SCAD2011 - Increasing information feed in the process of structural steel design
1. 16 to 17 February 2011
Increasing information feed in the
process of structural steel design
Pieter Pauwels
Tine Jonckheere, Ronald De Meyer, Jan Van Campenhout
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2. Ideas Information
Information
Information
Information
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3. Who are we?
Davy Pieter Ruben Jos
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4. Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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5. Lots of research
- Nigel Cross: ‘82-’85-’90-’97-’99-’06-’07
- Bryan Lawson: ‘79-’05
- Donald Schön: ‘83
- Herbert Simon: ’83-’96
- Christopher Alexander: ‘64-’71-’77-’79-’04
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6. Important role of theories and beliefs
reflective ‘learning-while-doing’
continuous belief-revision / theory-revision as
a product of doing / design activity
Theory-based decision-making
The acquired theories serve as a memory of
reference
ABDUCTIVE REASONING
=> Designers rely on previously experienced
design decisions to make new design decisions
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8. Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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9. Technology support
CAD
3D modelling
Sketch apps
… Repositories
Metadata
Internet
…
Simulation
Calculation
…
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10. MACE – Metadata for Architectural
Contents in Europe
http://mace-project.eu/
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11. Building stories
W.M. Martin, A. Heylighen, H. Cavallin. The right story at the right time. AI &Soc. (2005) 19: 34-47
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12. Evaluation
Objective: provide designers with information
from previous experiences by others.
Solution: labelled repository of images, text, 3D
models, etc.
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13. Revisiting the reasoning cycle
easily enable designers to learn from new experiences that are
- additional to their own experiences, and
- most probably different from what was originally intended
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14. So, how to increase information feed??
Try to simulate the complete reasoning cycle
=> artificial intelligence
AND / OR
Enable designers to find their information easily
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15. Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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16. The Linked Open Data cloud (09/2010)
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18. LOD cloud + building information
BIM
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19. Example connections
Geographical information
Expert material information
People / organisation / company information
Photo material
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20. Visualisation in a design environment
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21. Thank you
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
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