KNOWLEDGE-BASED REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS

摘要

The challenge in understanding immense aspects of architectural design process hasbeen the central issue in an attempt to computationally define design process anddesign knowledge. Relationships between designs and the sources of the ideas used togenerate them are extremely complicated to quantify, and to represent in the mannerof explicit knowledge and data. Parameters that influence architectural design includea body of knowledge about the subject-matter, requirements of all involved parties,information about prevailing conditions on the site, and information about the traitsand trends in the society served by the building. This paper discusses development ofknowledge-based representations of architectural design process, particularlyfocusing on representations of design knowledge and factors in ontologicalframework. A case study for tall building design is used to demonstrate therepresentations. Web-based application is presented to exhibit the method forutilization in the schematic design, especially for decision-making process.