Swarm building information modeling. An hybrid agents-actor framework to improve design support systems capabilities
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. Building objects, goals, constraints and design solutions will be represented as a Multi-Agents System able to communicate, interact and integrate the existing BIM systems, ensuring a reactive and proactive behaviour. The model will react by adapting to the 'perturbations', represented by the designer's choices, proactively adopting or suggesting satisficing solutions concerning the design goals.