Title

Spatial information: Classification and applications in building design

Authors

Authors

T. H. Nguyen;A. A. Oloufa

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Comput.-Aided Civil Infrastruct. Eng.

Keywords

Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Construction &; Building Technology; Engineering, Civil; Transportation Science &; Technology

Abstract

Physical properties of building components are usually represented in building data models by their three-dimensional geometry and topology-also called spatial information. While geometric data of building components can be manipulated and managed by a computer-aided design (CAD) interface, their spatial relations (or topological information) are conventionally, represented in a manual fashion into data models. The manual data representation, however, is inherently, a complex and challenging task due to the wide variety of spatial relationships. Thus, topological information should be classified and modeled in such a way that the required spatial data for a particular design task can be automatically retrieved. This paper attempts to identify and classify, various topological information commonly used in building design and construction into more specific categories (e.g., adjacency, connection, containment, separation, and intersection) to support automatic deduction of the spatial information in a computer-based building design system. The paper also discusses typical applications of the topological relations to different design activities. Finally, the development of deduction algorithms and the proposed building design system are briefly, described.

Journal Title

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volume

17

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

246

Last Page

255

WOS Identifier

WOS:000175406500003

ISSN

1093-9687

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