BIM based collaborative design technology for Collective Self-organised Housing

This paper refers to the ongoing EU FP7 project PROFICIENT. The paper concentrates on the development of innovative Collaborative Design Technology (CDT) solutions. A CSO housing process inserts the client at all stages of design and implementation, not just at initial briefing stages. In this paper we evaluated the potential of Building Information Model (BIM) based Collaborative Design Technologies (CDT) for supporting the CSO housing design process. Based on the evaluation, the paper introduces the architecture for a platform with an accompanying business model that can guide a group of homeowners through the entire design project. In conclusion, the paper shows that architectural housing design can be meaningfully supported by a purposeful combination of BIM based techniques.