Visual programming for building information modeling: Energy and shading analysis case studies

Journal of Green Building

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 28-43

  Kensek, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BIM; Building information modeling; Computational design; Dynamo; Grasshopper; Revit; Visual programming language; VPL

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DC GENERATORS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MODELING LANGUAGES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL - BIM; COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN; GRASSHOPPER; REVIT; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84957878015     PISSN: 15526100     EISSN: 19434618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3992/jgb.10.4.28     Document Type: Article

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