A Meta-Notation for Architects: How Architectural Drawings Can Borrow from Big Data Visualization

Abstract

The amount and complexity of data navigated during the design process is growing exponentially. Yet, notation conventions in architecture fail to record our design systems or models and default to documenting just the singular output they produce. The scientific community, particularly those dealing with “big data” computational models, has been wrestling with multivariate information visualization for quite some time. By studying the challenges and solutions to big data visualization, architects can re-invent drawing conventions to include meta-notation — a notation to describe the design and its underlying system of variables and constraints.

Keywords

Architectural Drawing / Big Data Visualization / Design Process

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2014 Higher Education Press