Linking Analysis and Architectural Data: Why It's Harder than We Thought (2004)
article⁄Linking Analysis and Architectural Data: Why It's Harder than We Thought (2004)
abstract⁄This paper considers highlevel, architecturally oriented representations, like Building Information Models BIMs, and examines the difficulty of integrating analyses with such representations. Structural analysis is selected as a sample analysis domain, and is examined by integrating a structural analysis into the test implementation of a program that utilizes architecturally oriented elements. A fundamental problem is found to be that architecturally oriented elements are inappropriate for structural analysis. Methods for sequentially analyzing architectural elements are discussed, but are found to be inadequate. Accurate analysis requires analyzing the entire structure at once using a representation specific to structural analysis. A method for generating a structural representation based on the architectural representation is discussed, but the process is not simple. The process is complicated by the fact that architectural elements and structural elements do not correspond in a onetoone or even a onetomany manner. An accurate structural representation may even require semifictitious elements not corresponding to actual physical components. These findings are believed to be true for other analysis domains, as well.
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| Year |
2004 |
| Authors |
Johnson, Scott. |
| Issue |
Fabrication: Examining the Digital Practice of Architecture |
| Pages |
230-243 |
| Library link |
Philip Beesley, Nancy Yen-Wen Cheng & R. Shane Williamson, 2004. bib⁄Fabrication: Examining the Digital Practice of Architecture. University of Waterloo School of Architecture Press. |
| Entry filename |
linking-analysis-architectural-data |
