Civil engineering projects located within complex environmental and societal contexts require modeling approaches that go beyond isolated component design. The integrated archaeological site considered in this project represents such a challenge, as it combines structural safety, environmental constraints, and public accessibility within a single system. This project focuses on an Integrated Archaeological Site System, a multi-component structural assembly located on steeply sloped terrain.
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The site presents a dual set of requirements. On the one hand, it must ensure a high level of structural stability to protect sensitive archaeological excavations. On the other hand, it must provide a safe, accessible, and visually transparent environment for visitors. The presence of steep terrain, drainage requirements, visitor circulation, and the protection of archaeological heritage introduces strong interdependencies between structural elements that cannot be adequately addressed through independent component-based design.
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To address this complexity, ontology-based modeling is adopted. The ontology is used to make these interdependencies explicit, support structured knowledge sharing among team members, and align semantic knowledge with parametric design logic. Each structural system involved in the project has its own properties, functions, and intended uses. By combining individual system ontologies, a more comprehensive and extensible knowledge model is created, which can be customized to fulfill overall system requirements through reorganization, refinement, and selective modification of existing concepts.
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This report documents the development of an ontology that formally represents an archaeological site consisting of four retaining walls (RW1\u2013RW4) and a glass curtain wall (GCW). Within this ontology, the knowledge bases of all retaining walls and the glass curtain wall are integrated to address site-specific requirements. These include general site requirements related to functional use, as well as safety requirements, which constitute the primary engineering challenge of the project. The ontology represents how different structural assets fulfill specific site requirements, how they are assigned to functional zones and intended uses, and how their performance is evaluated across multiple design scenarios.
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Instances within the ontology represent specific design options, their properties, and associated evaluation results. This enables reuse of domain knowledge and structured analysis of alternative solutions. Furthermore, the ontology supports integration with a parametric modeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n
environment (Dynamo), enabling the evaluation of design alternatives under different safety- and context-driven scenarios. While the parametric model governs geometry and numerical calculations, the ontology defines the system structure, component relationships, and the conceptual logic through which design decisions are understood at the system level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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