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Multidisciplinary Performance-Based Design Processes

Speaker: John Haymaker, AIA, PhD, LEED ap, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford UniversityAbstract:Modern design challenges require multidisciplinary stakeholders and designers to systematically generate and analyze large spaces of alternatives for multiple criteria. This is a complex social and technical process that requires clear and rapid communication. I present case studies that illustrate how and why current practice is unable to do this efficiently and effectively. A fundamental social and technical shift to new performance-based design methods is needed. I describe an industrial scale platform of methods that my research team is developing to address this need: • The Process Integration Platform (PIP) helps teams communicate and manage multidisciplinary processes;
Design Scenarios helps them transform requirements into parametric design spaces; • Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) automates the analysis of these spaces for daylight, energy, structure, cost and other criteria; • Multi-Attribute, Collaborative Design, Analysis, and Decision Integration (MACDADI), facilitates fast, formal, collaborative decision making;• The Design Exploration Assessment Method (DEAM) measures design challenges, strategies, and explorations to assist in new process development and selection.
These methods enable design teams to more efficiently and effectively execute multidisciplinary performance-based design processes.

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209 (Avaiable on Webex upon request)

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Evangeline Reyes