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_id	2006_000
id	2006_000
authors	Bourdakis, Vassilis and Charitos, Dimitris (eds.)
year	2006
title	Communicating Space(s)
source	24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings [ISBN 0-9541183-5-9], Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, 914 p.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006
summary	The theme of this conference builds on and investigates the pre-existing and endlessly unfolding relationship between two domains of scientific inquiry: Architecture, urban design and planning, environmental design, geography and Social theory, media and communication studies, political science, cultural studies and social anthropology. Architectural design involves communication and could thus be partly considered a communicational activity. Designers (or not) see architectural designs, implicitly, as carriers of information and symbolic content; similarly buildings and urban environments have been “read” and interpreted by many (usu- ally not architects) as cultural texts. At the same time, social and cultural studies have studied buildings and cities, as contexts for social and cultural activities and life in general, from their mundane expression of “everyday life” (Highmore, 2001) to elite expressions of artistic creativity and performance. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) support both of these levels of scientific inquiry in many ways. Most importantly however, ICTs need design studies, architectural and visual design, social and cultural studies in their quest to create aesthetically pleasing, ergonomically efficient and functional ICT sys- tems; this need for interdisciplinarity is best articulated by the low quality of most on-line content and applica- tions published on the web.
series	eCAADe
type	normal paper
email
more	http://www.ecaade.org
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_id	2006_160
id	2006_160
authors	Charitos, Dimitris
year	2006
title	Spatializing the Internet: new types of hybrid mobile communication environments and their impact on spatial design within the urban context
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 160-167
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.160
summary	This paper aims at investigating the emergence of new forms of communication environments, supported by the integration of new mobile and locative media technologies and the impact that the implementation of these systems may have on mediated communication within the urban context. The paper discusses the technologies supporting such multi-user systems (interactive graphical interfaces for mobile devices and locative media) and investigates the experience of interacting with such systems from a user’s perspective. It focuses on such systems accessed via interfaces, which have a spatial character and which are supported by different output devices, ultimately affording a hybrid (synthetic & physical) spatial experience. Communication is tied to places and places to communication. Consequently, these emerging types of communication may lead revolutionary new ways of social interaction and inhabiting urban space. With the emergence of these ICT systems, the city may again become a social arena and this development certainly calls for reconsidering the way in which we conceptualize and design urban environments.
keywords	Locative media: social computing; spatial interfaces; mobile technologies; context-aware systems
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2006_397
id	caadria2006_397
authors	MOHAMED ALAA MANDOUR
year	2006
title	SPATIALITY AND VIRTUALITY: "Perception Virtual Urban Environments"
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 397-404
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.x5a
summary	This paper explores how the notions of SPATIALITY `public space’ can inform the debate over VIRTUALITY "electronic media". It examines the metaphorical adoption of urban models to look at electronic sociality and suggests approaches: suburbanized telecities, communitarian visions and accounts that appeal to a renewed public sphere. However, instead of trying to shift these metaphors by contrasting them to a purported real world, the paper examines how they shape an electronic architecture. In this sense, the `real’ city is the indefinable complexity and folding of spaces-lying outside the visualizations offered of cyberspace.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	sigradi2006_c070a
id	sigradi2006_c070a
authors	Suazo Navia, Antonio and Mawromatis Pazderka, Constantino
year	2006
title	Recorridos virtuales e interacción proyectual participativa: Eligiendo el formato para la plataforma web del Programa Chiloé [Virtual way’s and participative interaction at the project: Choosing the right web platform format for the Chiloe program]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 100-104
summary	The issue attempts an approach for evaluating 3 types of graphic format concerned with the use of real-time rendering for show architectural virtual environments, related to the work of urban and regional architectural projects proposed by the academic Chiloe Program, at Universidad de Chile. By measuring the frame rate, size of the required plug-ins, and acceleration performance of the render engine, the study focuses on dealing the better graphic format which become the main authoring tool for incorporate the interactive media representation of projects to the Chiloe Program's web site, in response to the high-demand on communicative interaction between the many skateholders that decision-making process need, and the low-end gear PC equipment founded in the Chiloe Island public access to Internet.
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	6fba
id	6fba
authors	Thompson E, Horne M, Fleming D
year	2006
title	Virtual Reality Urban Modelling - An Overview
source	CONVR2006 6th Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, Orlando, Florida, USA, 3-4 August 2006
summary	This paper offers an overview of the increasing use of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies for the simulation of urban environments. It provides a summary of cities worldwide where three-dimensional computer modelling is being utilised to aid urban planning. The study considers the need for a digital representation of cities and raises issues pertaining to advantages, barriers and ownership. A case study of a pilot project on the visualisation of Newcastle upon Tyne is examined to show an approach adopted for the representation of this city in North East England. The process of this visualisation is summarised and future research is outlined in relation to this city model.
keywords	Virtual Reality, 3D Modelling, Visualisation, Ownership, City Models, Town Planning, Newcastle upon Tyne England.
series	other
type	normal paper
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last changed	2010/11/03 17:23

_id	2006_074
id	2006_074
authors	Gül, Leman Figen and Mary Lou Maher
year	2006
title	The Impact of Virtual Environments on Design Collaboration
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 74-83
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.074
summary	With recent developments in communication and information technology there has been increasing research into the role and the impact of computer media in collaborative design. This paper presents a case study that compares two designers collaborating in three different types of virtual environments with face to face (FTF) collaboration. The aim of the study is to identify similarities and differences between remote locations in order to have a better understanding of the impact of different virtual environments on design collaboration. Our results show that the architects had different designing behaviour depending on the type of external representation: they developed more design concepts, and had more design iterations through analysis-synthesis-evaluation while designing FTF and in a remote sketching environment; while the same architects focused on one design concept and making the design when designing in 3D virtual worlds.
keywords	Collaborative design; virtual environments; remote sketching; 3D virtual worlds; face to face collaboration
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	ddss2006-hb-467
id	DDSS2006-HB-467
authors	A. Fatah gen. Schieck, A. Penn, V. Kostakos, E. O'Neill, T. Kindberg, D. Stanton Fraser, and T. Jones
year	2006
title	Design Tools for Pervasive Computing in Urban Environments
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. 467-486
summary	In this paper we report on ongoing research in which the implications of urban scale pervasive computing (always and everywhere present) are investigated for urban life and urban design in the heritage environment of the city of Bath. We explore a theoretical framework for understanding and designing pervasive systems as an integral part of the urban landscape. We develop a framework based on Hillier's Space Syntax theories and Kostakos' PSP framework which encompasses the analysis of space and spatial patterns, alongside the consideration of personal, social and public interaction spaces to capture the complex relationship between pervasive systems, urban space in general and the impact of the deployment of pervasive systems on people's relationships to heritage and to each other. We describe these methodological issues in detail before giving examples from early studies of the types of result we are beginning to find.
keywords	Urban space, Pervasive systems, Urban computing, Space Syntax, Interaction space
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	2006_738
id	2006_738
authors	Chen, Chiung-Hui and Mao-Lin Chiu
year	2006
title	Space Tags and User Behavior Modeling - Applying agents to detect navigational patterns in urban streets
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 738-745
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.738
summary	Urban pedestrian studies on navigation have been conducted for developing applications to ease the task of exploring in a virtual environment. As navigation in virtual environments is evidently difficult and as many virtual worlds have been designed to be used by untrained visitors that explore the environment, navigational supports are critically needed. This study is aimed to collect information about the user needs in order to build a model of user preference and produce simulative scenarios that can reveal the navigational patterns related to street design. The study is based on the attention theory for studying people who are socially interacting with street activities and furniture within designated areas. Furthermore, the study attempts to apply agent interface develop a prototype system with space tags. Finally, the system and its applications, and major findings of these applications are reported
keywords	space tags; navigational patterns; street; agent interface; user behavior
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:55

_id	ddss2006-hb-487
id	DDSS2006-HB-487
authors	Chien-Tung Chen and Teng-Wen Chang
year	2006
title	1:1 Spatially Augmented Reality Design Environment
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. 487-499
summary	With the development of ubiquitous computing (Weiser, 1991), what will become of the traditional media such as pen and sketches, especially in the design education environment? Or what will they be transformed into? In this research, we focus on the interior design process with a particular type of media-1:1 spatially augmented reality design environment (SARDE). In this research, we tried to implement SARDE and have a scenario experiment to check how designers interact with such design media. Furthermore, through this research, we have come to know more about how designers use design media to represent their design dream.
keywords	Design & Decision Support Systems, Spatially Augmented Reality, Architecture Education, and Computer Visualization
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	ddss2006-hb-137
id	DDSS2006-HB-137
authors	Chiung-Hui Chen and Mao-Lin Chiu
year	2006
title	SCALE - A street case library for environmental design with agent interfaces
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. 137-150
summary	Urban space provides a context for human interaction. Recently, urban planning has largely placed the user at the street as the centre of infrastructural design, with significant implications for the perceived attractiveness of user environments. However, visual observation is often difficult for verifying planning goals. The simulation of pedestrian behaviour is important for physical planning, but such research is scarce. In this study, we adopt an empirical approach for generating reactive path following. Further, we implement scenarios as computer scripts with agent-based interfaces to identify navigational patterns. Moreover, we built a hierarchy of individual behavioral models and define a behavior production system to control the agent. Key attributes of streets such as rest space, utilities, landmarks, and buildings have space tags as identifiers to associate streets with related activities.
keywords	Agent interface, Behaviour, Simulator, Street design
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	caadria2006_295
id	caadria2006_295
authors	CHIUNG-HUI CHEN, MAO-LIN CHIU
year	2006
title	TOWARDS A WEB-BASED URBAN STREET SIMULATOR FOR PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIORS STUDY WITH AGENT-BASED INTERFACES
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 295-302
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.g2a
summary	The urban planning has largely placed the street users at the centre of infrastructural design, with significant implications for the perceived attractiveness of user environments. The urban designers faced with the task of designing such spaces and needs a tool that will allow different designs to be compared in terms of their attractiveness as well as their effectiveness. Therefore, this paper depicts an agent interface approach for creating a street simulator of user behaviors in urban street environments. We implemented the agent interface as individual-based simulation in the proposed project called "SCALE” (A Street Case Library for Environmental design). The project is demonstrated to find out differences between the simulation and the existed environment. The methodology and findings are reported.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	2006_684
id	2006_684
authors	De Bodt, Kathleen
year	2006
title	SoundScapes & Architectural Spaces - Spatial sound research in digital architectural design
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 684-689
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.684
summary	The paper presents ongoing research focusing on the development of digital tools and methodologies for spatial design based on non-Euclidean geometries. It addresses the way sound can be used both conceptually and acoustically in the early stages of the design process, examining digital architectural design and modeling based on three-dimensional sound visualization and the acoustical analysis and evaluation of complex curved surface geometry. The paper describes SoundMatrix, the first part of a digital design tool created by using Max/Msp/Jitter, to assist in the preliminary design of building façades in small-scale urban environments, specifically studying the possibilities of curvature to decrease sound reflection between opposing street façades. Examples from a workshop with the SoundMatrix application illustrate the real-time 3D authoring and sound spatialisation processing currently implemented in the tool.
keywords	graphical programming; performance-based design; generative design
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:55

_id	sigradi2006_k004
id	sigradi2006_k004
authors	Dutta Madhu C.
year	2006
title	The Myth of Cyberspace: Towards a New Technopolis
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 41-44
summary	Professor Madhu C. Dutta has worked professionally as an urban planner and architect and was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio before coming to Wentworth. She teaches a broad range of courses, from design studio and architectural history through digital media and advanced computer applications for architectural design. Some of her most significant works include a city-wide urban riverfront design project in Varanasi, India, and “Solar Sails” a renewable energy design for the U.S. Department of Energy competition (2000) for which she was awarded the second prize among 110 entries. She has presented her scholarly work at conferences in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Her research interests are eclectic; she has recently been exploring the expansion of our notions of architectural space to include hybridized and virtual milieus in the “new frontier” of digital architecture. Professor Dutta is deeply committed to the creative and performing arts as well. She studied and performed Indian classical dance for sixteen years. She holds a BArch from the Manipal Institute of Technology of Mangalore University, and a Master’s in Architecture, specializing in Urban Design, from the University of Texas at Austin.
keywords	Technopolis, cyberspace, future, digital society
series	SIGRADI
type	keynote paper
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:50

_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
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:51

_id	eaea2005_221
id	eaea2005_221
authors	Gatermann, Harald
year	2006
title	Media work in the educational training of architects to experiences with the postgraduate course “Architecture Media Management”
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. 221-237
summary	The perception of space, geometry, material and the influence of light is one of the core items of undergraduate courses in architecture. In Bochum we developed and still practise a consequent system of integrating drawing and photography as analytic tools of perception and sketching, descriptive geometry, computer aided design, digital visualisation and animation as synthetic items. The versatile use of digital media in the further studies is of essential significance - especially the synthesis between architectural photography (with all its special features concerning geometrical depicting) and CAD / visualisation / animation. Special emphasis is given to techniques for simulation and immersion such as digital panorama photography, combined with computer-based vr-modelling e.g. vrml as well as using online-cad-modeling and arial photography in processes of citizen participation.
series	EAEA
type	normal paper
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/eaea
last changed	2008/04/29 20:46

_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	eaea2005_19
id	eaea2005_19
authors	Guski, Rainer
year	2006
title	Pictures, mock ups and animations: On the ecological validity of environmental simulations
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. 19-27
summary	Real scientific experiments should be completely under control and be replicable - a prerequisite that cannot be fulfilled in real environments. Environmental psychologists try to simulate and manipulate those aspects in the laboratory that are essential for their question at hand. Under which circumstances do we produce valid results? Validity generally refers to the extent to which an information indicates what it is claimed to give.
series	EAEA
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/eaea
last changed	2008/04/29 20:46

_id	caadria2009_046
id	caadria2009_046
authors	Haeusler, Matthias Hank
year	2009
title	Modulations of Voxel Surfaces Through Emotional Expressions to Generate A Feedback Loop Between Private Mood and Public Image
source	Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Yunlin (Taiwan) 22-25 April 2009, pp. 173-182
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2009.173
summary	My proposal is an investigation into the perceptual boundaries between human and architectural expression. It asks how architecture can creatively adopt human expression by using the emotions ‘displayed’ on the ‘surface face’ as a generator for displaying a surface on a voxel façade to achieve a cross-connecting perceptual change with modulations through emotion (Massumi, 2006). Through voxel facades the public with their expressed emotions will be included in the decision process of defining space, by expressing our innermost feelings through an architectural medium. Thus emotions of the individual have a platform and can be conveyed indirectly to the public, and in turn open up discussions about the state of the community through the state of the façade. An alliance of media and place in an urban context can be achieved and created, with the participation of its inhabitants, along with a new perception of how media and architecture can together shape and inform spatial relations for a feedback loop between private mood and public image.
keywords	Voxel façade; simulation; human-environment interaction; dynamic space
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	ddss2006-pb-289
id	DDSS2006-PB-289
authors	I-Chieh Huang and Teng-Wen Chang
year	2006
title	A Study of Using Oversized Display in Supporting Design Communication - Focus on interior design problems
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. 289-301
summary	This paper focuses on using oversized display for supporting design communication process between designers and clients. The interactive behaviors are analyzed and testified with a prototype developed in this research. Based on interviews with designers and clients, focus of the communication process in this research is onto developing an immersive environment for exchanging and negotiating the design artifacts. Several immersive virtual environment as well as visualization method (display) is reviewed. Furthermore, three over-sized display projects (ShadowLight, CaveUT and Blue-c) with immersive perception at full-scale or near full-scale design artifacts are studied as the inspiration of this research. Designers identify what kinds of influence they had on the design of client's interior space and to what extent they are aware that they can design and influence their perception. An over-sized display environment with direct manipulation interface is developed for evaluation platform.
keywords	Virtual environments, Collaborative design
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	ascaad2006_paper12
id	ascaad2006_paper12
authors	Katodrytis, George
year	2006
title	The Autopoiesis and Mimesis of Architecture
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	The use of digital technology in architecture has proven to be more assertive than originally thought: it has reconditioned the nature of the design process, and established new practices and techniques of fabrication. The 21st century began with the technology of art. There is a new responsiveness to the reading and understanding of digital space, which is characterized by complexity and the uncanny. Recent applications in digital technology show inquisitiveness in the contentious subject Genetic Algorithms. This new architectural process is characterized by two main shifts: from poiesis (or poetry) to autopoiesis, and from authenticity to mimesis. Since evolutionary simulations give rise to new forms rather than design them, architects should now be artists and operators of both Inventive and Systematic design. Inventive design: The digital media should bring about poiesis (poetry). Digital spaces reveal and visualize the unconscious desires of urban spaces and bring forth new dreamscapes, mysterious and surreal. This implies a Freudian spatial unconscious, which can be subjected to analysis and interpretation. “Space may be the projection or the extension of the physical apparatus”, Freud noted1. Space is never universal, but subjective. A space would be a result of introjection or projection – which is to say, a product of the thinking and sensing subject as opposed to the universal and stable entity envisaged since the Enlighten. There is a spatial unconscious, susceptible to analysis and interpretation. Systematic Design: Digital media should bring about an autopoiesis. This approach calls into question traditional methods of architectural design – which replace the hierarchical processes of production known as “cause and effect” - and proposes a design process where the architect becomes a constructor of formal systems. Will the evolutionary simulation replace design? Is metric space dead? Is it replaced by the new definition of space, that of topology? The new algorithmic evolutionary conditions give architecture an autopoiesis, similar to biological dynamics. The use of algorithms in design and fabrication has shifted the role of the architect from design to programming. Parametric design has introduced another dimension: that of variation and topological evolution, breaking the authentic into the reused. Architecture now is about topology than typology, variation than authenticity, it is mimetic than original, uncanny and subconscious than merely generic. In a parallel universe, which is both algorithmic and metaphysical, the modeling machine creates a new abstraction, the morphogenesis of the “new hybrid condition”. The emphasis of the exploration is on morphological complexity. Architecture may become – paradoxically - rigorous yet more uncanny and introverted.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2007/04/08 19:47

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