Environment-behavior simulation from cad to bim and beyond
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Thispaper describesour research on environment-behavior simulation and focuseson themodeling of builtenvironmentsusing Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Our environment-behavior simulation addresses the problem of predicting and evaluating the impacts of built environments on their human inhabitants. We present simulation systems comprising an agent-based virtual user model and building models created with CADand BIM tools. We compare the use of CADvs. BIM with two case studies for environment-behavior simulation, and describe the essential parts of modeling buildings for the simulation, including geometry modeling-how the building components are shaped, semantic modeling-what the building components are, and pattern modeling-how the building components are used by users. We conclude that a new extensible and pattern-embedded BIM system will be necessary to facilitate environment-behavior simulation.
ACADIA 08: Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
