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YANG2 and CATHERINE ELSEN 1  \n1 University of Liège, Belgium  \n[[catherine.elsen@ulg.ac.be](catherine.elsen@ulg.ac.be) ; [maxime.cunin@alumni.ulg.ac.be](maxime.cunin@alumni.ulg.ac.be)]  \n1 chemin des Chevreuils – BAT 52  \nB4000 Liège – Belgium  \nPhone : +32 4 366 92 42  \n2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA [[mcyang@mit.edu](mcyang@mit.edu)]  \n77 Massachusetts Avenue – 3-446  \n02139 Cambridge, MA – USA  \nPhone : +1 617 324 4029  \nIMPACTS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATIONS (short version)  \nNumber of manuscript pages / 18 pages  \nNumber of tables / 4 tables  \nNumber of images / 8 images  \nCambridge University Press  \nArtificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Page 2 of 18  \nTHE IMPACT OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATIONS  \nON CONVEYING DESIGN INTENT  \nMAXIME CUNIN 1, MARIA C. YANG2 and CATHERINE ELSEN 1  \n1 University of Liège, Belgium  \n2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA  \nArchitects express themselves graphically in order to communicate  \nideas both to clients and to themselves. In practice, they rely on a  \nvariety of representations such as free-hand drawings, 3D computer  \nrendered images, and photomontages to convey their design intent.  \nResearch to date has demonstrated differences and commonalities in the  \nways in which expert designers and laymen perceive visual  \nunderstanding. It is still unclear how architects themselves use different  \ntypes of representations to express different intentions, and how  \naccurately their expected audience perceives those intentions.  \nThe purpose of this research is to investigate how laymen interpret the  \ninitial design intent of an architect’s design, and what role different  \nforms of representations play in this process of understanding a design.  \nThis paper describes a five-step process for developing a survey that  \nwas used to gather data from 686 laymen respondents. It was found that  \ncertain types of simpler representations presented in specific contexts  \nare unexpectedly found to be a more efficient way to faithfully transmit  \nan architectural intent.  \nKeywords  \ndesign intent, design communication, external representation,  \narchitectural conception  \nCambridge University Press  \nPage 3 of 18 Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing  \n1. CONTEXTS and STATE-OF-THE-ART  \nThe architectural design process can often be characterized by the visual representations that it generates, whether created for internal or external use, used by an individual or collectively, and represented graphically, physically or numerically, among other aspects. In particular, external representations play an essential role translating architectural design intent, or the theme that an architect is trying to convey in a building, into a graphical representation. Such graphical representations have been variously described in the literature as “mediator”,“intermediate”, or “boundary” objects. Studies have recently explored the challenges of transmitting intent in both in industrial design and in architecture as a collaborative process among design","cbCaiu1tCcPXX5Bf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiu1tCcPXX5Bf","pdf",9116640,"English","# Contexts and State-of-the-Art\n## External representations in architectural design\n## Design competitions and client-architect communication","[{\"question\":\"What is the main research goal of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"To investigate how laymen interpret an architect’s initial design intent and how different forms of representations influence understanding.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the authors gather data for the study?\",\"answer\":\"They developed a survey through a five-step process and collected responses from 686 laymen.\"},{\"question\":\"What key finding is reported about architectural representations?\",\"answer\":\"Certain simpler representation types, when used in specific contexts, are unexpectedly more efficient at faithfully transmitting architectural intent.\"}]","THE IMPACT OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATIONS ON CONVEYING DESIGN INTENT | PDF",48]