Automation Based Creative Design - Research and Perspectives

A. Tzonis, I. White

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780444898708
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080934525
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Computer technology has revolutionized many aspects of building design, such as drafting, management, construction - even building with robots. This revolution has expanded into the field of design creativity. Presented in this book is an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of research advances in the fast-growing field of informatics applied to conceptual stages in the generation of artifacts - in particular, buildings. It addresses the question how far and in what ways creative design can be intelligently automated.Among the topics covered are: the use of precedents; the relations between case-based, rule-based, and principle-based architectural design reasoning; product typology; artifact thesauruses; the inputting and retrieval of architectural knowledge; the visual representation and understanding of existing or projected built forms; empirical and analytical models of the design process and the design product; desktop design toolkits; grammars of shape and of function; multiple-perspective building data structures; design as a multi-agent collaborative process; the integration of heterogeneous engineering information; and foundations for a systematic approach to the development of knowledge-based design systems.The papers provide a link between basic and practical issues: - fundamental questions in the theory of artifact design, artifical intelligence, and the cognitive science of imagination and reasoning; - problems in the computerization of building data and design facilities; - the practical tasks of building conception, construction and evaluation. The automation of creative design is itself considered as an engineering design problem. The implications of current and future work for architectural education and research in architectural history, as well as for computer-integrated construction and the management of engineering projects are considered.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Automation Based Creative Design: Research and Perspectives
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2. CASE-BASED DESIGN AND CREATIVITY
• Chapter 3. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: DESIGN PRECEDENTS IN LIBRARIES
• CHAPTER 4. MODELLING THE REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CASES
• CHAPTER 5. THE 98% SOLUTION
• CHAPTER 6. THE IMAGE AND THE MODEL
• CHAPTER 7. THE FUTURE OF VISUAL DESIGN REPRESENTATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE
• CHAPTER 8. A MULTI-LEVEL PRIMITIVE GENERIC COMPONENTS MODEL
• CHAPTER 9. THE PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR
• CHAPTER 10. ARTIFACT GRAMMARS AND ARCHITECTURAL INVENTION
• CHAPTER 11. THE DESIGN OF PRISMATIC AND CRYSTALLINE BUILDING SHAPES WITH THE HELP OF COMPUTER TECHNIQUES
• CHAPTER 12. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMPUTER INTEGRATION OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION KNOWLEDGE
• CHAPTER 13. INTEGRATED USE OF BUILDING DESIGN TOOLS: RESULTS FROM THE COMBINE PROJECT
• CHAPTER 14. COMPUTATIONAL SUPPORT FOR SHARED MEMORY IN DESIGN
• CHAPTER 15. DESIGN AS A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS
• CHAPTER 16. DELIBERATION AND AGGREGATION IN COMPUTER AIDED PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
• CHAPTER 17. ICONOGRAPHIC THESAURUS: A KEY TO SUBJECT RETRIEVAL IN PICTORIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• CHAPTER 18. TRACING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
• CHAPTER 19. A DATABASE OF THE NON-DOMESTIC BUILDING STOCK OF BRITAIN
• CHAPTER 20. DESKTOP DESIGN: A TOOLKIT APPROACH ON COST AND PLANNING MODELLING
• CHAPTER 21. A MODEL OF THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS, AND SOME IMPLICATIONS
• CHAPTER 22. THE IDEATE PROJECT: EXPLORING COMPUTER ENHANCEMENTS FOR CONCEPTUALIZING
• CHAPTER 23. MIXTURES OF SIMPLES: TOWARDS A TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGNING
• CHAPTER 24. TOWARDS THE AUTOMATION OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
• CHAPTER 25. CRITICAL ISSUES IN AUTOMATION BASED CREATIVE DESIGN EDUCATION
• Name Index
• Subject Index