Integrating Architectural Abstractions (2001)
article⁄Integrating Architectural Abstractions (2001)
abstract⁄Building projects are communicated through project documents. A collection of these documents are stored, related, and managed within digital environments for various purposes. These environments are all concerned with the complexity of organizing an information space how to organize the information and to relate the individual entities within this organization in order to support effective searching and browsing of the resulting information structure. We present a methodology to handle this complexity through integrating a number of design documents of different formats within a single information structure. When this integrated structure is highly intrarelated, it provides support for effective searching and browsing of this information. To achieve such intrarelatedness, we consider a notion of types from architecture as a semantic structure for project document management in the AEC industry. We discuss specific techniques to support this use of types with respect to EDMS’s and Webbased project management systems. We describe a prototype application, a presentation tool for architectural analyses, which combines these techniques.
