ABSTRACT
Building design is a purposeful, goal-oriented decision-making activity that attempts to resolve conflicts arising in the design process. Aspectualization of a design problem can result in representations that include features across various feature dimensions, many of which are spatial. The design of buildings generates many intermediate design products en route to the building as the final step of the process. Aspectualization of a design problem inevitably leads to the creation of various partial problems that are, at least at some point during the design, treated individually. Building design is a purposeful, goal-oriented decision-making activity that attempts to resolve conflicts arising in the design process. Building designers often base their classifications on spatial features, such as geometric, topographic, aesthetic, and functional features of building design. Computer-based systems whose goal it is to assist the human architect in building design have to take these asymmetries into account.
