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Architectural Design and Construction Planning involves the integration of diverse, sometimes conflicting criteria into a coherent solution. This paper presents a theoretical framework of information flow in design, called ‘filter mediated design’, that explores a method for negotiating architectural design and construction planning across domains, by examining issues of perception, generation and evaluation. The theory proposes a semantically sparse shared design model, from which multiple domain specific semantic models are constructed. The paper then details a prototype, called the ‘meaning mediating mechanism’, in which this framework is implemented using computational agents for achieving coherence and innovation in collaborative design. The program dynamically constructs multiple domain specific semantic models from an ambiguous or semantically sparse geometric database. Based on these semantic interpretations, users and computational agents can collaborate simultaneously in a distributed virtual environment to negotiate and generate coherent designs. This research is intended to explore the processes and strategies of constructing intelligent designs, and design intelligence.
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Haymaker, J., Ackermann, E., Fischer, M. (2000). Meaning Mediating Mechanism. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’00. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4154-3_34
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