About The Didatic Labs Project 2021-22
Title: Building Information Modeling (BIM) in support of the interdisciplinary and trans disciplinary integration in teaching Architecture and Civil Engineering
Motivation: The diversity of disciplines, inherent to the training of the architect or civil engineer, induces the isolated treatment of themes in related approaches, inserted in the same production process.
In professional practice, however, these disciplines interact, and the challenge lies in conducting integrated and synchronized processes.
To overcome this challenge, BIM (Building Information Modeling) emerges as a digital platform to support a collaborative environment, and also presents an additional, wider scope, element for professional training.
There is a gap between project conception and analysis through the lens of building technology, costs, comfort and performance, and building systems.
Just as analysis procedures can aid design decisions, the quality of the architectural object is crucial in the formation of the student's repertoire, even if it is used only for estimates or simulations of performance of various orders.
Objective: To constitute the technological infrastructure and knowledge base for the teaching of the state of the art of production in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation (AECO) sector at a global level.
Specific objectives:
1. Modernise pedagogical tools and procedures in line with cutting-edge technological innovations;
2. Develop skills, aligned with professional activity, in the digital age of building design, construction and operation;
3. Promote interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, without compromising the pedagogical purpose of each discipline, contributing to consolidate the unity of the course and the student's training;
Method: The proposal presented here preserves the autonomy of the disciplines, while seeking to simulate the integration of the design process within and between undergraduate courses.
To this end, it starts with the sensitization and generalist training of the faculty and students, in order to be able to operationalize the gradual insertion of BIM in the curriculum, through lectures, workshops, courses and specific consultancy, as well as validity tests of the contents and processes as they are introduced.
Within the scope of the disciplines in which BIM is being introduced, offering students and teachers the conditions for models, previously elaborated and/or developed in project disciplines, or Scientific Initiation projects, to be integrated with other processes, such as coordination of project specialties and cost and performance analysis, simulating the desired collaborative work, in which all disciplines are integrated and developed in parallel.
It is not the final form, but a gradual path of improvement.
Main participants (School of Architecture and Urbanism, where not specified)
Teaching staff
Graduate students
Undergraduate students in Scientific Initiation projects
Source of Financing: Undergraduate Studies Provost, University of São Paulo - Research Grant.