I-Corps: An Intuitive Design Platform for Sustainable Multifamily Residential Buildings

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是开发多户住宅的设计工具，可以促进视觉思维活动的早期阶段与更成熟的开发和完善阶段之间的联系。这些工具有可能改善未来住宅区的质量。由于需求的空前增长，在设计普通住宅综合体的专业实践中，效率和速度似乎是优先考虑的。在城市多户住宅设计过程中，建筑师和开发商往往面临着在较短的方案设计周期内实现财务和性能目标（如基础建筑效率、设计合规性和能源使用强度）的压力。虽然建筑师必须满足新的可持续性标准，但他们也被期望展示创造性的解决方案，为居民的福祉人性化的大规模住房。开发商还面临着满足当地社区对新项目影响的复杂要求的挑战，包括公共通道和对社区的阴影影响。虽然有一些新兴的工具可以自动生成带有环境和财务绩效指标的建筑方案，以帮助专业人员提高生产力，但使用这些工具的体验并不像在纸上画草图那样直观。这个I-Corps项目是基于一个多户住宅项目方案设计的协作设计平台的开发。建筑、工程和建筑行业的用户在图形化设计方面有着悠久的历史，他们利用标准的建筑表示格式，如平面图、剖面图和物理模型，这些格式在本质上大多是静态的。该系统将允许设计师快速创建一系列参数化设计和动态数字模型，这些模型可以以最小的输入在飞行中进行更改。直观的界面。使用这种方法，各种各样的用户，从建筑领域的新手设计师到房地产开发领域的从业者，都可以参与设计过程，使他们能够更有效地将设计早期阶段的定性贡献纳入到更成熟的阶段。这个拟议的工具提供了使用用户提供的简单的基于线条的草图来生成方案设计的功能，并对初步的财务和环境标准进行评估，这些标准在当今的专业实践中是关键因素。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of design tools for multifamily residential housing that can facilitate the connection between early stages of visual thinking activity and more mature stages of development and refinement. Such tools have the potential to improve the quality of future housing complexes. Due to the unprecedented increase in demand, efficiency and speed appear to be prioritized in the professional practice of designing commonplace housing complexes. During urban multifamily residential design, architects and developers are often under pressure to achieve financial and performance objectives such as base building efficiency, design compliance, and energy use intensity in short schematic design periods. While architects must meet new sustainability standards, they are also expected to demonstrate creative solutions for humanizing mass housing for the well-being of residents. Developers are also facing challenges in fulfilling complex requirements for local communities in regard to the impacts of new projects, including public access and shading effects on neighborhoods. While there are some emerging tools to auto-generate building schemes with environmental and financial performance measures to aid professionals' productivity, the experience with these tools is not as intuitive as the natural experience of sketching on paper.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a collaborative design platform for the schematic design of a multifamily residential project. Users in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries have a long history of conceptualizing design graphically, utilizing standard architectural representation formats such as plans, sections, and physical models, that are mostly static in nature. This system will allow designers to quickly create a series of parametric designs and dynamic digital models that can be changed on the fly with minimal input. The and intuitive interfaces. Using this method, a diverse range of users, from novice designers to practitioners not only in architecture but also in real-estate development, may participate in the design process, allowing them to more effectively incorporate qualitative contributions from early phases of design into more developed phases. This proposed tool provides functions to produce schematic designs using simple line-based sketches provided by users and assessments for preliminary financial and environmental criteria that are critical factors in today's professional practice.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.