SCAD2011 - Increasing information feed in the process of structural steel design

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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Ideas

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Information

Information

Information

Information

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Who are we?

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PieterDavy JosRuben

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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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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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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-makingThe acquired theories serve as a memory of reference

=> Designers rely on previously experienced design decisions to make new design decisions

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ABDUCTIVE REASONING

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Process of scientific enquiry (C.S. Peirce)

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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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Technology support

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Repositories

Metadata

Internet

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CAD

3D modelling

Sketch apps

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Simulation

Calculation

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MACE – Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe

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http://mace-project.eu/

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Building stories

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W.M. Martin, A. Heylighen, H. Cavallin. The right story at the right time. AI &Soc. (2005) 19: 34-47

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Evaluation

Objective: provide designers with information from previous experiences by others.

Solution: labelled repository of images, text, 3D models, etc.

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Revisiting the reasoning cycle

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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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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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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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The Linked Open Data cloud (09/2010)

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Describe information

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LOD cloud + building information

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BIM

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Example connections

Geographical information

Expert material information

People / organisation / company information

Photo material

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Visualisation in a design environment

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Thank you

pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be

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