Mapping and documenting conflicts between Users and Built Environments (2009)
Froyen, Hubert, Verdonck, Evelien, De Meester, Dirk, Heylighen, Ann
The step-by-step expansion of the corpus of design knowledge, to incorporate the needs and wishes of the real diversity of users, requires a large amount of additional information about...
Documenting handicap situations and eliminations through Universal Design patterns (2009)
Hubert Froyen, Evelien Verdonck, Dirk De Meester, Ann Heylighen
According to contemporary academic and social insights,human functional limitations and handicaps are notexclusively the result of the physical and / or mentalcharacteristics of the individual...
an on-line collection of architectural precedents in construction
A distributed model for tacit design knowledge exchange (2008)
Ann Heylighen, Francis Heylighen, Johan Bollen, Mathias Casaer
Abstract. The distributed cognition approach, and by extension the domain of social intelligence design, attempts to integrate three until recently separate realms: mind, society, and matter. The...
UNCONSCIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS Applying a connectionist model to design knowledge exchange (2008)
Ann Heylighen, Francis Heylighen, Johan Bollen, Mathias Casaer
The distributed cognition approach, and by extension the domain of social intelligence design, attempts to integrate three until recently separate realms: mind, society, and matter. The field offers...
ARE ARCHITECTS NATURAL CASE-BASED DESIGNERS? Experts speaking (2008)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
Addressing the subject of Case-Based Reasoning in design, this article reports on a series of in-depth interviews with expert architects/design teachers about the role of cases in design practice and...
SHARING-IN-ACTION 1 How designers can exchange insights without knowing (2008)
Ann Heylighen, Mathias Casaer, Herman Neuckermans
In architecture, design ideas are developed as much through interaction as by individuals in isolation. This awareness inspired the development of a Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line, an...
Stories from the case study shop floor (2008)
After briefly motivating the key role of case studies for architecture, I will sketch one possible way of producing such studies, followed by an example of what the results might be used for and some...
Nico Jacobs, Ann Heylighen, Hendrik Blockeel
Abstract. Web servers log how a user interacts with a website. This can provide the website author with valuable information about the `audience ' of the site. However with dynamically generated...
Learning from Experience) - Promises, Problems and Side-effects of Case-Based Reasoning (2003)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
Learning from experience is the essence of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). Because architects are said learn design by experience, CBR seemed to hold great promises for their field, which inspired in the...
Baptism of fire of a Web-based design assistant (2001)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
design assistant to support architectural design education. The tool is conceived as an (inter-)active workhouse rather than a passive warehouse: it is interactively developed by and actively...
DYNAMO: A Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line (2000)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
This paper describes the current status of DYNAMO, a web-based design assistant for students and professional designers in the field of architecture. The tool can be considered a Case-Based Design...
DYNAMO: A Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line (2000)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
This paper describes the current status of DYNAMO, a web-based design assistant for students and professional designers in the field of architecture. The tool can be considered a Case-Based Design...
DYNAMO: A Dynamic Architecture Memory On-line (2000)
Ann Heylighen, Herman Neuckermans
This paper describes the current status of DYNAMO, a web-based design assistant for students and professional designers in the field of architecture. The tool can be considered a Case-Based Design...