critical analysis of the absence of interior - Bilkent University

addressed the lack of interior architectural elements for several specific parts of the
buildings and lack of photorealistic image rendering. One of the mentioned critical
points was the ‘ease of use’ attribute. Users had complains about the ‘ease of use’ of
CAAD software, claiming that general purpose CAAD software does not assist in a
user friendly fashion. Here it might be suggested that in an interior architectural
specific CAAD software package there would be a large set of built in interior
architectural libraries and proper tools for photorealistic rendering. Thus, it would be
easy to operate in a flexible manner.
After gathering features of the CAAD software and the user needs, the following
chapter of the thesis is dedicated to the proposed model. This proposed model aims at
resolving the conflicts between general software packages and puts user needs on top
of the solution stack. The proposed model is presented based on a feature and quality
attribute list in relation to the end users. However, a software engineering approach
should not be expected at any level.
To sum up, all researches and analyses given with this thesis infer that there is an
absence for domain specific CAAD software in the education and market dedicated
to interior architecture. The concluding proposed model is extracted from the results
of the analyses of many general purpose and domain specific software packages, and
a large questionnaire and interview in a wide spectrum of users. This model can be
used as a reference for the future implementations in order to realize specific CAAD
software for interior architects to meet their needs and to augment to solve their real
life problems.
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