Schema-based workflows and inter-scalar search interfaces for building design

: Today, scattered design processes and manual interventions are almost inevitable within the AEC industry, especially for 3D modelling processes and data management during the post-tender phases of large-scale and geometrically complex architectural projects that involves the participation of many different trades, which have to communicate efficiently between themselves. This research paper presents a state of the art in managing modelling processes of geometrically complex architectural projects and proposes a theoretical framework aiming to simplify, improve and standardize those processes. This framework will be illustrated by practical experiments using schema-based workflows and inter-scalar search interfaces enabling the assembly, visualization and query of the produced data.