CAAD futures 1997: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures held in Munich, Germany, 4–6 August 1997

935 Pages·1997·41.751 MB·English

by  Gerhard Schmitt (auth.), Richard Junge (eds.)

CAAD futures 1997
CAAD futures 1997
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on
Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures
held in Munich, Germany, 4-6 August 1997
Edited by
Richard Junge
Faculty for Architecture,
Technical University Munich,
Munich, Germany
SPRINGERSCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-94-010-6350-0 ISBN 978-94-011-5576-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5576-2
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Table of Contents
xv
Preface
Keynote Papers
DESIGN MEDIUM -DESIGN OBJECT 3
Gerhard Schmitt
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ZUrich, Switzerland
CAD -SO WHAT? 15
Thomas Bock
University Karlsruhe, Germany
INTEGRATION OF DESIGN APPLICATIONS WIm 45
BUILDING MODELS
Chuck Eastman, Tay Sheng Jeng, Roy Chowdhury, Kim Jacobsen
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA;
Technical University of Denmark
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING FROM DESIGNERS AND ITS 61
ROLE IN FUTURE CAAD TOOLS
John S. Gero
University of Sydney, Australia
Shapes, Grammars and Types
GRAMMARS AND ART 71
Dean Bruton
University ofA delaide, Australia
SPATIUM -A SYSTEM FOR mE DEFINITION AND DESIGN 83
OF SHAPE GRAMMARS
Michael Heligardt, Sourav Kundu
Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kanazawa University, Japan
vi
ARCIDTECTURAL DESIGN-BY-FEA TIJRES 97
los P. van Leeuwen, Harry Wagter
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;
Origin International Consultancy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
GENERIC REPRESENTATIONS: TYPICAL DESIGN 117
WITHOUT THE USE OF TYPES
Henri Achten
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Design Support
Design Support
ARMILLA5 -SUPPORTING DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND 135
MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX BUILDINGS
Ludger Hovestadt, Volkmar Hovestadt
University Kaiserslautern, Germany; University Karlsruhe, Germany
IMPROVING CAAD BY APPLYING INTEGRA TED DESIGN 151
SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND NEW DESIGN MEmODOLOGIES
Sevil Sariyildiz, Harry Volker, Mathias Schwenck
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
REGULATING LINES AND GEOMETRIC RELATIONS AS A 163
FRAMEWORK FOR EXPWRING SHAPE, DIMENSION AND
GEOMETRIC ORGANIZATION IN DESIGN
Branko Kolarevic
University of Hong Kong, HK
COMPUTABILITY OF DESIGN DIAGRAMS 171
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta & University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA
HAND-EYE COORDINATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL REALITY 177
Theodore W. Hall
Chinese University of Hong Kong
vii
A DIGITAL WAY OF PLANNING BASED ON INFORMATION 183
SURVEYING
Dirk Donath, Frank Petzold
Bauhaus UniversitOt, Weimar, Germany
Exploration and Evaluation
TOOLS FOR VISUAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF CAD MODELS 189
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross
Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta & University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA; University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
DESIGN CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR COMPUTER: 203
EVALUATING EXPERIENTIAL QUALITIES OF PHYSICAL
FORM
Kimberle Koile
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
MODELING-ASSISTED BUILDING CONTROL 219
Ardeshir Mahdavi
Carnegie Mellon University, USA & National University of Singapore
ON TIlE PROBLEM OF OPERATIVE INFORMATION IN CAAD 231
Ardeshir Mahdavi, V. Pal
Carnegie Mellon University, USA & National University of Singapore;
National University of Singapore
ON TIlE EVALUATION OF ARCHITECTURAL FIGURAL 245
GOODNESS
Alexander Koutamanis
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION AND NEURAL NETWORKS 267
IN ARCIDTECTURAL DESIGN
Neander F. Silva, Alan H. Bridges
University of Brasilia, Brazil; University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
viii
PATTERN-BASED GENERATION OF CUSTOMIZED, FLEXIBLE 285
BUILDING SIMULATORS
Jan Peter Riegel, Martin Schillze, Gerhard Zimmermann,
University of Kaiserslautem, Germany
AUDITORY NAVIGATION AND THE ESCAPE FROM SMOKE 299
FILLED BUILDINGS
Peter Rutheiford
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
I-WALKWAYS: AN EXPLORATION IN KNOWLEDGE 305
VISUALIZATION
Daniel C. Glaser
University of California, Berkeley, USA
A STUDY OF THE LOCATION OF FIRE EGRESS SIGNS BY 311
VR SIMULATION
Naai-Jung Shih, ehie-Shan Yan
National Taiwan Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Environment and Simulation
A KB CAAD SYSTEM FOR THE PRE-CONCEPTUAL DESIGN 317
OF BIO-CLIMA TIC AND LOW ENERGY BUILDINGS
Abraham Yezioro, Edna Shaviv
Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
ALGORITHM AND CONTEXT: A CASE STUDY OF 331
RELIABILITY IN COMPUTATIONAL DAYLIGHT MODELING
Khee Poh Lam, Ardeshir Mahdavi, V. Pal
National University of Singapore; Carnegio Mellon University, USA;
National University of Singapore
A COMPUTER-AIDED EVA LUA TION TOOL FOR THE VISUAL 345
ASPECTS IN ARCIDTECTURAL DESIGN FOR IDGH-DENSITY
AND IDGH-RISE BUILDINGS
Thomas S.P. Li, Barry F. Will
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ix
A MOBILE AGENT ORIENTED MEmOD OF SIMULATING THE 357
INTERACTION BETWEEN A BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND THE
OCCUPANTS' ACTION
Haruyuki Fujii, Shoichi Nakai
Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
CoUaboration in Design
MUD: EXPLORING lRADEOFFS IN URBAN DESIGN 373
Mark D. Gross, Laura Parker, Ame M. Elliott
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;
University of California, Berkeley, USA
AN INTEGRATED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR 389
COLLABORAT IVE, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY BUILDING DESIGN
Lachmi Khemlani, Yehuda E. Kalay
University of California, Berkeley, USA
HUMAN -MACIllNE -DESIGN MATRIX: A MODEL FOR 417
WEB-BASED DESIGN INTERACTION
Daniel E. Tsai, Sungah Kim
Harvard University, USA
SHARED VIRTUAL REALITY FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 431
Luca Caneparo
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
THE MULTI-USER WORKSPACE FOR COLLABORATIVE DESIGN 443
Sungho Woo, Eunjoo Lee, Tsuyoshi Sasada
Osaka University, Japan
A CONCEPTUAL NETWORK FOR WEB REPRESENTATION 453
OF DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
Rivka Oxman, Anat Sarid, Shoshi Bar-Eli, Ruth Rotenshtreich
Technion, Haifa, Israel
x
AN ADVANCED GROUPWARE APPROACH FOR AN 475
INTEGRA TED PLANNING PROCESS IN BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION
Christian Maller
University Karlsruhe, Germany
KNOWLEDGE, AGENCY, AND DESIGN INFORMATION 481
SYSTEMS
Jeffrey Huang, Spiro N. PoltaUs
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
DATA EXCHANGE IN DESIGNIREAUSATION PROCESS IN 489
BUILDING TRADE, AN EXPERIMENTATION WIm
WOOD-FRAME PANELS
Y. Sahnouni, J.e. Bignon, D. Leonard
School of Architecture oj Nancy, France; School oj Architecture
oj Strasbourg, France
Product Model and Virtual Exterprises
DESIGN AND MODELLING IN A COMPUTER INTEGRATED 501
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS -THE BAS-CAAD PROJECT
Anders Ekholm, Sverker Fridqvist
Lund University, Sweden
LIFE CYCLE MODELS OF BUILDINGS -A NEW APPROACH 519
Nildaus Kohler, Bertram Barth, Sandro Heitz, Manfred Hermann
University oj Karlsruhe, Germany
SOME mOUGHTS ON THE EXISTENCE OF A GENERIC 533
BUILDING OBJECT
James A. Turner
The University of Michigan, USA
SORTS: A CONCEPT FOR REPRESENTATIONAL FLEXIBILITY 553
Rudi Stouffs, Ramesh Krishnamurti
Swiss Federal Institute oj Technology, Zurich, Switzerland;
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
xi
THE DISTRIBUTED ARCmTECTURAL MODEL FOR 565
CO-OPERATIVE DESIGN
Shun Watanabe, Kiichiro Komatsu
University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
PRODUCT DATA MODEL FOR INTEROPERABILITY IN AN 571
DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT
Richard Junge, Thomas Liebich
Technical University Munich, Germany;
CAB Research & Consult, Munich, Germany
THE VEGA PLATFORM -IT FOR THE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE 591
Richard Junge, Manfred Kothe, Karsten Schulz, Alain Zarli, Wim Bakkeren
Technical University Munich, Germany; Digital Equipment Karlsruhe,
Germany; Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Sophia Antipolis;
TNO Building and Construction Research, Delft, The Netherlands
A DYNAMIC PRODUCT MODEL - A BASE FOR DISTRIBUTED 617
APPLICA TIONS
Richard Junge, Rasso Steinmann, Klaus Beetz
Technical University Munich, Germany; Fachhochschule Munich,
Germany; Nemetschek Programmsystem GmbH, Munich, Germany
Virtual Reality
NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE: IMAGES AND ARGUMENTS 635
IN AN ANTHROPOWGY WEB SITE
Jen S. Lewin, Mark Ehrhardt, Mark D. Gross
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
THE PALLADIO WEB MUSEUM: A HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE 655
OF ARCmTECTURE AND HISTORY
Daniel E. Tsai
Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
MAKING SENSE OF THE CITY 663
Vassilis Bourdakis
University of Bath, UK