Ricerc@Sapienza

New opportunities nowadays provided by the introduction of highly sophisticated software tools have not brought yet to a substantial change in the design process still anchored to old traditional paradigms. Design activity is still rigidly organized in 'boxes', defined by semantic barriers. To support the designer's activity, improve communication, predict building behaviour and performance a new generation of simulation a support system tools seem necessary. To this aim, a general support system framework based on the Swarm Simulation Modeling approach is presented.

The disruptive development of ICT technologies can be a decisive element in bringing the productivity of the construction sector closer to the highest performing ones, such as automotive. We base the proposed research on the improvement of existing tools with artificial intelligence techniques, with the goal of having a self-adaptive model regarding the objectives to achieve. So, we present a general framework based on the Swarm Simulation Modelling approach.