英文摘要 |
Architectural design cases are important sources for design thinking while cases often lack of visual retrieval mechanism for indexing implicit knowledge. This paper aims to develop a visual system named Spatial Topology Retrieval (STR), which offers (1) schematic layout as visual annotation; (2) visual validation when coding topology; and (3) visual interface for retrieving related cases. STR is applied to an ontology-based on-line architectural design case library, which is composed of house design cases. STR provides the case library with a visual tool for coding, indexing and retrieving the ill-structured plane data, and their spatial topology in the design case. By cross-linking keywords of the ontology in the library, STR therefore can online establish associations of spatial topology with case's features, and assist user to associate related knowledge for case-based architectural design. |