The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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| author | Koile, Kimberle |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/418032019-04-10T15:33:56Z The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design Koile, Kimberle Randall Davis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229). In early stages of architectural design, as in other design domains, the language used is often very abstract. In architectural design, for example, architects and their clients use experiential terms such as "private" or "open" to describe spaces. If we are to build programs that can help designers during this early-stage design, we must give those programs the capability to deal with concepts on the level of such abstractions. The work reported in this thesis sought to do that, focusing on two key questions: How are abstract terms such as "private" and "open" translated into physical form? How might one build a tool to assist designers with this process? The Architect's Collaborator (TAC) was built to explore these issues. It is a design assistant that supports iterative design refinement, and that represents and reasons about how experiential qualities are manifested in physical form. Given a starting design and a set of design goals, TAC explores the space of possible designs in search of solutions that satisfy the goals. It employs a strategy we've called dependency-directed redesign: it evaluates a design with respect to a set of goals, then uses an explanation of the evaluation to guide proposal and refinement of repair suggestions; it then carries out the repair suggestions to create new designs. A series of experiments was run to study TAC's behavior. Issues of control structure, goal set size, goal order, and modification operator capabilities were explored. In addition, TAC's use as a design assistant was studied in an experiment using a house in the process of being redesigned. TAC's use as an analysis tool was studied in an experiment using Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses. by Kimberle Koile. Ph.D. 2008-05-19T16:19:13Z 2008-05-19T16:19:13Z 2001 2001 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41803 48118401 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 260 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Koile, Kimberle The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title | The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title_full | The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title_fullStr | The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title_full_unstemmed | The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title_short | The architect's collaborator : toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| title_sort | architect s collaborator toward intelligent tools for conceptual design |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
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