| authors |
Woodbury, Robert and Chang, Teng-Wen |
| year |
1995 |
| title |
Building Enclosures using SEED-Config |
| source |
Sixth International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures [ISBN 9971-62-423-0] Singapore, 24-26 September 1995, pp. 49-54 |
| summary |
We describe enclosure design for SEED-Config using an example from "Architectural Details for Insulated Buildings" (Brand 90). We develop enclosures for insulated buildings in terms of the functional units that specify them, the technologies that implement them and the design units that describe them. Brand gives details in eight series (A-H); in each series he describes a specific detailing system. We base our exposition on series A to E: these share the property of the wall fitting partially under the roof and floor slabs. In series F and G the wall stands clear of the slabs and this would require a different approach to detailing from a very high level. Series H is a compendium of special cases that we do not discuss here at all. We conclude with a discussion of what our enclosure design example implies for the representation and computational engine of SEED-Config. We chose insulated enclosures as our example for a specific reason: Brandís treatment of them is proximate to the fundamental approach we take in SEED. Brand wrote in clear, rule-like terms that progress from the abstract to the specific. He explicitly links each part of every detail to the function it fulfills. |
| keywords |
Generative Systems, Building Enclosures, CAD, SEED, Representation, Search |
| series |
CAAD Futures |
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Brand, R.G. (1990)
 Architectural Details for Insulated Buildings
, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold various authors, Canadian Building Digests (CBD), Ottawa, Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council of Canada
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The American Firehouse: An Architectural and Social History
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