In order to reflect the continuous developments in school building construction with constantly changing spatial requirements, an approach to analyse, derive and combine patterns of schools is proposed to adapt school typologies accordingly. Therefore, the topology is analysed, concerning interconnection methods, such as adjacency, accessibility, depth, and flow. The geometric analysis of e.g. room sizes or spatial proportions is enhanced by including grouping of rooms, estimated room clusters, or room shapes.

Furthermore, text-matching is used to determine e.g. room program fulfilment, or assigning functional room descriptions to predefined room types, revealing huge differences of terms throughout time and architects. First results of the analyses show a relevant correlation between spatial proportion and room types. Using visual programming and parametric design tools, Industry Foundaction Classes (IFC) files are translated into the aGraphML format, pre-processing data of three different school buildings on the topology, adjacency, and room program for artificial intelligence use within the ‘metis’ projects of the KSD Research Group and in cooperation with ALN (Architekturbüro Leinhäupl Neuber).

Freireiss, K. and Commerell, H. J. (Eds.), Zukunft Schulbau: Europäische Beispiele zeitgemäßer Schularchitektur, Future school buildings, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Germany, Aedes Architekturforum, 2019.