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Title: | An innovative learning model for teaching architectural technology using building modelling information: A Queensland University of Technology perspective | Contributor(s): | Nielson, David (author); Fleming, Melanie (author); Kumarasuriyar, Anoma (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6863 | Abstract: | In architecture courses, instilling a wider understanding of the industry specific representations practiced in the Building Industry is normally done under the auspices of Technology and Science subjects. Traditionally, building industry professionals communicated their design intentions using industry specific representations. Originally these mainly two dimensional representations such as plans, sections, elevations, schedules, etc. were produced manually, using a drawing board. Currently, this manual process has been digitised in the form of Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) or ubiquitously simply CAD. While CAD has significant productivity and accuracy advantages over the earlier manual method, it still only produces industry specific representations of the design intent. Essentially, CAD is a digital version of the drawing board. The tool used for the production of these representations in industry is still mainly CAD. This is also the approach taken in most traditional university courses and mirrors the reality of the situation in the building industry. A successor to CAD, in the form of Building Information Modelling (BIM), is presently evolving in the Construction Industry. CAD is mostly a technical tool that conforms to existing industry practices. BIM on the other hand is revolutionary both as a technical tool and as an industry practice. Rather than producing representations of design intent, BIM produces an exact Virtual Prototype of any building that in an ideal situation is centrally stored and freely exchanged between the project team. Essentially, BIM builds any building twice: once in the virtual world, where any faults are resolved, and finally, in the real world. There is, however, no established model for learning through the use of this technology in Architecture courses. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | EDULEARN09: International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, 6th - 8th July, 2009 | Source of Publication: | EDULEARN09 Proceedings CD | Publisher: | International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) | Place of Publication: | Valencia, Spain | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130103 Higher Education | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930101 Learner and Learning Achievement | HERDC Category Description: | E2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.iated.org/edulearn09/index.php?section=19 |
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