Visual Databases

As with briefs, one can also make databases that collect and organize information on designs – one’s own, precedents one studies, or types one explores. In addition to the general benefits for information and project management, such databases can help one with the development of a brief by providing precedents that can serve either as sources of new designs or as comparison material at all stages of briefing. In this chapter one sees how design databases can be structured and how they can be used in briefing, from the derivation of data for a new brief to the evaluation of designs with respect to the brief.