Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture

The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at the conference on Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning that was held in Mierlo, the Netherlands in July 1992. This conference was organized as one of the events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology. The organizing committee had a strong feeling that many interesting developments in this area were emerging within different institutional frameworks and informal networks that do not interact frequently. For example, scholars working on architectural problems are not particularly familiar with computer applications in urban planning. Likewise, although many computer-aided design systems claim to be based on principles of design methodology, serious discussions on the methodological underpinnings of such systems are relatively scarce. Consequently, we may have little opportunity to learn how scholars in closely related disciplines approach specific design or planning problems.

Inhalt
Personality Assessment in Regard to Design Strategies.- Architectural Computer Vision: Automated Recognition of Architectural Drawings.- Housing Tenancy, Data Management and Quality Control.- A Decision Support System for Housing of (Public) Organizations.- Towards an Integrated Facility Management System for Management and Use of Government Buildings.- Working with Prototypes, from CAD to Flexible Tools for Integrated Building Design.- Modular Building Models.- A Functional Approach to Realizing Decision Support Systems in Technical Regulation Management for Design and Construction.- Knowledge and Data Modelling in CAD/CAM Applications.- Ratios for Cost Control.- Graphical Interfacing to a Conceptual Model for Estimating the Cost of Residential Construction.- A Design Decision Support System for Building Flexibility and Costs.- Development of Objective Methods for Measuring Flexibility of School Buildings.- A Decision-Making Process for Choice of a Flexible Internal Partition Option in Multi-Unit Housing Using Decision Theory Techniques.- A Trichotomic Segmentation Procedure to Evaluate Projects in Architecture.- ROP: An Interactive Spatial Optimization and Grouping Computer Application.- An Approach to Evaluating Exhibition Spaces in Art Galleries.- Design Support via Simulation of Building and Plant Thermal Interaction.- A Model Appraising the Performance of Structural Systems used in Sports Hall and Swimming Pool Buildings in Greece.