Roles.#
Architectural Engineering roles in the future will be different from today. This section describes 5 emerging roles that you could consider in your future. The roles below are derived from two papers:
Morphogenetic Architecture for Intelligent Buildings (McGinley, 2015)
Supporting the OpenBIM Transition (McGinley et. al. 2023)
Analyst#
This shares some similarities to the OpenBIM Analyst role, but it focuses on the Morphogenetic analysis of the Agile Prototypes. here
Modeller#
This shares some similarities to the OpenBIM Modeller role, but it focuses on the Morphogenetic modelling.
Coder#
The coder designs and edits the design genes, they also might configure design systems although this is mostly taken by the Systems Designer
Carver#
This is an extension of the OpenBIM Ontologist role, but it focuses on the Morphogenetic Carving. This is best described as using a TUI (tangible user interface) to augment the future desing experience. Linked Data is touted as a future information technology for the AECO however most implimentations focus on using it for analysis. The potential of operating directly on linked data graphs to design has yet to be fully explored. This is expllored in speculative papers employing a ‘katana’ TUI to carve the graph in an XR environment.
Futurologist#
This role ‘will’ become increasingly useful in the future. Whether it is predicting the future life cycles of prodcuts and materials or defining the future challenges to the built and natural environments.
System Architect#
The role of the system architect would be to support the other designers to perform their post singularity professions. Given the multiple roles and motivations of the design team, it will therefore be necessary to support the views of multiple stakeholders in the proposed framework. It is possible that thefunctions of contemporary roles of architects and engineers could be absorbed into a single system architect ‘master builder’ role.
A Morphogenetic Architecture for Intelligent Buildings (McGinley, 2015)