| authors |
Popova, Mina |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
Model of Design Parts and its Use to the Design Team |
| source |
CAADRIA ‘98 [Proceedings of The Third Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 4-907662-009] Osaka (Japan) 22-24 April 1998, pp. 233-242 |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1998.233
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| summary |
This paper discusses the impact of the choice of representation on the final
result in design and construction projects. Representation is an integrated part of the
design process used by architects as a communication tool to help them present a
concept to their clients and other consultants. The representation choice, in addition,
reflects the professional’s perception of the design process and the architectural artefact.
Architects’ offices work with a wide range of problems - aesthetic and spatial issues,
detailing, choice of materials, and systems design. The multiplicity of representations
enriches the understanding of these issues. Today, the model-oriented approach in
design is common among both architects and leading software producers for the
construction industry. While STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Data) aims at
developing very comprehensive product models, we examine the possibility of building
up a small-scale model responding to the information needs of a design team. In our
research work, we view a model of design parts as a suitable carrier of information
allowing the designers to store data reflecting their accumulated and refined
professional knowledge and experience. Besides, the team of architects can later easily
retrieve information needed for future design reuse from the model. To reuse design
solutions and learn from previous work is an essential part of the professional culture.
The construction industry as a whole has been slow in implementing information
technology to improve the work methods. Neither have architects’ offices used the full
potential of this technology to structure information and rationalize the design process.
The objective of this study is to examine whether information technology makes it
possible to organize all the design information in an office archive. The proposed model
of design parts relates to national standards and universal models for product data
representation and exchange, such as STEP. Today, the construction sector is becoming
increasingly aware of the potential of the model-oriented approach both to rationalize
the design and construction process and offer designers new options to store, broaden
and reuse professional knowledge. We have used the information modelling language
EXPRESS to describe our concept.
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| keywords |
Design and Construction Process, Model-oriented Approach, Representation, Information Technology, STEP |
| series |
CAADRIA |
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| more |
http://www.caadria.org |
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