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Reasoning About Interior Building Design, Grounded on Design Rules
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- Author / Creator
- Sydora, Christoph P
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Computers have emerged as an invaluable tool in exploring building interior configurations, before committing to a particular layout. Building Information Modeling (BIM) enables designers to create digital representations of alternative interior arrangements and supports computer-automated evaluation of the arrangements under consideration against a variety of construction, accessibility, and stylistic guidelines. This process is known as Automated Code Checking (ACC). Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) can help domain experts code ACC rules in a machine-readable format, focusing only on domain concepts instead of programming knowledge.
This thesis provides a coherent suite of algorithms for reasoning about building designs based on RuleDSL, a user-friendly DSL for describing building spaces, their contents, and the geometric relations among them. The thesis puts forward algorithms for (i) automatically generating alternative interior layouts, (ii) evaluating them against a variety of quality metrics, and (iii) automatically learning RuleDSL rules from example layouts. RuleDSL and the above algorithms have been developed and evaluated in BIM-kit, a state-of-the-art software platform that implements and validates the above algorithms as well as supporting experimentation with a variety of use cases in the broad area of design automation. -
- Graduation date
- Fall 2024
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Library with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.