A multiscalar approach to renovate the building stock towards a resilient and adaptive built environment

The design and construction process is nowadays a very challenging task which entails complications in the accomplishment of the initial design objectives within the final product, because of the integration of multidisciplinary and heterogenous expertise during the conceptualisation, design, execution and management phases. Mastering the design complexity is strictly correlated to the information management capacity of the actors involved in the building process. The digital revolution has promoted the employment of digital tools and methods, such as Building Information Modeling, to encourage the automation of some of the necessary design operations. The additional information required during the design phases, corresponding to different Levels of Detail (LOD) of the modelled objects, represents a strategic instrument to verify the implementation of the initial objectives throughout the whole design process. The rationalisation of this approach implies the upstream identification of a set of design requirements combined within a flexible matrix, to be adjusted according to specific needs. Such requirements, as well as a series of control tools defined at different levels of detail, could be incorporated within the BIM model. By exemplification of this approach, this contribution proposes some considerations on the benefits that such digital software and methodology could provide for the achievement of the desirable compliance between the design objectives and the final construction.