Publications / 1986 Proceedings of the 3rd ISARC, Marseille, France

A Schematic Representation of the Designer's Logic

O. Akin, Ch-Ch Chen, B. Dave, S. Pithadavian
Pages 47-58 (1986 Proceedings of the 3rd ISARC, Marseille, France, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

Nos recherches actuelles visent a developper un modele operationnet permettant de decrire la demarche des desiqners en architecture. Nous comptons representer cette demarche par deux taches essentielles: la decomposition du probleme, c'est a dire letabtissernent des parametres' descriptifs du probleme de design, et sa resolution, a partir des parametres definis precedernrnent. Nous allons decrire dans cot article une representation formelle de la demarche des designers, basee sur les resultats d'experiences d'analyse du comportement. Tout d'abord nous allons brievement decrire et analyser les experiences realisees. Ensuite nous presenterons le modele que nous avons developpe a partir des donnees recueillies lors de ces experiences. Ce modele repose sur plusieurs parties qui representent les differents types de connaissance employes par les designers dans les problemes de design architectural. Enfin nous decrirons un programme en cours de developpement, qui, nous l'esperons, permettra de verifier la justesse du modele.

The aim of our research is to develop an operational model of the behavior of designers in the domain of architecture. We hope to account for the designers' behavior in terms of two major functionalities: Problem Structurinq- establishing and transforming the parameters of the design problem; and Problem Solvinq- seeking a solution based on the known parameters of the design problem. In this paper, we present a formal paradigm of the designers' behavior that is based on protocol experiments. First, the protocol experiments are briefly described and analyzed. Next, the paradigm that we have developed based on the protocol data is presented. The paradigm is elaborated in distinct categories of representation to reflect the diverse nature of knowledge employed by human designers in the architectural design problems. This is followed by a brief description of a computer program under development that we hope will operationally demonstrate the efficacy of our paradigm.

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