Building Design Automation via Interactive Space Blocks
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing process of converting architectural drawings into engineering designs for building equipment and infrastructure is manual, time-consuming, and requires significant human intervention, leading to inefficiencies and high costs when modifications are made.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize processing circuits and memory to receive a building dataset, model building properties, determine necessary building equipment, and generate interactive graphical representations of equipment placement, allowing for real-time modifications and updates to the engineering design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual processes are used to convert architectural drawings into engineering designs, then human intervention and expertise can be applied, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of engineering design with an automated computer-based system. The system uses processing circuits to automatically generate building properties, determine equipment requirements, and produce engineering designs from architectural drawings, eliminating the need for manual human intervention while maintaining design quality
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables the architectural drawing itself to serve as the input that automatically triggers the engineering design process. The building dataset and architectural drawing contain sufficient information for the system to self-generate engineering designs without requiring external human analysis or interpretation
2Manufacturing precision
If manual redesign is performed when architectural drawings are modified, then design accuracy can be maintained, but significant time and money are spent on redesign
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic, real-time updating of engineering designs when architectural drawings are modified. Rather than requiring complete redesign, the system automatically detects changes in the building dataset and updates only the affected portions of the engineering design, maintaining precision while dramatically improving productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automatic feedback mechanisms where modifications to architectural drawings are immediately detected and propagated to the engineering design. The system monitors changes in the building dataset and automatically adjusts equipment placements, infrastructure designs, and cost calculations without manual intervention
3Productivity
If automated systems are used to generate engineering designs, then time and costs are reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the engineering design system into distinct functional modules: a building properties generation module, an equipment determination module, and a design output module. Each module handles specific tasks independently, making the overall complex system manageable and maintainable while achieving high productivity
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes one or more processing circuits and memory storing instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more processing circuits to receive a building dataset comprising an architectural drawing of a building and metadata, model the building dataset by generating building properties of a building space based on the building dataset, determining building equipment based on the building properties and the building dataset, and generating, in a graphical representation of the building displayed on a user device, a space placement block of the building equipment, wherein the space placement block is an interactive graphical representation of the building equipment that is modifiable within the graphical representation of the building, and remodel, based on a modification of the space placement block, the building dataset by updating at least one of the building properties or building equipment to encode the modification of the space placement block into the building dataset.