A framework for meta-disciplinary building analysis

Abstract

Designing sustainable buildings requires the orchestration of analysis processes throughout a building’s lifecycle. The siloing of disciplinary knowledge, tools and processes can mean that analysis is wastefully repeated or omitted in siloed disciplinary models and data. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework for meta-disciplinary building analysis consisting of three modules: (1) common building elements for building analysis; (2) the analytical needs of different disciplines, and finally; (3) computational approaches that could be applied to provide this analysis. Finally, a methodology of analytic moves is presented to explore the framework and identify potential future work.