It is true that the commercial applications used in architectural offices have mainly focused on CAD as a drafting tool, although the primary functions of computers in architecture have been changed from the computer-aided drafting to its 2D or 3D graphic representation and in recent years to the collaborative design among different specialists, such as architects, engineers, construction manag...

This paper outlines a possible locus for knowledge-based systems in computer-aided architectural design education. It commences with a review of computer-aided architectural design and knowledge-based systems. It then proposes their use at various stages in CAAD education. Introduction There are a number of paradigms to consider in computer-aided architectural design education. We could think o...

The architectural design of systems deals with the high level structuring of configurations. Checking that a system belongs to an architectural style (or shape) implies that the architecture is an instance of a structurally defined class. On the other side, hierarchies allow modeling at different levels of detail: subsystems may be represented as single components to abstract structure and beha...

We propose Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to formalise the development and reconfiguration of software architectures based on term-rewriting. An architectural style consists of a set of architectural elements and operations called productions which define the well-formed compositions of architectures. Roughly, a term built out of such ingredients constitutes the proof that a ...

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This report discusses architectures for safety-critical sysems. The report summarises the existing literature in the area as well as the guidance provided by existing safetycritical system development standards. We discuss the three constituent functions of fault tolerant architectures: error detection, damage assessment and confinement and error recovery. We also consider methods for fault pre...

This article presents an optimization model of the quantifiable aspects of architectural floorplan layout design, and a companion article presents a method for integrating mathematical optimization and subjective decision making during conceptual design. The model presented here offers a new approach to floorplan layout optimization that takes advantage of the efficiency of gradient-based algor...

This paper introduces a reflective perspective on the role of computing in architectural design over the previous generations of computer aided design. Paradigms of the design process and computational models of designing are discussed. The evolution of computer aided architectural design is investigated. Both deadly sins and arguable virtues of computing in architectural design and their impli...