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_id	2006_168
id	2006_168
authors	Papalexopoulos, Dimitris
year	2006
title	Digital Territories and the Design Construction Continuum
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.168
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 168-174
summary	The purpose of the paper is to bring together the two newly elaborated concepts of Digital Territories (DT) and Design Construction Continuum (DCC) in order to approach the design of evolving – intelligent environments.Digital Territories is a concept elaborated 2005 by a Core Expert Group, conceived as an ephemeral Ambient Intelligence (AmI) space. DTs formed through the interconnection of physical objects embedding digital technologies, postulate the integration of the physical and the digital world, searching for operative definitions of new evolving in time functionalities. In DT’s, bridges between the physical and the digital are discrete elements disposing of certain autonomy in their conception and internal structure. Bridges have to be designed and located. The DCC proposes to relate design, fabrication and construction through information networks (it is in fact a DT). Through the DCC approach, design information is becoming construction information and industrial fabrication information. The DCC has to integrate interaction design and respond to questions posed by DTs design. DTs are integrated to DCC by constituting an intermediate level between building programming and design. Intelligent Building Components, that is AmI components operating as bridges between the physical and the digital in Digital Territories formations, cooperating to develop swarm intelligence applications to architectural space, are elements managed by the DCC. DT’s are about spaces communicating and the DCC is about communicating (design) space.
keywords	Digital Territories; Design Construction Continuum; Interaction Design; Evolving Environments; Intelligent Environments; Location Diagrams; Building Programming
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2006_p034e
id	sigradi2006_p034e
authors	Araujo Pires, Julie and Murad, Carlos
year	2006
title	Inscrições hipertextuais: a escrita como imagem na criação visual contemporânea [Hypertext inscription: writing as image in contemporary visual creation]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 411-414
summary	This paper discusses the creative imagination by the speech’s presence on the contemporary projects of art/design. Nowadays the digital era has shattered limits of the space and the user’s perception in a mix between images and texts, built by numeric language, witnessing possible new ways of writing as image. Considering on the duality between verbal and visual, some post-modern artists/projectors are redeeming the germinal quality of image from the alphabet. They use video and electronic technology incorporating the word written in their creation process. In this sense, Gaston Bachelard’s ideas on the philosophy of image and imagination could be helpful to understand that process. At first, looking through the representations accomplished by the artists gesture in their constructions. Afterwards, how those visual poetics explore the word on video project and electronic way as experimentation and on the creation project process.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:47

_id	ddss2006-pb-343
id	DDSS2006-PB-343
authors	Jumphon Lertlakkhanakul, Sangrae Do, and Jinwon Choi
year	2006
title	Developing a Spatial Context-Aware Building Model and System to Construct a Virtual Place
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Progress in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, ISBN-10: 90-386-1756-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-386-1756-5, p. 343-358
summary	The current notion of space seems to be inappropriate to deal with contemporary and future CAAD applications because it lacks of user and social values. Instead of using a general term called 'space', our approach is to consider the common unit in architectural design process as a place composed of space, user and activity information. Our research focuses on developing a novel intelligent building data model carrying the essence of place. Through our research, the needs of using virtual architectural models among various architectural applications are investigated at first step. Second, key characteristics of spatial information are summarized and systematically classified. The third step is to construct a semantically-rich building data model based on structured floor plan and the semantic location modeling. Then intermediate functions are created providing an interface between the model and future applications. Finally, a prototype system, PlaceMaker, is developed to demonstrate how to apply our building data model to construct virtual architectural models embodying the essences of place.
keywords	Spatial context-aware building model, Spatial reasoning, Virtual place, Location modeling, Design constraint
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	c870
id	c870
authors	Derix, Christian
year	2006
title	Approximating Phenomenological Space
source	EGICE - Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture
summary	Architectural design requires a variety of representations to describe the many expressions a building can be observed through. Commonly, the form and space of a building are represented through the visual abstraction of projective geometry. The medium of geometric representation has become synonymous with architectural space. The introduction of computational design in architecture has not changed our understanding or representation of architectural space, only of its geometric description and production processes. The addition of the computer as a medium should allow us to open new ‘ways of seeing’ since the medium allows for novel descriptions and expressions via data processing hitherto impossible. This paper would like to propose some computational methods that could potentially describe and generate non-geometric but rather phenomenal expressions of architectural space.
keywords	neural networks, architectural space, cognition, phenomena
series	book
type	normal paper
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more	http://www.springerlink.com/content/1j54337p42051p84/?MUD=MP
last changed	2012/09/17 21:02

_id	eaea2005_103
id	eaea2005_103
authors	Giró, Héctor
year	2006
title	Visualising emotions - Defining urban space through shared networks
source	Motion, E-Motion and Urban Space [Proceedings of the 7th European Architectural Endoscopy Association Conference / ISBN-10: 3-00-019070-8 - ISBN-13: 978-3-00-019070-4], pp. 103-111
summary	Networks and new media and communication tools, in combination with other media like film, imaging, text and sound, make richer ways of expression possible and at the same time offer attractive possibilities to investigate and express designing. Architects, or their clients, in consequence become increasingly able to explore, develop and communicate their ideas in a better way. At the same time, most people find it difficult to describe their demands and needs in advance: it seems they react much better on something that is already there, a finished work. How then can designers get a better idea of people’s needs and wishes? In other words, how could designers –among others- get a better match between expectations and results? Consequently, what could be the significance of ‘new media’ within this process?
series	EAEA
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/eaea
last changed	2008/04/29 20:46

_id	acadia07_040
id	acadia07_040
authors	Hyde, Rory
year	2007
title	Punching Above Your Weight: Digital Design Methods and Organisational Change in Small Practice
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2007.040
source	Expanding Bodies: Art • Cities• Environment [Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture / ISBN 978-0-9780978-6-8] Halifax (Nova Scotia) 1-7 October 2007, 40-47
summary	Expanding bodies of knowledge imply expanding teams to manage this knowledge. Paradoxically, it can be shown that in situations of complexity—which increasingly characterise the production of architecture generally—the small practice or small team could be at an advantage. This is due to the increasingly digital nature of the work undertaken and artefacts produced by practices, enabling production processes to be augmented with digital toolsets and for tight project delivery networks to be forged with other collaborators and consultants (Frazer 2006). Furthermore, as Christensen argues, being small may also be desirable, as innovations are less likely to be developed by large, established companies (Christensen 1997). By working smarter, and managing the complexity of design and construction, not only can the small practice “punch above its weight” and compete with larger practices, this research suggests it is a more appropriate model for practice in the digital age. This paper demonstrates this through the implementation of emerging technologies and strategies including generative and parametric design, digital fabrication, and digital construction. These strategies have been employed on a number of built and un-built case-study projects in a unique collaboration between RMIT University’s SIAL lab and the award-winning design practice BKK Architects.
series	ACADIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	acadia06_496
id	acadia06_496
authors	Jemtrud, Michael
year	2006
title	Eucalyptus: User Controlled Lightpath Enabled Participatory Design Studio
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2006.496
source	Synthetic Landscapes [Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture] pp. 496-509
summary	A new notion of participation is at stake with advances in technologically mediated work environments. The digitally mediated e-design studio has been around since the mid-1990’s and has been employed in various forms in disciplines including architecture/engineering/construction (AEC), industrial design, and the automotive industry. Insufficient bandwidth and insufficiently powerful, crudely coordinated tools resulted in distributed task-based modes of collaboration that did not allow full participation by members of the distributed design team. At the very least, the present “second generation” network severely limits the applications, tools, and modes of communication that can be used in data and visualization intense design scenarios. The emergence of Service Oriented Architectures and User-Controlled LightPaths (“intelligent infrastructure”) herald the beginning of a new age where fully participatory multi-site design may become possible. The networks, visualization & communication tools, Service Oriented Architecture & Web Services, work protocols, and physical site designs of the Participatory Design Studio (PDS) being developed by the authors will constitute one of the first working examples of this future. This paper will briefly outline the “mise en scène” or staging of the technical configuration of the Eucalyptus project; observations and results from the creative activity of the PDS in the context of two case studies; and speculate on the implications for design activity, pedagogy, and a more robust mode of participation.
series	ACADIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:52

_id	ddss2006-hb-391
id	DDSS2006-HB-391
authors	Jos P. van Leeuwen and Léon A.H.M. van Berlo
year	2006
title	The Neighbourhood Wizard - Cause and effect of changes in urban neighbourhoods
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Dordrecht: Springer, ISBN-10: 1-4020-5059-3, ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5059-6, p. 391-406
summary	The Neighbourhood Wizard is a website that makes citizens aware of the consequences of the changes that they would like to realise in their neighbourhood. Users of the website can suggest changes to their neighbourhood. A Bayesian Belief Network is used to predict the effects of the changes on several indicators of liveability as experienced by the community. The Neighbourhood Wizard also shows what would be the optimal experience of liveability for different sections of the population.
keywords	Participatory Design, Bayesian Networks
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	caadria2006_217
id	caadria2006_217
authors	KILIAN, AXEL
year	2006
title	DESIGN EXPLORATION WITH CIRCULAR DEPENDENCIES: A chair design experiment
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.q2e
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 217-226
summary	The paper demonstrates the need for advanced models of representation for circular dependency networks common in design problems that deal with multiple constraints. Constraints in a design problem are generally perceived as limitations to design exploration. The careful construction of constraint relationships can help to turn constraints into design drivers for the problem instead. Closely related to the notion that new goals may emerge from creating designs is the idea that one goal of planning may be the design activity itself (Simon 1981). The interplay of many constraints can lead to circular dependencies that make design exploration a challenge as any change causes ripples throughout the entire design construct. D’Arcy Thompson (1942) describes form as a diagram of forces. The construction of design representations that reflect such dependency networks pose a challenge and are far from exact matches of the task environment (Simon 1981). The paper proceeds in mapping these abstract observations of the circular dependencies in the design process to a chair experiment from design to fabrication giving detailed descriptions of the interdependencies of material, fabrication and aesthetic constraints. The experiment shows how those constraints were instrumental in achieving the aesthetics of the full scale prototype.
series	CAADRIA
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	2006_464
id	2006_464
authors	Mullins, Michael; Tadeja Zupancic, Christian Kühn, Paul Coates and Orhan Kipcak
year	2006
title	V I PA: A virtual campus for virtual space design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.464
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 464-469
summary	The conceptual design of virtual spaces is creating new places in which to live and work. In consequence, new opportunities for work and employment are opening up for architects as well as for architectural educators. In response to this challenge, VIPA, a transnational virtual campus is currently being developed; it contains an e-learning and research platform for European architectural schools with a focus on virtual space design. The virtual campus integrates administrative, curricular, and communicative infrastructures, interactive, multimedia 3-D contents, and pedagogical considerations in respect of the aims, content and technologies employed. Virtual campuses are already established at most universities in the European Community, yet surprisingly e-learning is not yet widespread in architectural schools in Europe. E-learning is arguably still in an initial research phase; although there are best practice examples where e-learning is already replacing traditional study forms in other teaching disciplines. However, it has been found that although all the universities involved in the VIPA project have been involved in e-learning projects for many years, there is a considerable resistance to e-learning as being equally effective as traditional face-to-face studio teaching. Given the new virtual conditions of space design however, new contexts for learning are increasingly relevant. University curricula have developed out of local competencies, networks of teachers and researchers. These local factors need to be woven into the fabric of a transnational VIPA curriculum and supported with organizational layout, platform, user interfaces and their features. Participants will offer existing courses in virtual space design, as well as developing new ones. This offers the option for both present and future participants to adjust the VIPA courseware to suit local curricula demands, while offering a large range of courses and knowledge. An additional feature of VIPA is thus as a platform for curricula development in virtual space design. The paper reports on the VIPA project’s aims, pedagogical problems, solutions, course content and methods; it will describe prototype results from participating universities and include perspectives on its future application.
keywords	Architectural Education; E-Learning; Virtual Space
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	sigradi2006_p056a
id	sigradi2006_p056a
authors	Mônaco dos Santos, Denise and Tramontano, Marcelo
year	2006
title	Interfaces comunitárias_ construções colaborativas [Communitarian interfaces_Collaborative constructions]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 70-74
summary	This paper aims at examining some issues related to the conception of interfaces whose structures work at anchoring local based community networks. It points out that the countless variables that should be considered when structuring these interfaces connect offline collaborative activities, an aspect usually forgotten in this practice. It tries to denote and propose some theoretical tools which can be an aid in the task to bring offline collaborative activities near the constitution of virtual communities place based. This paper is regarded as part of researches which aim at building a wider theoretical understanding of the constitution of hybrid and virtual spaces, and also the implications of ICT Information and Communication Technologies in daily life, taking place at Nomads. usp Center for Interactive Studies - at the Department of Architeture and Urbanism of the Engeneering School of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo.
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	sigradi2006_p055a
id	sigradi2006_p055a
authors	Mônaco dos Santos, Denise; Tramontano, Marcelo and Salerno junior, Edson
year	2006
title	Interfaces ou lugares de diálogo comunitário [Interfaces or places for communitarian dialogue]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 75-79
summary	This paper intends to present the methodological incursions of a research in progress, which targets to map and systematize graphic computational interfaces developed and implemented through projects that have as main objective the creation of networks and interaction virtual environment for place-based communities. Activities and data systematization as well as bibliographic revision overlap consistent methodological parameters. It also intends to present some of the preliminaries studies of the research, through comparative readings among examples collected and gathered in a data base. This work is part of Nomads,usp, Center for Interactive Studies of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, that studies and produces criteria to rethink nowadays spaces design, considering its recent history, the transformations occurred in families groups, and their behavior tendencies.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	ddss2006-pb-185
id	DDSS2006-PB-185
authors	O.T.J. Devisch, H.J.P. Timmermans, T.A. Arentze, and A.W.J. Borgers
year	2006
title	Modelling Residential Search and Location Choice - Framework and Numerical Experiments
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Progress in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, ISBN-10: 90-386-1756-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-386-1756-5, p. 185-200
summary	People only move a limited number of times during their lifetime. Factors such as high financial costs, local social networks, emotional bounds, etc. make that people typically postpone this decision as long as possible, up to the point where the benefit of alternative housing outperforms all these factors. Then things generally have to go fast. This combination of time-pressure, high costs and lack in experience turn residential search and location choice into a complex decision process. This paper presents a model developed to grasp some of this complexity. Households are approached as autonomous decision-makers continuously evaluating whether to search for information, to visit houses for inspection, to start negotiating with the owner of a house for sale or to do nothing and stay in the current house. Households make these evaluations on the basis of beliefs regarding their environment and update these beliefs each time they collect new information on this environment.
keywords	Microsimulation, Spatial simulation models, Strategic decision-making, State dependent behaviour, Belief-updating
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	2006_618
id	2006_618
authors	Oh, Sooyeon and Yutaka Kidawara
year	2006
title	A real-space navigation system based on ubiquitous technology
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.618
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 618-625
summary	In next-generation networking environments, ubiquitous networks will be available both indoors and outdoors. Various devices will be ubiquitously embedded in the surrounding environment, such as buildings and urban spaces. We will be able to browse digital contents on ubiquitous networks anywhere and at anytime. In our research, we have proposed several content-processing mechanisms for use in environment-enabled collaborative acquisition of embedded digital content in the real world situations. We have developed a network management device that makes it possible to acquire embedded content using coordinated ubiquitous devices. We have also developed two prototype systems using these devices. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a prototype system that can share 3D objects in a virtual 3D space based on a real-space environment. This system can be used not only as a virtual 3D browser in a private area, but also as an interactive digital poster in a public area. We tested our system in real situation, and explore the feasibility of applying our system in a ubiquitous environment.
keywords	Ubiquitous technology; Navigation; Collaborative service; Embedded digital content; Real space
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	sigradi2006_c102a
id	sigradi2006_c102a
authors	Potocnjak Oxman, Camilo
year	2006
title	Diseño Emergente - Plataforma Digital para Vinculación Estudiantil [Emerging design - A Digital platform for a Students Association]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 87-89
summary	Diseño Emergente is a design management project that seeks the creation of associative networks between Chilean design students. As the result of a dissociative design academy, the project identifies the need to develop such networks, allowing the exposure of the many perspectives on design education that exist in the country. Using Information Technologies, Diseño Emergente delivers On-line Portfolios and Discussion Forums for design students, encouraging the exchange of knowledge, critique and commentary. The goal is to make each of the more than fifty design school's strengths and weaknesses visible to the design community, Developed by students, for students, Diseño Emergente is an active participant in the conception and planning of student-related design events, promoting the work of the future professional. Diseño Emergente seeks to consolidate itself as a non-profit NGO, capable of looking after the student- body's interests in relation to design academy and professional organizations.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:58

_id	ddss2006-pb-253
id	DDSS2006-PB-253
authors	R. Di Giulio, M. Coccagna, and G. Tonelli
year	2006
title	IT Tools for the Valorisation of the Building Heritage - Analysis and reuse of rural buildings to improve cultural-tourism activities
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Progress in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, ISBN-10: 90-386-1756-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-386-1756-5, p. 253-268
summary	According to the valorisation of sustainable policies, many European countries developed common or individual strategies to preserve and exploit their environmental and building heritage. Through the VILLAS transnational project it has been possible to create a set of specific tools, focused on different user types and needs that are easy to be combined and applied to assess and valorise private and public building heritage.
keywords	Design support tools, Geographical information systems (GIS), Multi-criteria & decision mapping, Networks for decision-making
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	sigradi2006_c055b
id	sigradi2006_c055b
authors	Rico, Esteban Javier and Pinkus, Nicolás
year	2006
title	Pedagogía de los aspectos tecnológicos y comunicacionales del infodesign. Experiencia de transferencia de investigación académica a cátedras de grado de la carrera de Diseño Gráfico [Technology and communicational aspects in the pedagogy of info-design]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 181-186
summary	This text discuss the experience of transferring the preliminary results of a Research on Infodesign produced within the institutional frame of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (FADU-UBA), towards the undergraduate students attending the workshop Taller de Diseno Grafico (Pujol). This idea was based in the Research Project “The Infodesign in the production and presentation of knowledge. Development and application of a study case related to the Academic Research Networks”, conducted by Esteban Javier Rico and co-directed by Nicolás Pinkus. In the Research Team also collaborate Carolina Borrachia and Mariano Benassi. The experience made the students – as a requirement of the course- plan and generate infographics about several aspects of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. The students discovered and worked the communicational and representational challenges and problems of this specific field of the design.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:58

_id	sigradi2006_c193d
id	sigradi2006_c193d
authors	Ruiz-Tagle, Javier
year	2006
title	Modelos de Simulación Urbana (Experiencia a Partir de un Juego de Estrategia) [Urban simulation models (experience throughout a strategic game)]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 386-391
summary	The experience considers the achievement of a course for architecture and geography. The research penetrates into an experimentation based on the Systems Theory and the Systems Dynamics, which helps to understand the structure and the dynamics of the city, as a set of complex systems. SimCity, a game of strategy that allows to design, to plan, and to manage the dynamics of a city, is used as software. The experience had as principal target, tackling formulae of didactic experimentation, which integrate, by the application of networks and systems, the complex relations that configures the city. The methodology had theoretical and experimental stages, plus the achievement of a simulation exercise. The experience had very good reception, as method for learning and for research, despite the strange that it seemed in the beginning. Also, it generated a big aptitude to realize good research questions, since the behavior of many variables was learned to visualize simultaneously.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:59

_id	sigradi2006_c021b
id	sigradi2006_c021b
authors	Vasquez de Velasco de la Puente, Guillermo
year	2006
title	Campus sin Fronteras: Media Digital en la Promoción de Educación Transnacional [Campus without borders: Digital Mediains the process of a trans-national education.]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 219-223
summary	This paper describes a sustainable strategy for the implementation of instructional content mediated by digital networks. This strategy has been launched as an initiative under the name “Campus Unlimited”. The Campus Unlimited Project calls for the development of instructional content within a nested system. In that system content providers produce content that can be delivered as an isolated lecture, These lectures can be compiled with other lectures and delivered as courses. Few of these specialized courses can be compiled into certificate programs, and certificate programs can be nested as elective courses within master and doctoral degree programs. In terms of implementation, this paper also describes the technical environment in which content providers, usually professors, produce content in digital format that is ready for distribution through the networks. Finally, the paper draws conclusions on the learning outcomes of this implementation and looks into its potential future development.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 10:02

_id	2006_302
id	2006_302
authors	Dounas, Theodoros and Anastasios M. Kotsiopoulos
year	2006
title	Generation of alternative designs in architectural problems using Shape Grammars defined with animation tools - A computer implementation of shape grammars using modelling and animation software
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.302
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 302-307
summary	We present a model of generation of alternative designs to selected architectural and spatial configurations of small complexity. Specifically we present a production pipeline of architectural / spatial configurations using the context of animation and time based design tools. Our model consists of time and space design constraints of boundaries / objects affecting a given architectural design, thus producing an alternative solution for every timeframe of the animation cycle. The alternative designs vary from the original according to their temporal and/or spatial distance from the original object on the animation time-line. The constraints placed upon the objects , used as actuators of Shape Grammars, are defined informally by the user/designer while their influence can vary according to time, speed, location, configuration of the object and/or the constraint itself. However the constraints further function as formal rules for the Shape Grammar creation so that our model tries to predict ahead of time the emergence of alternate designs. The employ of animation tools [shape driven curves, speed and time-line functions,parent child relationships] in the shape generation of our model empowers the user/designer to configure whole sets of shapes and designs interactively and without the need to define every solution independently. Simultaneously, a different, time-focused view of our model describes its use on designs that develop different configurations over time. Thus a duality of our model is established: either the animated schema may be a sum or family of various designs or the animated time-line represents a single design which changes over time. Finally the possibility of an automated analysis of every design is discussed, using Space Syntax diagrams so the designer can quickly evaluate the various spatial configurations produced by a single original.
keywords	shape computation; shape grammar computer implementation; alternative designs; animation software techniques
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:55

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