Algorithmization of the architectural design in BIM: an application in the prefabricated bathroom industry
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Benefits of Building Information Modeling and algorithms in architectural design are already known and widely disseminated in the literature. However, the consolidation of a day-to-day workflow in the offices integrating these two fields of knowledge is not yet fully established, even in countries with a higher degree of industrialization. This paper focus to describe a procedure that integrates these two technologies in architectural design, in an application aimed at prefabrication. The prefabricated bathroom industry, specifically, was used as a case study. To this end, an exploratory and incremental software development methodology was adopted in a rules-based approach for the automated generation of prefabricated bathroom layouts. The results show that the definition of rules by means of algorithms allows to avoid repetitive and unnecessary tasks, as well as assembly errors. In this way, new perspectives are opened for the practice of architects closer to the manufacture, oriented towards the optimization of processes and the reduction of costs from the initial design stages.
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