Automating the rationalized masonry project

Abstract

The present research aims to develop a diagram that serves as the basis for the automation of rationalized masonry project at any Building Information Modeling (BIM), with the goal to develop greater computational efficiency processes. The Building Object Behavior method (BOB) was used in the research. This method was developed from 2001 to 2004 by the research group composed by Chang Lee, Rafael Sacks and Charles Eastman at universities in the United States and Israel in a partnership with North American companies of reinforced concrete and it fits as design science research. The research was conducted in four stages: clarification, design, validation and implementation. During the development of the study it was found that there are two possible diagrams: the first one proposed by us and the other proposed by Monteiro in 2011. With both possibilities analyzed, our diagram demonstrated better computational efficiency. At the end of the research we were able to generate the expected diagrams and propose a diagram showing better computational efficiency compared to previous works in the area.