Automated Assessment Of Early Concept Designs

摘要

Early concept designs are hugely important in determining the eventual success and impact of a project. The work of Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and Frank Gehry, among others, has shown how their initial concept sketches eventually determined the final project, in terms of creativity, costs, support for the building's functions, visual impact and other more general factors. Further development and detailing later on in the process can refine and elaborate a good early concept, but can only partially ameliorate a bad one.rnUntil now, concept design has been a largely mental exercise of generating various spatial concepts and assessing them intuitively, based on the designer's knowledge and accumulated expertise. Reliance on such expertise is perhaps one reason why architectural success has traditionally come only to those with decades of experience who are able to bring to bear the wisdom required to assess and select design concepts worthy of being fully developed.