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Architecture has been described as frozen music. Alternatively, open building proposes an evolving collaborative symbiotic performance. However, current practice in the building industry is motivated by short term‘ closed’ (frozen) building perspectives. The uptake of BIM technologies challenges current practice in architecture by extending the dimensions of the building model from the spatial to include commissioning, occupation and decommissioning data. In this sense, BIM provides information systems that could support a vision of open building, but the relationship between the building stakeholders, their needs and the BIM model is unclear. An approach is therefore sort that will enable both the occupants and the building design team to design buildings that can be adapted to their contemporary and future needs. In business, ‘enterprise architecture’ frameworks are often used to map the needs of an organization to its information systems. One of the earliest of these frameworks was based on observations of the design and construction of buildings. These frameworks are typically developed for use in a single organization. Alternatively, a‘community architecture’ framework has been proposed that can model the relationship between information systems and loosely connected and diverse stakeholders such as that found in open building. This paper represents an inversion of the ‘architectural framework’ back to buildings from its previous incubation in business. Here, the multi-dimensional ‘community architecture’ framework is adapted to address the identified challenges of supporting open building through an ‘open architecture framework‘ for itself and its stakeholders both now and in the future. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Proceedings of the Future of Open Building Conference

Proceedings of the Future of Open Building Conference