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_id cf2015_175
id cf2015_175
authors Sauda, Eric; Beorkrem, Chris; Souvenir, Richard; Lanclos, Donna and Spurlock Scott
year 2015
title Intelligent Architectural Settings Using a Computer Vision Based Visual Analytic Interface
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. 175-189.
summary This paper presents a framework to enable the understanding and designing of interactive architectural settings. We present our work in interactive public displays in the lobbies of university building, demonstrating both the design and evaluative dimensions. We identify the need for a method to understand meaningful behavior in architectural settings. We then present a unique approach combining computer vision and ethnography in a visual analytic interface using the SENSING Toolkit, a computer vision framework for collecting and storing long-term, large-scale human motion, and VALSE (Visual Analytics for Large-Scale Ethnography) an interactive, visual analytic interface called designed to allow domain experts to query and understand the data. Finally, we propose a new concept of media rich spaces that we call intelligent architectural settings.
keywords Smart buildings, computer vision, ethnography, visual analytics.
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2015/06/29 07:55

_id acadia17_202
id acadia17_202
authors Cupkova, Dana; Promoppatum, Patcharapit
year 2017
title Modulating Thermal Mass Behavior Through Surface Figuration
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2017.202
source ACADIA 2017: DISCIPLINES & DISRUPTION [Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-96506-1] Cambridge, MA 2-4 November, 2017), pp. 202-211
summary This research builds upon a previous body of work focused on the relationship between surface geometry and heat transfer coefficients in thermal mass passive systems. It argues for the design of passive systems with higher fidelity to multivariable space between performance and perception. Rooted in the combination of form and matter, the intention is to instrumentalize design principles for the choreography of thermal gradients between buildings and their environment from experiential, spatial and topological perspectives (Figure 1). Our work is built upon the premise that complex geometries can be used to improve both the aesthetic and thermodynamic performance of passive building systems (Cupkova and Azel 2015) by actuating thermal performance through geometric parameters primarily due to convection. Currently, the engineering-oriented approach to the design of thermal mass relies on averaged thermal calculations (Holman 2002), which do not adequately describe the nuanced differences that can be produced by complex three-dimensional geometries of passive thermal mass systems. Using a combination of computational fluid dynamic simulations with physically measured data, we investigate the relationship of heat transfer coefficients related to parameters of surface geometry. Our measured results suggest that we can deliberately and significantly delay heat absorption re-radiation purely by changing the geometric surface pattern over the same thermal mass. The goal of this work is to offer designers a more robust rule set for understanding approximate thermal lag behaviors of complex geometric systems, with a focus on the design of geometric properties rather than complex thermal calculations.
keywords design methods; information processing; physics; smart materials
series ACADIA
email
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_id acadia15_211
id acadia15_211
authors Melsom, James; Girot, Christophe; Hurkxkens, Ilmar
year 2015
title Directed Deposition: Exploring the Roles of Simulation and Design in Erosion and Landslide Processes
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.211
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. 211-221
summary Working with and against environmental processes, such as the movement of water, earth, and rock, and terrain, has been a perpetual challenge since the dawn of civilisation. While it has been possible to gradually tame many landscapes to perform in a predictable manner, there are many circumstances where we are forced to live with and around such processes in everyday life. This research is primarily interested in the potential of design to interact with such processes. Specifically, we are interested in the designed redirection of erosion and landslide processes already observable in nature, taking the urbanised hillsides of the Alps as test case scenario. The research specialisation continues a research and design focus specialised on processes material deposition of river and flood systems, further down the water catchment chain (REF: ANON 2012). This specific alpine research is compelling in the context of Anthropocene processes, we are specifically focussed in the appraisal, harnessing and redirection of existing environmental phenomena, given what can be understood as our inevitable interaction with these processes (Sijmons 2015). Within this broader research, which has ecological, cultural, and formal potential, this paper shall explore the practical aspects of connecting design, and the designer, with the potential for understanding and designing these evolving mountain landscapes. There is a long history behind the development of landscape elements which control avalanches, mud, rock, and landslides. The cultural, functional and aesthetic role of such elements in the landscape is relatively undiscussed, epitomising an approach that is primarily pragmatic in both engineering and expense. It is perhaps no surprise that these elements have a dominant physical and visual presence in the contemporary landscape. Through the investigation of synergies with other systems, interests, and design potential for such landscape elements, it is proposed that new potential can be found in their implementation. This research proposes that the intuitive linking of common design software to direct landslide simulation, design of and cultural use can interact with these natural processes. This paper shall demonstrate methods to within which design can enter the process of landscape management, linking the modelling processes of the landscape designer with the simulation capabilities of the specialised engineer.
keywords Landscape Design Workflows, Landscape Simulation, Terrain Displacement, Material Flow, Erosion Processes, Interdisciplinary Workflows
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
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_id acadia15_497
id acadia15_497
authors Sandoval Olascoaga, Carlos; Victor-Faichney, John
year 2015
title Flows, Bits, Relationships: Construction of Deep Spatial Understanding
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.497
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. 497-512
summary The number of variables acting upon urban landscapes is numerous and interconnected, closely resembling complex systems in constant dynamic transformation. Current analytical methods and descriptions of the city are domain specific, limited in scope, and discretize the city into quantifiable individual representations, resulting in an equally limited urban policy and design. If we are to produce urban systems capable of contributing to the robustness and resiliency of cities, we ought to understand and represent the comprehensive network of actors that construct contemporary urban landscapes. On one hand, the natural sciences approach the analysis of complex systems by primarily focusing on the development of models capable of describing their stochastic formation, remaining agnostic to the contextual properties of their individual components and oftentimes discretizing the otherwise continuous relationships among parts. signers work in groups. They need to share information either synchronously or asynchronously as they work with parametric modeling software, as with all computer-aided design tools. Receiving information from collaborators while working may intrude on their work and thought processes. Little research exists on how the reception of design updates influences designers in their work. Nor do we know much about designer preferences for collaboration. In this paper, we examine how sharing and receiving design updates affects designers’ performances and preferences. We present a system prototype to share changes on demand or in continuous mode while performing design tasks. A pilot study measuring the preferences of nine pairs of designers for different combinations of control modes and design tasks shows statistically significant differences between the task types and control modes. The types of tasks affect the preferences of users to the types of control modes. In an apparent contradiction, user preference of control modes contradicts task performance time.
keywords Networks, graphs, web-mapping, GIS, urban mapping, spatial analysis, urban databases, visual representation, spatial cognition
series ACADIA
type normal paper
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

_id cf2015_484
id cf2015_484
authors Liao, Kai; Vries, Bauke de; Kong, Jun and Zhang, Kang
year 2015
title Pattern, cognition and spatial information processing: Representations of the spatial layout of architectural design with spatial-semantic analytics
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. 484.
summary In this paper, we review and extend the idea of Alexander’s “pattern language”, especially from the viewpoints of complexity theories, information systems, and human-computer interaction, to explore spatial cognition-based design representations for “intelligent and adaptive/interactive environment” in architecture and urban planning. We propose a theoretic framework of design patterns “with spatial information processing”, and attempt to incorporate state-of-the-art computational methods of information visualization/visual analytics into the conventional CAAD approaches. Focused on the spatial-semantic analytics, together with abstract syntactic pattern representation, by using “spatial-semantic aware” graph grammar formalization, i.e., Spatial Graph Grammars (SGG), the relevant models, algorithms and tool are proposed. We testify our theoretic framework and computational tool VEGGIE (a Visual Environment of Graph Grammar Induction Engineering) by using actual architectural design works (spatial layout exemplars of a small office building and the three house projects by Frank Lloyd Wright) as study cases, so as to demonstrate our proposed approach for practical applications. The results are discussed and further research is suggested.
keywords Pattern language, complex adaptive systems, spatial cognition, design representations, spatial information processing, Artificial Intelligence, visual language, Spatial Graph Grammars (SGG), spatial-semantic analytics.
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2015/06/29 07:55

_id ecaade2015_235
id ecaade2015_235
authors Ahmar, Salma El and Fioravanti, Antonio
year 2015
title Biomimetic-Computational Design for Double Facades in Hot Climates - A Porous Folded Façade for Office Buildings
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.687
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. 687-696
wos WOS:000372316000076
summary Biomimetic design is an approach that is gaining momentum among architects and designers. Computational design and performance simulation software represent powerful tools that help in applying biomimetic ideas in architectural design and in understanding how such proposals would behave. This paper addresses the challenge of reducing cooling loads while trying to maintain daylight needs of office buildings in hot climatic regions. Specifically, it focuses on double skin facades whose application in hot climates is somewhat controversial. Ideas from nature serve as inspiration in designing a porous, folded double façade for an existing building, aiming at increasing heat lost by convection in the façade cavity as well as reducing heat gained by radiation. The cooling loads and daylight autonomy of an office room are compared before and after the proposed design to evaluate its performance.
series eCAADe
email
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last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

_id eaea2015_t2_paper02
id eaea2015_t2_paper02
authors Astuti, Erika Yuni
year 2015
title Local Perception of a Conservation Heritage Area, a Case Study of the Darmo Residential Area, Surabaya, Indonesia
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.132-141
summary This paper has argued that interdisciplinary approach is necessary to get better understanding of the problem within a built heritage area. It is found that inhabitants perceived the mixed heritage architecture as their own, an appreciation also expressed toward perception values of building: uniqueness, aesthetic and age. The research has also shown that inhabitants in the Darmo residential area - Surabaya, Indonesia perceived that their area are worth to be conserve due to the function such as the city amenities and attribute of the shady environment. Taken together, these results suggest that a better understanding of inhabitant’s awareness will contribute to the successful conservation program.
keywords urban heritage; historic residential area; inhabitant’s perception of heritage values
series EAEA
email
last changed 2016/04/22 11:52

_id caadria2015_220
id caadria2015_220
authors Cheng, Nancy Y.; Mehrnoush Latifi Khorasgani, Nicholas Williams, Daniel Prohasky and Jane Burry
year 2015
title Understanding Light in Building Skin Design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2015.323
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. 323-332
summary This paper describes a design approach for discerning solar gain and assigning appropriate external shading devices. The approach includes a macro analysis locating where and when the building receives direct sunlight and locating desired interior daylighting; along with a micro analysis of how folded sun-shading motifs filter or block direct sunlight. The approach uses a collaborative analytical workflow with feedback from virtual and physical simulations informing design explorations. This iterative, reciprocating process is illustrated by student efforts to design shading structures for a building based on incident solar radiation. Designers begin with cutting and folding paper study models, then lasercut 2D tessellation patterns to create sculptural shading screens to be examined with a heliodon. Physical daylighting modeling reveals aesthetic opportunities to develop with parametric design. Motifs are then digitally modeled and analysed for shading effectiveness. Analysing the solar radiation of simple motifs helps beginners learn the software for subsequent urban situations. The efficacy of these simulations is discussed along with ways that the results could be interpreted to initiate design decisions for a building skin.
keywords Solar simulation; collaborative design; folding surfaces; physical and digital simulation.
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:55

_id eaea2015_t2_paper08
id eaea2015_t2_paper08
authors Di Mascio, Danilo
year 2015
title Analytical Drawings of Architectural Built Heritage
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.199-208
summary The following paper provides reflections on the importance of analytical drawings in the process of understanding the architectural built heritage together with relevant aspects to analyse, theories and tools to produce them. The role of these graphic works is to analyse, document and communicate only a few aspects of the building. The main aim is to undertake an analysis through the use of one or more drawings representing the graphic translation of an analytical thought. The piece of writing presents a theoretical approach and examples of analytical drawings produced during previous researches, using CAD and 3d modelling software, to investigate some tangible and intangible characteristics of the architectural heritage.
keywords analytical drawings; 3d modelling; architectural heritage
series EAEA
type normal paper
email
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last changed 2016/08/16 08:29

_id eaea2015_t3_paper08
id eaea2015_t3_paper08
authors Fiorino, Donatella Rita; Loddo, Marzia
year 2015
title Innovative Tools for Knowledge and Management of the Italian Cultural Heritage: SICaR/web and SIGeC/web
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.348-359
summary The first step in a valorisation project as well as in a management plan is developing a knowledge scheme. A great amount of data usually remains fragmentary: historical, technical, legal data and diagnostics do not contribute to an integrated and multidisciplinary approach. These sets of problems are particularly pronounced in architectural assets. In order to cope with these needs, the paper illustrates the results of a research dedicated to the identification of strengths and weakness of two important information systems: SIGeC/web and SICaR/web. Both are provided by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism (MIBACT). These databases are particularly useful and active tools, to encourage not only the knowledge of Italian heritage, but also their management. Furthermore, it will incline experts from a different background towards unexplored fields and people, who are not expert, in a deeper understanding of the cultural heritage.
keywords information systems; valorisation; interoperability; defence heritage
series EAEA
email
last changed 2016/04/22 11:52

_id ecaade2015_334
id ecaade2015_334
authors Fricker, Pia and Munkel, Georg
year 2015
title Intuitive Design through Information Maps
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.211
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. 211-216
wos WOS:000372317300022
summary What kind of tools do landscape architects need to inform their designs with the abundance of knowledge available to us in Open Access data - in the era of 'Big Data'? Although the majority of landscape architects already integrate GIS data in their work, it is often only for analysis purposes and also only with data already integrated in their own country's GIS system. Without further processing, the graphic output formats often cannot reach a state that can be readily integrated into the design process. Students often have a negative stance towards GIS and the software programs associated with it especially within teaching. For the past three years, we at the Chair for Landscape Architecture of Professor Girot (ETH Zurich) have been researching at the potential for students to gain an understanding of the validity of site-specific data by creating coded programs that interactively integrate this information as parameters in the next step of the design process. The key to the entire processing chain is the use of an explorative approach to understanding data as the basis for making decisions.
series eCAADe
email
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last changed 2022/06/07 07:50

_id ecaade2015_325
id ecaade2015_325
authors Lange, Christian J.
year 2015
title Shanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism - Towards an Urbanism of Parametric Preservation
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.493
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. 493-500
wos WOS:000372316000056
summary This paper describes a design approach for a new urban building typology for Shanghai utilizing a set of parametric design techniques to arrive at an alternative solution to current models of urbanization. The goal in this approach was to find a solution that is adaptable and sensitive to the urban environment and has the capacity to preserve historic urban street patterns. The approach included an understanding of the historic urban fabric of Shanghai, a respective plot analysis and the development of a computational method to produce a new urban type. The parametric set-up was build upon an analytical workflow with integrated feedback procedures that informed the design exploration and resulted in multiple design solutions.
series eCAADe
email
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_id caadria2015_014
id caadria2015_014
authors Lee, Ju Hyun; Michael J. Ostwald and Ning Gu
year 2015
title Multi-Cultural Design Communication
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2015.531
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. 531-540
summary The paper examines a method combining cognitive and linguistic approaches to investigate design protocols. The method is applied in a pilot study to compare Australian and Swedish language protocols recorded in an experiment using a parametric design environment. The results demonstrate that the coding schemes can formally capture both cognitive and linguistic characteristics of the design process. This multi-focused approach directly contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between design and language.
keywords Design cognition; Language; Spatial language; Parametric design; Protocol analysis.
series CAADRIA
email
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_id cf2015_325
id cf2015_325
authors Lo, Tian Tian; Schnabel, Marc Aurel and Gao, Yan
year 2015
title ModRule: A user-centric mass housing design platform
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. 325.
summary This paper presents a novel platform, ModRule, designed and developed to promote and facilitate collaboration between architects and future occupants during the design stage of mass housing buildings. Architects set the design-framework and parameters of the system, which allows the users to set their space requirements, budgets, etc., and define their desired way of living. The system utilizes gamification methodologies as a reference to promote incentives and user-friendliness for the layperson who has little or no architectural background. This enhanced integration of a both bottom-up approach (user-centric/player) with a top-down approach (architect-centric/game-maker) will greatly influence how architects design high rise living. By bridging the gap between the architect and the user, this development aims to instill a greater sense of belonging to people, as well as providing architects with a better understanding of how to give people more control over their living spaces. The paper also presents an evaluation of a design process that employed ModRule.
keywords Mass housing, collaborative design, participatory system.
series CAAD Futures
email
last changed 2015/06/29 07:55

_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 sigradi2015_11.71
id sigradi2015_11.71
authors Medina, Viviana Hernaiz Diez de; Macruz, Andrea; Ginés, Pau
year 2015
title Morphogenetic processes in architectonical design
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. 637-641.
summary This paper presents the relationship between morphogenetic concepts in nature and the creation of a generative system as a design process. This biomimetic approach generates an adaptive system that is able to respond to different parameters corresponding to the site where the membrane growths, contributing to the development of a new understanding of architecture in which the digital system and the performance of the material are reciprocal.
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2016/03/10 09:55

_id ecaade2015_250
id ecaade2015_250
authors Parthenios, Panagiotis; Mania, Katerina and Petrovski, Stefan
year 2015
title Reciprocal Transformations Between Music and Architecture As a Real-Time Supporting Mechanism in Urban Design
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.493
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. 493-499
wos WOS:000372317300053
summary The more complex our cities become the more difficult it is for designers to use traditional tools for understanding and analyzing the inner essence of an eco-system such as the contemporary urban environment. Even many of the recently crafted digital tools fail to address the necessity for a more holistic design approach which captures the virtual and the physical, the immaterial and the material. Handling of massive chunks of information, classification and assessment of diverse data is nowadays more crucial than ever before. We see a significant potential in combining the fields of composition in music and architecture through the use of information technology. Merging the two fields has the intense potential to release new, innovative tools for urban designers. This paper describes an innovative tool developed at the Technical University of Crete, through which an urban designer can work on the music transcription of a specific urban environment applying music compositional rules and filters in order to identify discordant entities, highlight imbalanced parts and make design corrections. Our cities can be tuned.
series eCAADe
email
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last changed 2022/06/07 08:00

_id ecaade2015_15
id ecaade2015_15
authors Platzer, Bernhard and Wurzer, Gabriel
year 2015
title ab-walkable Cities - A Grid-based Analysis Method to Identify Walkable Neighborhoods for Goal-directed Pedestrians
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.335
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. 335-340
wos WOS:000372317300036
summary Current research treats walkability in cities as an urban asset, to be identified by formal methods in order to let people benefit from it. In this paper, we take an activity-based view on the subject, arguing that walkability is not an end in itself but must always be seen from the standpoint of a specific activity to be performed. More precisely, we look at the specific walkability when seeking to perform an activity 'a' (e.g. shopping) within a given time budget 'b' (e.g. 15 minutes). Based on these two factors, we have devised a grid-based analysis method that computes transitions between grid cells. As result, we get a walkability map that extends the traditional 'proximity-based' understanding of neighborhoods by the notion of goal-directed pedestrians. To argue for the applicability of our approach, we showcase i it in two cities with different urban structure (Yerevan and Wiener Neustadt) before concluding.
series eCAADe
email
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last changed 2022/06/07 08:00

_id eaea2015_t2_paper01
id eaea2015_t2_paper01
authors Siret, Daniel
year 2015
title Perception of the Past Understanding Past Sensibility to Grasp Present Architecture: the Example of Solar Radiation
source ENVISIONING ARCHITECTURE: IMAGE, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE [ISBN 978-83-7283-681-6],Lodz University of Technology, 23-26 September 2015, pp.125-131
summary The presented research questions the place and role of sensitivity to direct solar radiation in architecture and urbanism past and present. Our main hypothesis is that the relation which societies entertain with solar radiation is a cultural fact which directly influences their symbolic, social and material production, in particular the way they design the architectural and urban environments which they inhabit. In proposing a cultural approach to architecture and urbanism in the sun over time, we aim to show how the built environment reflects and organizes at one and the same time our individual and social relation to solar radiation.
keywords solar radiation; architecture; cultural history
series EAEA
email
last changed 2016/04/22 11:52

_id sigradi2015_sp_1.236
id sigradi2015_sp_1.236
authors Vilela, Jo?o Paulo; Lima, Fernando; Zancaneli, Mariana
year 2015
title Reflections about environmental simulation and BIM: A pedagogical approach in Architecture and Urbanism
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. 756-760.
summary This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the importance of addressing computer tools in environmental comfort simulations to design tasks, as well as to promote debate about the use of simulative software technologies in student training process. The goal is to discuss about how these tools can assist in students’ training, in order to support all design stages, especially those related to technological systems and energy efficiency of buildings. The obtained results made possible to discuss about how these software can help students in design processes to improve building characteristics, bringing better architectural solutions.
keywords Simulation, Design Process, Energy Ef ciency, Student Training
series SIGRADI
email
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