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Planning Regulations in BIM
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: Received: 29 December 2023 / Approved: 29 December 2023 / Online: 29 December 2023 (10:18:57 CET)
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Koutamanis, A. Planning Regulations and Modelled Constraints in BIM: A Dutch Case Study. Buildings 2024, 14, 939. Koutamanis, A. Planning Regulations and Modelled Constraints in BIM: A Dutch Case Study. Buildings 2024, 14, 939.
Abstract
Planning regulations determine a substantial part of buildings but their constraints are usually not included in the setup of a BIM model or used explicitly for design guidance. This is symptomatic of wider tendencies and ingrained biases that emphasize tacit knowledge and assume that information in a project starts from scratch – an assumption that runs contrary to predesign information ordering practices, as well as to the findings of creativity studies. In terms of process control, it negates important possibilities for feedforward. The paper describes an exercise in which students collected planning regulations for a particular plot of land and modelled their constraints in BIM. The results suggest that converting such information into a foundation for design is constructive and feasible, even for novices, and produce a bandwidth view of project information that acknowledges pre-existing information and includes it in the BIM workflow. They also verify that, for a large part of Dutch housing, this foundation amounts to a considerable and binding part of the design that guides subsequent decisions.
Keywords
planning regulations; feedforward; BIM; compliance; creativity
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
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