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M. Rudy, S. Jaksch:
"Building Science by Design: Developing a Building Information System and Teaching Architecture with Analytical Case Studies";
Talk: Ed-Media 2004: World Conference on Educational Mulitmedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Lugano, Switzerland; 2004-06-21 - 2004-06-26; in: "Proceedings of ED-MEDIA", Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Norfolk (VA), USA (2004), ISBN: 1-880094-53-3; 4815 - 4820.

Building designers are expected to employ all the technical means that modern-day engineering provides. This calls not only for a more technical-scientific orientation in the training of architects, but also for readily effective building design tools. A survey of the available resources for supporting the building design process, however, shows that computer-based design guidance is still largely based on the working concerns of engineers and reflects little of the case-based reasoning style of architects. Moreover, many fundamental aspects for making design decisions are virtually eliminated from the information structure of the given systems, in particular, the spatial context of technical design parameters in physical, geometric terms. The paper presents a long-term IT development project aimed at building an accessible bridge between the information needs of architects and the information provided by the building sciences, in the educational context of a technical university program of architecture.

http://aleph.ub.tuwien.ac.at/F?base=tuw01&func=find-c&ccl_term=AC04966672

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-ar_2426.pdf