I obtained
my PhD degree on 19th of May 2004 at Visualization Group, Computer Science
Department, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
My project
was a part of the E3DAD project. Below are
the results of my work.
During my
PhD project I was busy with developing, a computer tool in order to support
architectural design in early stages. The name of this tool is Structural Sketcher.
Short
description: Imagine
the early architectural design process where the architect uses a design
system, but doesn’t think about the interaction with it. In such a way he can
more clearly focus on a design process and make more qualitative and efficient
design…
In order to
design he uses a set of graphic units that are relatedto early stages and carry an architectural knowledge.
A special geometrical engine takes care of manipulations of graphic units and
their hierarchies. A user interface for such a design system is based on a
metaphor that is familiar for the architect…
Keywords:user interface, early design process, drawing system, design support,
and computer graphics
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As an example of how the system can be used in
early stages of design we give a description of a design
that was performed by one of the architects during the evaluation of Structural
Sketcher.
qS. Pranovich,
S., Achten, H.H., Vries, B. de and Wijk, J. van. Structural Sketcher - Representing and
Applying Well-Structured Graphic Representations in Early Design, International
Journal of Architectural Computing. Vol. 3 Issue 1. Multi-Science, ISSN
1478-0771. pp. 75-91, 2005.
qS. Pranovich,J. J.
van Wijk, C.W.A.M. van Overveld, The Kite
geometry manipulator.In: Terveen, T., Wixon, D., Extened abstracts CHI2002,vol. 4,
issue 1, Minneapolis (USA), April 20-25,ACM SIGCHI, p 764-765,2002.
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