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_id	caadria2015_181
id	caadria2015_181
authors	Pantic, Igor and Soomeen Hahm
year	2015
title	Isomorphic Agency
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2015.179
source	Emerging Experience in Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2015) / Daegu 20-22 May 2015, pp. 179-188
summary	This paper deals with the topic of agent based design systems and their application in the process of generative design, with the goal of creating a series of volumetric arrangements of varying surface qualities. To test this approach, we created a custom made tool for Agent Based Modelling - Isomorphic Agency - whose design and functionality are described in this paper. Furthermore, we conduct a series of design exercises which combine different parameters, examining the resulting geometries and underlying organizational principles.
keywords	multi agent systems; generative design; design research
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2015_293
id	ecaade2015_293
authors	Batliner, Curime; Newsum, MichaelJake and Rehm, M.Casey
year	2015
title	Live: Synchronous Computing in Robot Driven Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.277
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. 277-286
summary	Challenging our contemporary understanding of representation and simulation in architecture SCI-Arc has been developing a unique digital/physical design platform where the relationships between humans, machines and matter are constantly in flux re-calibrating, reshuffling, reordering aligning digital and physical and vis versa. The robot as a technology takes an important role in these new ideation environments. “Live” is an applicaton which enables real-time robotic control and grants the robot substantial agency situating it as an interactive design tool that immediately responds to designed signal and sensor inputs in its environment. Current research explores interactive environments, gesture based human-machine interactions and autonomous agent driven design programs.
wos	WOS:000372316000033
series	eCAADe
email
more	https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=6fff29ba-6fe7-11e5-a661-eb66006fc007
last changed	2022/06/07 07:54

_id	ecaaderis2018_103
id	ecaaderis2018_103
authors	Davidová, Marie and Prokop, Šimon
year	2018
title	TreeHugger - The Eco-Systemic Prototypical Urban Intervention
source	Odysseas Kontovourkis (ed.), Sustainable Computational Workflows [6th eCAADe Regional International Workshop Proceedings / ISBN 9789491207143], Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 24-25 May 2018, pp. 75-84
keywords	The paper discusses co-design, development, production, application of TreeHugger (see Figure 1). The co-design among community and trans-disciplinary participants with different expertise required scope of media mix, switching between analogue, digital and back again. This involves different degrees of physical and digital 'GIGA-Mapping' (Sevaldson, 2011, 2015), 'Grasshopper3d' (Davidson, 2017) scripting and mix of digital and analogue fabrication to address the real life world. The critical participation of this 'Time-Based Design' (Sevaldson, 2004, 2005) process is the interaction of the prototype with eco-systemic agency of the adjacent environment - the eco-systemic performance. The TreeHugger is a responsive solid wood insect hotel, generating habitats and edible landscaping (Creasy, 2004) on bio-tope in city centre of Prague. To extend the impact, the code was uploaded for communities to download, local-specifically edit and apply worldwide. Thus, the fusion of discussed processes is multi-scaled and multi-layered, utilised in emerging design field: Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance.
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2018/05/29 14:33

_id	sigradi2015_9.152
id	sigradi2015_9.152
authors	Faria, José Neto de; Oliveira, Mirtes Marins; Palos, Karine Itao
year	2015
title	Architecture, Design and Information Visualization (Data): different phases of data between the perception and clarification
source	SIGRADI 2015 [Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - vol. 2 - ISBN: 978-85-8039-133-6] Florianópolis, SC, Brasil 23-27 November 2015, pp. 451-458.
summary	The article develops a reflection on the different stages of information (data) in the relations of mediation between ‘individual interpreter’ and ‘information systems’, and the agency of the processes of perception, interpretation and clarification. The goal was to identify, understand and describe how ‘information systems’ enact the different stages of articulation of ‘information’, from “propensity” to ‘concatenation’, and from ‘critical’ to the ‘action’. Tests and analysis of the effects of ‘information systems’ were observed in ‘narrative accounts’ of ‘individual interpreter’. However, the conclusion is that the social conformation of ‘strategies for obtaining information’ prevails on the properties of ‘information system’.
keywords	Design, Information, Information Architecture, Information Design, Information Visualization
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:51

_id	cf2015_324
id	cf2015_324
authors	Gerber, David Jason; Pantazis, Evangelos and Marcolino, Leandro Soriano
year	2015
title	Design Agency: Prototyping Multi-Agent Systems in Architecture
source	The next city - New technologies and the future of the built environment [16th International Conference CAAD Futures 2015. Sao Paulo, July 8-10, 2015. Electronic Proceedings/ ISBN 978-85-85783-53-2] Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 8-10, 2015, pp. 324.
summary	This paper presents research on the prototyping of multi-agent systems for architectural design. It proposes a design exploration methodology at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and computer science. The motivation of the work includes exploring bottom up generative methods coupled with optimizing performance criteria including for geometric complexity and objective functions for environmental, structural and fabrication parameters. The paper presents the development of a research framework and initial experiments to provide design solutions, which simultaneously satisfy complexly coupled and often contradicting objectives. The prototypical experiments and initial algorithms are described through a set of different design cases and agents within this framework; for the generation of façade panels for light control; for emergent design of shell structures; for actual construction of reciprocal frames; and for robotic fabrication. Initial results include multi-agent derived efficiencies for environmental and fabrication criteria and discussion of future steps for inclusion of human and structural factors.
keywords	Generative Design, Parametric Design, Multi-Agent Systems, Digital Fabrication, Form Finding, Reciprocal Frames.
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2015/06/29 07:55

_id	caadria2015_033
id	caadria2015_033
authors	Hadilou, Arman
year	2015
title	Phototropism of Tensile Façade System through Material Agency
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2015.127
source	Emerging Experience in Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2015) / Daegu 20-22 May 2015, pp. 127-136
summary	This paper researches material agencies, mechanical systems and façade designs that are able to respond to environmental changes through local interactions, inspired by biological systems. These are based on a model of distributed intelligence founded on plants and animal collectives, from which intelligent behavior emerges through simple local associations. Biological collective systems integrate material form and responsiveness and have the potential to inform new architectural and engineering strategies. The design approach of this research is based on a data-driven methodology spanning from design inception to simulation and physical modeling. Data-driven models, common in the fields of natural science, offer a method to generate and test a multiplicity of responsive solutions. The driving concepts are three types of evolutionary adaptation: flexibility, acclimation, and learning. The proposed façade system is a responsive textile shading structure which uses integrated actuators that moderate their local environments through simple interactions with their immediate neighbors. Computational techniques coupled to material logics create an integral design framework leading to heterogeneous environmental and structural conditions, producing local responses to environmental stimuli and ultimately effective performance of the whole system.
keywords	Responsive facade; phototropism; material intelligence.
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	ecaade2015_273
id	ecaade2015_273
authors	Hunter, Jessica; Cheng, Alexandra, Tannert, Thomas, Neumann, Oliver and Meyboom, AnnaLisa
year	2015
title	Extending the Perception of Wood - Research in Large Scale Surface Structures in Wood
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.427
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. 427-437
summary	Architects have a renewed interest in surface structures and the renewable resource of wood, along with advanced digital design, analysis and machining techniques, offers a way of manifesting these forms. Wood is easily machined and has bending properties that lead to the ability to form curves. This paper looks at the properties of wood, informing design through its material characteristics. The research presented here contributes to this discourse through the development of large scale timber shell structures. We propose hyper efficient structures made out of laminated wood products to provide a new solution to long span construction while satisfying the demand for agency in form generation.
wos	WOS:000372316000049
series	eCAADe
email
more	https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=7609b276-70d7-11e5-a36d-a71a6f180fc2
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	acadia15_333
id	acadia15_333
authors	Koltick, Nicole
year	2015
title	Autonomous Botanist: the Poetic Potentials of a New Robotic Species
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.333
source	ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-53726-8] Cincinnati 19-25 October, 2015), pp. 333-341
summary	This project begins by asking questions about ethics and empathy towards robots, and contemplates the future of their behavior in ways not informed by pragmatics or economy. What if a robot had a hobby? How do robots make aesthetic decisions? What is a robot’s point of view? It seeks to shift perception of robotic agency and allow the audience to embody the robotic gardeners’ vision, behavior and influence its aesthetics. By amplifying perceptual differences between humans and robots and we allow for both tangible and virtual embodiment experiences from multiple scales and perspectives.
keywords	Non-anthropocentric aesthetics, speculative realism, robotics, synthetic ecologies
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	sigradi2023_416
id	sigradi2023_416
authors	Machado Fagundes, Cristian Vinicius, Miotto Bruscato, Léia, Paiva Ponzio, Angelica and Chornobai, Sara Regiane
year	2023
title	Parametric environment for internalization and classification of models generated by the Shap-E tool
source	García Amen, F, Goni Fitipaldo, A L and Armagno Gentile, Á (eds.), Accelerated Landscapes - Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2023), Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, 29 November - 1 December 2023, pp. 1689–1698
summary	Computing has been increasingly employed in design environments, primarily to perform calculations and logical decisions faster than humans could, enabling tasks that would be impossible or too time-consuming to execute manually. Various studies highlight the use of digital tools and technologies in diverse methods, such as parametric modeling and evolutionary algorithms, for exploring and optimizing alternatives in architecture, design, and engineering (Martino, 2015; Fagundes, 2019). Currently, there is a growing emergence of intelligent models that increasingly integrate computers into the design process. Demonstrating great potential for initial ideation, artificial intelligence (AI) models like Shap-E (Nichol et al., 2023) by OpenAI stand out. Although this model falls short of state-of-the-art sample quality, it is among the most efficient orders of magnitude for generating three-dimensional models through AI interfaces, offering practical balance for certain use cases. Thus, aiming to explore this gap, the presented study proposes an innovative design agency framework by employing Shap-E connected with parametric modeling in the design process. The generation tool has shown promising results; through generations of synthetic views conditioned by text captions, its final output is a mesh. However, due to the lack of topological information in models generated by Shap-E, we propose to fill this gap by transferring data to a parametric three-dimensional surface modeling environment. Consequently, this interaction's use aims to enable the transformation of the mesh into quantifiable surfaces, subject to collection and optimization of dimensional data of objects. Moreover, this work seeks to enable the creation of artificial databases through formal categorization of parameterized outputs using the K-means algorithm. For this purpose, the study methodologically orients itself in a four-step exploratory experimental process: (1) creation of models generated by Shap-E in a pressing manner; (2) use of parametric modeling to internalize models into the Grasshopper environment; (3) generation of optimized alternatives using the evolutionary algorithm (Biomorpher); (4) and classification of models using the K-means algorithm. Thus, the presented study proposes, through an environment of internalization and classification of models generated by the Shap-E tool, to contribute to the construction of a new design agency methodology in the decision-making process of design. So far, this research has resulted in the generation and classification of a diverse set of three-dimensional shapes. These shapes are grouped for potential applications in machine learning, in addition to providing insights for the refinement and detailed exploration of forms.
keywords	Shap-E, Parametric Design, Evolutionary Algorithm, Synthetic Database, Artificial Intelligence
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2024/03/08 14:09

_id	acadia15_110
id	acadia15_110
authors	Marcu, Mara; Tang, Ming
year	2015
title	Data Mapping and Ornament in Digital Craft
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.110
source	ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-53726-8] Cincinnati 19-25 October, 2015), pp. 110-120
summary	With an ever-increasing index of digital artifacts, we have begun to exhaust variation as an adaptive technique. The problem with incremental modulation (here understood as sequential and slowly progressing change of a set of parameters within a field condition) is that in essence it leads to morphologically equivalent and, hence, repetitive patterns of habitation. While the role of variation proved key in pushing forward an essential body of research testing and optimizing principles of mass customization, its residual effects become critically disconcerting. This paper presents an investigation of tectonic mutations for the generation of form, seen through data simulation experiments and machining artifacts. Through several projects we investigate the effects of ornament created as a result of the new relationship between generative modeling, simulation, and fabrication in the digital age. Subject to (de)generative mutation techniques, ornament can be under-stood as a result of overlaid data, whether the data is performance related or not, in both massing and surface conditions. This new working methodology will mitigate between the incertitude regarding time, history and memory, and by reinventing their relation it will reassess ornament’s agency within the digital culture. Design methods are extended by exploring, collecting, analyzing, and representing data through various materialization processes. Design is therefore reconsidered as being injected with the concepts of data driven design and dependent on the inter-play between performance and aesthetics. In this way, we consider the footprint - or the subsequent impact - of the human onto the nonhuman using artificial intelligence as a medium. These intentionally or accidentally engraved layers of information begin to describe potential trajectories of novel survival modes in the Anthropocene.
keywords	Data mapping, ornament, generative modeling, simulation, CNC fabrication, degenerative mutation
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ijac201513205
id	ijac201513205
authors	Nahmad Vazquez, Alicia and Wassim Jabi
year	2015
title	A Collaborative Approach to Digital Fabrication:A Case Study for the Design and Production of Concrete ‘Pop-up’ Structures
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 13 - no. 2, 195-216
summary	The research presented in this paper utilizes industrial robotic arms and new material technologies to model and explore a prototypical workflow for on-site robotic collaboration based on feedback loops. This workflow will ultimately allow for the construction of customized, free-form, on-site concrete structures without the need for complex formwork. The paper starts with an explanation of the relevance of collaborative robotics through history in the industry and in architecture. An argument is put forward for the need to move towards the development of collaborative processes based on feedback loops amongst the designer, the robot and the material, where they all inform each other continuously. This kind of process, with different degrees of autonomy and agency for each actor, is necessary for on-site deployment of robots. A test scenario is described using an innovative material named concrete canvas that exhibits hybrid soft fabric and rigid thin-shell tectonics. This research project illustrates the benefits of integrating information-embedded materials, masscustomization and feedback loops. Geometry scanning, parametric perforation pattern control, computational analysis and simulation, and robotic fabrication were integrated within a digital fabrication deployment scenario. The paper concludes with a detailed report of research findings and an outline for future work.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	sigradi2015_sp_4.388
id	sigradi2015_sp_4.388
authors	Nunes, Jo?o Fernando Igansi
year	2015
title	LUZAZUL: Creation methodology and management of hypermedia for cultural inclusion and public education in the service of TILES IN THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE Pelotas / RS
source	SIGRADI 2015 [Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - vol. 2 - ISBN: 978-85-8039-133-6] Florianópolis, SC, Brasil 23-27 November 2015, pp. 780-785.
summary	LUZAZUL - Light Blue project is interdisciplinary, curricular action as documentation and conceptual production strategy for theory and practice, focused on heritage as cultural inclusion vector, public training and development of integrated movable manners. It is based especially on hypermedia resource whose central object is the inventory of the TILE IN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE Pelotas - RS, electronically duplicated and made available on mobile, wireless devices. Exploring the conditions of free software platforms, this initiative invests in building method for the development, agency and updating publishable data into digital language.
keywords	Tile, Hypermedia, Communication, Inclusion, Education
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:56

_id	acadia20_668
id	acadia20_668
authors	Pasquero, Claudia; Poletto, Marco
year	2020
title	Deep Green
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.668
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 668-677.
summary	Ubiquitous computing enables us to decipher the biosphere’s anthropogenic dimension, what we call the Urbansphere (Pasquero and Poletto 2020). This machinic perspective unveils a new postanthropocentric reality, where the impact of artificial systems on the natural biosphere is indeed global, but their agency is no longer entirely human. This paper explores a protocol to design the Urbansphere, or what we may call the urbanization of the nonhuman, titled DeepGreen. With the development of DeepGreen, we are testing the potential to bring the interdependence of digital and biological intelligence to the core of architectural and urban design research. This is achieved by developing a new biocomputational design workflow that enables the pairing of what is algorithmically drawn with what is biologically grown (Pasquero and Poletto 2016). In other words, and more in detail, the paper will illustrate how generative adversarial network (GAN) algorithms (Radford, Metz, and Soumith 2015) can be trained to “behave” like a Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular organism endowed with surprising computational abilities and self-organizing behaviors that have made it popular among scientist and engineers alike (Adamatzky 2010) (Fig. 1). The trained GAN_Physarum is deployed as an urban design technique to test the potential of polycephalum intelligence in solving problems of urban remetabolization and in computing scenarios of urban morphogenesis within a nonhuman conceptual framework.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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last changed	2023/10/22 12:06

_id	acadia15_513
id	acadia15_513
authors	Sanchez, Jose
year	2015
title	Temporal and Spatial Combinatorics in Games for Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.513
source	ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-53726-8] Cincinnati 19-25 October, 2015), pp. 513-523
summary	This paper will outline the techniques and language that games use to give design agency to a player. By identifying the discrete combinatorial ontology of games, as opposed to a continuous post-rationalistic approach from general design tools, we hope to develop a framework for the design of ‘games for design’, or sandboxes that allow players to develop an output that is unexpected to the game developer and contingent to a player. This research has been the foundation for the development of Block’hood, a city-building video game that explores ideas of ecology and generative urbanism.
keywords	Combinatorics, city building game, game design, crowd-sourcing, ecology, learning, educational software
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	ijac201513203
id	ijac201513203
authors	Velikov, Kathy; Geoffrey Thün, Mary O’Malley, and Lars Junghans
year	2015
title	Computational and Physical Modeling for Multi-Cellular Pneumatic Envelope Assemblies
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 13 - no. 2, 143-169
summary	This article describes recent research on the performative, formal and aesthetic potentials of multicellular pneumatic foil-based envelope systems for lightweight, responsive building skins able to control thermal insulation and air exchange with minimal amounts of energy and mechanical components. The prototype-based research involves the use of principles from biological examples of pneus, which inform the design of physical analogue models at an architectural scale. The process entails physical-computational feedback loops wherein physical performance findings are fed into computational design models for pneumatics and membranes, as well as modified energy models, in order to advance the predictive design capacities of simulation tools in designing such systems. In this process, material agency allies with computational agency to develop novel possibilities for dynamic pneumatic envelopes.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

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