Color, Material And Light In The Design Process - A Software Concept
Christian Tonn, Dirk Donath · Proceedings of the Joint CIB W78, W102, ICCCBE, ICCC, and DMUCE International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Canada, 14-16 June · 2006
The paper describes a concept for the IT-support of efficient and plausible planning with color, material and light in the architectural design process. The “Colored Architecture” software prototype described in the paper is a modular part of current research activities at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. In addition to special tools and forms of visualization, the paper describes a concept for the fast, realistic, parameterized assessment of the factors color, material and light in architectural modeling. The traditional rendering of architectural models using radiosity light visualization is often too time-consuming to be used in the design process. To improve the workflow, the radiosity visualization described provides a physically correct visualization of the material whilst allowing the parameters color, material and light to be adjusted interactively. The “Colored Architecture” prototype is an integrated component of the Building Information Model and supports the professional planning of color, material and lighting concepts in architectural design.