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_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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_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	sigradi2012_30
id	sigradi2012_30
authors	Angeluzzi, Gustavo; Hanns, Daniela Kutschat
year	2012
title	Um levantamento de requisitos gerais para o desenvolvimento e posicionamento de DOOTERS – um aplicativo lúdico de listas de tarefas para iPhone [A survey of general requirements for developing and positioning DOOTERS - a to-do list application for iPhone]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 191-195
summary	DOOTERS is a to-do list application for iPhone which entertains and motivates the user to get things done. It was developed based on requirements obtained trough: 1. the study of several personal information organizing methods (Covey, 1989; Allen, 2005; Foster, 2006); 2. answers to a task lists user focused questionnaire; 3. observation of to-do list users while creating lists and organizing tasks; 4. comparison of digital and non-digital task list media (paper, computer and mobile device); 5. analysis of profiles, behaviors and to-do list applications for iPhone. In this paper, the authors present the process of obtaining requirements for developing and positioning DOOTERS.
keywords	information and interface design, requirements, to-do list application, iPhone, DOOTERS
series	SIGRADI
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_id	2006_001
id	2006_001
authors	Coyne, Richard; Ramond Lucas; Jia Li; Martin Parker and John Lee
year	2006
title	The Augmented Marketplace - Voices, robots and tricksters
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.x.t3m
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. i-ix
summary	To advance the theme of communicating spaces we report on a case study of a market precinct known as the Barras, about one mile from the centre of the city of Glasgow and relate this to our investigation into intelligent environments. In the latter case we deploy Lego MindstormsTM RCX robot processing to explore interactions between a mobile sensing robot and simple environmental controls: movements of sliding screens in response to an autonomous mobile sensor. We speculate on the application of these techniques to augment physical marketplaces. We extend the lessons from these studies to a consideration of multiple modalities in sensory experience, multi-agent systems, and the use of sound, the human voice and repetition for defining and augmenting spaces.
keywords	Market; sound; voice; robotics; intelligent environments
series	eCAADe
type	normal paper
email
more	http://www.ecaade.org
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	ascaad2006_paper5
id	ascaad2006_paper5
authors	Yuan Chen, Shang
year	2006
title	A Collaborative Digital Design Workshop: an ANN-based paradigm approach
source	Computing in Architecture / Re-Thinking the Discourse: The Second International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2006), 25-27 April 2006, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
summary	This paper relies on observation and analysis an internationally digital design exchange activity, “The FCU & Bartlett School of Architecture, university college London (UCL) digital architecture workshop” to propose an educational model based on the artificial neural network (ANN). We expect that the results of this work can lead to the establishment of a scoring mechanism that can "adapt" to the difficulty of assigned problems and assess students' progress. An international technological exchange workshop based on the theme of digital design is helpful to attain an accelerated heightening in the quality and experience of education. This is going to be an educational trend and increasingly prevalent in the future. A successful educational curriculum in digital design relies on a concerted effort amongst curriculum framework, learning activities, and course content. While, an internationally exchange digital design workshop is different from traditional "semester-based" units of curriculums. The short-term educational models are required high degrees interaction and collaboration. On the other hand, artificial neural network system that is context aware in ill-defined and complex environments is highly adaptive. It can extract, interpret and use the context information and adapt its functions to obtain an optimal correspondence between “context change” and “desired goal” efficiently. Therefore, an ANN-based pedagogical mechanism is able to encourage students to select relatively difficult design problems and promote more design originality, interaction and collaboration.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2007/04/08 19:47

_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
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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_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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last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_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_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_320
id	2006_320
authors	Ahmad, Sumbul and Scott Chase
year	2006
title	Grammar Representations to Facilitate Style Innovation - An Example From Mobile Phone Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.320
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 320-323
summary	Previous research in generative design has suggested that shape grammar transformations could be used for developing new design styles by the systematic modification of grammars that encode existing styles. Our research explores how such grammar transformations can be facilitated to be responsive to changes in design style requirements. For this it is important to consider the structure and organization of rules, as well as the description of the styles of designs generated by a grammar. Using an example of mobile phone design, we outline the development of a flexible grammar structure that is conducive to transformations. The grammar is augmented with a style description scheme based on the concept of semantic differential to map the style characteristics of grammar components. These measures could be significant for driving purposeful grammar transformations for style adaptation and innovation.
keywords	Design grammars; style; product design; generative design
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:54

_id	sigradi2006_e160c
id	sigradi2006_e160c
authors	Andrade, Max and Cheng, Liang-Yee
year	2006
title	Diretrizez Geométricas de Auxílio ao Processo de Projeto de Edifícios Residenciais [Geometrical Guidelines to Aid the Design of Floor Plants of Residential Buildings]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 243-247
summary	This paper discusses the basic principles of a geometric method to aid the design process of residential buildings. It makes part of the initial phases of a research whose aim is to develop a computer system to aid the sketching and evaluation of floor plant design of multi-storied residential buildings. The fundamental idea of the research is the existence of some basic patterns of floor plants that reflect the designer’s mental models in this category of building. The models are regarding the usage of the space such as forms and dimensions, the elements for the circulation and the external skins. During the design process, architects work on each one of these models to generate the sketches of the floor plant layout. Generally, the layout of an apartment in multi-storied buildings depends basically on the internal dynamics of the users without the complex relationship with the neighborhood environment as in the case of houses. In this way, it would be easier to identify, to organize and to associate the mental models of multi-storied buildings on geometric basis, which, in their turns, might be effectively used as inputs for the layout planning of new design. By applying the geometric basis, the architects may reduce the universe of feasible alternatives into a small group of heuristic solutions that can be described by using few simple guidelines. In addition to this, the geometric bases of the existing buildings might be used to build a knowledge-based system to aid the architectural design. The objective of this paper is to show some initial results of the research obtained from a survey and the case studies of form, dimensions and topology of existing buildings. To limit the scope of the discussion, only residential buildings with two to three bedrooms are considered. At first, a survey of plants of residential buildings with two and three bedrooms, in Brazil, is carried out. In the next step, the dimensions, shape, external skin perimeter, circulation system and accessibility are analyzed. Finally, typical topologies of the building are investigated.
keywords	Design process; geometric method; residential buildings
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:47

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