BIM applied to the teaching of architecture and urbanism design: an overview of pedagogical practices

Abstract

This article deals with Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the context of teaching architectural and urban design. The main objective is to examine BIM-aided architectural design teaching methods that researchers and professors have published. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), we sought to discuss which changes have been observed in research on design teaching in architecture schools when BIM is explicitly incorporated into the design process. Through the premise that there is a methodology or set of specific methodological practices for teaching design aided by BIM, it is intended to extract the teaching practices and experiments gathered in the CuminCad platform, in which a significant number of academic works are published. This way, a list of didactic approaches to BIM applied in project teaching was extracted to subsidize field research and the experimental practice of project teachers. In the end, five categories of BIM approaches in architectural design were found, which point to some possible paths for teaching architecture and urban design from the perspective of incorporating the BIM paradigm.