Ricerc@Sapienza

This contribution reflects the contemporary terms of the dialectic between the design culture and augmented technical tools. The environmental unit is specified as a model of informed interactions: the organization of the professional and research activities undergo a considerable reflection on the cognitive and operative process, and on the reordering of the skills needed to govern this transformation. We wonder what abilities will have to be acquired or reinforced by the discipline of technological design, in order to support the role of interpreter of physical space.

While a considerable number of studies on Building Information Modelling (BIM) have been conducted in recent years, this area of research has long been considered important in the building sector, with particular concerns about Energy Design. In this regard, the work proposes an automated early design workflow to evaluate the building daylighting perfor¬mance during the first design stages. Thanks to the po¬tential use of interchange files and visual coding tools, such as Grasshopper, it is possible to implement the par¬ametric design concepts, thus automating complex tasks.

This contribution reflects the contemporary terms of the dialectic between the design culture and augmented technical tools. The environmental unit is specified as a model of informed interactions: the organization of the professional and research activities un-dergo a considerable reflection on the cognitive and operative process, and on the reor-dering of the skills needed to govern this transformation. We wonder what abilities will have to be acquired or reinforced by the discipline of technological design, in order to support the role of interpreter of physical space.