Abstract:

Abstract With the introduction of digital technologies into architecture discipline in the 1960s, computer-aided design (CAD) tools both allowed architectural designs to be drawn and modeled in a digital environment, and helped to materialise them in physical environment. Digital technologies also supported a collaborative process, and enabled to handle form-material-structure together. Building Information Modeling (BIM), on the other hand, has gone beyond being a computer-aided tool and as a three[1]dimensional data model that contains the data required for design, production, construction and operation stages, supported the simultaneous integration of different disciplines and made information exchange healthier. Digital design is transforming into a process-oriented structure that includes digital creation and production processes, and today, evaluating the digital architectural design process requires understanding of structural design. In this study, structural design that is becoming an integral part of the digital architectural design process is examined in the context of the relationship between form structure-constructability. In this examination, CAD that enables design, analysis and construction of complex geometries; BIM that supports interoperability by enabling a simultaneous interaction; the contribution of CAD and BIM to the constructability; and the current state of the design process in the context of CAD-BIM relation are evaluated. The effects of CAD and BIM on architectural design[1]structural design relationship are discussed through examples designed with integrated design processes and the tools employed.

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