Development of space database for automated building design review systems

Lee, Jin Kook; Lee, Jaemin; Jeong, Yun Seong; Sheward, Hugo; Sanguinetti, Paola; Abdelmohsen, Sherif; Eastman, Charles M.

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2012.03.002

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“…The term 'information', here, obviously includes geometric shape data, usually in three-dimensional forms. As shown in Figure 1, the difference is more clearly specified when the building information is subdivided according to the perspective of modelling a 'building object' and its 'properties' [3,5]. Figure 1 also illustrates how BIM has facilitated the modelling and representation of building circulation within buildings, thanks to rich information defined in a given BIM model.…”

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BIM-Enabled Conceptual Modelling and Representation of Building Circulation

Lee

Kim

2014

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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This paper describes how a building information modelling (BIM)-based approach for building circulation enables us to change the process of building design in terms of its computational representation and processes, focusing on the conceptual modelling and representation of circulation within buildings. BIM has been designed for use by several BIM authoring tools, in particular with the widely known interoperable industry foundation classes (IFCs), which follow an object-oriented data modelling methodology. Advances in BIM authoring tools, using space objects and their relations defined in an IFC's schema, have made it possible to model, visualize and analyse circulation within buildings prior to their construction. Agent-based circulation has long been an interdisciplinary topic of research across several areas, including design computing, computer science, architectural morphology, human behaviour and environmental psychology. Such conventional approaches to building circulation are centred on navigational knowledge about built environments, and represent specific circulation paths and regulations. This paper, however, places emphasis on the use of 'space objects' in BIM-enabled design processes rather than on circulation agents, the latter of which are not defined in the IFCs' schemas. By introducing and reviewing some associated research and projects, this paper also surveys how such a circulation representation is applicable to the analysis of building circulation-related rules.

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“…One of the biggest methodological differences in using the BIM process in place of the conventional CAD (computer-aided design) process in architectural design is the shift from 'geometric shape design' to 'information modelling' [3]. The term 'information', here, obviously includes geometric shape data, usually in three-dimensional forms.…”

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BIM-Enabled Conceptual Modelling and Representation of Building Circulation

Lee

Kim

2014

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

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“…We set up a relationship between connected nouns and enter the ID (Identity) in web-based database described in Figure 4. The importance of defining a name for each object and setting up a relationship has already been revealed in the previous study [16]. Moreover, name in English is required as name set (Korean-English) for computer-readable form, because there has not been programming language specified by Korean.…”

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An Approach to Translate Korea Building Act into Computer-Readable Form for Automated Design Assessment

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Lee²,

Park³

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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This paper aims to describe an approach of implementation for an interpreter that translates the human natural language into a computer-readable form. Selected building permit-related sentences in Korea Building Act are within the scope of this paper. Among the various applications of BIM, the benefit of automated design assessment has been reported by some leading BIM challengers. The related regulations are usually defined in design guidelines, RFPs, Building Code, etc. The regulations are written in human-readable languages, and sometimes their implicit definitions hinder translating into the explicitly defined computer-readable forms. This paper focuses on the development of a translation process of converting Korea Building Act sentences into specific computer-readable forms such as a midlevel pseudo code and BERA (Building Environment Rule and Analysis) language. The scope of the research process and the overview of the approach to the translation from natural language sentences as follows; 1) Classification of the building objects and related properties from Korea Building Act sentences, 2) Classification of methods from predicate in sentences, 3) Parsing natural language sentence within logic rule-based process. In an actual implementation stage, this translation will be demonstrated by an actual GUI-based application.

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“…For instance, Conventionally, design review tasks have been performed manually based on predefined rules by multiple domain-specific experts. They have been time consuming, expensive and arbitrary [5,6]. Now supported by BIM (Building Information Modeling) technologies, various kinds of BIM application have been developed for spatial analysis as well as circulation analysis using quantitative data from BIM models [3,5,7,8].…”

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An Approach to the BIM-Enabled Assessment of Building Circulation Using Quantitative Data and its Weight

Shin

Lee

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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This paper describes an approach to the assessment of building circulation by using quantitative data and applying its weight. People have considered building circulation because of various requirements as well as design decision making. This is why assessment of building circulation plays an important role before construction stage. BIM (Building Information Modeling) and its applications enable us to examine various kinds of building design review tasks using rich building information. Within a scope of building circulation review, this paper is mainly dealing with qualitative issues. In fact, they have been ignored due to their implicit definitions such as 'comfortable circulation' in circulation requirements. We described how it could be expressed quantitatively in a certain approach. Quantitative data and its weight are key aspects to convert implicit descriptions into explicit regulations. As an example, there are several useful quantitative data derived from BIM model such as metric distance, spatial depth, number of turns, window area, spatial volume and so on. This paper aims to study an approach to quantification of circulation data for objective evaluation. We also suggested a framework using weighted data of circulation properties such as 1) vertical distance and horizontal distance 2) the number of spaces to pass 3) the number of turn 4) space of windows area, etc.

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Development of space database for automated building design review systems

Cited by 64 publications

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BIM-Enabled Conceptual Modelling and Representation of Building Circulation

BIM-Enabled Conceptual Modelling and Representation of Building Circulation

An Approach to Translate Korea Building Act into Computer-Readable Form for Automated Design Assessment

An Approach to the BIM-Enabled Assessment of Building Circulation Using Quantitative Data and its Weight

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