Transition between Architectural Ideation and BIM - Towards a new method through semantic building modeling

Abstract

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.

Experimenting with a New Proposal for Digital Design Instrumentation: A Wizard of OZ method to study its impact on activity

“…We have shown in a previous article that the transition from ideation to BIM modelling, i.e. from the activity of idea generation and development to the exhaustive and precise specification of building characteristics, suffers from several limitations in its current implementation (Baudoux et al, 2022). « The convergent loops of ideation and rough design are followed by the first split, aimed at producing the rough BIM model.…”

De l’idéation au BIM – Identification et caractérisation des informations utiles en phase préliminaire de conception

“…Cet outil, comme d'autres outils de modélisation 3D, requiert en effet des techniques de saisie des données en inadéquation avec les activités des premières phases créatives, tant en termes de cognition que de paradigmes d'interaction [8]. Des observations montrent par ailleurs que la transition entre la conception architecturale et le BIM s'accompagne d'une perte d'information, notamment des informations relatives aux ambiances, aux espaces ou encore aux motivations des décisions architecturales [9,10,11].…”