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CAAD Futures 2019: Computer-Aided Architectural Design. "Hello, Culture" pp 198–212Cite as

An Ecology of Conflicts

Using Network Analytics to Explore the Data of Building Design

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The scale and socio-technical complexity of contemporary architectural production poses challenges to researchers and practitioners interested in their description and analysis. This paper discusses the novel use of network analysis techniques to study a dataset comprising thousands of design conflicts reported during design coordination of a large project by a group of architects using BIM software. We discuss in detail three approaches to the use of network analysis techniques on these data, showing their potential to offer topological insights about the phenomenon of contemporary architectural design and construction, which complement other forms of architectural analysis.

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and the CASOS Group at CMU for their valuable guidance in employing network science techniques.

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  1. Computational Design Laboratory, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Daniel Cardoso Llach & Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo

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Cardoso Llach, D., Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, J. (2019). An Ecology of Conflicts. In: Lee, JH. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. "Hello, Culture". CAAD Futures 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1028. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8410-3_15

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