11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 1 | Visualizing Sustainability - Making the invisible visible

Applied visualization methods for building information models with heterogeneous sources

ABSTRACT

The advances in building information modeling gave rise to the explicit description of semantics formerly contained in drawings, diagrams and other visual representations implicitly. In this way information and visual representation became decoupled by intention, taking the loss of persistable and sharable visual representations. The authors of this paper are developing a visualization framework for the recoupling of information and presentation in the area of building information models. The framework allows for the specification of arbitrary visualizations. These specifications are tailored to the application to heterogeneous interlinked models, consisting of 3D object model, construction schedule, cost and risk data and progress reports, among others.
Using the framework and a concrete use case with a complex information scenario, several advanced visualization components were developed. These examples and their generation are explained in detail, revealing the underlying concepts of the framework. The featured use case is the project management overview over the state of the building and the construction progress as the use case. In terms of visualization methods the paper concentrates on the application of color scales to different representation types.

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AUTHORS

Helga Tauscher

Institute of Construction Informatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany

Helga Tauscher holds degrees in architecture from the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (HTW) and from the Academy of Art Berlin (KHB). She was working as CAD/CAFM specialist in the elevator industry, as freelance artist, as researcher at Bauhaus Universität Weimar and as software developer for internet based project management. Currently she is a research assistant at the institute for construction informatics at Technische Universität Dresden, faculty of civil engineering, where she studies the visualization of building product models aiming at her PhD.

Raimar J. Scherer

Institute of Construction Informatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany

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