EarlyBIM:
Visual Exploration for Assessing Design Variants
Motivation
Evaluation of design variants is currently largely based on the experience of architects
- Objectifiable criteria are only partially and detached from the creative activity
- Opposing variant evaluations are inadequate
The causes lie in the lack of the necessary model detailing and in the lack of process integration
Scientific goals
- Description of the interaction process with associated procedures including partial or complete detailing
- Formal representation of the interactions including documentation and support for the traceability of the decisions
- Evaluation support based on interactive visual exploration & representation of e.g. simulation results
- Concepts for situation-related result representations
Results
A) Interactions with analysis / simulation methods
- formal description of strategies in partial or complete model detailing (feedback mechanisms)
- Systematics of an adaptive, minimized, computer-interpretable BIM-based protocol
- Recommendations for action for visual representation methods including interaction mechanisms
- Concept of a comprehensible documentation of the interactions and selection of options in the adaptive detailing
- prototypical implementation and evaluation
B) Comparative visual representation of the resuts
- Derivation of visualization recommendations for analysis and simulation results
- Conception of a rule-based bottom-up and a template-based top-down approach
- Derivation of visual methods to support the selection of variants
- Concept for the documentation of the selection - quantitative criteria and (partly) qualitative criteria
- prototypical implementation and evaluation
