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_id	sigradi2006_c198d
id	sigradi2006_c198d
authors	Espina B, Jane; Oliva, Javier; Rincón, Francisco and Herrero, Pilar
year	2006
title	Entornos Virtuales y su interconectividad en la WEB para la planificación urbana [Virtual Environments and their Interconnectivity in the Web for the Urban Planning]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 350-354
summary	Virtual Environments and their Interconnectivity in the Web for the Urban Planning. This work presents the creation of virtual environments based on the urban space of the Plaza Baralt in Maracaibo, Venezuela; in defined historical moments as study scenarios, using autonomous virtual agents. The selection of the scenarios is based in the analysis of the place in the present, and the study of multimedia material of the period 1920-2006. The main objective is developing virtual environments, incorporating the interconnectivity in the Web into a multi-user system, for the urban planning. Methodologically, it's divided into the following phases: 1) Data search; 2) Study of the social, cultural, religious and economical activities of the square; 3) Analysis of the urban space; 4) Virtual reconstruction of the scenarios in the present and in the period between 1900 - 1927; 5) VRML exporting ; 6) Characters' animation; 7) Integration of the models into a multi-user system; and 8) Web event for the presentation of the results.
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2024_242
id	ecaade2024_242
authors	Koh, Immanuel; Saw, Man Lin
year	2024
title	Architectural Dramaturgy: A total and endless theatre with multimodal artificial intelligence
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2024.1.559
source	Kontovourkis, O, Phocas, MC and Wurzer, G (eds.), Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2024), Nicosia, 11-13 September 2024, Volume 1, pp. 559–564
summary	Close to a century ago, Walter Gropius proposed the highly influential but unrealised project ‘Total Theatre’ (1927). The project captured Gropius’ adapted formulation of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’(‘total work of art’) as ‘Total Design’ within the Bauhaus, and more specifically, in relation to ‘The Theatre of the Bauhaus’ (1924). The ‘Total Theatre’ was Gropius’ attempt to dynamically reconfigure the previously static relationship between actors and audience into one that is participatory and filmic in spatial layout. Around the same time in history, shortly after designing the set for Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The Emperor Jones’ in 1924, Frederick Kiesler began to conceptualise his ‘Endless Theatre’ (1926). In the former, Kiesler created a constructivist stage space with moving walls/floors/ceilings animating in-sync with the play’s narrative and producing cinematographic effects similar to those found in films. For both Gropius and Kiesler, the theatre is a fertile ground for incorporating the latest technologies to prototype a ‘totally’ multimodal and ‘endlessly’ generative form of architecture. Against the backdrop of such past intellectual efforts in architecture, and that of today’s rapidly foregrounding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in artificial intelligence (AI) within the architecture discipline, the paper posits that it is timely to revisit this conceptual cross-fertilisation of theatre and architecture – architectural dramaturgy. In doing so, the research aims to extend Gropius’s and Kiesler’s concept of the ‘total’ and the ‘endless’ respectively through the lens of the ‘computational’. The first experiment uses different datasets from existing established theatre creators to train and prompt-engineer relevant AI models, namely a text-to-text model for playwright Arthur Miller, a text-to-image model for director Ivo van Hove, and a text-to-audio model for composer Stephen Sondheim. In improving the coherence of the results, the second experiment replaces unimodality with multimodality leveraging a single source of video data (the poignant “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet) to formulate a human-in-the-loop interpretative framework by utilising a combination of text-image-to-image model and text-image-to-video model, and further postprocessed with image inpainting model and image-to-3D model. With the deliberate bracketing of site, programmes and other specificities typical of an architecture project, the research demonstrates how concepts borrowed from theatre when layered with multimodal AI could extend the discipline’s longstanding conception of a total and endless architecture.
keywords	Theatre, Deep Learning, Large Multimodal Models, Kiesler, Gropius
series	eCAADe
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_id	4b46
authors	Brady, Darlene A.
year	1997
title	The Mind's Eye: Movement and Time in Architecture
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1997.085
source	Design and Representation [ACADIA ‘97 Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-06-3] Cincinatti, Ohio (USA) 3-5 October 1997, pp. 85-93
summary	Le Corbusier notes in Vers Une Architecture that, because we look at the creation of architecture with eyes which are 5'-6" from the ground, it is imperative to "deal with aims which the eye can appreciate, and intentions which take into account architectural elements." (Le Corbusier 1927) Architecture is a three-dimensional entity that we experience as much through movement as repose. Therefore, it is essential that the computer technology used to design architecture enables the consideration of both aspects of this experience. This paper presents several ways in which animation is used to enhance the design process.
series	ACADIA
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