Modelling Methods in Solving Research and Design Problems in Architecture Activities

Abstract

The modern architectural and city-planning science requires combining the efforts of a number of various research teams, including representatives of different branches of scientific knowledge, with the purpose of designing the most rational and efficient methods of research organization. Due to the dynamic nature of architectural and city-planning objects and quick alteration of the parameters of their elements and components, prompt methods of solving research, designing or forecasting problems are necessary. The era of the fifth technological paradigm is characterized with the establishment of such branches of industry as electronics, microelectronics, information technologies. Since 2010ies we live in the phase of the sixth technological paradigm development, in which the production processes are based on cloud infrastructure and virtual services. One of methodological preconditions in the further development of architecture is the search for optimal solutions in the process of research and designing developments, which could be the most quickly and efficiently implemented by means of computers and information models. For this purpose, first of all, the appropriate formalization of architectural objects is necessary – i.e. creating functional mathematical models and software products for implementing the process of research and solutions optimization in computing techniques. Current studies in the sphere of architecture more and more lead to realizing the necessity of system approach to research and designing of architectural objects as complicated systems, having the hierarchic structure. The most promising are the system methods of research, designing and expert evaluation of architectural objects of any degree of complexity.