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_id	ecaade2017_280
id	ecaade2017_280
authors	Baldissara, Matteo, Perna, Valerio, Saggio, Antonino and Stancato, Gabriele
year	2017
title	Plug-In Design - Reactivating the Cities with responsive Micro-Architectures. The Reciprocal Experience
source	Fioravanti, A, Cursi, S, Elahmar, S, Gargaro, S, Loffreda, G, Novembri, G, Trento, A (eds.), ShoCK! - Sharing Computational Knowledge! - Proceedings of the 35th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 20-22 September 2017, pp. 571-580
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2017.2.571
summary	Every city has under utilized spaces that create a series of serious negative effects. Waiting for major interventions, those spaces can be reactivated and revitalized with soft temporary projects: micro interventions that light up the attention, give new meaning and add a new reading to abandoned spaces. We can call this kind of operations "plug-in design", inheriting the term from computer architecture: interventions which aim to involve the citizens and activate the environment, engage multiple catalyst processes and civil actions. Plug-in design interventions are by all meanings experimental, they seek for interaction with the users, locally and globally. Information Technology - with its parametric and site-specific capabilities and interactive features - can be instrumental to create such designs and generate a new consciousness of the existing environment. With this paper we will illustrate how two low-budget interventions have re-activated a forgotten public space. Parametric design with a specific script allowing site-specific design, materials and structure optimization and a series of interactive features, will be presented through Reciprocal 1.0 and Reciprocal 2.0 projects which have been built in 2016 in Italy by the nITro group.
keywords	reciprocal frame; parametric design; responsive technology; plug-in design; interactivity; re-activate
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:54

_id	sigradi2016_583
id	sigradi2016_583
authors	Chiarella, Mauro; Martini, Sebastián; Giraldi, Sebastián; Góngora, Nicolás; Picco, Camila
year	2016
title	Cultura Maker. Dispositivos, Prótesis Robóticas y Programación Visual en Arquitectura y Dise?o para eficiencia energética [Culture Maker. Devices, Prostheses Robotics and Visual Programming in Architecture and Design for energy efficiency.]
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.961-968
summary	The Maker movement is the ability to be small and at the same time world; craftsmanship and innovative; high technology and low cost. The Maker movement is doing for physical products what the open source made by the software. The Maker culture emphasizes collaborative learning and distributed cognition. Its knowledge base repository and channels of exchange of ideas and information are: web sites; social networks; the Hackerspaces and Fab-Labs. Three experiences presented with devices; prostheses robotics and CNC machines, based on logical replacement; adaptation and generation. Its authors are undergraduate and graduate fellows Industrial Design and Architecture.
keywords	Maker culture; Prostheses Robotics; Visual Programming; Energy Efficiency; Adaptive Skin
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	ecaade2023_138
id	ecaade2023_138
authors	Crolla, Kristof and Wong, Nichol
year	2023
title	Catenary Wooden Roof Structures: Precedent knowledge for future algorithmic design and construction optimisation
source	Dokonal, W, Hirschberg, U and Wurzer, G (eds.), Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2023) - Volume 1, Graz, 20-22 September 2023, pp. 611–620
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2023.1.611
summary	The timber industry is expanding, including construction wood product applications such as glue-laminated wood products (R. Sikkema et al., 2023). To boost further utilisation of engineered wood products in architecture, further development and optimisation of related tectonic systems is required. Integration of digital design technologies in this endeavour presents opportunities for a more performative and spatially diverse architecture production, even in construction contexts typified by limited means and/or resources. This paper reports on historic precedent case study research that informs an ongoing larger study focussing on novel algorithmic methods for the design and production of lightweight, large-span, catenary glulam roof structures. Given their structural operation in full tension, catenary-based roof structures substantially reduce material needs when compared with those relying on straight beams (Wong and Crolla, 2019). Yet, the manufacture of their non-standard geometries typically requires costly bespoke hardware setups, having resulted in recent projects trending away from the more spatially engaging geometric experiments of the second half of the 20th century. The study hypothesis that the evolutionary design optimisation of this tectonic system has the potential to re-open and expand its practically available design solution space. This paper covers the review of a range of built projects employing catenary glulam roof system, starting from seminal historic precedents like the Festival Hall for the Swiss National Exhibition EXPO 1964 (A. Lozeron, Swiss, 1964) and the Wilkhahn Pavilions (Frei Otto, Germany, 1987), to contemporary examples, including the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre (HCMA Architecture + Design, Canada, 2016). It analysis their structural concept, geometric and spatial complexity, fabrication and assembly protocols, applied construction detailing solutions, and more, with as aim to identify methods, tools, techniques, and construction details that can be taken forward in future research aimed at minimising construction complexity. Findings from this precedent study form the basis for the evolutionary-algorithmic design and construction method development that is part of the larger study. By expanding the tectonic system’s practically applicable architecture design solution space and facilitating architects’ access to a low-tech producible, spatially versatile, lightweight, eco-friendly, wooden roof structure typology, this study contributes to environmentally sustainable building.
keywords	Precedent Studies, Light-weight architecture, Timber shell, Catenary, Algorithmic Optimisation, Glue-laminated timber
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2023/12/10 10:49

_id	acadia16_206
id	acadia16_206
authors	Devadass, Pradeep; Dailami, Farid; Mollica, Zachary; Self, Martin
year	2016
title	Robotic Fabrication of Non-Standard Material
source	ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-77095-5] Ann Arbor 27-29 October, 2016, pp
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.x.g4f
summary	This paper illustrates a fabrication methodology through which the inherent form of large non-linear timber components was exploited in the Wood Chip Barn project by the students of Design + Make at the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park campus. Twenty distinct Y-shaped forks are employed with minimal machining in the construction of a structural truss for the building. Through this workflow, low-value branched sections of trees are transformed into complex and valuable building components using non-standard technologies. Computational techniques, including parametric algorithms and robotic fabrication methods, were used for execution of the project. The paper addresses the various challenges encountered while processing irregular material, as well as limitations of the robotic tools. Custom algorithms, codes, and post-processors were developed and integrated with existing software packages to compensate for drawbacks of industrial and parametric platforms. The project demonstrates and proves a new methodology for working with complex, large geometries which still results in a low cost, time- and quality-efficient process.
keywords	parametric design, craft in digital communication, digital fabrication, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	ascaad2016_056
id	ascaad2016_056
authors	Dutt, Florina; Subhajit Das
year	2016
title	Geospatial Tool Evaluating Job Location Mismatch, Based on Available Workforce and Transit Options - Evaluating property location in a city using large-scale datasets
source	Parametricism Vs. Materialism: Evolution of Digital Technologies for Development [8th ASCAAD Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-0-9955691-0-2] London (United Kingdom) 7-8 November 2016, pp. 557-566
summary	The paper addresses the issue of spatial mismatch of jobs and the accessibility to job locations based on different age, income and industry group. Taking Atlanta as a case study, we developed a geospatial analysis tool enabling developers, the city planning bureau and the residents to identify potential sites of redevelopment with better economic development opportunities. It also aids to find potential location to live with respect to user’s choices for transit options, walkability, job location and proximity to chosen land use. We built our model on a block level in the city, imparting them a score, visualizing the data as a heat map. The metrics to compute the score included proximity to job, proximity to worker’s residence, transit availability, walkability and number of landmark elements near the site. We worked with Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Data along with residence area characteristics (RAC) and work place area characteristic (WAC) data sets, where the total number of data-points was over 3 million. It was challenging for us to optimize computation such that the prototype performs statistical analysis and updates visualization in real time. The research further is prototyped as a web application leveraging Leaflet’s Open Street Maps API and D3 visualization plugin. The research showed that there is a high degree of spatial mismatch between home and job locations with very few jobs with driving distance within 5 -10 miles with limited transit options in Atlanta. Further, it showed that low-earning workers need to travel significantly larger distance for work compared to higher class.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2017/05/25 13:34

_id	acadia23_v1_34
id	acadia23_v1_34
authors	Gascon Alvarez, Eduardo; Curth, Alexander (Sandy); Feickert, Kiley; Martinez Schulte, Dinorah; Mueller, Caitlin; Ismail, Mohamed
year	2023
title	Algorithmic Design for Low-Carbon, Low-Cost Housing Construction in Mexico
source	ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 1: Projects Catalog of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 34-38.
summary	Mexico is one of the most urbanized countries in the Global South, and simultaneously faces a rapidly increasing population and a deluge of inadequate housing (URBANET 2019). In 2016, it was estimated that 40 percent of all private residences in Mexico were considered inadequate by UN-Habitat (UN-Habitat 2018). As informal housing constitutes over half of all Mexican housing construction, the most vulnerable groups of the population are particularly impacted. Therefore, there is a serious need to innovate in the area of low-cost building construction for housing in Mexico. This research explores how shape-optimized concrete and earth construction could help provide adequate housing without jeopardizing the country’s commitment to sustainability.
series	ACADIA
type	project
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last changed	2024/04/17 13:58

_id	sigradi2016_443
id	sigradi2016_443
authors	Henriques, Gonçalo Castro; Passaro, Andrés
year	2016
title	Desafiando a Gravidade: da estática ? dinâmica, de objetos a sistemas []
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.704-709
summary	In the cold space of information objects drift in the void. All is abandoned in junk space or fiercely organized. The difference between an object as a form and formations - or interacting populations of elements in an environment - is still disregarded. In Cartesian space objects are preconceived by an external observer, in static and timeless space. In parametric space Euclidian geometries persist as preconfigured objects. The flux of information between physical and digital realities is still archaic: is done with effort, demanding physical strength and time. There is low interaction between physical and digital realities. Seems like a dystopian reality in a past?future. The theory of relativity asserts that space and time are interdependent, being modified and modifying us. In organic and synthetic biology, form results from the dynamic interaction of elements. This Research argues that form and environment are interdependent in physical and digital dimensions. A two-part applied research method is proposed: preliminary research and further development via workshop. Preliminary research identified the knowledge areas involved, defined problem search space and tested methods and techniques to solve it. The successfully developed design methodology - combining the preliminary research and workshop - can be used to solve future design problems.
keywords	Responsive systems; Physical and digital interaction; Algorithmic design; Applied research
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	sigradi2016_559
id	sigradi2016_559
authors	Martín-Mariscal, Amanda; Martín-Pastor, Andrés; López-Martínez, Alicia; Chiarella, Mauro
year	2016
title	Geometría avanzada para espacios de gestión ciudadana: un enfoque desde la Creatividad Colectiva [Advanced geometry for spaces of citizen management: an approach from the Collective Creativity]
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.352-359
summary	This work proposes the collective creativity processes for the creation of light architectures developed through advanced geometry. The aim is to provide contemporary solutions to citizen management areas. Nowadays, this type of urban areas is flourishing and seems to be interesting for parametric design and digital production to offer solutions to certain social needs via “High Tech” and “Low Cost” architectures created by collaborative processes.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	caadria2016_487
id	caadria2016_487
authors	Shin, Jihye; Inhan Kim and Jungsik Choi
year	2016
title	Development of the Integrated Management Environment of BIM Property Information for BIM-based Sustainable Design
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 487-496
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.487
summary	With the growing responsibility for the environmental load of building, the demand for sustainable building is increasing. Sus- tainable design requires an enormous amount of information, and most of this information can be captured by Building Information Modelling (BIM). In this context, the management of information in a BIM object as a container for exchanging information is necessary for analyzing a building’s sustainability. However, there are problems in generating a reliable sustainability simulation model from BIM, such as the inefficiency of required information and low accessibility to a proper BIM object. In order to provide a new approach for generating a reliable sustainability simulation model in a BIM-based design pro- cess, this study suggests the integrated management environment of the property information of a BIM object.
keywords	Building information modelling (BIM); BIM object; energy analysis; sustainable design; property information
series	CAADRIA
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