A BIM Inspired Supporting Platform for Architectural Design

ABSTRACT

In conventional design processes, various kinds of design analysis made by professional consultants often arrive too late to assist architects to make strategic decisions at early design stages. The analysis is thus merely used for presentation in such cases.

This paper proposes that a design “dashboard” should be integrated into modeling tools used by architects at early design stages. This dashboard should provide visual presentation for information regarding estimated construction cost, structural analysis, and building performance in real time. It is shown that in a generative modeling platform, interfaces can be developed to connect tools for modeling and design analysis, so that the mentioned characteristics of design dashboard can be implemented and customized for specific design cases.

To illustrate the viewpoints, this paper presents an actual design case of an apartment building to show how the design dashboard assists the architect with prompt information on daylighting analysis at early design stages. In the case, Monte Carlo simulation is used as the basic method for prompt analysis with merely the information regarding building mass.

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Keywords:

• LOD100
• dashboard
• early stage of architectural design
• strategic decision

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was sponsored by the National Science Council of the ROC, Taiwan, Project Number NSC 102-2221-E-011-120-.