This research aims to develop a Web-based buildings’ modeling tool which overcomes the performance and development difficulties relying on a unidirectional data flow design pattern and a serverless architecture, respectively. This paper introduces an effective Web architecture for buildings’ modeling that leverages the serverless pattern to dominate the developing complexity. The resulting front-end application, powered by Web Components and based on unidirectional data flow pattern, is extremely customizable and extendible by means of the definition of plugins to augment the UI or the application functionalities. As regards the modeling approach, it offers (a) to model the building drawing the 2D plans and to navigate the building in a 3D first-person point of view; (b) to collaborate in real-time, allowing to work simultaneously on different layers of the project; (c) to define and use new building elements, that are furniture or architectural components (such as stairs, roofs, etc.), augmenting a ready-to-use catalog. This work suggests a path for the next-coming BIM online services, matching the BIM approach’s professional collaboration requirements typical of the BIM approach with the platform that supports them the most: the Web.
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E. Marino, D. Salvati, F. Spini and C. Vadala, “A web serverless architecture for buildings modeling,” International Journal of Technology and Engineering Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 93-100, 2017.
