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This paper discusses the challenges that designers face when modelling the anticipated behaviours of people: their movement and transactions around and within precinct scale development. Building Information Modelling (BIM) software philosophy contrasts with that of City Information Modelling (CIM)—the route by which we consider how precinct scale development, being somewhere between the two (BIM and CIM), requires a wholly different approach to information and behaviour modelling. The authors offer evidence of the value of augmenting the planners’ analytical approach with the architects’ synthesis from data leading to meaningful speculations on otherwise unanticipated future scenarios for the precinct far beyond expectation. Novel approaches to modelling behaviour at precinct scale suggest alternative readings of precincts, which require a wider set of approaches to Precinct Information Modelling (PIM) software development than simply an expansion of BIM.
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Burry, M., Karakiewicz, J.A., Holzer, D., White, M., Aschwanden, G.D., Kvan, T. (2015). BIM-PIM-CIM: The Challenges of Modelling Urban Design Behaviours Between Building and City Scales. In: Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Gengnagel, C., Faircloth, B., Scheurer, F. (eds) Modelling Behaviour. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24208-8_34
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