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_id	ijac201210206
id	ijac201210206
authors	Chernyakova, Irina; Mariel Villeré, Federico Casalegno, Leonardo Giusti and Zoe Schladow
year	2012
title	Civic Media Platforms and Participatory Urbanism: A Critical Reflection
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 10 - no. 2, 253-274
summary	In this paper, we explicate our research on technology-mediated urban experience specific to two hyper-local tests in which the space of the ‘public’ is transformed into a virtual network by connective broadcasting. The first case study presents collective mapping in Rio de Janeiro toward increased civic engagement and sustainability, the second tests documentation of political demonstrations for strategic and archival purposes for Occupy Boston. Grouped under the term “participatory urbanism,” the projects intend to explore how an individual activates interstitial space (between the physical city and hovering networks, between public and private) by engaging technology and civic media to affect change in the built environment. The physical and virtual environments serve as reciprocal sources of information, engendering a collective practice of shared encounters. We investigate how such encounters of user-centered activity through mobile and web-based media support or implicate the perception and manipulation of the built environment over spans of time and locations, and will highlight qualitative elements of a mobile and web platform designed for successful civic engagement and participatory urbanism.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	ecaade2012_219
id	ecaade2012_219
authors	Roca, Luciana; Tramontano, Marcelo
year	2012
title	Intercultural Dialogues: Exchanging Sounds to Create Hybrid Spatialities
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. 639-645
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.639
wos	WOS:000330320600069
summary	This paper discusses sound and space instances supported by practices pertaining to the cultural action Intercultural Dialogues. This action is part of a larger protttject named Hybrid Territories, which involves digital media, communities, cultural activities, and the proposal of public policies, funded by FAPESP (São Paulo State Agency for Research Funding), Brazil, by means of a partnership with the Arts and Culture Bureau of the city of São Carlos. The cultural action in question is based on the construction of hybrid spatialities by the use of live-stream communication of sounds, thereby favoring the exchange of sound readings between São Carlos, Brazil, and Lüneburg, Germany.
keywords	Sound; Space; Hybrid Spatialities; Digital Media; Cultural Actions
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	sigradi2012_87
id	sigradi2012_87
authors	Santiago, Zilsa Maria Pinto
year	2012
title	Prática docente e experiências no atelier de desenho e projeto [Teaching practice and experience in drawing and design studio]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 290-293
summary	The present work aims to bring reflections on teaching practice in drawing and design studio and various activities that teachers and students participating in the context of academic life that guides from the segments: research, teaching and extension. Intends to contribute to the discussion on curriculum and teaching practice on a course whose specificities of teaching-learning process in nature and the essence of the action runs between technique and art curriculum, theory and practice, taking note of how the complexity of pedagogical work and their interactive processes.
keywords	prática docente; ateliê de desenho e projeto; aprender-fazendo
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:59

_id	ecaade2012_146
id	ecaade2012_146
authors	Slyk, Jan
year	2012
title	Low-Tec Sensor Concept for Reactive Space Programming
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. 353-359
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.353
wos	WOS:000330320600036
summary	This paper presents a case study of the pavilion built with the participation of students during experimental design course of ASK studies, master program in Warsaw. The installation was developed to research programming behaviour of augmented space. Pavilion generates acoustic signals in relation to user actions. It does so, according to the rules stored in a program that can be changed through the user interface. The pavilion serves both as a didactic and experimental installation. Therefore, a single low-tec sensor was invented, which operation can be easily understood. Optical mechanism analyzes the image of a shadow to obtain information about interior use. Components of the experiment are used to control process and establish rules. Mode of action is defined by independently designed system procedure.
keywords	Interactivity; behaviour programming; shape recognition; camera obscura
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	sigradi2012_379
id	sigradi2012_379
authors	Moreira, Arthur Felipe Molina
year	2012
title	GeoMetrópoles – Uma Interface Intuitiva para Acesso a Dados Geográficos [GeoMetrópoles – A Intiutive Interface for access to geographic data]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 154-157
summary	This article focuses on a project of a Geographical Information System (GIS) built in a participatory way at all steps of production of this platform, from the acquisition of data until the final production of consolidated information in different cartographical products. It is the main goal to make possible to any citizen the access and the ability to manipulate spatial information in order to, through them, participate in a qualified manner in the decision making process about where, how and when a spatial intervention will be done by the government. This is done by creating a map server called GeoMetrópoles.
keywords	GIS; Sistemas na Web; Servidor de Mapas; Cartografia Participativa
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	ecaade2012_229
id	ecaade2012_229
authors	Pihlajaniemi, Henrika; Oesterlund, Toni; Tanska, Tuulikki
year	2012
title	Tools for Interaction and User Participation in Urban Lighting: Lightstories Case
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. 677-687
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.677
wos	WOS:000330320600073
summary	This proposed paper presents the results of a real world demo of adaptive urban lighting in a pedestrian oriented street in the core centre of a northern city of 65°01’ latitude, Oulu, Finland. The case project – LightStories (Valotarina) – explores the methods to enable city dwellers to participate in the design of public urban lighting, as well as interaction and communication through urban lighting. It applies a web-based design tool which offers city dwellers the possibility to design one hour long light animations to be displayed along a pedestrian oriented street. In addition to describing the design and development process of the lighting system and the participatory design tools used in this case, the paper presents general discussion about the process and tools, and also about the role of algorithm aided methods in enabling the user participation in lighting design with the tool.
keywords	Adaptive urban lighting; user participation; design tool; algorithm aided; real world demo
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	sigradi2012_21
id	sigradi2012_21
authors	Rocha, Heliana Faria Mettig
year	2012
title	Modelagem e Simulação da informação urbana de caráter histórico [Modeling and simulation of urban information of historical nature]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 401-404
summary	This article focuses on modeling and simulation of urban information of a prototype on Geographic Information System – GIS for a historic commercial district in Salvador, Bahia. The conceptual modeling refers to the system’s symbolic representation, the spatial and topological relationships of real object with other in scenario, and attributes database settings. The geometric modeling refers to three-dimensional models that represent urban visual elements. The simulation generates previews for periods or themes, in response to interactive queries. This GIS has been relevant to broaden reflection on the process of urban landscape transformation, in order to instrumentalize participatory urban planning and heritage preservation.
keywords	Visualização urbana espaço temporal; Representação digital; SIG Histórico; Modelo 3D; Bairro do Comércio
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:59

_id	sigradi2012_193
id	sigradi2012_193
authors	Souto, Ivan
year	2012
title	Arquitetura como processo aberto baseado no uso de tecnologias digitais [Architecture as an open process based on usage of digital technologies]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 482-485
summary	The paper investigates strategies and procedures enabled by the generative modeling that can become more active user participation in the design process in architecture. With the participation of lay people in the architecture field and inspired by participatory design methods used in Europe in the 60s and 70s, was driving a process of defining guidelines for the occupation of an area based on productive cooperation and the free flow of information, seeking to explore the potential that new computational technologies can add to this approach between the user and the space to be built.
keywords	Modelagem generativa; Projeto participativo; Projeto do espaço público.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 10:00

_id	sigradi2012_213
id	sigradi2012_213
authors	Swarowsky, Luciana Abitante; Baisch, Lucas Figueiredo; Tosello, Maria Elena; Costa, Luis Gustavo Gonçalves; Zorzon, Cecilia Verónica
year	2012
title	Produção colaborativa Forma (in)Formação [Collaborative production Form (in)Formation]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 56-59
summary	Transforming the work in a dynamic system, Form (in) formation is a poetic construction that addresses different creative processes in order and in evidence of the collaborative power of a digital image reproduction to the same extent that misaligns copyright borders of his own artistic production. Therefore, this article shows some ways that made possible interventions that prioritize distinct visual and exchange files via internet during this participatory process. Structured in two parts, the first dealing with participatory demonstrations in contemporary artistic productions. The second points to the aspect of the Form (in) formation project that involves the collaboration of invited people as a main constituent between the artistic practices involved.
keywords	imagens compostas; processos colaborativos, arte contemporânea
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	ascaad2012_022
id	ascaad2012_022
authors	Borham, Ahmad; Lobna Sherif and Osama Tolba
year	2012
title	Resilient Rules - Culture and Computation in Traditional Built Environments
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. 211-221
summary	This study explores the influence of the socio-cultural rules, based upon Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), on the complexity of the traditional built environment. This system of rules organized the societal activities, including decisions and activities related to design and construction in the Arab-Islamic city. Considering the city as a complex system, the study will try to show how this rules system made the Arab-Islamic city resilient and adaptive. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) are non-linear, self-organizing systems that have the ability to adapt to changing conditions through changing the rules that organize the random autonomous interactions between agents in the environment. This adaptation takes place through gradual gained experience that is reflected in the behavior of agents. This study attempts to interrelate different bodies of literature (Complexity/Chaos theory and built environment studies) in a single framework that aims to show that the socio-cultural rules system based on fiqh was a major factor in the resilience of the traditional built environment. These interrelations are illustrated using a graph called Computational Rules Graph (CRG). The CRG relates the traditional rules system to attributes of complex systems in a graph that can be modeled computationally. Traditional rules (codes of conduct) are proscriptive (non-deterministic), defining what is prohibited, thereby producing autonomous environments where agents had control over their immediate environment. In comparison, contemporary rules of the built environment (building codes) are prescriptive (deterministic), subscribing definite actions that need to take place by the stake-holder (agent) neglecting user needs and preferences. The application of these traditional rules system increased the agent’s autonomy and freedom of action. It also helped establish stronger social networks among agents, which resulted in a resilient environment.
series	ASCAAD
email
more	http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2012/papers/ascaad2012_022.pdf
last changed	2012/05/15 20:46

_id	ecaade2012_296
id	ecaade2012_296
authors	Erhan, Halil I. ; Sanchez, Rodolfo ; Woodbury, Robert F. ; Mueller, Volker
year	2012
title	Visual Narratives of Parametric Design History: Aha! Now I see how you did it!
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. 259-268
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.259
wos	WOS:000330322400026
summary	Histories are underdeveloped and underused features in parametric CAD (PCAD) systems. Designers employ backtracking and deferral strategies that both use and augment history. Using backtracking and deferral as a framework we present two classes of design process graph diagramming techniques for augmented history in PCAD. We compare the second version of these design process graphs across several designers who completed multiple tasks using two parametric systems (SolidWorks and GenerativeComponents). The two systems show similar types of action, with markedly more and deeper backtracking in GenerativeComponents. We present a third diagramming system as a design for a proof of concept prototype. This prototype aims to expand the capabilities of design histories beyond access to single prior states to visualize and enable direct interaction based on backtracking and deferral.
keywords	Parametric CAD, design history, backtracking, deferral, design space
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:55

_id	sigradi2012_288
id	sigradi2012_288
authors	Hernández, Silvia Patricia; Trebilcok, Maureen
year	2012
title	Ambiente inteligente, la acción e interacción del usuario con los sistemas de control en búsqueda del confort [Intelligent environments, user's action and interaction with the systems looking for comfort]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 91-95
summary	A study of inmotic buildings of mild weather was taken at the central zone of Argentina, with postocupation surveys. The aim of it was to determine the comfort reached and the relations between passive and active individual. Providing to the users the power to control the interior ambient, increasing visual and thermal comfort. It was searched the degree the users rather want to leace actions to automatism. We conclude that there is need for design to include graphics interfaces, user’s needs and in consequence to define the interactions with this consideration.
keywords	Diseño inmótico; acción del usuario; ambiente inteligente
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:53

_id	acadia12_269
id	acadia12_269
authors	Lally, Sean
year	2012
title	Architecture of an Active Context
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. 269-276
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.269
summary	As we stand with our feet on earth’s outermost surface we build an architecture today that is much like it was several thousand years earlier, in an attempt to extend that outer shell with one of our own making. Artificial masses are built from a refinement of this existing geologic layer into materials of stone, steel, concrete, and glass that assemble to produce new pockets of space through the buildings they create. However, the sixth century BC writer Thales of Miletus put a different perspective on this: he insisted that we live, in reality, not on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air (Holmyard 1931). And so, as architecture continues to build up the outermost layer of earth’s surface through a mimicking, embellishing, and enhancing of the materials which it comes from, it raises the question of why we have not brought a similar relationship to the materialities at the bottom of this “ocean” of air to create the spaces we call architecture. If you were looking to level a complaint with the architectural profession, stating that it has not been ambitious enough in scope would not be one. Architects have never shied away from the opportunity to design everything from the building’s shell to the teaspoon used to stir your sugar in its matching cup. But it would seem that the profession has developed a rather large blind spot in terms of what it sees as a malleable material with which to engage. Architects have made assumptions as to what is beyond our scope of action, refraining from engaging a range of material variables due to a belief that the task would be too great or simply beyond our physical control. So even though we are enveloped by them continuously, both on the exterior as well as the interior of our buildings, it must be assumed that the particles, waves, and frequencies of energy that move around us are thought by architects to be too faint and shaky to unload upon them any heavy obligations, that they are too unwieldy for us to control to create the physical boundaries of separation, security, and movement required of architecture. This has resulted in a cultivated set of blinders that essentially defines architecture as a set of mediation devices (surfaces, walls, and inert masses) for tempering the environmental context it is situated in from the individuals and activities within. The spaces we inhabit are defined by their ability to decide what gets in and what stays out (sunlight, precipitation, winds). We place our organizational demands and aesthetic opinions on the surfaces that mediate these variables rather than seeing them as available for manipulation as a building material on their own. The intention here is to recalibrate the materialities that make up that environmental context to build architecture. The starting point is a rather naive question: can we design the energy systems that course in and around us daily as an architectural material so as to take on the needs of activities, securities, and lifestyles associated with architecture? Can the variables that we would normally mediate against instead be heightened and amplified so as to become the architecture itself? That which many would incorrectly dismiss as simply “air” today—thought to be homogeneous, scale-less, and vacant due in part to the limits of our human sensory system to perceive more fully otherwise—might tomorrow be further articulated, populated, and layered so as to become a materiality that will build spatial boundaries, define activities of individuals and movement, and act as architectural space. Our environmental context consists of a diverse range of materials (particles and waves of energy, spectrum of light, sound waves, and chemical particles) that can be manipulated and formed to meet our needs. The opportunity before us today is to embrace the needs of organizational structures and aesthetics by designing the active context that surrounds us through the material energies that define it.
keywords	Material energies
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:52

_id	ijac201210203
id	ijac201210203
authors	Abdelhameed, Wael A.
year	2012
title	Micro-Simulation Function to Display Textual Data in Virtual Reality
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 10 - no. 2, 205-218
summary	Virtual reality creates an effective communication platform with a high degree of perception and exploration, increasing the benefits of VR applied functions.This research paper reports a virtual reality function of using the micro-simulation editor-player with XML file in the virtual reality environment.The details of the function are presented.The function aiming at combining visual and textual data in VR model visualisation, was developed by the researcher, and was included in the micro-simulation plug-in of a virtual reality program,VR Studio version 6, previously known as UC-Win/Road, by the program developers.The research paper discusses the computer simulation techniques and uses in virtual reality in general.The research paper proceeds to introduce a case study of construction process visualization in the virtual reality environment, in which the newly developed function is utilized to simultaneously visualise data reports related to the stages of VR model visualisation.The concluding remarks accentuate this micro-simulation function with its potential uses in different fields.
keywords	Micro-Simulation, XML,Virtual Reality, Construction Process Visualisation
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	ascaad2012_007
id	ascaad2012_007
authors	Abdelsalam, Mai M.
year	2012
title	The Use of Smart Geometry in Islamic Patterns - Case Study: Mamluk Mosques
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. 49-68
summary	It is noted that architects need new and quick methods designing the historic architectural styles, as well as restoring the historical urban areas particularly the Islamic ones. These designs and restorations should adapt to the basics of the Islamic style used; general concept, module and features. Smart Geometry provides advanced design concepts and increases alternative variations. Parametric design softwares also add more rules and relations on the design process. Obviously, the Islamic module and proportions are used as design generators that result in extracting a number of alternatives easily in a little time. Generative Components (GC) is the parametric software used to achieve the desired objectives of this research.
series	ASCAAD
email
more	http://www.ascaad.org/conference/2012/papers/ascaad2012_007.pdf
last changed	2012/05/15 20:46

_id	ecaade2012_002
id	ecaade2012_002
authors	Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejdan, Dana (eds.)
year	2012
title	Physical Digitality
source	Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - Volume 2 [ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7], Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, 714 p.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2
summary	Physical Digitality is the second volume of the conference proceedings of the 30th eCAADe conference, held from 12-14 september 2012 in Prague at the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague. The companion volume is called Digital Physicality. Together, both volumes contain 154 papers that were submitted to this conference. Digitality is the condition of living in a world where ubiquitous information and communication technology is embedded in the physical world. Although it is possible to point out what is “digital” and what is “real,” the distinction has become pointless, and it has no more explanatory power for our environment, buildings, and behaviour. Material objects are invested with communication possibilities, teams are communicating even when not together, and buildings can sense and respond to the environment, each other, and to inhabitants. Digital is no longer an add-on, extra, or separate software. Reality is partly digital and partly physical. The implication of this condition is not clear however, and it is necessary to investigate its potential. New strategies are necessary that acknowledge the synergetic qualities of the physical and the digital. This is not limited to our designs but it also infl uences the process, methods, and what or how we teach. The subdivision of papers in these volumes follow the distinction made in the conference theme. The papers in Physical Digitality have their orientation mainly in the physical realm, and reach towards the digital part. It has to be granted that this distinction is rather crude, because working from two extremes (digital versus physical) tends to ignore the arguably most interesting middle ground.
keywords	Digital physicality; physical digitality
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	ecaade2012_000
id	ecaade2012_000
authors	Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejdan, Dana (eds.)
year	2012
title	Digital Physicality
source	Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - Volume 1 [ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0], Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, 762 p.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1
summary	Digital Physicality is the first volume of the conference proceedings of the 30th eCAADe conference, held from 12-14 september 2012 in Prague at the Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague. The companion volume is called Physical Digitality. Together, both volumes contain 154 papers that were submitted to this conference.Physicality means that digital models increasingly incorporate information and knowledge of the world. This extends beyond material and component databases of building materials, but involves time, construction knowledge, material properties, space logic, people behaviour, and so on. Digital models therefore, are as much about our understanding of the world as they are about design support. Physical is no longer the opposite part of digital models. Models and reality are partly digital and partly physical. The implication of this condition is not clear however, and it is necessary to investigate its potential. New strategies are necessary that acknowledge the synergetic qualities of the physical and the digital. This is not limited to our designs but it also influences the process, methods, and what or how we teach.The subdivision of papers in these volumes follow the distinction made in the conference theme. The papers in Digital Physicality have their orientation mainly in the digital realm, and reach towards the physical part. It has to be granted that this distinction is rather crude, because working from two extremes (digital versus physical) tends to ignore the arguably most interesting middle ground.
keywords	Digital physicality; physical digitality
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	ecaade2012_212
id	ecaade2012_212
authors	Aghaei Meibodi, Mania ; Aghaiemeybodi, Hamia
year	2012
title	The Synergy Between Structure and Ornament: A Reflection on the Practice of Tectonic in the Digital and Physical Worlds
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. 245-254
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.245
wos	WOS:000330320600024
summary	The use of digital design and fabrication technologies in architecture has followed a paradigm shift, which has seen the topology, form and structure of architecture pushed to incorporate areas such as climate, construction, acoustic etc. While these digital technologies are intended to enhance the processes and performance, a discussion of aesthetics has been ignored. Surmising that the use of digital technology enhances the performability and effi ciency aspects of architecture as well as the aesthetics, this research questions what the new relationships and arrangements for structure and ornament are. What are the challenges when structure uses a process-based logic and is sensitive to materiality whereas the aesthetics has a representation-based logic and is not sensitive to materiality? The authors of this paper contribute to this debate by using the notion of tectonic as a platform for gaining and creating knowledge about this issue and examining the issues through the design and prototyping of a Multi-functional Pavilion.
keywords	Processes; ornament; digital technology; tectonic; architectural expression
series	eCAADe
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:54

_id	caadria2012_066
id	caadria2012_066
authors	Ahmad, Sumbul
year	2012
title	The representation of type in grammatical design
source	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 425–432
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.425
summary	Grammatical design is useful for the generation of a set of related designs. The concept of type aids designers in generating designs with a specified structure. However, existing studies in grammar are ambiguous in their definition of type in the language of designs generated by a grammar. Extending our previous study of defining style in grammar, this paper provides a formal definition of the concept of type in the language of designs generated by a grammar. This is done with the help of a description scheme which is developed by augmenting grammar primitives and spatial relations with descriptors. The description scheme allows the computation of descriptors for designs generated from grammar thus making possible the comparison of various design types in the language of a grammar. Such a description scheme for defining design types is especially significant for less restricted grammars that generate a large number of designs that are varied in nature. A formal definition of type in grammars allows users to sift through designs with particular features, and thus select desired designs.
keywords	Type; Design grammars; generative design; description scheme; product design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia12_47
id	acadia12_47
authors	Aish, Robert ; Fisher, Al ; Joyce, Sam ; Marsh, Andrew
year	2012
title	Progress Towards Multi-Criteria Design Optimisation Using Designscript With Smart Form, Robot Structural Analysis and Ecotect Building Performance Analysis"
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. 47-56
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.047
summary	Important progress towards the development of a system that enables multi-criteria design optimisation has recently been demonstrated during a research collaboration between Autodesk’s DesignScript development team, the University of Bath and the engineering consultancy Buro Happold. This involved integrating aspects of the Robot Structural Analysis application, aspects of the Ecotect building performance application and a specialist form finding solver called SMART Form (developed by Buro Happold) with DesignScript to create a single computation environment. This environment is intended for the generation and evaluation of building designs against both structural and building performance criteria, with the aim of expediently supporting computational optimisation and decision making processes that integrate across multiple design and engineering disciplines. A framework was developed to enable the integration of modeling environments with analysis and process control, based on the authors’ case studies and experience of applied performance driven design in practice. This more generalised approach (implemented in DesignScript) enables different designers and engineers to selectively configure geometry definition, form finding, analysis and simulation tools in an open-ended system without enforcing any predefined workflows or anticipating specific design strategies and allows for a full range of optimisation and decision making processes to be explored. This system has been demonstrated to practitioners during the Design Modeling Symposium, Berlin in 2011 and feedback from this has suggested further development.
keywords	Design Optimisation , Scripting , Form Finding , Structural Analysis , Building Performance
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
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