INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON RECENT ADVANCES IN SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2019-02-20)

Precedent-Based Design as a Problem-Solving Technique in Architecture

In engineering design, existing cases of related products represent a rich reservoir that is used by designers, educators and students to establish a point of departure, present an inspiration resource, or justify a design decision. In spite of their effectiveness, systematic methods to retrieve knowledge embedded in existing cases or design precedents, extract information from them, and restructure this information and knowledge to initiate emergent designs have not been adequately articulated. Within the scope of cased-driven design, this paper demonstrates how knowledge extracted from a precedent analysis or a case study can be retrieved, categorized and mapped into usable forms. The scope of this research is architectural design, but many of its related models can be used in other disciplines. The main argument of this paper is that using case-based reverse engineering can inform new designs. The structure presented here builds upon the information extracted from the precedents in a prospective framework. Hence, while reverse engineering can be used for its analytic power, the framework presented in this work can be used for its synthetic powers.
Dr. Buthayna Eilouti