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_id	caadria2014_047
id	caadria2014_047
authors	Dickinson, Susannah and Sheehan Wachter
year	2014
title	Nature as a Comprehensive Model: A Biomimetic Installation
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 627–636
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.627
summary	The following group installation was part of a seminar on biomimetics at the University of Arizona, USA. The design began with research into various natural systems, namely cell growth and morphogenesis and digital tools. In nature cells contain preprogrammed responses based on intrinsic properties which allow for differentiation and adaptation to external forces. This logic of cell morphology was developed into the installation design. Form specificity and topological variation was developed through the manipulation of a material system, bending and loading identical components to adapt to external forces, such as the sun, while simultaneously navigating the site, providing structure and ultimately architectural space.
keywords	Biomimetics; pedagogy; simulation; design/build
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2014_140
id	ecaade2014_140
authors	Marcin Wójcik and Jan Strumillo
year	2014
title	BackToBack - A bio-cybernetic approach to production of solid timber components
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 159-168
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.159
wos	WOS:000361385100017
summary	This paper investigates the potential and implications of using naturally occurring material phenomena as a connecting mechanism for solid timber components. Proposed and discussed are connections based on anisotropic shrinkage and geometrical variability of trees. Using the notion of material agency in design, following the bio-cybernetic and biomimetic frameworks, solutions are devised to reduce energy usage, environmental pollution and utilise low-processed material. Finally, consequences of the fusion of the natural (analogue) and the digital realms are discussed, with an example of a workflow integrating inherent material traits with digital manufacture.
keywords	Material-oriented design; computational design; wood properties
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2014_023
id	ecaade2014_023
authors	Salma El Ahmar and Antonio Fioravanti
year	2014
title	Botanics and Parametric Design Fusions for Performative Building Skins - An application in hot climates
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 595-604
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.595
wos	WOS:000361385100062
summary	Biomimicry and computational design are two growing fields of research and practice in architecture for their potential in performative and sustainable design, among many other benefits. Cooling loads are posing serious energy problems in hot climatic cities as in Cairo and Alexandria. Attempting to solve these problems, this research turned to botanical inspirations for ideas in order to improve thermoregulation of the building skin. One of these ideas was chosen and implemented using computational software in the design of a parametric vertical shading screen for a typical office room in Cairo. The challenge was to minimize cooling loads as much as possible without compromising daylight requirements. An evolutionary solver was used to optimize results and environmental simulations were performed before and after the proposed screen to assess its performance and evaluate this biomimetic-computational approach to design.
keywords	Biomimicry; building skin; thermoregulation; parametric design; hot climates
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2015_230
id	ecaade2015_230
authors	Yazici, Sevil
year	2015
title	A Course on Biomimetic Design Strategies
source	Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 111-118
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.111
wos	WOS:000372316000014
summary	Although redesigning curricula by integrating the CAD tools into architectural education has been an ongoing interest, a new understanding towards solving design problems holistically should be investigated in architectural education. Because natural systems offer design strategies to increase performance and effectiveness with an extensive formal repertoire; incorporating multi-faceted biomimetic principles into the design process is necessary. It is critical to increase skills of students towards algorithmic thinking, as well as to deal with performance issues and sustainability. This paper aims to discuss an undergraduate elective course titled “Sustainable Design and Environment through Biomimicry” which was taught by the author in architectural degree program of Ozyegin University Faculty of Architecture and Design in Fall 2014-2015. Following the exploration of individual research topics, findings were implemented into design problems. The challenges encountered in the teaching process and future lines of the work are discussed in the paper.
series	eCAADe
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more	https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=c96be63a-6f80-11e5-8f6b-e7a3874d691b
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_id	acadia14_267
id	acadia14_267
authors	Ahlquist, Sean
year	2014
title	Post-forming Composite Morphologies: Materialization and design methods for inducing form through textile material behavior
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 267-276
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.267
summary	This paper presents research in developing materials with integrated pre-stressed textile and rigid composite properties. Such a material system, termed Pre-stressed Textile-Reinforced Composites (pTRC), produces forms with great degrees of both 3-dimensional and structural differentiation, from flat form-work in combination with a curated composite forming process.
keywords	Pre-stressed Textile-reinforced Composites, Textile Hybrid, Material Behavior, Form-finding, Spring-based Simulation.Category: Material Logics and Tectonics.
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	sigradi2014_036
id	sigradi2014_036
authors	Anderson, Jonathon; Ming Tang
year	2014
title	Crafting Soft Geometry: Form and Materials Informing Analog and Digital Craft Processes
source	SIGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay- Montevideo 12,13,14 November 2014, pp. 183-186
summary	This paper outlines a methodology that adds to current craft-based discourse in the digital age. It proposes pedagogy centered on a constant examining of the parametric relationships between form, material, and load. The paper illustrates how materials and loads were integrated as datasets into “soft geometry” modeling and installation pipelines that further explore a hybrid process that incorporates materials and craftsmanship. The results expand the boundary of conventional static form and spatial interaction within the deformation rules (material and force) while seeking form through the exploration of both digital simulation and analog techniques.
keywords	Digital-physical; craft; soft geometry; form; material
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ijac201412307
id	ijac201412307
authors	Baerlecken, Daniel; Katherine Blair Wright
year	2014
title	Nominalized Matter: Agency of Material
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 12 - no. 3, 339-356
summary	This paper investigates making as a process that brings together diverse materials and combines their flow in anticipation of what might emerge. Ingold calls this approach the textility of making, which gives priority to the formation of materials as a process, in which form is generated through interventions within fields of forces and currents of materials - not through a predefined notion of an ideal outcome. The approach opposes the Aristotelian hylomorphic approach, which focuses on final products. This paper investigates textiles techniques and their potential for simultaneously creating ornamental and structural systems. This work is conducted through a sequence of architecture design studios, producing the case studies found in this paper. Within the paper different examples of textile systems are introduced ranging from a Semperian approach (wall as dress) to form finding experiments with active textile materials - demonstrating the potential for methods utilizing material agency to inform architectural design
series	journal
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_id	acadia14_453
id	acadia14_453
authors	Bell, Brad; Read, T. Cord; Ede, Austin; Barnes, Nathan
year	2014
title	Casting non-repetitive Geometries with Digitally Reconfigurable Surfaces
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 453-462
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.453
summary	The research is a digitally reconfigurable formwork, controlled by Arduinos and stepper motors, capable of producing a wide range of geometric outcomes for largel-scale panel prototypes using concrete or composite materials.
keywords	Reconfigurable Molds, Panelized Surfaces, Precast Concrete, Digital Fabrication and Constructions, 3D Printing, Arduinos, Material Logics and Tectonics
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	acadia14_327
id	acadia14_327
authors	Cabrinha, Mark; Ponitz, Jeff
year	2014
title	Simplexity: Unitized FRP Façade Systems
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 327-332
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.327
summary	Working with industry partners from architecture, engineering, and fabrication, the Material Innovation Lab at Cal Poly Architecture envisions lightweight high-performance fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) unitized façade systems.
keywords	Composite Materials, FRP, Formwork, Unitized, Facades, Parts Consolidation
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	acadia14projects_227
id	acadia14projects_227
authors	Christou, Elina; Dierckx; Pastrana, Rodgrigo; Papic, Nikola
year	2014
title	Robofoam
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Projects of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9789126724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp.227-230
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.227
summary	The project examines the evolvement of the uncertainty in the design process to result in an integrated and resilient structure that emerges from local conditions and possesses the ability to create global patterns and emerging forms create global patterns and emerging forms through the increasingly expanding category of foam-based materials
keywords	Multi Agent Systems in Design, Robotics and Autonomous Design Systems, Collective Intelligence in Design, Generative Design, Digital fabrication and construction, Material Logics and Tectonics.
series	ACADIA
type	Student's Research Projects
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_id	ecaade2014_096
id	ecaade2014_096
authors	Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe
year	2014
title	Erratic - The Material Simulacra of Pliable Surfaces
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 145-152
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.145
wos	WOS:000361385100015
summary	This paper examines how designers can invigorate designs with a sense of liveliness and indeterminacy through manipulation of pliable materials. Two approaches to material manipulation are defined and juxtaposed in the paper: The control associated with Frei Otto's elegantly tensioned membranes and the noise associated with Sigurd Lewerentz's intensely material brick walls. These historical approaches become pertinent in relation to current opportunities offered by material simulation software in architecture. Simulation may be used to increase control over the materialization of design, but is at the same time a way to introduce the noise of real-time, real-world experiments into digital design. The paper presents this discussion in parallel with documentation of the research project 'Erratic', a recent installation carried out by the authors' practice Norell/Rodhe. Constructed from polyurethane cold foam, the project combines analogue experiments with digital simulations to target architectural qualities like mass, figuration and relief.
keywords	Control; material manipulation; material simulation; noise; pliable surfaces
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia14_573
id	acadia14_573
authors	Ekmekjian, Nazareth
year	2014
title	From Surface to Volume: An Approach to Poche` with Composites
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 573-578
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.573
summary	While the digital era has brought with it a vast assortment of tools from which we can generate form and geometry, often the result is a tendency to focus primarily on either surfaces or solids as a means of modeling for representation or fabrication which consequently impact the various fabrication and construction techniques deployed in order to realize such digital models. This paper presents an approach to coalesce techniques of surface generation via computational tools, and strategies for constructing volumetric elements through a process of backfilling with composite materials.
keywords	Robotics and Autonomous Design Systems, Craft in a Digital Age, Material Logics and Tectonics, Digital Fabrication and Construction, Computational Design Research, Generative Design.
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	sigradi2014_276
id	sigradi2014_276
authors	Florio, Wilson; Ana Tagliari Correo
year	2014
title	Investigação sobre os Espaços Internos de Residências Modernas a partir de Simulações Digitais de Ambientes [Research on Modern Indoor Spaces Houses from Digital Simulation Environments]
source	SiGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay - Montevideo 12 - 14 November 2014, pp. 556-560
summary	This article investigates modern unbuilt houses designed by Vilanova Artigas and Carlos Cascaldi in Sao Paulo. The results indicate peculiar indoors features of these residences. Starting from scanned original drawings it was possible to produce 3D geometric models, and the simulation of the materials appearance in the interior spaces of these houses. The programs of these six residences are organized in half-levels, ramps, double height, inner courtyard, zenithal lighting and structural solution defining architecture. The goal is to investigate through renderings and walkthroughs in animations how the architects defined the internal spaces, establishing connections and visual-spatial continuity between floors.
keywords	Simulation; Unbuilt; Rendering; Animation; Artigas
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ascaad2014_028
id	ascaad2014_028
authors	Hamza, Neveen
year	2014
title	Crafting the Virtual Sensory Environment: building performance simulation visualization as an enabler for creating sensory environments
source	Digital Crafting [7th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2014 / ISBN 978-603-90142-5-6], Jeddah (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), 31 March - 3 April 2014, pp. 353-359
summary	The sensory virtual environment is defined as a cognitive method leading to a mental model of potential value in gaining insights of how building spaces may perform to enhance the sensory experience of occupants. For architects, creating a sensory and experiential space is the holy grail of design endeavours. So far, the results of the experiential and sensory success of buildings are dependent on the architects’ own experience and judgment of materials and compositions within the space. Currently the use of tools such as 3D Max provides an ocular experience of the crafted virtual space, rarely giving indications of daylight and possible sensory experiences of the indoor thermal and acoustic conditions. In practice testing the thermal, daylight and other environmental performances of buildings at design stage is within the remit of building services consultants for conformity regulatory checks, and is dominated by extensive 2D (graphs) information exchanges. There is a need to include other formats of visual information exchanges to facilitate decisions on sustainable buildings and to achieve performing sensory environments This paper presents an exploration of endeavours to test the virtual sensory space through visualizations of building performance and aims to provide recommendations on how to fuse endeavours to disseminate knowledge within the design team while creating an information exchange mechanism that captures experts’ explicit and tacit knowledge. Case studies will be presented on how building performance simulation tools are used to provide matrices of relations to indicate the building performance, thermal comfort, daylight and natural ventilation and were used as an aid for architectural design decisions to create sensory environments.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2016/02/15 13:09

_id	sigradi2014_313
id	sigradi2014_313
authors	Iglesias, Rodrigo A. Martin
year	2014
title	REVERSE DESIGN o de la deconstrucción proyectual del diseño [Reverse Design or the projectual deconstruction of design]
source	SIGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay - Montevideo 12 - 14 November 2014, pp. 101-105
summary	Reverse engineering is been applied in industry for many years, particularly in the context of the software industry, with the subsequent theoretical development, especially from the 1990s. In this paper we propose to realize their potential application to the field of design, and then characterize the concept of Reverse Design, associated with the idea of projectual deconstruction, concept that has great potential, from didactics to the optimization of materials and energy. Based on a literature review of the state, we will use the basic texts of reverse engineering to establish parallels, differences and contributions to the discipline.
keywords	Reverse Design; Projectual deconstruction; Reverse engineering; Design recovery; Abduction
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2014_057
id	ecaade2014_057
authors	Ivo Vrouwe and Burak Pak
year	2014
title	Framing Parametric and Generative Structures - A Novel Framework for Analysis and Education
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 365-371
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.1.365
wos	WOS:000361384700036
summary	In this paper we aimed at the development of a novel tool to facilitate the structured analysis of architectural construction principles, materials and production methods in digital design and fabrication practices. In order to assist the understanding and teaching of these subjects, we employed a taxonomy of spatial design construction (Vrouwe 2013). By using the taxonomy, we analysed and categorised 34 parametric structures published in the IJAC Journal (2002-2014). Informed by this study, we aligned the initial taxonomy using various framing strategies. As a result we developed a new framework for spatial design construction specifically customised for the design and fabrication of parametric structures which can potentially serve as a constructive tool to create a novel design learning environment and integrated teaching strategies.
keywords	Digital fabrication; parametric design; education; framing; pedagogy
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	caadria2014_037
id	caadria2014_037
authors	Khoo, Chin Koi
year	2014
title	Designing a Responsive Material System with Physical Computing
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 97–106
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.097
summary	This paper focuses on an investigation to explore architectural design potentials with a responsive material system and physical computing. Contemporary architects and designers are seeking to integrate physical computing in responsive architectural designs; however, they have largely borrowed from engineering technology’s mechanical devices and components. There is the opportunity to investigate an unexplored design approach to exploit the responsive capacity of material properties as alternatives to the current focus on mechanical components and discrete sensing devices. This opportunity creates a different design paradigm for responsive architecture that investigates the potential to integrate physical computing with responsive materials as one integrated material system. Instead of adopting highly intricate and expensive materials, this approach is explored through accessible and off-the-shelf materials to form a responsive material system, called Lumina. Lumina is implemented as an architectural installation called Cloud that serves as a morphing architectural skin. Cloud is a proof of concept to embody a responsive material system with physical computing to create a reciprocal and luminous architectural intervention for a selected dark corridor. It represents a different design paradigm for responsive architecture through alternative exploitation of contemporary materials and parametric design tools.
keywords	Physical computing; responsive material systems; adaptive architecture
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2014_150
id	caadria2014_150
authors	Knapp, Chris; Jonathan Neslon and Michael Parsons
year	2014
title	Constructing Atmospheres
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 149–158
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.149
summary	This paper documents and critically reflects upon the design, development, fabrication, and implementation of three pavilion projects developed during 2013-14. The core investigation of this work is the production of architectural spaces characterized by a quality of enveloping, diffuse, visual and spatial atmospheres. The principal activity of the research is aimed at refining methods for software-based exploration of formal complexities and the subsequent need to control variability and efficiency in fabrication output, using Grasshopper for Rhino to develop customized definitions particular to each specific project scenario. Linking the projects together are issues of scale, resolution of effect, and intent to move from disparate assemblies of structure and skin toward composite, manifold construction techniques that address multiple concerns (gravity, bracing, affect, etc) with a minimum of assembly. A material palette common to the current vernacular of CNC-based projects such as plywood, plastics, and other sheet materials is utilised. This work is invested in extending the possibilities of the architect and architecture as a discipline, extrapolating the workflow from these successive projects to the speculative impact of the work upon emerging possibilities of architectural construction and craft.
keywords	3d modelling; Digital fabrication; Rhinoceros; Grasshopper; Tessellation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2014_225
id	ecaade2014_225
authors	Kostas Grigoriadis
year	2014
title	Material Fusion - A research into the simulated blending of materials using particle systems
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 123-130
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.123
wos	WOS:000361385100012
summary	Parallel to the early development and recent widespread usage of composite materials in building and manufacturing, the concept of functionally graded materials (FGM) was initiated and developed as far back as the 1980s. In contrast to the composite paradigm, where layers of materials are glued and 'cooked' together under high pressure and temperature to form laminated parts, FGM are singular materials that vary their consistency gradually over their volume. In direct link to their increasing use in fields adjacent to architecture, the scope of the paper is to explore a possible design route for designing with FGM. Of a limited number of available CAD software where material properties can be graded, the intent of the design for a materially graded windbreak module is to utilize particle systems as a technique for simulating fields of interacting, information-loaded material point sets that can be fused together in a gradient manner.
keywords	Functionally graded materials; particle system elements
series	eCAADe
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_id	ascaad2014_022
id	ascaad2014_022
authors	Kotsopoulos, Sotirios D.; Leonardo Giusti and Federico Casalegno
year	2014
title	Designing Synchronous Interactions for the Fenestration System of a Prototype Sustainable Dwelling
source	Digital Crafting [7th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2014 / ISBN 978-603-90142-5-6], Jeddah (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), 31 March - 3 April 2014, pp. 291-301
summary	This paper presents an interactive fenestration system designed for the principal façade of a prototype sustainable dwelling. The system attains autonomous, responsive and interactive modes of operation, and is able to provide synchronous response to a wide variety of environmental conditions and user needs. The method to address the design of the system was to integrate electro-active materials and real time sensing and control technologies. The test was to implement a full-scale façade with the abovementioned capabilities. This presentation discusses the features, technologies and reasoning followed in the design and implementation of the façade.
series	ASCAAD
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