Integrated Design in Case of Digital Fabricated Buildings

The importance of the detailed BIM for buildings like the free-form building in our case cannot be emphasized enough in case of automated and especially additive manufacturing. Integral design of all building accessories like internal heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), water supply, and drainage network installations is essential when applying additive manufacturing. In such a building it is impossible to build the ventilation network with traditional vertical and horizontal canals. Important benefit of digitally fabricated building can be internal topological optimization of building elements like walls and slabs for thermal insulation and structural capabilities. Application of large-scale additive manufacturing systems in the AECO industry is in early research phase. Future research directions are further parameterization of the interoperability demand function, BIM maturity, automation of workflow models, and new approaches for engineering of embedded building elements.