Design Process Visualizing And Review System With Architrctural Concept Design Ontology ~ DesignScape, a prototype design process visualization and review system, is being developed. Itspurpose is to visualize the design process in more intuitive manner so that one can get an insight to thecomplicated aspects of the design process. By providing a tangible utility to the design processperformed by the expert designers or guided by the system, novice designers will be greatly helped tolearn how to approach a certain class of design. Not only as an analysis tool to represent thecharacteristics of the design process, the system will be useful also for learning design process.A design ontology is being developed as a critical part of the system, to represent designer’s activitiesassociated with various design information during the conceptual design process, and then to beutilized for a computer environment for design analysis and guidance. To develop the design ontology,a conceptual framework of design activity model is proposed, and then the model has been tested andelaborated through investigating the early phase of architectural design. A design processrepresentation model is conceptualized based on the ontology, and reflected into the development ofthe system..
Design is an evolving process interwoven with numerous intermediate representations and variousdesign information. Producing and utilizing them, designers develop the design by conducting variouscognitive and physical activities. Although there have been various tools to give a better understandingof the design process, both designers and researchers still desire an environment where the designprocess is better represented and more insightful so that one can have better understanding of designprocesses. We need better knowledge of design processes, to better manage complexity, to improvecollaboration among the specialists in design teams, to improve the tool support for design, and toimprove design education (Eastman 1999)…
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