Intelligent Architectural Components and Design Module for Oriental Wooden Buildings

This paper proposes an efficient way to define architectural components to support for designing an oriental wooden building. Oriental building structure has unique coupling schemes in which components are connected with each other. In general, commercial CAD in the marketplace does not support these combining rules of oriental wooden structure. To alleviate this problem, we develop architectural components and module for designing Korean-style buildings. According to the suggested method, all components are defined with template. It means that the components can be instantiated in a various form. Consequently, the components would be transformed and reused for designing a creative and practical space by blending them with modern architectural components. In addition, the components are implemented based on BIM(Building Information Modeling) system, so CAD designer could obtain helpful information for the process of building construction.