Engin Ayaz

SUMMARY: AEC projects require multidisciplinary solutions. Today AEC professionals have formal methods to help them manage and communicate much of a single discipline’s information; however, they lack formal methodologies to manage and communicate information and processes among multiple disciplines. As a result, AEC projects have difficulty quickly and accurately achieving their many objectives. We are designing and implementing three methodologies to help AEC professionals overcome these difficulties. Using our POP methodology AEC professionals can organize information models in terms of the functions, forms, and behaviors of the design products, organizations and processes. Using our Narrative methodology they can communicate and manage the integration of design processes by defining and controlling the dependencies between information models. Using our Decision Dashboard methodology, they can consider tradeoffs amongst options and document decisions. In this paper we present our...

SUMMARY: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects require multidisciplinary solutions. Today AEC professionals have formal methods to help them manage and communicate much of a single discipline's information; however, they lack formal methodologies to manage and communicate information and processes among multiple disciplines. As a result, AEC projects have difficulty quickly and accurately achieving their many objectives. We are designing

TenderVoice/TenderNoise (TVTN) creates a platform to capture and communicate the complex dynamics of urban systems using acoustic data. It explores dualities in data sources, sensors, filters, audience and display, contrasting qualitative and personal attributes of the human voice with quantitative neighborhood decibel levels. TVTN also addresses the complementary relationship that exists between historical and real-time data. This project asserts that the interpretation of the immense data field that is our urban environment should incorporate such dualities. Future phases of this project entail expansion of the real-time data component, incorporation of Web 2.0 features, and a physical installation. Keywords—acoustic ecology; noise; urban informatics; data visualization; journalism; sound; mapping; ethnography; health