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The early stages of building design are characterized by a continuous endeavorfor the development of variants and their evaluation and consistent detailing. Theconcept of adaptive detailing aims to enable the architect to evaluate andcompare design variants which are partially incomplete and vague (Zahedi andPetzold 2018b). This paper discusses a minimized communication protocol basedon BIM, which enables computer-readable interactions between the architect anddifferent domain-experts (representing various analysis and simulationprocedures) (Zahedi and Petzold 2018a). This comprises the selection ofsimulation procedures as well as any necessary consolidation of the informationcontent according to the requirements of the simulations. Any additions requiredon the part of the simulation procedures are visually prepared globally orspace-and component-oriented respectively, in order to perform detailing of abuilding model in a targeted way. Moreover, this paper proposes varioussupportive methods for visual representation and exploration of analysis results.