakeholder design requirements and constraints such as the desired floor area ratio (FAR), building types, and units‚ number while the SRS metrics act as optimization goals. As part of the process, we automate quantitative indicators from Israel SRS ‚360 Neighbourhood‚ to use them as optimization goals and to analyse their correlation and trade-offs. Through this process, we enable a generative exploration of high-performing design iterations relative to a chosen set of SRS goals. Such a framework can enhance the integration of verified sustainability goals in the planning process, thus informing the stakeholders of their decision trade-off‚s concerning SRS indicators in urban development.
keywords	Sustainability Rating Systems, Generative Design, Multi-objective optimization, Urban Modelling and Simulation, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/07/22 07:34

_id	ed0f
authors	Moshe, R. and Shaviv, E.
year	1988
title	Natural Language Interface for CAAD System
source	CAAD futures ‘87 [Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-444-42916-6] Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 20-22 May 1987, pp. 137-148
summary	This work explores issues involved in the development of a natural interface for man-machine dialogue in architectural design processes. A hand-touch on an interactive surface is suggested as the best natural-language interface for architectural CAD systems. To allow the development of a rich range of hand-touch natural-language for communicating information and commands to the computer, it is proposed to develop a new type of a touch-panel, for which a set of specifications is presented. A conceptual design of an architectural workstation, having the described touch-panel, is presented. This workstation is characterized by the integration of the entire range of control and communication facilities required for any architectural task into a single interactive unit. The conceptual model for this workstation is the standard size drawing board, on which the architect is accustomed to spread documents, drawings, books and tools, shuffle them around and interchange them freely by using the natural-language interface developed in this work. The potential of the suggested hand-touch natural-language and the proposed workstation are demonstrated by a case-study.
series	CAAD Futures
email
last changed	2003/05/16 20:58

_id	ecaade2013_087
id	ecaade2013_087
authors	Mostafavi, Sina; Morales Beltran, Mauricio and Biloria, Nimish
year	2013
title	Performance Driven Design and Design Information Exchange
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2013.2.117
source	Stouffs, Rudi and Sariyildiz, Sevil (eds.), Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference – Volume 2, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-20 September 2013, pp. 117-126
summary	This paper presents a performance driven computational design methodology through introducing a case on parametric structural design. The paper describes the process of design technology development and frames a design methodology through which engineering, -in this case structural- aspects of architectural design could become more understandable, traceable and implementable by designers for dynamic and valid performance measurements and estimations. The research further embeds and customizes the process of topology optimization for specific design problems, in this case applied to the design of truss structures, for testing how the discretized results of Finite Elements Analysis in topology optimization can become the inputs for designing optimal trussed beams or cantilevers alternatives. The procedures of design information exchange between generative, simulative and evaluative modules for approaching the abovementioned engineering and design deliverables are developed and discussed in this paper.
wos	WOS:000340643600011
keywords	Performance driven design; design information; design technology; topology optimization; parametric design.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	acadia13_425
id	acadia13_425
authors	Moukheiber, Carol
year	2013
title	Sensual Embodiment: When Morphological Computation Shapes Domestic Objects
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2013.425
source	ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture [Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-926724-22-5] Cambridge 24-26 October, 2013), pp. 425-426
summary	IM BLANKY (2011) and CURTAIN (2013) are augmented textile prototypes set within the context of the domestic environment. The projects are informed by the concept of embodiment within the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
keywords	embodiment, IM BLANKY, CURTAIN, textile, shape-memory alloy
series	ACADIA
type	Research Poster
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	1f6d
authors	Mourshed, M. M., Kelliher, D., Keane, M.
year	2003
title	Integrating building energy simulation in the design process
source	IBPSA News, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 21-26.
summary	To significantly increase building energy performance, the use of building simulation software at the earliest has been emphasized. Inherent complexity in data representation, I/O (Input and Output) and Visualization of available software requires specialist knowledge to leverage the potentials offered. Early stages of design are characterized by unstructured and incomplete data which is insufficient as inputs to software based on detailed representations of the systems in the building. Existing simulation software, developed in research organizations are targeted to be used by building services engineers at detailed stages and does not suit the purposes of design community. This article attempts at identifying the reasons behind unpopularity of simulation software in the early stages of design and also argues that a new breed of decision support systems is needed for energy efficient building design.
keywords	ArDOT; Energy Simulation; Integration; Environmental Design; Design Process
series	other
email
last changed	2003/05/27 17:19

_id	ecaade2013_169
id	ecaade2013_169
authors	Moya, Rafael; Salim, Flora; Williams, Mani and Sharaidin, Kamil
year	2013
title	Flexing Wind
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2013.2.069
source	Stouffs, Rudi and Sariyildiz, Sevil (eds.), Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference – Volume 2, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-20 September 2013, pp. 69-78
summary	The aims of the Flexing Wind project, investigated in an intensive cross-disciplinary course, were twofold. First was to learn about aerodynamic phenomena around buildings. Second was to explore ways to observe, measure, and control the negative effects of wind around specific pedestrian areas, tram stops, and public sites in Melbourne City. Using tools such as a weather station to collect data and CFD software to simulate aerodynamic phenomena students could study the wind conditions in one of the windiest areas in the Melbourne downtown. Various do-it-yourself tools such as mini wind tunnels, handheld probes and sensors were used to evaluate the performance of potential design options, which lead to prototyping full scale adaptive architectural windbreaks.
wos	WOS:000340643600006
keywords	Urban aerodynamics; windbreak; wind tunnel simulation; Computational Fluid Dynamics; architectural prototype.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	ecaade2020_411
id	ecaade2020_411
authors	Muehlbauer, Manuel, Song, Andy and Burry, Jane
year	2020
title	Smart Structures - A Generative Design Framework for Aesthetic Guidance in Structural Node Design - Application of Typogenetic Design for Custom-Optimisation of Structural Nodes
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.623
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 623-632
summary	Virtual prototypes enable performance simulation for building components. The presented research extended the application of generative design using virtual prototypes for interactive optimisation of structural nodes. User-interactivity contributed to the geometric definition of design spaces rather than the final geometric outcome, enabling another stage of generative design for the micro-structure of the structural node. In this stage, the micro-structure inside the design space was generated using fixed topology. In contrast to common optimisation strategies, which converge towards a single optimal outcome, the presented design exploration process allowed the regular review of design solutions. User-based selection guided the evolutionary process of design space exploration applying Online Classification. Another guidance mechanism called Shape Comparison introduced an intelligent control system using an inital image input as design reference. In this way, aesthetic guidance enabled the combined evaluation of quantitative and qualitative criteria in the custom-optimisation of structural nodes. Interactive node design extended the potential for shape variation of custom-optimized structural nodes by addressing the geometric definition of design spaces for multi-scalar structural optimisation.
keywords	generative design; evolutionary computation; interactive machine learning; typogenetic design
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	ecaade2024_235
id	ecaade2024_235
authors	Mueller, Lisa-Marie; Andriotis, Charalampos; Turrin, Michela
year	2024
title	Data and Parameterization Requirements for 3D Generative Deep Learning Models
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2024.1.615
source	Kontovourkis, O, Phocas, MC and Wurzer, G (eds.), Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2024), Nicosia, 11-13 September 2024, Volume 1, pp. 615–624
summary	It is now within reach to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to autonomously generate full building geometries. However, existing literature utilizing 3D data has focused to a limited degree on architecture and engineering disciplines. A critical first step to expanding the use of generative deep learning models in generative design research is making training data available. This study investigates 3D building model data characteristics that make it suitable for generative AI applications. Key data set attributes are identified through a systematic review of the object-containing datasets currently used to train state-of-the-art 3D GANs. These requirements are then compared to attributes of existing available building datasets. This comparison shows that publicly available data sets of 3D building models lack essential characteristics for generative deep learning. Features that make these building models inadequate for the task include but are not limited to, their mesh formats, low resolution and levels of detail, and inclusion of irrelevant geometry. To achieve the desired properties in this work, necessary transformations of the data are incorporated into a tailored preprocessing pipeline. The pipeline is applied to an existing dataset that contains 3D models of single-family homes. The transformed dataset is tested within state-of-the-art GAN models to assess training performance and document future data requirements for applying deep generative design to buildings. Our experiments show promise for the impact that architectural datasets can make on deep learning applications within the discipline. It also highlights the need for additional 3D building model data to increase the diversity and robustness of new designs.
keywords	Generative Deep Learning, Data Sets, Generative Adversarial Networks
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2024/11/17 22:05

_id	acadia20_38
id	acadia20_38
authors	Mueller, Stephen
year	2020
title	Irradiated Shade
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.038
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 38-46.
summary	The paper details computational mapping and modeling techniques from an ongoing design research project titled Irradiated Shade, which endeavors to develop and calibrate a computational toolset to uncover, represent, and design for the unseen dangers of ultraviolet radiation, a growing yet underexplored threat to cities, buildings, and the bodies that inhabit them. While increased shade in public spaces has been advocated as a strategy for “mitigation [of] climate change” (Kapelos and Patterson 2014), it is not a panacea to the threat. Even in apparent shade, the body is still exposed to harmful, ambient, or “scattered” UVB radiation. The study region is a binational metroplex, a territory in which significant atmospheric pollution and the effects of climate change (reduced cloud cover and more “still days” of stagnant air) amplify the “scatter” of ultraviolet wavelengths and UV exposure within shade, which exacerbates urban conditions of shade as an “index of inequality” (Bloch 2019) and threatens public health. Exposure to indirect radiation correlates to the amount of sky visible from the position of an observer (Gies and Mackay 2004). The overall size of a shade structure, as well as the design of openings along its sides, can greatly impact the UV protection factor (UPF) (Turnbull and Parisi 2005). Shade, therefore, is more complex than ubiquitous urban and architectural “sun” and “shadow studies” are capable of representing, as such analyses flatten the three-dimensional nature of radiation exposure and are “blind” to the ultraviolet spectrum. “Safe shade” is contingent on the nuances of the surrounding built environment, and designers must be empowered to observe and respond to a wider context than current representational tools allow.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2023/10/22 12:06

_id	ecaade2009_143
id	ecaade2009_143
authors	Mueller, Volker
year	2009
title	Ontology for Computational Design: Computational Methods versus Cultural Processes
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2009.441
source	Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-8-9] Istanbul (Turkey) 16-19 September 2009, pp. 441-448
summary	In the ongoing taxonomy and ontology work in and about the computational design domain varying progress has been made. While in the ontology work oriented towards computational use within the domain a human-based approach appears favored, in the ontology work focused on the research domain the focus seems to be on computational approaches. This paper proposes to extend the human-based approach to the construction of an online research domain ontology in order to utilize inter-human collaboration to capture the fundamentally cultural phenomenon of language or vocabulary and its agreed upon meaning. Online availability would allow referencing for tagging of contents, for example for use in keyword lists, or for computational categorization of collections. Such an effort would add a research community forum for continued discourse about the research domain.
wos	WOS:000334282200053
keywords	Ontology, research domain, semantic web
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	caadria2020_086
id	caadria2020_086
authors	Mulder, Hugo
year	2020
title	Villa Girasole - A Filter for Movement in Building Cognition
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.143
source	D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, I. Koh (eds.), RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 143-152
summary	This paper outlines a framework for building cognition that emphasises the role of architectural movement.The framework is relevant for a new type of building that is digitally augmented and autonomous, and that relates to occupants in novel ways. Based on an embodied view of cognition, the framework might serve a complementary approach to integrating building cognition in the overall building design. The significance of architectural movement in this context is unpacked and evaluated in this paper using the Villa Girasole, a historic work of kinetic architecture near Verona in Italy. The villa serves as a filter to investigate movement through three key concepts of the framework: acting out, coupling, and exteriorisation. The paper proposes that architectural movement might enable an interdependency between building, occupant, and environment that is critical for establishing a form of highly specific building cognition.
keywords	Kinetic; Enactive; Building Cognition; Villa Girasole
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	dc94
authors	Mullens, M.A., Armacost, R.L. and Swart, W.W.
year	1995
title	The role of object oriented CAD in a generic simulator for the industrialized housing industry
source	Automation in Construction 4 (1) (1995) pp. 29-43
summary	This paper describes a simulator-based decision support tool for manufacturers of prefabricated homebuilding components. The Generic Industrialized Housing Manufacturing Simulator (GIHMS) serves as an experimental factory, capable of simulating factory performance under various product design, factory design, and operations management scenarios. GIHMS strength lies in its user-friendly, icon-based, point-and-click user interface. The interface allows the user to configure a factory and specify home designs for production without simulation language programming. The heart of the user interface is a specialized object oriented CAD system. This paper describes the GIHMS structure, focusing on the specialized CAD system, and demonstrates its functionality by describing the development of a structural foam panel factory model.
keywords	Generic simulators; Object oriented CAD; Prefabrication; Housing
series	journal paper
more	http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon
last changed	2003/06/02 09:38

_id	fadd
authors	Mullet, Kevin E.
year	1996
title	Designing Visual Interfaces: How to Create Communication -- Oriented Solutions Tutorial 3
source	Proceedings of ACM CHI 96 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1996 v.2 pp. 332-333
summary	This tutorial describes a number of fundamental techniques applied routinely in communication-oriented visual design. The orientation, process, training, and culture of the visual design disciplines (graphic design, industrial design, interior design, architecture) are essential components of effective interface design. Unfortunately, few software developers or human factors engineers receive any training in these disciplines. This tutorial describes important design rules and techniques internalized by every visual designer through coursework and studio experience. While mastery will indeed require extended practice, the techniques we describe are not difficult to understand and can be immediately applied to real-world problems. We draw our background, training, and influence from the rational, functional, information-oriented perspective of the Modernist design ethic. Because all graphical user interfaces are communication systems, we believe their design should reflect these same values. Our tutorial is organized not along the traditional subdisciplines of color, typography, or ideation, but along the problems of graphical interface design as experienced in commercial software development. We describe basic design principles (the what and why), common errors, and practical techniques (the how) for each of the six major areas outlined below.
series	other
last changed	2002/07/07 16:01

_id	ad0e
authors	Mullet, Kevin E. and Sano, Darrell K.
year	1994
title	Applying Visual Design: Trade Secrets for Elegant Interfaces TUTORIALS
source	Proceedings of ACM CHI'94 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1994 v.2 pp. 353-354
summary	This tutorial describes a number of fundamental techniques applied routinely in communication-oriented visual design. The orientation, process, training, and culture of the visual design disciplines (graphic design, industrial design, interior design, architecture) are essential components of effective interface design. Unfortunately, few software developers or human factors engineers receive any training in these disciplines. This tutorial describes important design rules and techniques internalized by every visual designer through coursework and studio experience. While mastery will indeed require extended practice, the techniques we describe are not difficult to understand and can be immediately applied to real-world problems. We draw our background, training, and influence from the rational, functional, information oriented perspective of the Modernist design ethic. Because all graphical user interfaces are communication systems, we believe their design should reflect these same values. Our tutorial is organized not along the traditional subdisciplines of color, typography, or ideation, but along the problems of graphical interface design as experienced in commercial software development. We describe basic design principles (the what and why), common errors, and practical techniques (the how) for each of the six major areas outlined below. (1) Elegance and Simplicity (2) Scale, Contrast and Proportion (3) Organization and Visual Structure (4) Module and Programme (5) Image and Representation (6) So What About Style?
series	other
last changed	2002/07/07 16:01

_id	869d
authors	Howard, Rob
year	1991
title	Building IT 2000 -- A Hypertext Database of Predictions on the Use of Information Technology in Building
source	The Computer Integrated Future, CIB W78 Seminar September, 1991. Unnumbered : ill.
summary	Hypertext is a medium particularly suitable for providing easy access to diverse information and maintaining it. It was used for a database of papers on the future of many aspects of information technology and their likely use by the year 2000. The recommendations include the development of project databases to integrate the use of computers by all parties to a building project, and the establishment of a building IT forum in the UK. CICA acted as research coordinator for the project and already carries out many of the functions of the building IT forum which will also need to include other organizations in the UK and in other countries. The data in Building IT 2000 will be maintained on hypertext and will take advantage of future developments in hypermedia. These new techniques, with the ability to provide selective access to, and payment for, digital data could help solve the problems of managing building project data. Building IT 2000 will be demonstrated at this conference to show its flexibility. It is available as a printed report or on disk for Macintosh or PC Windows 3.0 computers
keywords	hypertext, database, construction, building process, information, hypermedia
series	CADline
last changed	1999/02/12 15:08

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