Design Support To Steer Creative Wicked Problem Solving Processes With Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence - Design Support To Steer Creative Wicked Problem Solving Processes With Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence - Open Access Pub

As the complexity of building tasks and requirements increases, designers often find themselves confronted with interdisciplinary problems that go beyond the specific challenges and methods of architecture. The iterative nature of the design process results in a continuous exchange between creative, analytical and evaluative activities, through which the designer explores and identifies promising design variants. The ability to compare and evaluate relevant reference examples of already built or designed buildings helps designers to assess their own design and informs the design process. DOI10.14302/issn.2643-2811.jmbr-19-2659 As the complexity of building tasks and requirements increases, designers often find themselves confronted with interdisciplinary problems that go beyond the specific challenges and methods of architecture. The iterative nature of the design process results in a continuous exchange between creative, analytical and evaluative activities, through which the designer explores and identifies promising design variants. The ability to compare and evaluate relevant reference examples of already built or designed buildings helps designers to assess their own design and informs the design process. The search for analogies in references of already built or designed buildings is an established method to examine ideas, to clarify design parameters or to show new ways and options for the design process. The built and planned serves as a knowledge base and includes spatial arrangements as well as solutions for specific architectural characteristics. In order to achieve this task on the one hand, approaches for the development of inherent knowledge in references are developed, together with the formalization of knowledge in Building Information Models (BIM/IFC). A particular challenge is the derivation of implicit spatial relationships, which are not explicitly described in the IFC specification. On the other hand, techniques and methods for finding formal structures as well as the corresponding description and query language for spatial arrangements should be developed for an efficient determination of analogically fitting design patterns. Most computational search methods available today rely on textual rather than graphical approaches to represent information. To address these shortcomings, Langenhan 1, 2 introduced a novel approach which facilitates the automatic lookup of reference solutions from a repository using graphical search keys. For the search key, the notion of a building floor plan fingerprint was introduced which describes the