The Building Design Advisor (1996)
article⁄The Building Design Advisor (1996)
abstract⁄The Building Design Advisor BDA is a software environment that supports the integrated use of multiple analysis and visualization tools throughout the building design process, from the initial, schematic design phases to the detailed specification of building components and systems. Based on a comprehensive design theory, the BDA uses an objectoriented representation of the building and its context, and acts as a data manager and process controller to allow building designers to benefit from the capabilities of multiple tools.The BDA provides a graphical user interface that consists of two main elements the Building Browser and the Decision Desktop. The Browser allows building designers to quickly navigate through the multitude of descriptive and performance parameters addressed by the analysis and visualization tools linked to the BDA. Through the Browser the user can edit the values of input parameters and select any number of input andor output parameters for display in the Decision Desktop. The Desktop allows building designers to compare multiple design alternatives with respect to any number of parameters addressed by the tools linked to the BDA.The BDA is implemented as a Windowsbased application for personal computers. Its initial version is linked to a Schematic Graphic Editor SGE, which allows designers to quickly and easily specify the geometric characteristics of building components and systems. For every object created in the SGE, the BDA supplies ‘smart’ default values from a Prototypical Values Database PVD for all nongeometric parameters required as input to the analysis and visualization tools linked to the BDA. In addition to the SGE and the PVD, the initial version of the BDA is linked to a daylight analysis tool, an energy analysis tool, and a multimedia Case Studies Database CSD. The next version of the BDA will be linked to additional tools, such as a photoaccurate rendering program and a cost analysis program. Future versions will address the whole building lifecycle and will be linked to construction, commissioning and building monitoring tools.
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| Year |
1996 |
| Authors |
Papamichael, K.; Porta, J.L.; Chauvet, H.; Collins, D.; Trzcinski, T.; Thorpe, J.; Selkowitz, Steven. |
| Issue |
Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy |
| Pages |
85-97 |
| Library link |
Patricia McIntosh & Filiz Ozel, 1996. bib⁄Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
building-design-advisor |
