Abstract
Integrated industrial building design is an interdisciplinary task, in which planning of flexible building structures requires effective communication and collaboration between all stakeholders already in early design stage. This paper presents BIMFlexi-VR, a collaborative framework which implements a real-time bidirectional link between a parametric modelling component created in Grasshopper for Rhinoceros that performs optimized structural calculations of an industrial building, and an immersive Virtual Reality environment in which the automatically calculated building is visualized. Users of BIMFlexi-VR are able to change parameters defining the outcome of the structural calculation directly inside the virtual environment and see the modified building design together with the associated fitness metrics in a matter of seconds. Providing an efficient and intuitive platform for early exploration of industrial building designs, BIMFlexi-VR enables collaborative decision making and facilitates the creation of more efficient and sustainable industrial constructions.
Highlights
In Integrated Industrial Building Design, the successful implementation of each project is based on collaborative decision making and coupling of tools of multiple domain stakeholders—architects, engineers, production system planners and building owners
Scores associated with learning and skills transfer were mixed, with the understanding of interaction between the production and the structure tending to have higher score in the desktop setup than in Virtual Reality (VR), but the differences between various types of construction being better visible in VR
We presented BIMFlexi-VR - our immersive framework for collaborative design of industrial buildings that is a part or the larger project BIMFlexi
Summary
In Integrated Industrial Building Design, the successful implementation of each project is based on collaborative decision making and coupling of tools of multiple domain stakeholders—architects, engineers, production system planners and building owners. In the research project BIMFlexi, a framework for integrated design of flexible industrial buildings is developed. In the context of the project, flexibility is defined as “the ability of the building structure to resist and adapt to changes in use through changing manufacturing conditions” (Reisinger et al, 2021a). Following this definition, the BIMFlexi design approach aims to create industrial building
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