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Design by searching : a system for creating and evaluating complex architectural assemblies

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Phillips, Matthew Giles
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Kent Larson.
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This work investigates a prototypical Web-based search system designed to enable architects and/or developers to engage and educate residential consumers in a new way: as co-designers. The key motivation is to develop software tools that support a feasible industrial process while providing home consumers with a way to conceive of and design spaces, as an alternative to the standardized commodity solutions that are currently available. The basic mode of operation for this work is to combine the structure of the modern computational search with emerging building modeling technologies as a foundation for Web-based participative design tools. Object-oriented component representations have been utilized to build a solution space that can be searched directly, without indexing. Additionally, conceptual query interfaces have been designed and evaluated through interviews with volunteer users. 'The component-based solutions and conceptual queries were then incorporated into a prototype of an architectural search tool which was analyzed to measure its effectiveness.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-172).
 
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2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39320
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture.

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