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_id lasg_nearlivingarchitecture_2014_045
id lasg_nearlivingarchitecture_2014_045
authors Armstrong, Rachel
year 2014
title Potent Matter; The Dynamic Chemistries of Hylozoic Ground
source Near-Living Architecture; Work in Progress from The Hylozoic Ground Collaboration 2011 - 2013 [ISBN 978-1-926724-45-4 (pbk).--ISBN 978-1-926724-57-7 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-926724-58-4 (mobi)] Riverside Architectural Press: Toronto, Canada 2014 pp. 045 - 062
keywords Living Architecture Systems Group, living architecture, meshworks, metabolisms, kinetic, cybernetic, artificial intelligence, cognition, neuroscience, prototyping, diffusive, subtle phenomena, form-languge, chemistry, natural computing, affect, perception
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_id lasg_sentientchamber_2016_fulltext
id lasg_sentientchamber_2016_fulltext
authors Beesley, Philip; Rachel Armstrong, Colin Ellarg, Rob Gorbet and Dana Kuliæ
year 2016
title Sentient Chamber
source Sentient Chamber [ISBN 978-1-988366-05-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-988366-07-4 (epub)] Riverside Architectural Press: Toronto, Canada 2016.
summary Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington from November 2, 2015 to May 31, 2016.
keywords Living Architecture Systems Group, sentient, architecture, immersive, protocells, meshworks, form-language, responsive, interactive, drawings, design methods, metabolism, scaffolds, integrated knowledge, microcontrollers, laser cutting, electronics, curiosity-based
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_id cf2019_051
id cf2019_051
authors Dickey , Rachel
year 2019
title Soft Additive Fabrication Processes: Material Indeterminacy in 3D Printing
source Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!"  [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, p. 434
summary This description of Soft Additive Fabrication Processes, documents ways in which chance and randomness might be treated as values rather than problems. The production of a series of robotically controlled extruder experiments explore integrating material volition with the rigid order of machine control. Specifically this paper outlines the development of tooling procedures that harness emergent conditions in the automation of qualitative material effects. A key question for the research asks, how might architects imagine a design and construction scenario, which is no longer confined to prescriptive material dimensions, but is instead driven by digitally calibrated stochastic material processes? What opportunities might arise from developing an automated system, which does not rely on direct translation, but instead operates and predicts outcomes within a range of potential results?
keywords Additive manufacturing, robotics, 3D printing, indeterminacy, material volition
series CAAD Futures
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last changed 2019/07/29 14:18

_id acadia23_v3_19
id acadia23_v3_19
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2023
title Material Interfaces
source ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 3: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9891764-1-0]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 24-32.
summary Based on our current daily rate, 85,410 hours is the average amount of time that an adult in the United States will spend on their phone in a lifetime (Howarth 2023). This is time spent texting, tweeting, emailing, snapping, chatting, posting, and interacting with an interface which each of us carry in our pocket. Kelly Dobson explains, “We psychologically view the cell phone as an extension of our bodies, which is why when you accidentally forget it or leave it behind you feel you have lost apart of yourself” (2013). In reality, this device is just one of many technologies which affect our relationship with our bodies and the physical world. Additionally, Zoom meetings, social media networks, on-line shopping, and delivery robots, all increasingly detach our bodies and our senses from our everyday experiences and interactions. In response to digital culture, Liam Young writes, “Perhaps the day will come when we turn off our target ads, navigational prompts, Tinder match notifications, and status updates to find a world stripped bare, where nothing is left but scaffolds and screens” (2015). Make no mistake; the collection of projects shared in these field notes is intended to be a counterpoint to such a prophesied future. However, the intent is not to try to compete with technology, but rather, to consider the built environment itself as an interface, encouraging interaction through feedback and responsivity directly related to human factors, finding ways to re-engage the body through design.
series ACADIA
type field note
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last changed 2024/04/17 13:59

_id caadria2017_149
id caadria2017_149
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2017
title Soft Systems - Rethinking Indeterminacy in Architecture as Opportunity Driven Research
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2017.811
source P. Janssen, P. Loh, A. Raonic, M. A. Schnabel (eds.), Protocols, Flows, and Glitches - Proceedings of the 22nd CAADRIA Conference, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, 5-8 April 2017, pp. 811-820
summary The research projects in this paper examine the notion of soft systems relative to machine induced material consequences. It asks, how might we integrate processes and methods which leave tolerances for indeterminacy and flexibility into design and construction? The two projects outlined investigate change of state materials paired with automation strategies, focusing on additive processes with thermally induced material configurations and programmable matter with magnetically controlled formations.
keywords robotics; 3d printing; digital fabrication; automation; indeterminacy
series CAADRIA
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last changed 2022/06/07 07:55

_id ecaade2017_116
id ecaade2017_116
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2017
title Ontological Instrumentation in Architecture - A Collection of Prototypes Engaging Bodies and Machines from the Inside Out
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2017.2.667
source Fioravanti, A, Cursi, S, Elahmar, S, Gargaro, S, Loffreda, G, Novembri, G, Trento, A (eds.), ShoCK! - Sharing Computational Knowledge! - Proceedings of the 35th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 20-22 September 2017, pp. 667-672
summary This paper provides a theoretical discourse on ontological instruments in design by exploring the ways in which design and technology might help get us back to an understanding of our own humanity. The intent of this theoretical discourse is to illuminate the possibilities of what can be, by looking at history as a way to see the world with perspective and as a predictor of what may happen. Another objective is to demonstrate the proof of those possibilities through the presentation of two design research projects which actualize those ideas. The first project is a prototype for an interactive chair that explores the calming effects of conscious and synchronized breathing. The second project is a reinterpretation of the veil and explores the relationship between the individual and the public. Both projects are artistic and performative in character and are embedded in a theoretical discourse on ontological instruments and investigate the opportunities of interaction of the human body with the environment moderated by technology.
keywords prosthesis; cyborgs; robots; technology; humanity; culture
series eCAADe
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_id cf2017_419
id cf2017_419
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2017
title Soft Computing in Design: Developing Automation Strategies from Material Indeterminacies
source Gülen Çagdas, Mine Özkar, Leman F. Gül and Ethem Gürer (Eds.) Future Trajectories of Computation in Design [17th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2017, Proceedings / ISBN 978-975-561-482-3] Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-14, 2017, pp. 419-430.
summary Integrating concepts of soft computation into advanced manufacturing and architecture means perceiving the element of chance not as a hindrance, but as an opportunity. The projects examined in this manuscript explore opportunities for integrating material indeterminacy into advanced manufacturing by pairing a certain degree material unpredictability with the rigid order of machine control. The three projects described investigate three common categories of automated tooling including additive processes, subtractive processes and molding / casting processes. Each project begins with the question, what opportunities might arise from the mediation between material volition and computational control? By embracing indeterminate material results and taking an optimistic stance on chance and uncertainty, which are usually treated as problems rather than values, the intent is to provide ways for automating unique material effects and explore the opportunities for integrating soft computing in design.
keywords Robotics, 3d Printing, Digital Fabrication, Automation, Indeterminacy
series CAAD Futures
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last changed 2017/12/01 14:38

_id cf2019_035
id cf2019_035
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2019
title Cultural Prosthetics: Mediating Bodies, Technology, and Space
source Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!"  [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, pp. 257-271
summary Instead of amplifying anxieties about conditions of alienation produced by advanced technologies and machines, this research looks for ways design and technology recalibrate human scale in architecture and inform social interactions. This research outlines two case studies specifically looking at gesture as a method for finding humanity in certain forms and reintroducing it through design and technology. The research asks, how might technology provide us with newfound intimacies with ourselves, each other, and the world around us?
keywords Instrumentation, Prosthesis, Wearable Technology, Gesture, Interaction, Cyborgs
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2019/07/29 14:15

_id caadria2021_092
id caadria2021_092
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2021
title The Acoustic Pavilion - Prototyping Alternatives for Gypsum based Construction
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.523
source A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 523-532
summary Gypsum is one of the most commonly used building materials today and prevalent in architectural acoustics. However, despite its ubiquitous appropriation, few domains of research or practice seek to provide opportunistic approaches for its acoustical application. This paper outlines the computational design and fabrication processes for the development of a pavilion that explores alternative acoustic applications for gypsum. It demonstrates how sound performance can drive the conceptual agenda for a project by articulating the conditions of spatial experience through the design of architectural surface.
keywords fabrication; computational design; acoustics; reflective surfaces; diffusive surfaces
series CAADRIA
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last changed 2022/06/07 07:55

_id sigradi2023_103
id sigradi2023_103
authors Dickey, Rachel
year 2023
title Materiality & Light: Case Studies Exploring Architectural Surfaces informed by Light Behavior
source García Amen, F, Goni Fitipaldo, A L and Armagno Gentile, Á (eds.), Accelerated Landscapes - Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2023), Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, 29 November - 1 December 2023, pp. 1455–1464
summary This paper outlines three case studies that explore the relationship between form, material behavior, and light performance. Each case study appropriates methods of computational analysis, parametric design, and digital fabrication to construct directed light fields and patterns from architectural surfaces in public spaces. Each project explores how controlled conditions of materiality and light phenomena may provide opportunities to reengage the physicality of human experience by generating effects that attempt to enhance human interaction and spatial perception.
keywords Form, Light, Performance, Digital fabrication, Parametric design
series SIGraDi
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last changed 2024/03/08 14:08

_id caadria2024_23
id caadria2024_23
authors Globa, Anastasia, Lee, Rachel and Brambilla, Arianna
year 2024
title Waste Not: Building Materials for a Sustainable Future
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2024.3.241
source Nicole Gardner, Christiane M. Herr, Likai Wang, Hirano Toshiki, Sumbul Ahmad Khan (eds.), ACCELERATED DESIGN - Proceedings of the 29th CAADRIA Conference, Singapore, 20-26 April 2024, Volume 3, pp. 241–250
summary The escalating climate crisis and diminishing resources call for a radical shift from high-carbon building materials to more sustainable alternatives. This paper investigates the potential of mycelium, a living biomaterial, in creating sustainable architecture from household waste, addressing resource depletion, and contributing to a resilient built environment. The study's unique contribution is the practical application of household waste to produce mycelium composites for building materials, supporting a circular economy. In an experimental study, sixty samples with differing substrate-to-mycelium ratios were systematically analysed for weight gain/loss, shrinkage post-drying, health of growth, mould contamination, and aesthetic qualities. The findings demonstrate the feasibility and limitations of utilising local waste and living materials in architecture, addressing the research question concerning mycelium's potential in sustainable and localised construction. This paper details the experimental findings and outlines the next research phase, advancing the innovative application of mycelium in the field, and their adoption within wider communities.
keywords Mycelium, Living Materials, Circular Economy, Sustainable Materials, SDGs.
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2024/11/17 22:05

_id acadia23_v1_40
id acadia23_v1_40
authors Imai, Nate; Conway, Matthew; Lee, Rachel
year 2023
title The Colors We Share
source ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 1: Projects Catalog of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 40-47.
summary The Colors We Share is the winning proposal for a permanent public art installation that will be built in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo (Figure 1). Selected through a rigorous open Request for Proposals (RFP) process organized by the city, the project honors the community’s rich and multivalent history and celebrates the voices of its next generation. In collaboration with the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), the installation will feature a digital archive and will incorporate imagery gathered through social media to connect with other Nihonmachi (Japanese-descendant) communities across the globe in real time (Densho, n.d.). The vision for the project is two-fold: 1) to construct a vertical gateway that connects with the adjacent neighborhood, and 2) to create a dynamic display that allows community members to see themselves in the structure and connect with other Nihonmachi through locally, nationally, and internationally collected images and colors (Figure 2). In reference to the conference theme, this digital interface draws upon Dana Cuff and Jennifer Wolch’s Urban Humanities framework and creates a physical landmark that parses through an abundance of information to reveal the scarce voices and stories of a minority population (Cuff and Wolch 2016).
series ACADIA
type project
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_id ddss2008-43
id ddss2008-43
authors Katoshevski, Rachel; Theo Arentze and Harry Timmermans
year 2008
title Simulating Urban Dynamics Using a Combination of CellularAutomata and Activity-Based Models
source H.J.P. Timmermans, B. de Vries (eds.) 2008, Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, ISBN 978-90-6814-173-3, University of Technology Eindhoven, published on CD
summary Cellular automata models of urban change have been criticised for their lack of behavioural theory and representation in simulating urban change. It has led to a plea for developing multi-agent models. As a first step into this direction, this paper discusses the formulation of a combination of a cellular automata representation for an initial configuration of land use. This is linked to an activity-based model of travel demand, which generates varying demand for facilities across space. Agents, representing facility providers respond to this demand in locating and resizing their facilities. The interplay between these components then results in urban dynamics. The model is illustrated using a hypothetical example of urban forms.
keywords Cellular automata, Activity-Based Modelling, Urban dynamics
series DDSS
last changed 2008/09/01 17:06

_id caadria2021_448
id caadria2021_448
authors Koh, Seow Jin, Mok, Chiew Kai, Tan, Rachel and Chen, Edmund
year 2021
title Optimising Harbour Typology in the Form Finding Process using Computational Design: A case study of a Greenfield port facility
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.2.619
source A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 619-628
summary The bulk of computational design strategies and research have been focused on issues related to architectural form and building systems. This is done by employing computational tools to optimise architectural forms, building performance and generally, improve quality of living. Many of these methodologies are based on the concept of form finding - varying geometric elements to generate and evaluate options to derive optimised solutions. However, beyond building designs, the concept of form finding can find its relevance in other design applications too such as engineering, landscape, and in our case, the design of ports, or more specifically harbour typology. In most building scenarios, the plot of land earmarked for development is typically selected beforehand, hence little exploration have been done to optimise land topology, when in fact the profile of land is the governing feature in most designs. For performance driven facilities like ports with high economic and political impact, there is value in optimizing topology to maximise throughput. Through the multi-disciplinary and collaborative effort of stakeholders and specialists, our project explored optimizing harbour topology via performance-based approach using computational design. The phenomenon, including impact and effects of trade-offs, are discussed and presented in this paper through a case study of a Greenfield port facility.
keywords form finding; form optimisation; port masterplanning; harbour typology; computational design
series CAADRIA
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last changed 2022/06/07 07:51

_id acadia11_144
id acadia11_144
authors Lavallee, Justin; Vroman, Rachel; Keshet, Yair
year 2011
title Automated Folding of Sheet Metal Components with a Six-axis Industrial Robot
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2011.144
source ACADIA 11: Integration through Computation [Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)] [ISBN 978-1-6136-4595-6] Banff (Alberta) 13-16 October, 2011, pp. 144-151
summary Through the automation of folding of sheet metal components by a six-axis industrial robot we explored the integration of parametrically-driven design and fabrication tools and its real-world implementation. Developed out of research into new possibilities presented by direct programming of flexible, digitally-driven, industrial tools, this project intends to speculate about the future implementation of parametric modeling tools in the field of design, and associated new, parametrically variable, fabrication processes. We explored the relationship between designer and machine, between data and craft, and tested conjectures about scale of production, through the digital creation, physical cutting, mental tracking, robotic folding, manual riveting, and sometimes painful installation of five hundred and thirty two unique sheet metal components. Such evaluations give insight into possible trajectories for development of new models of fabrication processes, questioning the scale and intellectual scope appropriate for custom fabrication environments, and the implicit need to then evaluate the incorporation of digital craft in design pedagogy.
series ACADIA
type work in progress
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_id caadria2020_377
id caadria2020_377
authors Lu, Ji Rong, Chang, Teng Wen and Wu, Yi Sin
year 2020
title HIGAME+ - Planting as a medium to connect IOT objects in different environments to emotionally interact with elderly people alone
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.273
source D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, I. Koh (eds.), RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 273-282
summary Elderly living alone have less chance to communicate with their families, so they tend to feel lonely and lack well-being. This study uses gardening activities which is familiar to elderly as the behavioral medium. Make elderly people living alone and their children living in other places through the Internet of Things system to connect space off-site to emotional interaction. Connect children of elderly 'mobile phone apps to HiGame+ potted plants in the home environment of the elderly, so that family members can care and accompany the plants in the homes of the elderly without space restrictions. At the same time, the potted objects will also record the long-term behaviors of the elderly, and will be transformed into the visualization of mood information to interact with children of elderly from other places to break the limit of spatial distance. Give elderly living alone to be emotionally connected and interactive, to increase their well-being.
keywords Elderly Living Alone; Emotional Interaction; Cross-Space Interaction; Internet of Things; Plant Care
series CAADRIA
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_id 07c4
authors McGilton, Henry and Morgan, Rachel
year 1983
title Introducing the UNIX system
source 556 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. includes bibliography: p. 541-544 and index. --- ( McGraw-Hill software series for computer professionals)
summary A reference guide for version 7 of the UNIX system including: Key concepts behind the system, from how to log on, the directory structure and a file system to the ideas of standard files and processes. Popular UNIX packages, software development tools, management and maintenance and more
keywords UNIX, software, tools, education
series CADline
last changed 2003/06/02 13:58

_id ascaad2012_010
id ascaad2012_010
authors Morais, Helen; Neander Silva and Ecilamar Lima
year 2012
title Complexity and Mass Customization in Contemporary Architecture - Prospects in an Emergent Economy
source CAAD | INNOVATION | PRACTICE [6th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2012 / ISBN 978-99958-2-063-3], Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), 21-23 February 2012, pp. 93-102
summary In this paper we demonstrate through examples and an experiment that digital fabrication is viable and it is starting to produce impact in the Brazilian architecture, towards mass customization, not only through some exceptional buildings, but also through small experiences involving ordinary design needs. The examples show that digital fabrication is already contributing to innovative solutions in the Brazilian architecture. The experiment consisted of producing and comparing two models of a column of the National Cathedral of Brasilia, one analogically and other digitally fabricated. The results of this experiment show that digital fabrication technology and mass customization are not only economically viable for the Brazilian construction industry but can also contribute to significant savings.
series ASCAAD
email
more http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2012/papers/ascaad2012_010.pdf
last changed 2012/05/15 20:46

_id lasg_hylozoicground_2010_124
id lasg_hylozoicground_2010_124
authors Rachel Armstrong
year 2010
title Hylozoic Soil Chemistries & Unanswered Questions In the Origin of Life
source Hylozoic Ground; Liminal Responsive Architecture [ISBN 978-1-926724-02-7] Riverside Architectural Press: Toronto, Canada 2010. pp. 124 - 141
summary Introductory summary of developing Hylozoic Series, a collection of life-like architectural structures
keywords Hylozoism, Hylozoic series, synthetic ecology, habitation, soil, protocell, chells, incubators, metaphysics
email
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_id lasg_whitepapers_2016_028
id lasg_whitepapers_2016_028
authors Rachel Armstrong
year 2016
title Metabolic Systems
source Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2016 [ISBN 978-1-988366-10-4 (EPUB)] Riverside Architectural Press 2016: Toronto, Canada pp. 028 - 043
summary Living Architecture Systems Group "White Papers 2016" is a dossier produced for the occasion of the Living Architecture Systems Group launch event and symposium hosted on November 4 and 5 at the Sterling Road Studio in Toronto and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture at Cambridge. The "White Papers 2016" presents research contributions from the LASG partners, forming an overview of the partnership and highlighting oppportunities for future collaborations.
keywords design, dissipative methods, design methods, synthetic cognition, neuroscience, metabolism, STEAM, organicism, field work, responsive systems, space, visualizations, sensors, actuators, signal flows, art and technology, new media art, digital art, emerging technologies, citizen building, bioinspiration, performance, paradigms, artificial nature, virtual design, regenerative design, 4DSOUND, spatial sound, biomanufacturing, eskin, delueze, bees, robotics
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