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_id ecaade2015_285
id ecaade2015_285
authors Lopes, João V.; Paio, Alexandra, Beirão, José N., Pinho, Eliana Manuel and Nunes, Luís
year 2015
title Multidimensional Analysis of Public Open Spaces - Urban Morphology, Parametric Modelling and Data Mining
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.351
source Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 351-360
summary Public open spaces (parks, squares and other gathering places) can only be grasped from a simultaneous view of their attributes. In an ongoing Phd research project we propose to overcome the limitations of traditional-descriptive urban morphology methods in dealing with this simultaneity derived from their many shapes, functions, uses and relations within the urban structure. After developing the relations between formal attributes and intangible spatial properties, their identity and proximity may be disclosed by multivariate statistical analysis and data mining techniques. We outline a multidimensional method for the synchronic analysis and classification of the public open spaces departing from a research corpus of 126 Portuguese urban squares, whose analysis is intended to interactively (re)define it. The work done so far is presented, which comprises: (i) firming the concepts, criteria and attributes to extract; (ii) survey on theories, methods and spatial analysis tools and shortcomings identification; (iii) adaptation and/or creation of new methods and tools; (iv) creation of databases from CAD and GIS environments; (v) research on multivariate analysis, data mining and data visualization techniques.
wos WOS:000372317300038
series eCAADe
email
more https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=975efcfa-7029-11e5-a1a9-9786dd4d89a9
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_id ecaade2015_28
id ecaade2015_28
authors Sommer, Bernhard; Moncayo, Galo, Sommer-Nawara, Malgorzata and Pont, Ulrich
year 2015
title SolSeduction - A Phyto-Solar Dance-Floor
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.697
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. 697-705
summary As climate and society change, customizing buildings towards specific usage patterns and local weather conditions that might be obsolete within a few years, does not seem to be the smartest approach to building design. Facing the end of readily available highly efficient energy sources, such as oil and gas, we want to re-think the architectural environment towards a symbiotic habitat. The role of energy thus is not seen as a question of supply, but as one parameter among others that shapes the environment. A habitat relies on the physical, chemical and social interaction of different elements and organisms.The authors together with their students pursued a design research re-thinking the architectural environment towards a symbiotic habitat.Full-scale spatial prototypes as elements of such a habitat have been developed focussing on the interfaces between climate, people and other organisms, such as plankton, algae and flowers.
wos WOS:000372316000077
series eCAADe
email
more https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=21b8b11a-6e91-11e5-b691-00190f04dc4c
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_id acadia15_343
id acadia15_343
authors Roudavski, Stanislav
year 2015
title Sketching with Robots
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.343
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. 343-355
summary Today, human activities constitute the primary environmental impact on the planet. In this context, commitments to sustainability, or minimization of damage, prove insufficient. To develop regenerative, futuring capabilities, architectural design needs to extend beyond the form and function of things and engage with the management of complex systems. Such systems involve multiple types of dynamic phenomena – biotic and abiotic, technical and cultural – and can be understood as living. Engagement with such living systems implies manipulation of pervasive and unceasing change, irrespective of whether it is accepted by design stakeholders or actively managed towards homeostatic or homeorhetic conditions. On one hand, such manipulation of continuity requires holistic and persistent design involvements that are beyond natural capabilities of human designers. On the other hand, practical, political or creative implications of reliance on automated systems capable of tackling such tasks is as yet underexplored. In response to this challenge, this paper considers an experimental approach that utilised methods of critical making and speculative designing to explore potentials of autonomous architecture. This approach combined 1) knowledge of animal architecture that served as a lens for rethinking human construction and as a source of alternative design approaches; 2) practices of creative computing that supported speculative applications of data-driven and performance-oriented design; and 3) techniques of robotics and mechatronics that produced working prototypes of autonomous devices that served as props for critical thinking about alternative futures.
keywords Intelligent robots, animal architecture, synthetic ecology
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

_id ecaade2015_222
id ecaade2015_222
authors Barczik, Guenter
year 2015
title Differentiated Continuity and Mutual Support - How Intersecting and Unrolling Operations, Made Manageable through CAD, Facilitate Richer and More Effective Spatial Articulations
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.389
source Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 389-393
summary The two geometric operations of intersecting shapes with one another and unfolding complex shapes into flat patterns have through CAD software been changed from challenge to triviality. Thus, combinations of shapes that have eluded designers for the difficulty of their handling are now at the hands of everybody who is able to use common CAD packages. We investigate what this can mean for architectural design.
wos WOS:000372317300042
series eCAADe
email
more https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=a6fef7a2-7022-11e5-abe6-338fd23b59eb
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_id eaea2015_t3_paper06
id eaea2015_t3_paper06
authors Carpiceci, Marco; Colonnese, Fabio; Inglese, Carlo
year 2015
title The Cave Revealed. The Monastery of Aynal? and the Representation of Rupestrian Architecture
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.329-337
summary The monastic settlement of Aynali is located in Cappadocia, a short distance from the Open Air Museum in Goreme. The church and the monastery follow approximated geometrical rules and, despite the efforts and expectations by traditional scholars, they are rarely comparable to simple geometric shapes. Survey and representations after digital photogrammetry offer the actual form of the rock-cut rooms and may contribute to reconstruct the missing parts of the structure as well as to update a critical knowledge to rupestrian habitat.
keywords Cappadocia; rock-cut architecture; digital photogrammetry
series EAEA
email
last changed 2016/04/22 11:52

_id cf2015_005
id cf2015_005
authors Celani, Gabriela; Sperling, David M. and Franco, Juarez M. S. (eds.)
year 2015
title Preface
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. 5-13.
summary Since 1985 the Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures Foundation has fostered high level discussions about the search for excellence in the built environment through the use of new technologies with an exploratory and critical perspective. In 2015, the 16th CAAD Futures Conference was held, for the first time, in South America, in the lively megalopolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In order to establish a connection to local issues, the theme of the conference was "The next city". The city of Sao Paulo was torn down and almost completely rebuilt twice, from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, evolving from a city built in rammed-earth to a city built in bricks and then from a city built in bricks to a city built in concrete. In the 21st century, with the widespread use of digital technologies both in the design and production of buildings, cities are changing even faster, in terms of layout, materials, shapes, textures, production methods and, above all, in terms of the information that is now embedded in built systems.Among the 200 abstracts received in the first phase, 64 were selected for presentation in the conference and publication in the Electronic Proceedings, either as long or short papers, after 3 tough evaluation stages. Each paper was reviewed by at least three different experts from an international committee of more than 80 highly experienced researchers. The authors come from 23 different countries. Among all papers, 10 come from Latin-American institutions, which have been usually under-represented in CAAD Futures. The 33 highest rated long papers are also being published in a printed book by Springer. For this reason, only their abstracts were included in this Electronic Proceedings, at the end of each chapter.The papers in this book have been organized under the following topics: (1) modeling, analyzing and simulating the city, (2) sustainability and performance of the built environment, (3) automated and parametric design, (4) building information modeling (BIM), (5) fabrication and materiality, and (6) shape studies. The first topic includes papers describing different uses of computation applied to the study of the urban environment. The second one represents one of the most important current issues in the study and design of the built environment. The third topic, automated and parametric design, is an established field of research that is finally becoming more available to practitioners. Fabrication has been a hot topic in CAAD conferences, and is becoming ever more popular. This new way of making design and buildings will soon start affecting the way cities look like. Finally, shape studies are an established and respected field in design computing that is traditionally discussed in CAAD conferences.
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2015/06/29 07:55

_id ecaade2015_209
id ecaade2015_209
authors D'Uva, Domenico
year 2015
title Parametric Morphogenesis - An Historical Framing in London's Architecture beyond the Verge of the 20th Century
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.381
source Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 381-387
summary The approach of contemporary architecture with urban environment has always been in perpetual evolution. The path between concept and real building has been driven since ancient times by traditional drawing tools which discretized the architect ideas into shapes. The cases studied for morphogenesis evolution, featured in the top-notch architectural firms, have been framed into two different strategies. In the first family the shape is created by the modifications of several distinct geometrical elements, which create formal complexity. In the second family of buildings the complexity is the result of very few geometrical elements, whose morphogenetic process generates complex forms. As the geometrical elements decrease in number, the draft shape must undergo a deeper process of modification to solve the functional, sustainability and structural issues.
wos WOS:000372317300041
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

_id ecaade2015_269
id ecaade2015_269
authors Gago, Ricardo and Romão, Luís
year 2015
title Geometric Identity of Living Structures Translated to an Architectural Design Process
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.591
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. 591-600
summary Biological life manifests in space through a large diversity of physical structures perfectly bind and identifiable in the environment. This reveals that all share a common generative design process which allows them the same physical identity in all the shapes that generates, The human ecological design process used in architecture is not able yet to reach this design identity neither the spontaneous integration associates to it. Why? Because the geometrical design process used in ecological architecture and living structures are not similar. Thus, this paper proposes, through the identification of some geometrical characteristics from the growth mechanism of living structures, a process of shape generation through shape grammar. With this generation process is possible to generate, only in geometrical terms, a large diversity of architectural models with a common identity, that reveals some geometrical characteristics of spatial integration that living structures share with the surround environment.
wos WOS:000372316000066
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:50

_id sigradi2015_10.307
id sigradi2015_10.307
authors Herrera, Pablo C.
year 2015
title Mathematics and computation: Using visual programming to develop didactic materials in a learning environment
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. 581-588.
summary We analyse the problem of creating didactic material for teaching and evaluating mathematics in the first year of a School of Architecture. By using visual programming, science professor used codes (formulae) to represent in a software their proposals, instead of drawing them themselves. Through this experience we create a database of codes with computational solutions that allows faculty to modify, reuse, visualise and print in the same platform that she students will use while developing their designs. In this way we aim to maximise the link between mathematics and design as fundamental base for the control of complex shapes.
keywords Visual Programming, Mathematics Education, Architectural Education, Latin America, 3D Printing
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2016/03/10 09:53

_id ecaade2015_22
id ecaade2015_22
authors Keles, Hacer Yalim
year 2015
title Embedding Parts in Sketches Using a Parallel Evolutionary Approach
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.269
source Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 269-276
summary Detection of emergent shapes in sketches requires extensive exploration of the design space. Automating this process with computational methods enables locating various alternatives sequentially or all at once simultaneously via high computational power. This not only helps efficient design space exploration but also provides a systematic way for keeping track of the design process. However, it is a challenge to define a generic computational method which optimizes the design space searches in time and space. The approaches that are based on optimization may suffer from time efficiency and local minima problems. These problems are substantially solved in this work by performing comprehensive parallel searches in the design space with a genetic algorithm. Advantage of this approach is that the local minima problem is reduced significantly without increasing the execution times.
wos WOS:000372317300029
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_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
email
last changed 2024/03/08 14:09

_id ecaade2015_101
id ecaade2015_101
authors Markusiewicz, Jacek and Slyk, Jan
year 2015
title From Shaping to Information Modeling in Architectural Education: Implementation of Augmented Reality Technology in Computer-Aided Modeling
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.083
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. 83-90
summary While learning computer-aided modeling techniques, students of architecture should not only gain knowledge on how to model three-dimensional forms, but also how to define and understand the information beneath the shapes. Architectural presentation as an intellectual communication-focused process requires new media to channel information in a contemporary way. These can be text, image, sound, video or a digital model. The integration of augmented reality in teaching computer-aided modeling in architecture school provides more thorough learning experience as it opens new opportunities. The authors present the process of implementing AR technology in architectural education - its theoretical background, the outcome of students' work and technical solutions. They argue that the use of AR interface increases the effectiveness of user-model interaction in comparison to standard mouse-based techniques of three-dimensional manipulation due to the intuitive touch-screen interaction and direct control on the camera.
wos WOS:000372316000011
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:59

_id acadia15_243
id acadia15_243
authors McKay, Mike
year 2015
title Relative Positioning
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.243
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. 243-250
summary How we understand the world is directly affected by our position in it. Constellations are simply the result of cognitive alignments related to our location in the universe, the horizon simply based on proximity and time. Relative Positioning explores the power of position in architecture: specifically, how Anamorphic projection and perspectival techniques can generate space and challenge our understanding of its form. Architectural illusion and perspectival deceptions have been investigated since antiquity in order to alter the perception of a given space, primarily used in an illusionary or optical manner. However, Anamorphic projection offers the potential to create dynamic spatial experiences that go well beyond simple projections or images/shapes simply painted onto a surface. Within Relative Positioning, architectural form exists in 3-dimensions (real, physical) but is perceived via procession and emergent perceptions based on choreographed alignments and foci—making it possible for a duality of visual perception to occur. Much like the diagonal movement through Villa Savoye or the space created by Matta-Clark’s cut, views and alignments add value, create perceptual shifts. One no longer views the architectural form as a whole, but as a collection of cinematic moments, fragments, serial form: a tension of object-qualities that elicits spatial ambiguity that puts pressure on the ‘real’ and opens up a world of wonder and excitement. This is a new form of collage.
keywords Anamorphosis, perspective, perception
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:59

_id sigradi2018_1495
id sigradi2018_1495
authors Miyasaka, Elza Luli; Paoletti, Ingrid; Minto Fabricio, Márcio
year 2018
title Thinking the fabrication of complex components in nowadays context
source SIGraDi 2018 [Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Brazil, São Carlos 7 - 9 November 2018, pp. 668-675
summary Thanks to the influence of innovative technologies is possible to build complex shapes using sophisticated software and digital equipment capable to work with a huge amount of data. The aim of this paper is to discuss the design and production from the fence panels of United Arab Emirates (UAE) pavilion at International Exhibition in 2015 and the Tower CityLife Milano from Zaha Hadid’s office, in an attempt to understand how the customized components of the building walls were developed.
keywords Design for production; Design for manufacturing; Digital fabrication; Fabrication process; Mass customization
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2021/03/28 19:59

_id sigradi2015_3.221
id sigradi2015_3.221
authors Schunemann, Frederick Gorsten; Celani, Gabriela
year 2015
title Integration between analog and digital in Architecture
source SIGRADI 2015 [Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - vol. 1 - ISBN: 978-85-8039-135-0] Florianópolis, SC, Brasil 23-27 November 2015, pp. 126-128.
summary Contemporary architecture relies heavily on high-technology, high-precision methods, such as parametric design and digital fabrication. However, often times architects need to work with preexisting shapes and structures, which are not only irregular but also ephemeral. This paper describes a design exercise in which a bamboo structure was digitized and had a roof system parametrically modeled and fabricated for it.
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2016/03/10 09:59

_id acadia15_57
id acadia15_57
authors Sina, Ata; Pitt, Shannon; Meyboom, Annalisa; Olson, James; Martinez, Mark
year 2015
title Thermocatalytic Metafolds
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.057
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. 57-67
summary Thermocatalytic Metafolds comprises a paper-based fabrication process that initiates ascetic self-assembly via heat application. Metafolds utilizes a composite material of paper with a selectively applied shape-changing polymer crafted via a multi-step computational, two-dimensional drafting fabrication method. Upon heat application, the paper self-folds into predetermined, three-dimensional, highly accurate, rigid shapes. The final product maintains a notable resilience to alteration, and the stringency of form serves as a testament to the process’ potential to transform the ways in which design is undertaken. This exploration of material properties has cumulated in a process that demonstrates a design based on a detailed understanding of how the composite material behaves under specific conditions.
keywords Self-assembly, folding, composite, fabrication
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

_id acadia20_238
id acadia20_238
authors Zhang, Hang
year 2020
title Text-to-Form
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.238
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. 238-247.
summary Traditionally, architects express their thoughts on the design of 3D architectural forms via perspective renderings and standardized 2D drawings. However, as architectural design is always multidimensional and intricate, it is difficult to make others understand the design intention, concrete form, and even spatial layout through simple language descriptions. Benefiting from the fast development of machine learning, especially natural language processing and convolutional neural networks, this paper proposes a Linguistics-based Architectural Form Generative Model (LAFGM) that could be trained to make 3D architectural form predictions based simply on language input. Several related works exist that focus on learning text-to-image generation, while others have taken a further step by generating simple shapes from the descriptions. However, the text parsing and output of these works still remain either at the 2D stage or confined to a single geometry. On the basis of these works, this paper used both Stanford Scene Graph Parser (Sebastian et al. 2015) and graph convolutional networks (Kipf and Welling 2016) to compile the analytic semantic structure for the input texts, then generated the 3D architectural form expressed by the language descriptions, which is also aided by several optimization algorithms. To a certain extent, the training results approached the 3D form intended in the textual description, not only indicating the tremendous potential of LAFGM from linguistic input to 3D architectural form, but also innovating design expression and communication regarding 3D spatial information.
series ACADIA
type paper
email
last changed 2023/10/22 12:06

_id cf2015_279
id cf2015_279
authors Abdelmohsen, Sherif M. and Massoud, Passaint M.
year 2015
title Making Sense of those Batteries and Wires: Parametric Design between Emergence and Autonomy
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. 279-296.
summary This paper reports on the process and outcomes of a digital design studio that integrates parametric design and generative systems in architectural and urban design projects. It explores the interrelationship between the emergence of innovative formal representations using parametric design systems on the one hand, and design autonomy; more specifically the conscious process of generating and developing an architectural concept, on the other. Groups of undergraduate students working on an architectural project are asked to identify a specific conceptual parti that addresses an aspect of architectural quality, define strategies that satisfy those aspects, and computational methodologies to implement those strategies, such as rule-based systems, self-organization systems, and genetic algorithms. The paper describes the educational approach and studio outcomes, discusses implications for CAAD education and curricula, and addresses issues to be considered for parametric and generative software development.
keywords Parametric modeling, generative design, emergence, autonomy, design exploration, CAAD curriculum.
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2015/06/29 07:55

_id ecaade2015_138
id ecaade2015_138
authors Achten, Henri
year 2015
title Closing the Loop for Interactive Architecture - Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Wearables
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.623
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. 623-632
summary Interactive architecture occurs in buildings when part of the building engages in exchange of information with the user, in such a way that the interactive system adjusts it's assumptions about the user's needs and desires. Acquiring the user's needs and desires is no trivial task. Currently there are no techniques that will reliably make such assertions. Building a system that unobtrusively monitors the inhabitant seems to be a tall order, and making the system ask the user all the time is very distracting for the user. An alternative option has become available however: personal wearables are increasingly monitoring the user. Therefore it suffices that the interactive system of the building gets in touch with those wearables, rather than duplicating the sensing function of the wearables. The enabling technology for wearables is Internet of Things, which connects physical objects (smart objects) on a virtual level, and Cloud Computing, which provides a scalable storage environment for wearables and smart objects. In this paper we outline the implications of the convergence of these three technologies in the light of interactive architecture.
wos WOS:000372316000069
series eCAADe
email
more https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=fdd9e706-6e8f-11e5-b1d4-00190f04dc4c
last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

_id eaea2015_t3_paper03
id eaea2015_t3_paper03
authors Agajew, Maria
year 2015
title The Prestige and the Money – the Main Goal and the Main Tool in Planning of the City Image in the 21st Century?
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.299-308
summary This paper discusses the process of changing in the historical town – Baku in Azerbaijan in comparison to the achievements of European urban planners and architects (for example in: Paris, Vienna, Dublin). In Baku the fast and unlimited development and many investments in the public spaces have caused a lot of transformation not always to the better vision of the image of the city. At the same time, the development in some European cities is proceeding in other ways, preserving existing historical built environment.
keywords image of the city; revitalization; development
series EAEA
email
last changed 2016/04/22 11:52

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