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_id ecaade2012_161
id ecaade2012_161
authors Araujo, Bruno; Jorge, Joaquim; Duarte, Jose
year 2012
title Combining Virtual Environments and Direct Manipulation for Architectural Modeling
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.419
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 419-428
wos WOS:000330320600044
summary In this paper we present an environment for conceptual design which mimicsthe interaction of designers with physical mockups. We present novel three dimensional on-and-above-the-surface interactive techniques which combine asymmetric bimanual operations with multi-touch direct manipulation on a fl at surface and depth cameras. These take advantage of a continuous interaction space to create and edit 3D models in a stereoscopic environment. To allow modeling architectural shapes directly, we combine hand and finger tracking in the space above the table with multi-touch on its surface without the need to change modes. This provides an alternative design environment where users can seamlessly switch between interacting on the surface or in the space above it depending on the task, which makes it easier to model complex shapes using simple operations.
keywords 3D Modeling; 3D User Interfaces; Virtual Reality; Procedural Modeling
series eCAADe
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_id ecaade2012_96
id ecaade2012_96
authors Bila, Jiri; Jura, Jakub
year 2012
title Interpretation of Emergent Situations in Conceptual Design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.605
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 605-612
wos WOS:000330320600065
summary Interpretation process is usually oriented to some purposes, e.g., for identifi cation, for explanation, for inference, for translation, etc. By the interpretation in this paper is understood not only the explanation of a confi guration of signs (symbols) in general (how it functions or how it works within a higher whole). This general interpretation is oriented in our paper to conceptual design and it is modifi ed to the goal of the solved problem. The concept of emergent situation was defi ned in general and in special case of interpretation process in conceptual design. A limited model of the description of interpretation process was introduced as a semiotic phenomenon on connections of Interpretation Space and Sign Model. Two relevant cases of interpretation process were introduced. The condition of induction of emergence in interpretation process was formulated.
keywords Modelling; interpretation; interpretation space; sign model; emergent phenomena
series eCAADe
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_id ecaade2012_135
id ecaade2012_135
authors Dorta, Tomás; Lesage, Annemarie; Bartolo, Carmelo Di
year 2012
title Collaboration and Design Education Through the Interconnected HIS: Immature vs. Mature CI Loops Observed Through Ethnography by Telepresence
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.097
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 97-105
wos WOS:000330320600009
summary This paper documents the very first use of the interconnected HIS in a pedagogical setting. For this Augmented Design Studio, where three interconnected HIS were set up, the aim was to foster collaboration and co-design between the project participants as a new approach to teach the virtual design studio and to study the collaborative ideation process. The HIS (Hybrid Ideation Space) is an immersive system that uses freehand sketches and models to exteriorize conceptual ideas. Two innovative research methods have been used to assess this studio: the Collaborative Conversation framework that analyses the design discourse and the Ethnography by Telepresence, a non-intrusive observation method through an unused HIS. The Augmented Design Studio has been observed to help the design students push their project from abstract concepts to formalised concepts because in a pedagogical setting, it fosters collaboration over traditional top-down teacher-student interactions.
keywords Design collaboration; Augmented Design Studio; Design Conversations; Ethnography by Telepresence; Hybrid Ideation Space
series eCAADe
email
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_id sigradi2012_397
id sigradi2012_397
authors Isaias, Hector Rocha; Cardoso, Daniel Ribeiro; Lenz, Daniel; Catunda, Natasha; Leite, Raquel Magalhães
year 2012
title Plataforma CIPP: desenho de um Sistema de Produção e Informação Inteligente para a área do Complexo Industrial e Portuário do Pecém [CIPP Platform: design of infomation and intelligent production system for the area of Pecém industrial and port complex]
source SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 113-116
summary The initial framework of this paper was presented at the XV Congress of SIGraDi in Santa Fe. The work in progress will describe the evolution of the project focused on the development of a conceptual platform supporting a system that integrates Information and Communication Technologies to Advanced Manufacturing processes mediated by Artificial Intelligence.
keywords Urbanism; Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent Production Systems; Intelligent Information Systems
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2016/03/10 09:53

_id ecaade2012_235
id ecaade2012_235
authors Jura, Jakub ; Bíla, Jiri
year 2012
title Interpretation Method for Software Support of the Conceptual Redesign Process: Emergence of new concepts in the interpretation process
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.227
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 227-233
wos WOS:000330322400022
summary This paper deals with the process of synthesizing the innovative concepts, and especially with software and methodological support of this process. Our approach emphasizes the importance of the interpretation of the suggestions, which are generated by the system of software and methodological support of conceptual design. Just an interpretation is in this systems usually missing. Herein described method is based on the interconnection of the contexts in which the solution lies. For this context’s interconnection a psychological approaches are used (especially the mind mapping). The core of this interpretation method is creating of the interpretation map.
keywords Conceptual design; redesign; interpretation; interpretation map; Human-Computer Interaction
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_id caadria2012_036
id caadria2012_036
authors Kaushik, Vignesh Srinivas and Patrick Janssen
year 2012
title Multi-criteria evolutionary optimisation of building enveloped during conceptual stages of design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.497
source Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 497–506
summary This paper focuses on using evolutionary algorithms during conceptual stages of design process for multi-criteria optimisation of building envelopes. An experiment is carried out in optimising a panelled building envelope. The design scenario for the experiment is based on the scenario described in Shea et al. (2006) for the building envelope of the Media Centre Building in Paris. However, in their research, the optimisation process only allowed panel configuration to be optimised. In this paper, the task is to approach the optimisation of the envelope of the same building, assuming it to be in the early phases of the design process. The space of possible solutions is therefore assumed to be much wider, and as a result both external building form and internal layout of functional activities are allowed to vary. The performance intent of the experiment remains the same as that of Shea et al. (2006), which was to maximise daylight and minimise afternoon direct sun hours in the building at certain specific locations.
keywords Multi-criteria optimisation; building envelopes; conceptual stages of design evolutionary algorithms; parametric design
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_id ecaade2012_208
id ecaade2012_208
authors Koltsova, Anastasia ; Tuncer, Bige ; Georgakopoulou, Sofia ; Schmitt, Gerhard
year 2012
title Parametric Tools for Conceptual Design Support at the Pedestrian Urban Scale: Towards inverse urban design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.279
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 279-287
wos WOS:000330322400028
summary This paper presents an inverse pedestrian urban design method and an initial set of parametric tools for conceptual design support at the pedestrian urban scale. Inverse pedestrian urban design concerns the derivation of urban design parameters from a local context in order to produce better informed and situated designs. The tools concern the rationalization of street network and building form. Some of the parameters that are used within the tools are view angles (visibility analysis) and distances between target points (accessibility analysis). The paper elaborates on inverse urban design, presents some case studies and tools, and touches upon design patterns and their alignment to design processes.
keywords Urban design; pedestrian design; parametric modelling; design tools; inverse urban design method
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:51

_id ecaade2012_153
id ecaade2012_153
authors Kunze, Antje ; Dyllong, Julia ; Halatsch, Jan ; Waddell, Paul ; Schmitt, Gerhard
year 2012
title Parametric building typologies for San Francisco Bay Area: A conceptual framework for the implementation of design code building typologies towards a parametric procedural city model
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.187
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 187-193
wos WOS:000330322400018
summary This research paper concentrates on a conceptual framework for the creation of high-level procedural city models. A workflow is presented, which enables users to create city models in an intuitive way by using design-code-driven building typologies. This drastically advances traditional procedural city modelling where usually low-level implementations of city model components take place. New planning methods and instruments have to be developed for the growing demand of the rapid environmental, social and economic changes in cities and agglomerations. The presented method allows for quick visualization and iteration by using urban planning typologies.
keywords Procedural Modeling; Design Codes; Urban Planning; City Modeling; Decision-making process
series eCAADe
email
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_id ecaade2012_234
id ecaade2012_234
authors Pak, Burak ; Newton, Caroline ; Verbeke, Johan
year 2012
title Virtual Worlds and Architectural Education: A Typological Framework
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.739
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 739-746.
wos WOS:000330322400078
summary This study introduces a conceptual analysis, a typological framework which aims to map a wide array of possible virtual worlds into a larger frame and explore their signifi cance for architectural education. Using this analysis, we discuss the properties of virtual worlds in four groups: “the real virtual, virtual augmented real, real augmented virtual and fantastic virtual”. Based on these, we propose four different strategies for integrating virtual worlds into architectural education. Overall, this contribution can be seen as a small step towards the revitalization of the architectural design curriculum.
keywords Virtual Worlds; Architectural Education; Reality-virtuality Continuum; Simulacrum
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 08:00

_id acadia12_527
id acadia12_527
authors Pak, Burak ; Verbeke, Johan
year 2012
title A Web-Based Geographic Virtual Environment for the Deliberation of Alternative Urban Development Projects Prepared for Brussels
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.527
source ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 527-538
summary In this paper, we discuss the potentials of affordable GeoWeb 2.0 applications to support the deliberation of urban projects. We first introduce the conceptual design of a web-based geographic virtual environment specifically developed for the Brussels–Capital Region in the framework of a long-term postdoctoral research project. Then, we present two alternative open-source prototypes for the implementation of this conceptual design and compare their usability with experts. Furthermore, we share our experiences from two field applications in the form of a brief case study and discuss the potentials of the proposed prototypes with a focus on their usability and supported forms of design empowerment
keywords Urban Planning and Design , Virtual Environments , Collaborative Design , Web-based Application
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 08:00

_id ijac201210102
id ijac201210102
authors Park, Peter; Matthew Gilbert, Andy Tyas, et al.
year 2012
title Potential Use of Structural Layout Optimization at the Conceptual Design Stage
source International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 10 - no. 1, 13-32
summary Despite recent developments in computer-aided design in architecture, both in terms of form generation techniques and performance-based design tools, there still appears to be polarization between the ‘visual’ and the ‘technical’ elements of design. Two causes of this are discussed: long-standing tradition within the discipline and perception of design as primarily a visual exercise. Structural layout optimization is a technique which enables automatic identification of optimal arrangements of structural elements in frames. As the technique appears to have the potential to help reduce the polarization between the visual and the technical elements of design, it can be considered as an ‘integrative’ form generation tool. Applications of the technique are considered via three design examples, demonstrating both its potential and areas where refinement is required before it is suitable for application in practice.
series journal
last changed 2019/07/30 10:55

_id acadia12_259
id acadia12_259
authors Sabin, Jenny E.
year 2012
title The Greenhouse & Cabinet of Future Fossils: Interfacing Nature in the Built Environment
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.259
source ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 259-268
summary The Greenhouse and Cabinet of Future Fossils was commissioned by the American Philosophical Society Museum, funded by Heritage Philadelphia Program, a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The Greenhouse and Cabinet of Future Fossils attempts to gather, digest, and disseminate information about nature while also incorporating cutting-edge design and fabrication techniques to ultimately produce a greenhouse of the future. The pavilion structure is populated with cold frame modules and futuristic ceramic and 3D printed curiosities, prefabricated and assembled in the Jefferson Garden, Philadelphia. Taking inspiration from the artifacts in the exhibition, Of Elephants and Roses: Encounters with French Natural History, 1790–1830, the greenhouse revisits 19th-century thematic issues related to nature, culture, and the city to offer new interpretations of greenhouse architecture as urban hybrid ecosystems whose nonstandard form features new material and fabrication logics that inspire a shift away from a technical approach to sustainable architecture to one rooted in design and the built environment. The pavilion mobilizes concepts of event as the public is invited to actively participate in the planting of the cold frames, thus contributing to the actual secondary structure of the greenhouse, and then disassembling the structure at the end of the installation period and disseminating the planted materials. As a conceptual and provocative backdrop to this project, references are made to important contributions recently made by a small group of accomplished scientists, architects, and researchers at a university symposium whose central theme was to discuss next steps for sustaining sustainability.
keywords ecology , emerging technologies , alternative materials , greenhouse architecture , digital fabrication , designbuild , sustainability
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
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_id ascaad2012_021
id ascaad2012_021
authors Signore, M. Del
year 2012
title Responsive Prototypes: Urban Machines as a Framework for the Digital City
source CAAD | INNOVATION | PRACTICE [6th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2012 / ISBN 978-99958-2-063-3], Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), 21-23 February 2012, pp. 203-210
summary The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual understanding of the production of machines/devices in relation to technology and urban environment in order to offer an operative framework to position these types of interventions in our contemporary design practice. These types of systems are inherently spatial. They represent for architects and designers one mode of operating in the urban context as they provide a critical form of inquiry to speculate on the future of cities and urbanism.
series ASCAAD
email
more http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2012/papers/ascaad2012_021.pdf
last changed 2012/05/15 20:46

_id ecaade2013_128
id ecaade2013_128
authors Symeonidou, Ioanna; Hirschberg, Urs and Kaftan, Martin
year 2013
title Designing the Negative
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2013.1.683
source Stouffs, Rudi and Sariyildiz, Sevil (eds.), Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference – Volume 1, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-20 September 2013, pp. 683-691
wos WOS:000340635300071
summary Designing the Negative was the title of a Master Studio that took place at the Institute of Architecture and Media of Graz University of Technology during the summer semester of 2012. Students designed and fabricated prototypes of customized concrete formwork as part of their studio assignment. The studio theme forced students to think about digital fabrication with parametric tools in a hands-on fashion. Using robotic technology and hot-wire cutting, students worked with the robot’s constraints (size of the robot’s arm, robot’s axis and tool’s restrictions) to design complex curved elements that could serve as formwork (the negative) for cast concrete elements (the positive). The students were asked to design a production strategy for their cast concrete elements as well as the application of said elements in an architectural scheme. The student projects confirmed the value of a pedagogy that takes on research-relevant questions in an interdisciplinary studio setting and engages students in a process that is best described as digital crafting: it simultaneously addressed the conceptual and technical as well as the material and tactile aspects of digital fabrication and design.
keywords Digital fabrication; customization; concrete; hot-wire cutting; parametric design.
series eCAADe
email
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_id ascaad2012_014
id ascaad2012_014
authors Von Mammen, Sebastian; Joshua M. Taron
year 2012
title A Trans-Disciplinary Program for Biomimetic Computing and Architectural Design
source CAAD | INNOVATION | PRACTICE [6th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2012 / ISBN 978-99958-2-063-3], Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), 21-23 February 2012, pp. 141-154
summary In this article, we present our trans-disciplinary approach to teaching biomimetic computing and architectural design to graduate students in Architecture. In particular, we present our selection of topics, their initial, conceptual presentation to the students, their appropriation by the students through programming and examples of the students’ material implementations in architectural design projects.
series ASCAAD
email
more http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2012/papers/ascaad2012_014.pdf
last changed 2012/05/15 20:46

_id acadia12_479
id acadia12_479
authors Castorina, Giulio
year 2012
title Performative Topologies: An Evolutionary Shape Optimization Framework for Daylighting Performance Coupling a Particle-Spring System With an Energy Simulation Tool
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.479
source ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 479-490
summary This paper develops a methodological approach for use in design practice which combines an external simulation tool (EnergyPlus™) with an evo-lutionary optimisation strategy for the form-finding of complex fenestra-tion systems. On one hand, based on previous research, it presents a novel approach for the shape morphogenesis that exploits a generative algorithm technique to control a limited set of parameters whilst on the other hand it facilitates the integration of a simulation tool capable of handling increasing levels of complexity with greater data interoperabil-ity. In doing so it will argue the heuristic potential of the proposed meth-od in aiding the designers’ decision making whilst increasing the formal possibilities of their final design solutions.
keywords Performance-based design , Genetic Algorithm (GA) , daylighting simulation , shape optimisation , decision support system (DSS)
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
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_id ecaade2012_303
id ecaade2012_303
authors Cheng, Nancy Yen-wen
year 2012
title Shading With Folded Surfaces: Designing With Material, Visual and Digital Considerations
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.613
source Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 613-620
wos WOS:000330320600066
summary This paper analyses a hybrid design approach; how physical and digital processes can inform each other in a multivalent design cycle. It describes the design of origami-inspired window shades, part of the Shaping Light project that explores how adjustable surface structures can modulate light levels and heat gain in response to the changing seasons. The screen uses sloped surfaces to diffuse light and create apertures that close when the screen is stretched and open when the screen is folded. The project complements digital methods for pattern proportioning and kinetic simulation with manual manipulation to generate 3D folding motifs and refi ne assemblies. Physical prototypes can shape digital refi nement by revealing visual and structural characteristics of materials, along with joint and production considerations. Physical models for simulating sunny and cloudy daylighting conditions provide a direct connection between spatial confi guration and visual effects. The paper concludes with guidelines for material-based digital-analog creation.
keywords Architectural design process; digital fabrication; shading devices; origami
series eCAADe
email
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_id caadria2012_002
id caadria2012_002
authors Elkhaldi, Maher S. and Ellen Y. Do
year 2012
title Generative synthesis systems: A framework
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.399
source Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 399–408
summary Responses delivered by a generative synthesis system (GSS) vary between creative solutions and unusable outcomes. The type of GSS response is driven by many factors such as: the design context, designer’s interpretation, implementation environments, design language, and the GSS composition, among many factors. In this paper, we describe a GSS framework to provide a recipe for delivering responses, which can be qualified as solutions. The framework focuses on GSS composition. It includes descriptions for: building blocks, components, and building strategy. The framework is informed by generative design literature and by our experimentation. We present the framework through: a brief background to GSS, metrics, building blocks, components, and building strategy. We also show an example of GSS implementation and offer a brief discussion.
keywords Generative; building blocks; components; strategy
series CAADRIA
email
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_id caadria2012_125
id caadria2012_125
authors Hanafin, S.; S. Datta, B. Rolfe, M. Hobbs
year 2012
title Envelope tesselation with stochastic rotation of 4-fold penttiles
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.253
source Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 253–262
summary The challenge of developing adaptive, responsive low-energy architecture requires new knowledge about the complex and dynamic interaction between envelope architecture and optimisation between competing environmental performance metrics. Advances in modelling the geometry of building envelopes and control technologies for adaptive buildings now permit the sophisticated evaluation of alternative envelope configurations for a set of performance criteria. This paper reports on a study of the parametric control of a building envelope based on moveable façade components, acting as a shading device to reduce thermal gain within the building. This is investigated using a novel pentagonal tiling strategy considering the component design, tessellation and control methods.
keywords Responsive envelopes; moveable façade components; parametric modelling; tiling geometry; stochastic rotation
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:50

_id acadia12_457
id acadia12_457
authors Shook, David ; Sarkisian, Mark
year 2012
title Weighted Metrics: Synthesizing Elements for Tall Building Design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.457
source ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 457-466
summary Salient attributes of previously designed projects can be examined to understand how key parameters could inform current design practices. These parameters include gross floor area, number of stories, occupancy, material type, geographic location, seismicity, climatic influences, etc. Two informative analysis tools for intelligent design have been developed which can be used from preliminary planning stages to the final design of individual structures to district-wide developments. These tools can evaluate concurrent influences of these parameters on the built environment. The first is the Environmental Analysis Tool™ (EA Tool). The EA Tool quantifies the estimated equivalent carbon dioxide emissions of structural components. The second analysis tool is Parametric City Modeling (PCM). PCM estimates the usable area of a tower by estimating net floor area. These tools can also be applied to multiple buildings at a district scale to facilitate a new level of design in urban planning efforts. Design information embodied in the physical built environment finds new purpose in the informative prediction of performance at the on-set of digital design. Harvesting and mining data as a natural resource brings new potential to informed design. These concepts and subsequent tools are vital to building sustainable and efficient cities of the future.
keywords Data Harvesting , Sustainability , Building Efficiency , Urban Planning , Parametric Design , Optimization
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

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