DesignSpace
DesignSpace develops computational techniques and tools that are used as a basis of providing assistive design intelligence within a conventional spatial and architectural design workflow. Assistive capability in spatial design is essential to detect design malfunction (e.g., errors, functional failures) by iterative design validation, and also to ensure that people-centred functional requirements of a design are fulfilled when the design is deployed in reality.
Researchers
Spaces
We provide design assistance & simulation capability that seamlessly integrates within your workflow with commercial CAAD software.
We address basic research questions concerning spatial computing for design, spatial cognition, design semantics, and interaction design.
We develop systems that enable the design of spaces that meet their expected people-centred functional and behavioural objectives.
DSim: Live Your Design
The project involves several different components, principle among them being conceptual modelling and design abstraction, reasoning about design requirements formulated as sets of constraints over some spatial domain, multi-perspective semantics and multi-modal spatial data access, and design simulation and visualization capabilities.
Many of the deliverable of our ongoing work are prototyped within one practical tool, which we refer to as DSim, an assistance tool being built with the philosophy of empowering a functionally-driven creative spatial design activity.
Many of the deliverable of our ongoing work are prototyped within one practical tool, which we refer to as DSim, an assistance tool being built with the philosophy of empowering a functionally-driven creative spatial design activity.
DSim. v2.0
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Sponsorship
Project [DesignSpace] is conducted within the auspices of the Cognitive Systems group at the University of Bremen, and the Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR 8). SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition is a Transregional Collaborative Research Center jointly based at the University of Bremen and University of Freiburg in Germany. The center is funded and supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Within the SFB/TR 8, [DesignSpace] is a strategic initiative: in addition to addressing its stated scientific goals, the project places significant emphasis on performing an integrative role in the context of ongoing activities within SFB/TR 8, as well as having a strategic impact with respect to the planned activities of the research center.
Within the SFB/TR 8, [DesignSpace] is a strategic initiative: in addition to addressing its stated scientific goals, the project places significant emphasis on performing an integrative role in the context of ongoing activities within SFB/TR 8, as well as having a strategic impact with respect to the planned activities of the research center.
