Structural design of building process perform the simple calculation and the decision making to be with designers judgement, recursively, and a huge information is created and consumed in these processes. The information created in performing design p...
Structural design of building process perform the simple calculation and the decision making to be with designers judgement, recursively, and a huge information is created and consumed in these processes. The information created in performing design process and consumed in another design process is called intermediate information. The intermediate information is closely associated with a design process, so the change of information in one design process has an influence on the information in the related design processes. Therefore, the intermediate information created in design processes as well as the design result information must be managed in order to design an integrated system for computer aided structural building design. The intermediate information roles as a reference for a decision making, and the intermediate information management has guaranteed the information integrity between the design processes. This paper presents the research toward the object modeling concepts and the formal object model according to it for the systematic management of not only design result information but also intermediate information. There are two modeling concepts to develop the integrated object model in this paper. They are viewpoint/layer concept and reference domain concept. It is described below.