Digital Design

The experience of architecture as physical artifact is enriched by the perception, understanding, or imagination of the processes that have brought it to life. Building information modeling (BIM) is an architectural digital environment and work process in which data‐rich 3‐ and potentially 4‐ and 5D building models, composed of contextual building objects, generate dynamically linked graphical and tabular views. To illustrate a varied design process utilizing digital tools, this chapter presents a case study utilizing a workflow that, through BIM, engages a variety of stakeholders and team members in the actualization of projects of different scope and scale. While potentially increasing the architect's scope and role in project design and delivery, the building information model, as precise data, can be parsed in a variety of ways to increase the knowledge of stakeholders.