From Heritage BIM to BPS, a computational design-based interoperability approach

The article deals with the fundamental issue of the interoperability between BIM and BPS in the complex context of historic buildings conservation. As the current tools for the transition from BIM to BPS follow a black-box approach in which it is difficult for the experts to intervene efficiently without doing several parallel operations, this paper proposes a semi-automatic approach that uses Computational Design (CD) to manage the data flow between the two environments. This allowed an interdisciplinary team of BIM, BPS, CD and conservation experts greater control on the scientific coherence of the single operations involved in the process.