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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
by
Hakop Musayelyan
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
May 2009
Copyright 2009 Hakop Musayelyan
Object Description
| Title | Architectural design decision support system |
| Author | Musayelyan, Hakop |
| Author email | hakopm@gmail.com; hakop@onuma.com |
| Degree | Master of Architecture |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Architecture |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-12-12 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-03-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Schiler, Marc |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kensek, Karen Onuma, Kimon |
| Abstract | This thesis paper is about addressing the complexities of the architectural design decision making processes, more specifically complexities introduced by new and emerging technologies. Currently, it seems as if the entire architectural profession is locked in a state of paradox with today's scientific and technological developments. At its core, the cause of this paradox is the sheer quantity of information sources being available, the rate at which they are being developed and of course the instant access to the information itself regardless to where it is stored on the planet. While at first glance it might seem that this ever‐growing surge of information and its limitless availability is a great asset to any decision making process, by itself it is in fact, after crossing a certain threshold in quantity, completely ineffective. It is most counter intuitive phenomenon where too much information makes the information itself ineffective as far as influencing a decision making process within a professional arena; unless there is a system that is dynamic enough to effectively structure and integrate levels of complexities within the design processes as they are introduced when a new layer of information becomes either available or required by a project.; At this point it is also important to point out that the topic of this paper is architectural design decision making processes, the emphasis being on the design. I put the emphasis on the word design because design problems by nature can't be complete in their definition, essentially a design problem itself has no definite boundaries and therefore it can't have a one correct solution. It is because of this fact that design problems could have sets of possible solutions and the fact that ultimately only one can be selected at the end is why they are called design problems. To this end, a designer therefore is required to formulate a final design solution through some creative processes. If the designer is to make a choice that is the most effective solution from a possible set of solutions for a particular problem, then it is obvious that one would need as complete range and developed sets of possible solutions as possible to weigh them against each other. To do this as efficiently and objectively as possible one would need as much information as it is possible to have access to, and it is at this juncture that without an effective system that can process the amount and various types of information, an information overflow will make the information itself completely ineffective in its role to support the design decision making process. So we create this paradox by reaching out to as much data as possible, as it is in our nature, without having real practical means to deal with it. Data based Architectural Design Decision Making Support System is absolutely critical if we are to break from this paradox. |
| Keyword | architecture; design decision making process; relational data base; formal design knowledge; parametric modeling |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2009 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Musayelyan, Hakop |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Musayelyan-2607 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Musayelyan-2607.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM by Hakop Musayelyan A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE May 2009 Copyright 2009 Hakop Musayelyan |
