THESIS
2005
xv, 161 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm
Abstract
Building designs often have features that can be reuse across project. Many architects address the efficiency of reusing previous design by templates, fragment of existing floor plan. However, current template using practices is suffering from inefficiency in template retrieval and adaptation. In this thesis, a methodology of developing a building configurator, a building family design generation tool that manipulates templates, was proposed. The challenges of developing a building configurator that manipulate templates come from the challenges to well model, organize and utilize templates. Therefore, three constructs: product family data, constraints, and actions are identified to model template and building family knowledge; and Product Family Architecture and Intelligent Template con...[
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Building designs often have features that can be reuse across project. Many architects address the efficiency of reusing previous design by templates, fragment of existing floor plan. However, current template using practices is suffering from inefficiency in template retrieval and adaptation. In this thesis, a methodology of developing a building configurator, a building family design generation tool that manipulates templates, was proposed. The challenges of developing a building configurator that manipulate templates come from the challenges to well model, organize and utilize templates. Therefore, three constructs: product family data, constraints, and actions are identified to model template and building family knowledge; and Product Family Architecture and Intelligent Template concept were used to organize and utilize templates for the configuration process.
Product Family Architecture (PFA) is a conceptual structure and overall logical organization of generating a family of products. PFA captures the possible product structure and product variant generation mechanism. Product Family Architecture captures relationship among templates, while intelligent template provides intelligence to each template. An intelligent template is a template that can reason, apply knowledge to adapt to requirements, and change toward objective. The intelligent template concept can be implemented by adding more design parameters, adding constraints and actions to a traditional template
In this research, product family data, constraint, and action are defined as main elements to represent the PFA and Intelligent Template concepts. PFA represents the architectural knowledge of how to generate a building family from different templates; Intelligent Templates represents the design knowledge and constraints of each templates. This approach is applied to design and developed a configurator to the building design system of an architectural firm, Tecton Ltd.
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