Part IIDesign Stage

Introduction

Bruno Daniotti, Marco Gianinetto

The second section presents an overview of various research activities developed in order to support designers and clients in the first design stages, in the framework of progressive digital transformation and BIM introduction.

A new design approach is changing the traditional one with the introduction fo Building Information Modelling, allowing then to anticipate choices, preventing mistakes, pathologies and useless loss of time and economic troubles.

Some key topics are here discussed:

BIM platform for clash detection and code checking: in this part are presented innovative tools for a Clash detection as the verification of geometric interferences and can be a coordination problem in 3D BIM and Code checking as the verification of the compliance of the digital model with the corresponding regulation.

New design approaches: taking into account the architectural design activity two aspects are explored which requires more consideration from a methodological perspective; design optimization, and architectural simulation.

Digital parametric design is exploited to help defining, controlling and assessing architectural works and to develop sustainable and innovative surfaces for adaptive acoustics; new awareness on the topic of architectural acoustics design has pushed towards finding new integrated methodologies able to deliver tailored solutions for the design with sound, which embed performance criteria early in the design phase by means of simulation and computational techniques.

Smart city policies and related support tools: Smart City policies have attracted significant funding over the last few years. However, little evidence is available of their impact on urban economic performance. In this paper it’s studied the urban growth and innovation impact of Smart City policies.

Finally, specific studies are presented in order to investigate the changes in architecture and engineering firms due to digitalization: the main objective of this research project has been to understand the pro-cess-oriented and organizational changes that the adoption of digital technol-ogies bring on, as well as the new forms of process and organization associat-ed with the digital transformation of architectural and engineering firms.