RT Journal Article
T1 BH-ShaDe: a software tool that assists architecture students in the ill-structured task of housing design
A1 Millán-Valldeperas, Eva
A1 Belmonte-Martínez, María Victoria
A1 Ruiz-Montiel, Manuela
A1 Gavilanes-Velaz-de-Medrano, Juan
A1 Pérez-de-la-Cruz-Molina, José Luis
K1 Arquitectura -  Enseñanza asistida por ordenador
AB In this paper, we present BH-ShaDe, a new software tool to assist architecture students learning the ill-structured domain/task of housing design. The software tool provides students with automatic or interactively generated floor plan schemas for basic houses. The students can then use the generated schemas as initial seeds to develop complete residential projects. The main goal of our research was to obtain evidence about whether or not such schemas can be useful to architecture students. A first prototype of the tool was evaluated with 78 students, with positive results. However, the students seemed to demand increased user participation, so they could contribute to generating better quality starting points. A second prototype was therefore implemented, allowing a higher degree of interactivity. The second prototype was evaluated with a new group of 50 students. From the two evaluations performed, it can be concluded that both versions of the tool were able to generate useful starting points (either automatically or interactively) that expedited the design process. Additionally, in the second experiment, we found that neither the nature (automatic or interactive) nor the quality of the starting point seems to have any effect on the perceived quality of the final projects.
PB IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29586
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29586
LA eng
NO E. Millan, M. Belmonte, M. Ruiz-Montiel, J. Gavilanes and J. Perez-de-la-Cruz, "BH-ShaDe: A Software Tool that Assists Architecture Students in the Ill-Structured Task of Housing Design" in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 9, no. 03, pp. 244-257, 2016. doi: 10.1109/TLT.2016.2556667
NO This work has been partially supported by grant TIN2009-14179, Plan Nacional de I+D+i, Gobierno de España and by PIE 13-052, Universidad de Málaga. Manuela Ruiz-Montiel is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education through the National F.P.U. Program.
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RD 3 mar 2026