Multi-level Interaction in Parametric Design

Aish, Robert; Woodbury, Robert

doi:10.1007/11536482_13

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“…Our focus is to add more control and understanding of the analysis process by adding analysis process views which are built by the process rather than the data. Design systems such as GenerativeComponents [4] support a transaction-based scripting language as the primary system representation. The system records all actions in a humanreadable and editable form.…”

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Capturing and supporting the analysis process

Kadivar

Chen

Dunsmuir

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology

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Visual analytics tools provide powerful visual representations in order to support the sense-making process. In this process, analysts typically iterate through sequences of steps many times, varying parameters each time. Few visual analytics tools support this process well, nor do they provide support for visualizing and understanding the analysis process itself. To help analysts understand, explore, reference, and reuse their analysis process, we present a visual analytics system named CzSaw (See-Saw) that provides an editable and re-playable history navigation channel in addition to multiple visual representations of document collections and the entities within them (in a manner inspired by Jigsaw [24]). Conventional history navigation tools range from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions. In CzSaw's approach to this, first, user interactions are translated into a script language that drives the underlying scripting-driven propagation system. The latter allows analysts to edit analysis steps, and ultimately to program them. Second, on this base, we build both a history view showing progress and alternative paths, and a dependency graph showing the underlying logic of the analysis and dependency relations among the results of each step. These tools result in a visual model of the sense-making process, providing a way for analysts to visualize their analysis process, to reinterpret the problem, explore alternative paths, extract analysis patterns from existing history, and reuse them with other related analyses.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Capturing and supporting the analysis process

Kadivar

Chen

Dunsmuir

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology

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“…Consequently, the motivation for this effort was to develop a pedagogical instrument that simultaneously introduces students to concepts of parametric modeling and exposes students to the challenges and details of integrating photovoltaic solar energy collection in building design. The goal of this effort was two fold -to provide more accurate than rules-of-thumb feedback about performance throughout design development and to model the drivers (or design graph structure) of the form in order to defer the final decisions about the specifics of each design (Aish and Woodbury 2005). To explore this strategy a parametric model was developed that linked the parameters of an emerging design to external data for solar collection, cost and heat loss.…”

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Linking Detailed Solar Collection Data to a Parametric Model for Accurate Performance Analysis Throughout the Design Process

Harfmann¹

2012

IJAEC

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The paper summarizes the efforts of an elective design studio in which a parametric model was linked to detailed energy output data in order to provide accurate feedback about building performance throughout the entire process of design. Photovoltaic collection data was downloaded from the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) and linked directly to alternative configurations of designs produced in SolidWorks. Microsoft Excel provided the direct link between the model and data where students were able to augment the SolidWorks Excel output to include calculations that referenced the NREL data. The program from the 2009 Solar Decathlon competition served as the program for the investigation and provided a constraint-rich environment for developing parametric models. The class also utilized morphological analysis to identify 13 different forms to develop and analyze. The resulting parametric models and analysis provided a focused introduction to design methods, parametric modeling and solar energy design.

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“…The potential benefits of parametric tools in practice have been acclaimed, while simultaneously they are acknowledged as increasing the time required and the complexity of design tasks [1,2].The establishment of specialist geometry and modeling groups within architectural practices [3,4,5] suggests an increase popularity of parametric design in architectural practice.The potential benefits of parametric tools are demonstrated by the work of these specialist groups. Parametric modeling has enabled the capture and rationalisation of design intent [4,6].…”

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Parametric Development of Problem Descriptions

Hudson

2009

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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This paper addresses the development of parametric models in contemporary architectural practice. A parametric model can be regarded as a representation of a solution space and in order to structure this, a description of the problem is required. Architectural design tasks are typically ill structured, the goals may not be defined and the means unknown. Moving from an incomplete problem description to a functional parametric model is a difficult task. In this paper the aim is to demonstrate that through a combination of knowledge acquisition and capture a parametric model can develop from an incomplete problem description.This demonstration draws on existing strands of design theory which are then used to outline a theoretical framework.This framework is then used to examine a case study of a live project and practical examples of the described theory in action are given.The practical observations are the result of a case study involving the author as a participant and observer working with Populous to develop a cladding geometry solution for Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin (now know as the AVIVA STADIUM). 201Parametric Development of Problem Descriptions

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Multi-level Interaction in Parametric Design

Cited by 132 publications

References 3 publications

Capturing and supporting the analysis process

Capturing and supporting the analysis process

Linking Detailed Solar Collection Data to a Parametric Model for Accurate Performance Analysis Throughout the Design Process

Parametric Development of Problem Descriptions

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