CAAD futures 1997: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures held in Munich, Germany, 4–6 August 1997

Front Matter....Pages i-2
Design Medium — Design Object....Pages 3-13
CAD-So What?....Pages 15-43
Integration of Design Applications with Building Models....Pages 45-59
What are we Learning from Designers and Its Role in Future CAAD Tools....Pages 61-70
Grammars and Art....Pages 71-82
Spatium....Pages 83-96
Architectural Design-by-Features....Pages 97-115
Generic Representations....Pages 117-133
ARMILLA5 — Supporting Design, Construction and Management of Complex Buildings....Pages 135-150
Improving CAAD by Applying Integrated Design Support Systems and New Design Methodologies....Pages 151-162
Regulating Lines and Geometric Relations as a Framework for Exploring Shape, Dimension and Geometric Organization in Design....Pages 163-170
Computability of Design Diagrams....Pages 171-176
Hand-Eye Coordination in Desktop Virtual Reality....Pages 177-182
A digital way of planning based on information surveying....Pages 183-188
Tools for Visual and Spatial Analysis of CAD Models....Pages 189-202
Design Conversations with Your Computer: Evaluating Experiential Qualities of Physical Form....Pages 203-218
Modeling-Assisted Building Control....Pages 219-229
On the Problem of Operative Information in CAAD....Pages 231-244
On the Evaluation of Architectural Figural Goodness....Pages 245-266
Human-Computer Interaction and Neural Networks in Architectural Design....Pages 267-284
Pattern-Based Generation of Customized, Flexible Building Simulators....Pages 285-298
Auditory Navigation and the Escape from Smoke Filled Buildings....Pages 299-304
I-Walkways....Pages 305-310
A Study of the Location of Fire Egress Signs by VR Simulation....Pages 311-316
A KB CAAD System for the Pre-Conceptual Design of Bio-Climatic and Low Energy Buildings....Pages 317-330
Algorithm and Context: A Case Study of Reliability in Computational Daylight Modeling....Pages 331-344
A Computer-Aided Evaluation Tool for the Visual Aspects in Architectural Design for High-Density and High-Rise Buildings....Pages 345-356
A Mobile Agent Oriented Method of Simulating the Interaction Between a Built Environment and the Occupants’ Action....Pages 357-372
MUD: Exploring Tradeoffs in Urban Design....Pages 373-387
An Integrated Computing Environment for Collaborative, Multi-Disciplinary Building Design....Pages 389-416
Human — Machine — Design Matrix....Pages 417-430
Shared Virtual Reality for Architectural Design....Pages 431-442
The Multi-User Workspace for Collaborative Design....Pages 443-452
A Conceptual Network for Web Representation of Design Knowledge....Pages 453-473
An Advanced Groupware Approach for an Integrated Planning Process in Building Construction....Pages 475-480
Knowledge, Agency, and Design Information Systems....Pages 481-488
Data Exchange in Design/Realisation Process in Building Trade, an Experimentation with Wood-Frame Panels....Pages 489-500
Design and Modelling in a Computer Integrated Construction Process — The BAS•CAAD Project....Pages 501-518
Life Cycle Models of Buildings — A New Approach....Pages 519-531
Some Thoughts on the Existence of a Generic Building Object....Pages 533-552
Sorts: A Concept for Representational Flexibility....Pages 553-564
The Distributed Architectural Model for Co-Operative Design....Pages 565-570
Product Data Model for Interoperability in an Distributed Environment....Pages 571-589
The Vega Platform....Pages 591-616
A Dynamic Product Model....Pages 617-634
Not Just Another Pretty Face....Pages 635-654
The Palladio Web Museum....Pages 655-662
Making Sense of the City....Pages 663-678
Issues of Abstraction, Accuracy and Realism in Large Scale Computer Urban Models....Pages 679-690
A Network-based Kit-of-parts Virtual Building System....Pages 691-706
Design Speech Acts. “How to Do Things with Words” in Virtual Communities....Pages 707-717
The Architectural Design of Virtual Environments....Pages 719-732
The Legacy of Surrealism in the Electronic Design Studio....Pages 733-748
Babylon S M L XL....Pages 749-756
The Application of Conjoint Measurement as a Dynamic Decision Making Tool in a Virtual Reality Environment....Pages 757-770
Managing Information with Fuzzy Reasoning System in Design Reasoning and Issue-Based Argumentation....Pages 771-786
Analogical Reasoning and Case Adaptation in Architectural Design: Computers vs. Human Designers....Pages 787-800
Formalising Situated Learning in Computer-Aided Design....Pages 801-808
Real-Time Modeling with Architectural Space....Pages 809-819
Computable Feature-Based Qualitative Modeling of Shape....Pages 821-830
Level-of-Detail Visualization of Architectural Models....Pages 831-836
An Experiment on Hybrid Architectural Form-Making....Pages 837-842
Hypermedia Structuring of the Technical Documentation for the Architectural Aided Design....Pages 843-848
Hypersketching....Pages 849-854
An Evolutionary Approach to Generating Constraint-Based Space Layout Topologies....Pages 855-864
Emergent Shape Generation in Design Using the Boundary Contour System....Pages 865-874
A Genetic Programming Approach to the Space Layout Planning Problem....Pages 875-884
The Use of Genetic Programming in Exploring 3D Design Worlds....Pages 885-915
Spatial Computer Abstraction: From Intuition to Genetic Algorithms....Pages 917-926
Back Matter....Pages 927-931