B4 - Project Outline

              The topic my partner and I selected for our term project is comparing green energy in residential housing to AI within residential housing. While it is a topic commonly selected in past years with AE 410, I think it’s extremely interesting. In order to create more of a focus within the paper, we selected to compare the two in residential housing. Residential housing is something that effects the population every day and seeing where AI and green energy has been used in the past and where we are moving to in the future is an interesting concept. Within the outline, the part of the paper I’m most looking forward to is seeing where people think we’re going in the future- this was the topic of our first blog post and has been brought up many times in class, and I’m very interested in delving into the topic even more. One thing that my group mentioned during one of the discussion times in class was the classic Disney movie Smart House which is based around AI in residential housing. I think this is also one of the things I think has pulled me towards looking at residential instead of offices, city layout, etc. In terms of comparing the two, we plan on putting together a graphic, potentially a pros and cons table or a Venn diagram. This will add a visual aspect to comparing the two and will compile the information we gather to in an organized matter. It will also summarize most of our research as best as possible.

              While we haven’t been able to delve further into finding the sources yet, most of the ones we were able to look at from Professor Mitchell’s Evernotes were related to AI, so we have not looked further into the green energy. From our background knowledge, I think that this paper will focus more on AI due to most of our previous knowledge coming from green energy. I personally worked a lot with LEED procedures in previous co-ops, so I know a lot more with green buildings than I do AI, which I haven’t researched outside of this class. 

Responses

Alec Silverstone, I think your topic is extremely interesting! I have always felt like I missed out on learning about robots when I was younger, and I simply became interesting in other topics since. Since the first two classes when we were looking at videos of robots on construction sites, I think it’s an extremely fascinating idea to use them. One thing that Derek mentioned in last week’s presentation was how the construction industry is struggling due to a lack of qualified workers (most of the time, subcontractors)  and I think the addition of robots can at times, such as now, be seen as a benefit, but it would be interesting to hear about the drawbacks you see with robots – specifically, in a time when work is low and how robots will prevent humans from jobs and ways that can be prevented.

Yicheng Li, I think your project is very interesting! So far, I think the design of the building is well done and I’m excited to see what changes you plan on making in the future. You mention you’ve worked with Revit before – for this project, how do you plan on expanding your knowledge to a new level?

Richard Kimbell, I like how you plan on looking further into Dynamo and I’m excited to see the end result. Having not worked much with Revit and other software in general, hearing about Dynamo was interesting and I would like to see how you’re able to work through it and what the finished product will produce. Do you foresee any issues coming up having not used the program before and learning it in a relatively short period of time?