This master thesis studies the impact of BIM (Building Information Modelling) methodology as a technology and a representation tool in the creative process approach in architecture offices. Through this approach, and for a better understanding of it, it is necessary to return some steps and understand how the design and the creative process were affected by digital innovations throughout architecture history and how new technologies are currently impacting the architecture routine.
As a new possible technology, BIM stands out as an excellent solution to optimize and to stimulate the architect’s work, with some visible advantages in application, like greater speed and higher quality in the design development. Among the solutions offered, the virtual building method in the architectural process noticeably brings the professional closer to constructive techniques, since it enables the construction of a virtual model with a set of information that allows a more integrated and consistent product.
The challenge of the work presented in this thesis resides in conceptually understand the BIM methodology as directly related to the creative process through the formal and operational challenges of technology, and how it can collaborate to make the design process more efficient in the representation field.
This work aims to understand how the BIM concept will stimulate the architects to explore new thinking processes and new abilities for their creative approach, such as better interoperability with other disciplines and better and more consistent control of the whole project.
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