Smart City and Building Information Technologies
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 428
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cities have always been smart: they are humanity's greatest inventions, incorporating the latest technologies of their time. Technically, a smart city is a complex network of smart buildings and facilities as well as their production, distribution, and consumption. How to define the digital information of a building and successfully implant it into the urban ecosystem is a fundamental condition for the success of a smart city. We need to create a novel built environment model that includes human and environmental information that extends the existing building information model. Combining this with new analytical techniques and design methods is an important research challenge for smart cities. Embracing generative AI technologies, redefining design and housing styles using virtual reality or metaverse technologies, and virtual environments where various stakeholders can collaborate are gaining attention. There is also a need to develop optimized digital twin technologies to maximize the use of resources in the context of a circular economy. In this context, multidisciplinary research to embrace the uncertainty and atypicality of cities and restore the serendipity of the environment is the inevitable future of architectural research.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent challenges and developments of multi-disciplinary approaches in smart city and buildings information technologies. Topics include but are not limited to:
- built environment model
- generative urban design
- metaverse mediated participatory design
- urban prototyping
- design for reuse
- digital twin
- uncertainty
- serendipity
Prof. Dr. Sung-Ah Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- built environment model
- generative urban design
- metaverse mediated participatory design
- urban prototyping
- design for reuse
- digital twin
- uncertainty
- serendipity
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