CAD software for designing Open Buildings . .

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• CAD software for designing Open Buildings
  
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• My Refined Research Question
• Maha Al-Saati
• IAT802 Research Methods
• 10 Apr 2007

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• I. My Research Question
• How can we make use of CAD technology to generate
  Open Building designs that respond to their
  context?

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• II. Brief overview of the literature
• Literature on ICAD research
• Object-oriented design, Smart Objects (Marefat,
  Ibrahim, etc)
• Agents in knowledge-based systems (Feijo bento)
• learning types in ICAD software expectation
  learning, assumptions, Design rationale, etc
• Information retrieving, modeling building from
  the semantic web database (Long, Ibrahim)
• Rules in ICAD systems shape grammars (knight,
  etc)
• Literature on Design theories includes
• Design concepts methods in CAD (Kotsopoulos,
  MacGregor)
• Open building and Support systems (Habraken,
  Kendall)
• participation architecture

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• III. What is lacking from this literature and
  what type of knowledge do I wish to contribute?
• I want to implement the concept of Open Buildings
  design in this CAD software
• Why Open Buildings?
• They are sustainable
• Re-usable, easy to renovate, adapt change
• Flexible can accommodate various layouts and
  alternative functions
• Intelligent CAD will allow us to explore all
  useful design layouts
• They attempt to reflect the people who inhabit
  them
• Those designs should emerge from the peoples
  conventions
• in a bottom-up process
• Creating a structure that breathes

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• Example of an Open Building structure

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• Example of Open Building structures joined
  together, making a neighborhood where no two
  houses are alike

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• IV. The design of my method
• The research will be divided into two main parts
• the theoretical part which studies the
  mechanisms of Open Building design to
• explore the mechanisms of Open Buildings
• The role of Building conventions in shaping
  cities from the past
• How those cities grew in an organic manner,
  bottom-up process
• The Implementation part which explores how CAD
  software can be employed to
• capture those building conventions (put them into
  databases)
• How it will design buildings according to this
  knowledge

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• The Implementation part
• Stages of AI programming
• States the initial state and desired state of
  the program
• Search discrete constraint solving, agents,
  constraint satisfaction search, constructive
  search, local search, generic algorithm
• Design space exploration to explore
  alternatives, layouts, construction systems
• evaluation of function (specific to the domain,
  thats where OB gets addressed, and we can
  express its computation)
• Importing Information for the CAD software
• Universal design standards
• functional. Basic.
• Personal information
• Customize the design and tailor it to the users
  need
• Building conventions derived fro the context
• This is what will give the What I propose to do
  is design buildings the emerge fro the people and
  their conventions

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• Methodology methods
• Participatory observation (For the theoretical
  part requiring to extract building conventions,
  surveys, interviews, etc)
• Design Research Methodology (For the
  implementation CAD part requiring)
• the CID Centre model (DMEM, University of
  Strathclyde, Scotland)
• A framework created for design research (AI in
  Design)
• Consists of two main categories
• Description represented by reality
• Prescription represented by envisaged reality
• You can start at any point in the model re-use
  work from past projects

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• V. Why should we care? How I will analyze the
  data I collected to prove I'm right
• Significance of this research
• Its an extension of past work on CAD
• Implements the Open Building concept to CAD
• it looks at the humane side of design, rather
  than simply producing buildings that function
  right
• Why should we care?
• Environments change, our needs change, and
  buildings must change with it.
• We renovate all the time, and buildings built fro
  a single function do not help and often make us
  demolish, waste materials, etc
• Te idea of sustainability is important for the
  environment, and this research addresses it