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_id	ecaade2012_006
id	ecaade2012_006
authors	Angulo, Antonieta ; Vermillion, Joshua
year	2012
title	Strategic Thinking on the Redesign of a Foundational CAAD Course: Towards comprehensive training on digital design
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. 29-37
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.029
wos	WOS:000330322400002
summary	The paper describes a new implementation of an existing course on digital design and its contribution to the curriculum of the undergraduate pre-professional architecture program at Ball State University. The strategic thinking behind the re-design of this course refl ects not only the need to update its content to reflect the state-of-the art in the domain but also responds to a diversifi ed context that exhibitschanging trends due to digital culture, use of digital media in learning and practice, and educational policy. The paper elaborates on these larger contextual elements and describes the new instructional methods implemented through a modular framework of assignments and a multi-layered delivery system. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for the future improvement, constant assessment, and further development of the digital design course.
keywords	Digital Design; Instructional Methods; Parametric Thinking; CAAD; Fabrication
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2012_84
id	sigradi2012_84
authors	Feijoó, Edmundo Daniel Quezada; Valdivieso, Xavier Eduardo Burneo
year	2012
title	Arquitectura modular basada en la Teoría de los Policubos [Modular architecture based on the Theory of Polycubes]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 477-481
summary	This paper analyzes the theory of polycubes from the basic unit the cube, until the formation of more complex shapes, understanding the assembly and operation of polycube parts, is part of the use of theory in architectural projects, determining the cubic module (dimensions) and its combination aspect. Relates modulation with numerical series for the distribution and creation of environments. In the end establishes two design methodologies based on the theory, that it will work in a ludic way and culminate in housing prototypes.
keywords	Policubos; metodologías de diseño; leguaje espacial; gramática de las formas
series	SIGRADI
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_id	caadria2012_107
id	caadria2012_107
authors	Gerber, David and A. Senel Solmaz
year	2012
title	PARA-Typing the making of difference: Associative parametric design methodologies for teaching the prototyping of material affect
source	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 233–242
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.233
summary	PARA-Typing the Making of Difference presents design research and instruction into the use of constraint based digital and analogue modelling techniques and the development of associative parametric models to simulate highly differentiated fabricated form. These design research projects were conceived as manual analogue generative processes for prototyping modularity and serial differentiation. Then through associative parametric design technologies and methodologies, modular fields were design explored and developed in concert with material properties and constraints. Utilising digital fabrication full-scale installations were designed, manufactured, and constructed as tiled walls that created differentiated space within site-specific configurations.
keywords	Generative design; parametric modelling; prototyping; digital fabrication; tectonics
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ijac201210403
id	ijac201210403
authors	Gerber, David J.
year	2012
title	PARA-Typing Informing Form and the Making of Difference
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 10 - no. 4, 501-520
summary	This paper presents design research and instruction into the use of constraint based digital and analogue modelling techniques and the development of associative parametric models to simulate highly differentiated fabricated form. One set of these design research projects were conceived as manual analogue generative processes for prototyping modularity and serial differentiation.Then through parametric design techniques, modular aggregations were design explored and developed in concert with material properties and constraints. Utilizing digital fabrication full-scale installations were designed, manufactured, and for site-specific configurations. A second set of projects provides an extension of the design instruction that includes the integration of performance criteria into these design objectives.The objectives of the research are to present benefits and limitations of the incorporation of parametric design, performance analysis, and prototyping techniques in comprehensive studio instruction.The paper discusses the resultant informed materialized difference and the impacts on achieving reinforced and hands on learning objectives.
keywords	Generative design; parametric modelling; prototyping; digital fabrication; design pedagogy; performative design
series	journal
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_id	acadia12_315
id	acadia12_315
authors	Imbern, Matias ; Raspall, Felix ; Su, Qi
year	2012
title	Tectonic Tessellations: A Digital Approach to Ceramic Structural Surfaces
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. 315-321
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.315
summary	From the beginning of digital revolution, structural surfaces drew significant attention as a realm that interweaves formal explorations, form-finding and structural optimization. However, after successful experimentation in the virtual domain, it became evident that some of the main challenges lay on how to translate these structural forms into architectural assemblies at the scale of buildings. The development of digital fabrication is crucial in this task, as means to overcome traditional constraints such as need for modular pieces, scaffolding and optimal assembly sequences.This research focuses on digital workflows that combine form finding with robotic fabrication, surface tessellation and panelization. In the past years, the use of digital tools to assemble identical modules into complex formations has achieved significant results for loadbearing walls. Expanding this line of research, the proposed fabrication system carries these experiments on additive fabrication into the production of structural surfaces. The assembly sequence involves a two-step fabrication: off-site panel manufacturing and on-site assembly. The main components of the system consist of two triangular ceramic pieces that provide structural resistance, refined surface finish, and formwork for thin reinforced-concrete layer. Panelization strategies reduce the requirements on-site work and formwork.The paper describes background research, concept, construction process, methodology, results and conclusions.
keywords	Digital Fabrication , Complex Geometry , Reinforced Ceramic , Structural Surfaces , Reduced Formwork
series	ACADIA
type	panel paper
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_id	acadia12_239
id	acadia12_239
authors	Jackson, Jesse ; Stern, Luke
year	2012
title	Fabricating Sustainable Concrete Elements: A Physical Instantiation of the Marching Cubes Algorithm
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. 239-247
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.239
summary	This paper explores how an algorithm designed to represent form can be made physical, and how this physical instantiation can be made to respond to a set of design imperatives. Specifically, the paper demonstrates how Marching Cubes (Lorensen and Cline 1987), an algorithm that extracts a polygonal mesh from a scalar field, can be used to initiate the design for a system of modular concrete armature elements that permit a large degree of variability using a small number of discrete parts. The design of these elements was developed in response to a close examination of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Automatic system, an architecturally pertinent historical precedent. The fabricated results positively satisfy contemporary design criteria, including maximal formal freedom, optimal environmental performance, and minimal life-cycle costs.
keywords	Form-finding Algorithms , Digital Fabrication , Sustainability , Frank Lloyd Wright , Concrete , Tectonic Elements
series	ACADIA
type	panel paper
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_id	caadria2012_110
id	caadria2012_110
authors	McGee, Wes; David Pigram and Maciej P. Kaczynski
year	2012
title	Robotic reticulations: A method for the integration of multi-axis fabrication processes with algorithmic form-finding techniques
source	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 295–304
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.295
summary	This paper addresses the design and fabrication of non-uniform structural shell systems. Structural shells, particularly gridshells, have a long history but due to their complexity and the accompanying high cost of construction, their application has been limited. The research proposes a method for integrating the design and fabrication processes such that complex double curved reticulated frames can be constructed efficiently, from prefabricated components, requiring significantly less formwork than is typical. A significant aspect of the method has been the development of software tools that allow for both algorithmic form-finding and the direct control of robotic fabrication equipment from within the same modelling package. A recent case-study is examined where the methodology has been applied to construct a reticulated shell structure in the form of a partial vault. Components were prefabricated using 6-axis robotic fabrication equipment. Individual parts are designed such that the assembly of components guides the form of the vault, requiring no centring to create the desired shape. Algorithmically generated machine instructions controlled a sequence of three tool changes for each part, using a single modular fixture, greatly increasing accuracy. The complete integration of computational design techniques and fabrication methodologies now enables the economical deployment of non-uniform structurally optimised reticulated frames.
keywords	Reticulated frame; robotic fabrication; dynamic relaxation; form-finding; computational design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	sigradi2012_47
id	sigradi2012_47
authors	Menegotto, José Luis
year	2012
title	Fachada Cinética: aplicando aritmética modular para controlar padrões de movimento [Kinetic facade: applying modular arithmetic for controlling movement patterns]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 388-391
summary	This article reports the experience of creating a support application for designing kinetic facades. The tool´s goal is the creation of a visual simulation system that permits full control over the movement of geometric patterns. In this case, we try to control the variation of polarized glasses used on architectural facades. The study presents a modeling technique of geometrical grids created and controlled by modular arithmetic operations. The programmed algorithm allows performing periodic geometric patterns. The research is aimed at formalizing a library of patterns and types of possible movements through ratings and an abstract symbolic representation.
keywords	BIM; AutoCAD; kinetics facades; AutoLISP
series	SIGRADI
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_id	caadria2012_071
id	caadria2012_071
authors	Park, Jieun and Ji-Hyun Lee
year	2012
title	A home design system based on component reusability
source	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 27–36
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.027
summary	This paper proposes a computer-aided design system for modular houses, focusing on component reusability. By resolving user-designed house layout into its component elements, and producing lists of reusable elements and those necessary to purchase, the system assists users in need of making design changes in their modular house. The application of the strategies described here may reduce human efforts in complicated process of re-arranging components according to new layout design and help to increase the reuse of module components in practice.
keywords	Modular house; component reusability; home remodelling; user participation; computer-aided design system
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2012_292
id	ecaade2012_292
authors	Reinhardt, Dagmar ; Martens, William ; Miranda, Luis
year	2012
title	Acoustic Consequences of Performative Structures Modelling Dependencies between Spatial Formation and Acoustic Behaviour
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. 577-586
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.577
wos	WOS:000330322400059
summary	The paper discusses an interdisciplinary exchange between parametric design and acoustic simulation. It reviews a strategic development of temporary dynamic structures that can be manipulated by intersecting variations of formation in generative architecture with acoustic simulation. The research investigates drivers that interface knowledge between parametric design, structural engineering and fabrication, interaction design and acoustics, and theatre and performance. It reviews the simulation of a temporary theatre installation into an existent industrial hall, whereby different formation of a modular structure are explored, and the acoustic effects of this installation are evaluated in relation to an enhancement of the audiences spatial and acoustic experience. The research goes beyond the morphological, aesthetic or structural values that have become key aspects of contemporary digital architecture, and relates them to the field of auralisation (forecasting acoustic behaviour). In that manner, the simulation and analysis of a future (material, spatial) objects is developed through the communication of an interdisciplinary team, thus exploring synergetic qualities of the physical and the digital.
keywords	Computational design; generative geometries; acoustic simulation
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2012_165
id	sigradi2012_165
authors	Romcy, Neliza; Cardoso, Daniel; Bertini, Alexandre; Paes, André
year	2012
title	Customização de aplicativo BIM, segundo princípios da Coordenação Modular [Customization of a BIM application, according to Modular Coordination principles]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 356-360
summary	Modular Coordination and Building Information Modeling emerge as potential strategies to improve the AEC industry, considering that both enhance the integration and communication among the different professionals involved in the project. This study aims to investigate the association between BIM and Modular Coordination, through the development of an application with demonstration purposes and the registration of its methodology. The paper presents how the process of customizing a BIM application was developed and its result: a plug-in designed to automatically generate the layout of ceramic bricks for rationalized masonry, plus the extraction of 2D technical drawings and quantitative lists.
keywords	Building Information Modeling; Coordenação Modular; customização de aplicativo; alvenaria racionalizada
series	SIGRADI
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_id	acadia13_207
id	acadia13_207
authors	Sanchez, Jose
year	2013
title	Gamescapes
source	ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture [Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-926724-22-5] Cambridge 24-26 October, 2013), pp. 207-216
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2013.207
summary	While parametrics and form-finding techniques focus on design as an idea of “search,” it is inevitable to wonder if the field is becoming stagnated, converging on similar “solutions” in an ever-shrinking design search space.Initiatives like Minecraft, coming from video game design, reopen the creative desires of players by providing a rigorous algorithmic set of rules and a fully open world coupling algorithmic design and intuition. This is what J.C.R. Licklider would call “man-computer symbiosis”(Licklider 1960).This paper presents how game mechanics suggest a radically different ethos for computational design thinking. It presents the Bloom project, commissioned for the London Olympics in 2012, which combines the use of industrially produced identical components with game mechanics. This project breaks the idea of serialized outcomes and suggests that within the search space of possible formations, there are unforeseeable assemblies and creative outcomes.The Bloom project has become a new research unit at UCL Bartlett, coupling notions of digital modular materials and crowd-farming for assembly, which positions gaming as a design heuristics to open the field of architectural design.
keywords	crowd search, game mechanics, combinatorics, open-ended, sandbox, intelligence augmentation.
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	ecaade2012_319
id	ecaade2012_319
authors	Stavric, Milena; Kaftan, Martin
year	2012
title	Robotic Fabrication of Modular Formwork for Non-Standard Concrete Structures
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. 431-437
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.431
wos	WOS:000330320600045
summary	In this work we address the fast and economical realization of complex formwork for concrete with the advantage of industrial robot arm. Under economical realization we mean reduction of production time and material effi ciency. The complex form of individual formwork parts can be in our case double curved surface of complex mesh geometry. We propose the fabrication of the formwork by straight or shaped hot wire. We illustrate on several projects different approaches to mould production, where the proposed process demonstrates itself effective. In our approach we deal with the special kinds of modularity and specific symmetry of the formwork.
keywords	Robotic fabrication; formwork; non-standard structures
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2012_171
id	ecaade2012_171
authors	Tang, Wen Yen; Tang, Sheng Kai; Lee, Yuzn Zone
year	2012
title	Tangible Pixels: Interactive Architectural Modules for Discovering Adaptive Human Swarm Interaction
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. 301-307
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.301
wos	WOS:000330320600030
summary	In this paper, we design and implement 40 identical modular architectural blocks, named Tangible Pixels, with swarm computing mechanism embedded. Each unit of tangible pixels is a customized, which has three functions_sensing, communication/computing, and actuating abilities to collective reactions to its surroundings. We further arrange this set of tangible swarm into a public interactive installation to explore the potential research and design territories of human swarm interaction and adaptive artifact. Via a preliminary onsite observation, we prove that this adaptive interaction model did overturn the conventional space design and usage as well as user mental model.
keywords	Tangible; adaptive artifact; human swarm interaction; modular robotic; programmable matter
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2012_176
id	ecaade2012_176
authors	Tessmann, Oliver
year	2012
title	Topological Interlocking Assemblies
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. 211-219
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.211
wos	WOS:000330320600021
summary	Topological interlocking is a concept developed in material science. Solid modules form a structural system without the use of glue or mortar. Given fixed boundaries the elements constrain each other kinematically. This project seeks to re-conceptualize the system within an architectural framework by embracing computational design, analysis and fabrication tools and procedures. The goal is to develop geometrical differentiated, reversible, force-locked systems and the processes and methods to design and manufacture them. Students of the Architecture and Performative Design Studio (APD) at the Staedelschule Architecture Class (SAC) and the author developed the presented projects. The paper discusses the pedagogical approach of starting a design research studio from a very narrow material system. The research is continued at the School of Architecture of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
keywords	Digital Fabrication; Parametric Design; Topology, Structure; Modular
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2012_302
id	ecaade2012_302
authors	Colakoglu, Birgül; Durmisevic, Elma; Pasic, Adnan
year	2012
title	International Collaborative Design Studio: Green Transformable Buildings
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. 107-114
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.107
wos	WOS:000330320600010
summary	Current trends in architectural practice such as an increased focus on sustainable design, integrated design, and the globalization of architecture are increasing the need for practitioners that are skilled in collaboration. Collaboration fosters innovation and creativity. It is a key operating principle for the 21st century and an important skill that an architecture student must be exposed to. The change in knowledge generation and creative problem solving is transforming education towards collaborative learning forcing architecture and engineering schools to address new course structures with “collaborative” aspect. The work presented in this paper draws its base from collaborative design learning. It describes an international collaborative design studio titled “International Design Studio: Green Transformable Buildings” conducted between three institutions, Y_ld_z Technical University (YTU)–Istanbul, University of Twente (TU)-Enschede Engineering Sciences and Industrial Design School, and Architecture Faculty of Sarajevo (AFS).
keywords	Collaborative design; collaborated learning; team work; design process
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2013_203
id	sigradi2013_203
authors	Hernández, Silvia; María Figueroa; Gabriela Mengo; Maria José Verón; Luciana Lanzone; Alejandra Rezk; Natalia Vogliotti; Agustín Zavala
year	2013
title	MIBUS – Módulo Interactivo BUS : Diseño Interdisciplinar [MIBUS – BUS Interactive Module: Interdisciplinary Design]
source	SIGraDi 2013 [Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Chile - Valparaíso 20 - 22 November 2013, pp. 634 - 638
summary	This proposal of micro architecture is a continuation of a project began on 2012. Consist in a urban sustainable and transformable bus stop, with inmotic technology that allows illumination controls, security cameras, information of bus schedules, to charge bus cards and climate control. The team work is interdisciplinary and it is composed by designers, sustainable and inmotics specialist. They all verified the proposal's structure, sustainability and micro electricity. It is inclusive, attends the needs of all kind of users and answers to the socio-economic features of the milieu.
keywords	Inmotics; Micro-architecture; Sustainable; Digital prototype
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2012_187
id	sigradi2012_187
authors	Sharif, Shani; Gentry, T Russell; Yen, Jeannette; Goodman, Jose N
year	2012
title	Kinetic Solar Panels: A Transformative and Expandable Geometric System for Photovoltaic Structures
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 649-652
summary	This paper focuses on the applications of geometrically transformable and expandable structures with deployed “energy production mode and retracted “wind shedding” mode to replace the fixed photovoltaic (PV) panels and racking systems currently used in buildings rooftop installations. The significance of this expandable geometric system relies on its embedded motion grammar, i.e. rotation and translation transformations, in the system. The research draws inspiration from reconfiguration of compound tree leaves in nature, and addresses issues of redesign and modeling challenges that led to digital fabrication of the prototype.
keywords	Kinetic system, photovoltaic panels, geometric transformation, motion grammar, parametric modeling
series	SIGRADI
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