This paper presents a user-centered data collection method, concerning "means of design" and "representation supports" implemented in a collective architectural design process. Our aim is to study how these observed means and representations are adapted to agile design methods. Our methodapplied on several long (3 months) architectural design processesallows us to identify patterns of use and to consider their efficiency level brought to designers.
Dans le contexte actuel de la conception architecturale, il s'avère utile de questionner l'instrumentation numérique de l'idéation. Dans cet article, nous étudions les méthodes de travail collaboratif instrumenté au travers des pratiques des concepteurs. En particulier, nous observons les "Moyens de conception", c’est-à-dire les types d'actions de conception mis en oeuvre et leurs articulations, indépendamment des logiciels utilisés. Nous pouvons ainsi mettre en évidence des combinaisons récurrentes de "Moyens", des patterns, témoins de leur complémentarité dans les activités, nous renseignant sur les pratiques et les besoins des concepteurs.
Faced with the challenges of the actors' coordination regarding the increasing building complexity, the new digital collective approaches of advanced design raise the problem of the transition between collaborative ideation (first creative moments of deployment of ideas) and the following phases of digital production (including the formalisation of building specifications in BIM models). In response, we aim to develop a digitally instrumented method for moving from conventional architectural graphic documents to the 3D digital models characteristic of BIM. We propose here a detailed formalisation of the ideation-BIM transition problem and a method for managing building information to improve this transition.
In this article, we adopt an interdisciplinary approach incorporating cooperative design, construction and ergonomy perspectives to analyze the use of low-tech analog tools versus high-tech digital tools. We do so through the articulation of traditional design with Building Information Modeling (BIM) methods. This paper aims to study how components of projects in the design concept phase can be prepared to further stages that use BIM tools and methods. To achieve this goal, we used a case study of cooperative design in building architecture. It takes place in a collaborative design process and consists of the collection and analysis of project information required by BIM and how they are represented at the end of the design concept phase.
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