Need of a BIM-agile Coach to Oversee Architectural Design From one pedagogical experiment to another

International audienceThis paper is part of our research on the digital transition in architecture, and more particularly on the integration of BIM (Building Information Management) technology. Indeed, in the field of AEC in France, this transition is still ongoing and remains difficult for architects. BIM technology changes the way people work and communicate, and remains only a tool without a method behind it. His arrival then raises technical but also human questions. Our research then turns to the social sciences and project management sciences to see if the creation or adaptation of project management methods can facilitate this integration. In other fields such as industry, software engineering, or HMI design, we have seen the emergence of agile methods that focus more on design teams, and therefore communication, than on the process itself. After experimenting with several agile practices, we identified the need for a design team to be mentored by someone in the role of facilitator or coach. This article describes how we can transfer to students an agile practice called BIM-agile Coach that we experimented during a weeklong workshop

Proposition d'un modèle d'auto-coordination en situation de conception, application au domaine du bâtiment.

This paper intends to propose a conceptual model able to describe the cooperative processes which appears during the building design. This model has been implemented in a prototype groupware tool in order to validate our proposals.Our contribution is to address social theories (Activity theory, Situated action, ...) and our knowledge about design processes in a conceptual model. This model is conform to the Meta Object Facility principles and formalism to facilitate implementations and extensions. A groupware tool was created from this model which supply an user-friendly graphic interface of a project's context and to initiate self-coordination. This prototype was used to validate our hypothesis and shows some directions about the usage of groupware tools in cooperative situations.L'objet de ce travail est l'analyse de la conception en tant qu'activité coopérative, la proposition d'un modèle de ces pratiques et l'implémentation d'un prototype d'aide aux échanges coopératifs.L'apport de cette recherche est de mettre en correspondance les théories sociologiques traitant de l'activité collective et l'expérience accumulée concernant la conception d'ouvrages bâtis dans un modèle conceptuel permettant de décrire un contexte de projet. Ce modèle a été conçu selon les principes de méta-modélisation, en utilisant un formalisme standardrépandu dans le domaine de l'ingénierie logicielle, afin de permettre des implémentations et des extensions plus aisées. Le modèle que nous avons proposé a été appliqué à un outil prototype offrant une représentation graphique d'un contexte de projet afin de favoriser l'émergence d'une coordination spontanée entre les acteurs. La mise en oeuvre de ce prototype a permis d'éprouver les postulats que nous avons pu formuler et a conduit à dégager des perspectives concernant l'adaptabilité des collecticiels aux situations de conception coopérative

TIC & Réseau : comment choisir au mieux les outils informatisés pouvant supporter le travail collaboratif ?

Si le réseau d'innovation est aujourd'hui économiquement souhaitable et technologiquement accessible [VBE04], le recours au réseau ne garanti pas ex ante le succès et force est de constater, selon les dires de gestionnaires de terrain actifs au sein de ces réseaux, que ceux-ci sont confrontés à des problèmes récurrents dont l'enjeu majeur tient à la collaboration. Cette communication présente les résultats d'un projet de recherche dédié à cette question qui, après avoir identifié ces problèmes et difficultés, identifie des leviers qui sont autant d'éléments de réponse à ces problèmes et sur lesquels un gestionnaire de réseau peut agir. Ces leviers sont mis en correspondance avec les fonctionnalités susceptibles de concrétiser les choix stratégiques du réseau de façon à répondre à la question de savoir quel outillage choisir pour soutenir les activités du réseau

Enseigner la co-conception à distance : Retour sur cinq années d’expérience

peer reviewedLe LUCID-ULg et l’ENSA de Nancy organisent depuis cinq années le Studio Digital Collaboratif. Il s’agit d’un atelier de conception architecturale collaboratif à distance. Plusieurs groupes réunissant entre quatre et six étu- diants liégeois et nancéiens, conçoivent un projet architectural d’une certaine ampleur dans un délai de trois mois. Ce papier propose un retour sur cette ex- périence, dans ses aspects pédagogiques, organisationnels et technologiques.ARC COMMO

Towards an integration of the cooperative design context in collaborative tools

In a design project, the actors cooperate to achieve a same objective,which can be the production of a document, a manufactured product, a plane or abuilding. The role of a cooperative project management tool is to offer each actornot only a good vision of the project development but also the extent of his actionpotential. The cooperation context of a design project is a relational organizationwhere each actor keeps up specific relations with other people (designers, projectmanagers, etc.) but also with documents and activities. This organization has to berepresented in the project management tool to give each user an adaptive vision ofthe project organization and development. We propose a representation and avisualization of such a context, which characterizes each design project

Concevoir une application de réalité mixte afin de mettre en valeur des projets patrimoniaux

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Need of a BIM-agile Coach to Oversee Architectural Design From one pedagogical experiment to another

International audienceThis paper is part of our research on the digital transition in architecture, and more particularly on the integration of BIM (Building Information Management) technology. Indeed, in the field of AEC in France, this transition is still ongoing and remains difficult for architects. BIM technology changes the way people work and communicate, and remains only a tool without a method behind it. His arrival then raises technical but also human questions. Our research then turns to the social sciences and project management sciences to see if the creation or adaptation of project management methods can facilitate this integration. In other fields such as industry, software engineering, or HMI design, we have seen the emergence of agile methods that focus more on design teams, and therefore communication, than on the process itself. After experimenting with several agile practices, we identified the need for a design team to be mentored by someone in the role of facilitator or coach. This article describes how we can transfer to students an agile practice called BIM-agile Coach that we experimented during a weeklong workshop

Élicitation des intentions architecturales et raffinement des tâches de conception

National audienceNous avons identifié un manque d’efficacité de la part des architectes pour définir précisément les tâches en phase de conception. Nous avons alors orienté notre travail vers des méthodes permettant à différents acteurs d’un groupe de travail collectif de mieux définir les tâches dans leur complexité globale. Nous nous sommes inspiré des matrices de Suhet avons alors créé une matrice appelée matrice conceptuelle,adaptée à une conception architecturale agile

Toward a user adaptive vision of architectural projetcs. Proceedings of the 20th

The architectural conception is a particular cooperation situation. One characteristic of this cooperation is a "mutual prescription" between actors through a specific relational organization. Then each actor keeps up specific relations with others people (designers, project managers,...) but also with documents and activities. The representation of such network, which characterizes each project, is the one of the objectives of the "Relational model". The existing groupware tools can not be directly used in the framework of the architectural conception. They require a high level of definition of procedures and exchanges, which is incompatible with the flexibility of current practices. The second objective of this model is to give to each actor an adapted vision of the project evolution. This representation has to be adapted to the role and the participation of the actor at each moment of the project life cycle. We propose in this article an open hyperdocument structure based on a relational model of cooperation. Some experimental views and navigations are exposed and commented. The integration of this new dimension allows to propose to the user an adapted vision of the project by taking into account the role he plays inside the project