An IT-based System to Facilitate Architectural Design

Abstract

In the recent decades, Information Technology has had a great influence on many aspects of human's life. Electronic mails, electronic commerce, and the World Wide Web are examples of revolutionary ideas which changed human's life. There have also been many efforts in the field of adopting IT tools in architectural design and building construction. Many of these efforts are sparse and lack a well-designed cohesive scenario. In this paper, we present a revolutionary system architecture to facilitate all levels of architectural design by connecting parts involved in the process of designing and construction, exploiting capabilities of today's and future's IT tools. This system can further be adopted and enriched in a top-down sense by engineers and software developers working in various fields of computer science and engineering.