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_id acadia16_270
id acadia16_270
authors Korner, Axel; Mader, Anja; Saffarian, Saman; Knippers, Jan
year 2016
title Bio-Inspired Kinetic Curved-Line Folding for Architectural Applications
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.270-279
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.270
summary This paper discusses the development of a bio-inspired compliant mechanism for architectural applications and explains the methodology of investigating movements found in nature. This includes the investigation of biological compliant mechanisms, abstraction, and technical applications using computational tools such as finite element analysis (FEA). To demonstrate the possibilities for building envelopes of complex geometries, procedures are presented to translate and alter the disclosed principles to be applicable to complex architectural geometries. The development of the kinetic façade shading device flectofold, based on the biological role-model Aldrovanda vesiculosa, is used to demonstrate the process. The following paper shows results of FEA simulations of kinetic curved-line folding mechanisms with pneumatic actuation and provides information about the relationship between varying geometric properties (e.g. curved-line fold radii) and multiple performance metrics, such as required actuation force and structural stability.
keywords composite forming process, form-finding, biomimetics and biological design, embedded responsiveness
series ACADIA
type paper
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_id ecaade2016_065
id ecaade2016_065
authors Henriques, Goncalo Castro
year 2016
title Responsive Systems: Foundations and Application - The importance of defining meta-systems and their methods
source Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 511-520
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.511
wos WOS:000402063700056
summary Responsive architecture is often considered as one that merely adapts to change. This reflects its limited and still incipient application in architecture. Due to the current resource crisis, systemic building management is essential. This article argues that there are no established processes for creating and managing responsive architecture. To establish a foundation in this area, it claims that it is necessary to deepen knowledge about systems, computation, mathematics, biology and robotics. Despite being a vast subject, it proposes a state of the art of the systems, investigating how to operate them. A method for generating responsive systems is tested and implemented in a practical case. Two methods of adaptation are proposed and tested: static and dynamic adaptation. These methods reinforce the point that responsive architecture can use not only active mechanisms, but also passive methods embedded in its form as information. The research concludes that information management is critical to define what is designated in software engineering as architecture of the system. Thus, it suggests that it is necessary to define meta-systems and to define their methods to support the generation, fabrication, construction and operation of responsive systems.
keywords responsive systems; meta-systems; static adaptation; dynamic adaptation; heuristics
series eCAADe
email
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_id ecaade2016_215
id ecaade2016_215
authors Kouchaki, Mohammad, Mahdavinejad, Mohammadjavad, Zali, Parastoo and Ahmadi, Shahab
year 2016
title Magnet-based Interactive Kinetic Bricks
source Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 213-218
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.213
wos WOS:000402063700024
summary Brick has been used in construction since ancient times and has been respected among other tectonic materials through out the history. Novel technologies recently have opened new horizons in using brick in architectural design. This paper investigates innovative implementation of bricks in kinetic architecture. Kinetic structures usually employ complex and high-cost mechanisms to come into force and their movements might be limited to some conditions. By the use of magnet in digital design, this research examines new methods for performing simple and affordable kinetic structures so as to create interactive relations between architecture and human being. Magnetic energy is applied in two ways to move a roof made of brick which is considered a heavy and masonry material. Consequently, it represents the hidden potentials of magnet as a renewable source of energy.
keywords kinetic architecture; interactive design; parametric design; Bricklaying; magnet energy
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:51

_id ascaad2016_038
id ascaad2016_038
authors Rabboh, Emad H.; Ali A. Elmansory
year 2016
title Utilizing CAAD in the Design Studio to Consolidate with Professional Practices - Pedagogical approach
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. 367-374
summary Utilization of computer-aided architectural design CAAD in architectural design studio has its problems. Recently, CAAD has been over used within education, , and applied, presumably, more efficiently in professional contexts.. Noticeably, time available for the application of CAAD in architectural firms outweights that of academy. Consequently, it has to be utilized effectively and efficiently in the design studio. The current study proposes and discusses techniques to expand and consolidate CAAD utilization in the design studio by analysing stages of work of design professionals, as well as the utilization of CAAD in architectural firms, in the first phase. The second phase looks at the stages of work in the design studio academically. Later, we conduct a survey and categorization of the Egyptian schools of architecture, to identify the mechanisms of their CAAD applications. We aim to improve the synergies between academia and professional practice and, in this respect, we hold a comparison between the professional context and the academic context with emphasis on the pedagogical aspects of architecture in design studio. The third part makes proposals to bridge the gap between the professional practices in the applications of CAAD and academic practices via enhancement of architectural technology-based learning milieu. The proposed techniques are applied and examined in the design studio. They aim to establish the parallelism between academic objectives and professional and technological objectives.
series ASCAAD
email
last changed 2017/05/25 13:33

_id acadia16_0
id acadia16_0
authors Velikov, Kathy; Ahlquist, Sean; del Campo, Matias; Thün, Geoffrey (eds.)
year 2016
title ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines
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, 514p.
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016
summary The ACADIA 2016 Conference will feature research and design work from practice and academia that is positioned at the intersection of procedural design, digital environments, and autonomous machines. POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: DATA, DESIGNERS, AND COGNITIVE MACHINES will bring together architects, designers, material scientists, engineers, programmers, and artists to explore the current trend in computational design to develop and apply quasi-cognitive machines, and to advance the integration of software, information, fabrication, and sensing in the generation of mechanisms for interfacing with the physical realm
series ACADIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:49

_id ijac201614104
id ijac201614104
authors Wood, Dylan Marx; David Correa, Oliver David Krieg and Achim Menges
year 2016
title Material computation—4D timber construction: Towards building-scale hygroscopic actuated, self-constructing timber surfaces
source International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 14 - no. 1, 49-62
summary The implementation of active and responsive materials in architecture and construction allows for the replacement of digitally controlled mechanisms with material-based systems that can be designed and programmed with the capacity to compute and execute a behavioral response. The programming of such systems with increasingly specific response requires a material-driven computational design and fabrication strategy. This research presents techniques and technologies for significantly upscaling hygroscopically actuated timber-based systems for use as self-constructing building surfaces. The timber’s integrated hygroscopic characteristics combined with computational design techniques and existing digital fabrication methods allow for a designed processing and reassembly of discrete wood elements into large-scale multi element bilayer surfaces. This material assembly methodology enables the design and control of the encoded direction and magnitude of humidity-actuated responsive curvature at an expanded scale. Design, simulation, and material assembly tests are presented together with formal and functional configurations that incorporate self-constructing and self-rigidizing surface strategies. The presented research and prototypes initiate a shift toward a large-scale, self-construction methodology.
keywords Hygroscopic, self-forming, computational design, autonomous actuation, wood structures
series journal
last changed 2016/06/13 08:34

_id sigradi2016_530
id sigradi2016_530
authors Estévez, Alberto T.; Navarro, Diego
year 2016
title Del microscopio electrónico a la estrategia digital en arquitectura [From the electron microscope to the digital strategy in architecture]
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.734-742
summary The knowledge of when the amorphous masses of cells organize themselves into a first structural level is relevant for the architect. The architecture must also attend structural and economic stresses, following efficiency, as living beings do: something that we can learn from nature ("biolearning"), although that level can only be reached with microscope. So this becomes a useful tool for architectural research. Examples of this are presented here, seeking first to discover, analyze and evaluate microscopic structures of plants and animals. On that knowledge we can make emerge the digital design of real architectural projects, using computational strategies, also morphogenetic.
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2021/03/28 19:58

_id ecaade2016_210
id ecaade2016_210
authors Abdelmohsen, Sherif, Massoud, Passaint and Elshafei, Ahmed
year 2016
title Using Tensegrity and Folding to Generate Soft Responsive Architectural Skins
source Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 529-536
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.529
wos WOS:000402063700058
summary This paper describes the process of designing a prototype for a soft responsive system for a kinetic building facade. The prototype uses lightweight materials and mechanisms to generate a building facade skin that is both soft (less dependent on hard mechanical systems) and responsive (dynamically and simultaneously adapting to spatial and environmental conditions). By combining concepts stemming from both tensegrity structures and folding mechanisms, we develop a prototype that changes dynamically to produce varying facade patterns and perforations based on sensor-network data and feedback. We use radiation sensors and shape memory alloys to control the prototype mechanism and allow for the required parametric adaptation. Based on the data from the radiation sensors, the lengths of the shape memory alloys are altered using electric wires and are parametrically linked to the input data. The transformation in the resulting overall surface is directly linked to the desired levels of daylighting and solar exposure. We conclude with directions for future research, including full scale testing, advanced simulation, and multi-objective optimization.
keywords Soft responsive systems; tensegrity; folding; kinetic facades
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

_id sigradi2016_815
id sigradi2016_815
authors Bernal, Marcelo
year 2016
title From Parametric to Meta Modeling in Design
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.579-583
summary This study introduces the Meta-Modeling process adopted from the Model Based System Engineering field (MBSE) to explore an approach for the generation of design alternatives beyond the restrictions of the Parametric Models that mainly produce geometric variations and have limitations in terms of topological transformations during the exploratory design tasks. The Meta-Model is the model of attributes and relationships among objects of a particular domain. It describes objects and concepts in abstract terms independent from the complexity of the geometric models and provides mapping mechanisms that facilitate the interfacing with parametric parts. The flexibility of these computer-interpretable and human-readable models can contribute to creatively manipulate the design knowledge embedded in parametric models.
keywords Parametric Modeling; Meta-Modeling; Model Based System Engineering; Modeling Languages; Systems Integration
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2021/03/28 19:58

_id ijac201614403
id ijac201614403
authors Kontovourkis, Odysseas and George Tryfonos
year 2016
title Design optimization and robotic fabrication of tensile mesh structures: The development and simulation of a custom-made end-effector tool
source International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 14 - no. 4, 333-348
summary This article presents an ongoing research, aiming to introduce a fabrication procedure for the development of tensile mesh systems. The purpose of current methodology is to establish an integrated approach that combines digital form- finding and robotic manufacturing processes by extracting data and information derived through elastic material behavior for physical implementation. This aspires to extend the capacity of robotically driven mechanisms to the fabrication of complex tensile structures and, at the same time, to reduce the defects that might occur due to the deformation of the elastic material. In this article, emphasis is given to the development of a custom-made end-effector tool, which is responsible to add elastic threads and create connections in the form of nodes. Based on additive fabrication logic, this process suggests the development of physical prototypes through a design optimization and tool-path verification.
keywords Robotic fabrication, tensile mesh structures, real-time response, end-effector tool, multi-objective gentic algorithms, structure optimization, form-finding
series journal
email
last changed 2016/12/09 10:52

_id caadria2016_157
id caadria2016_157
authors Patrick Janssen, Ruize Li and Akshata Mohanty
year 2016
title Mobius: A Parametric Modeller for the Web
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. 157-166
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.157
summary For complex parametric modelling tasks, systems that use textual programming languages (TPLs) currently have clear ad- vantages over visual programming languages (VPLs) systems. Their support for a rich variety of programming mechanisms means that the complexity of the program can remain commensurate with the com- plexity of the modelling task. A prototype parametric modelling sys- tem called Mo?bius is presented that aims to overcome the limitations of existing VPL systems. The proposed system integrates associative and imperative programming styles and supports iterative looping and higher order functions. In order to demonstrate the versatility of the Mo?bius, a modelling task is presented that requires the model to be modified.
keywords Parametric procedural modelling; generative design; visu- al programming; human-computer interaction
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:59

_id ecaade2016_130
id ecaade2016_130
authors Sara, Garcia and Luís, Rom?o
year 2016
title Style and Type in a Generic Shape Grammar - The Case of Multipurpose Chairs
source Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 339-348
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.339
wos WOS:000402064400033
summary Generic grammars are a means to describe and generate designs in different domains with different abstraction levels. Simple mechanisms can generate a complex variety of solutions within different types, among a coherence of similar styles. This paper describes the process of defining a generic grammar for wood frame multipurpose chair design from two specific grammars that define individual styles of two particular designers. This research is part of a larger one that comprehends the development of a multipurpose chair design tool. The combination of the two specific grammars generates designs from two specific styles, a commons style, a hybrid style and new styles. Results also comprise the characterization of the styles by the analysis of rules and parameters.
keywords Generic shape grammars; Style; Type; Multipurpose chair design
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:56

_id lasg_whitepapers_2016_fulltext
id lasg_whitepapers_2016_fulltext
year 2016
title Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2016
source Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2016 [ISBN 978-1-988366-10-4 (EPUB)] Riverside Architectural Press 2016: Toronto, Canada
summary Living Architecture Systems Group "White Papers 2016" is a dossier produced for the occasion of the Living Architecture Systems Group launch event and symposium hosted on November 4 and 5 at the Sterling Road Studio in Toronto and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture at Cambridge. The "White Papers 2016" presents research contributions from the LASG partners, forming an overview of the partnership and highlighting oppportunities for future collaborations.
keywords design, dissipative methods, design methods, synthetic cognition, neuroscience, metabolism, STEAM, organicism, field work, responsive systems, space, visualizations, sensors, actuators, signal flows, art and technology, new media art, digital art, emerging technologies, citizen building, bioinspiration, performance, paradigms, artificial nature, virtual design, regenerative design, 4DSOUND, spatial sound, biomanufacturing, eskin, delueze, bees, robotics
last changed 2019/07/29 14:02

_id ascaad2016_049
id ascaad2016_049
authors Abdelsabour, Inas; Heba Farouk
year 2016
title Impact of Using Structural Models on Form Finding - Incorporating Practical Structural Knowledge into Design Studio
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. 483-492
summary Physical Models as an architectural design tool, had major effect on architecture learning process. In structural form finding, it helped in improving visual design thinking to track form creation processes during form finding design stage. The aim is to study the impact of using physical models for second year architecture students in design studios learning. By analyzing and comparing students’ performance and progress; to clarify the effect of using physical models as a tool for designing progression, followed by analytical study on the students' structural models, in order to investigate the influence of models on their design educational progress. Research achieved that there were three basic phases the students pass through during form finding process when used manual physical models that improve the students' design capability.
series ASCAAD
email
last changed 2017/05/25 13:33

_id ecaade2016_048
id ecaade2016_048
authors Abramovic, Vasilija and Achten, Henri
year 2016
title From Moving Cube to Urban Interactive Structures - A case study
source Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 661-668
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.661
wos WOS:000402063700071
summary When thinking about the future vision of a city, having in mind recent development in digital technologies and digital design tools we are inclined to expect new building structures which incorporate this technology to better help us manage the complexity of life, and to simplify our daily lives and tasks. The idea behind this research paper lies in design of such structures, which could be put inside an urban context and engage in creating a built environment that can add more to the quality of life. For us Interactive architecture is architecture that is responsive, flexible, changing, always moving and adapting to the needs of today. The world is becoming more dynamic, society is constantly changing and the new needs it develops need to be accommodated. As a result architecture has to follow. Spaces have to become more adaptive, responsive and nature concerned, while having the ability for metamorphosis, flexibility and interactivity. Taken as a starting point of this idea is a specific module from graduation project in 2014 "The Unexpected city", where it was possible to test out first ideas about interactive and flexible objects in an urban environment.
keywords Flexible architecture; Interactive architecture; Responsive systems
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

_id sigradi2016_537
id sigradi2016_537
authors Abreu, Sandro Canavezzi de; Vasconcelos, Guilherme Nunes de; Stralen, Mateus van
year 2016
title Meta-Lab: programação de um laboratório interativo [Metal-Lab: the programming of an interactive lab]
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.769-775
summary Here we discuss the technological and theoretical issues that conform the restructuring proposal of the Computer Laboratory of Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFMG, reconfiguring it in what we call “Meta-Lab”: a space composed of programmable modules that make up the so called Sistema Hidra(!), a system structured in three levels (sensory, processor and actuator level) which receives environmental information via sensors, processes these information and changes the environment using actuators. We will address in more detail the processing level, a fundamental layer for enabling the implementation of “interactive permanency” through continuous reprogramming of interactions in Meta-Lab.
keywords Interactivity; Combinatory; Interactive Architecture
series other
type normal paper
email
last changed 2017/06/21 14:52

_id ascaad2016_059
id ascaad2016_059
authors Admed, Mohammad H.K.
year 2016
title Towards Developing BIM Curriculum in Higher Education in Egypt
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. 589-598
summary The paper surveys and discusses the current state of teaching BIM in departments of architecture in Egypt. It also connects it to the increasing professional market demand for technologically qualified architects. In specific, the paper explores the reasons behind the fact that the local BIM curriculum is lagging behind its international counterpart. It also explores the need to utilise BIM software capabilities. A further comparative survey is carried out between local case studies and international cases through identifying several stages of BIM implementation in both teaching and design. The advantages and disadvantages of the current method of teaching are explored in an effort to improve performance of BIM curriculum.
series ASCAAD
email
last changed 2017/05/25 13:34

_id sigradi2016_448
id sigradi2016_448
authors Afsari, Kereshmeh; Eastman, Charles M.; Shelden, Dennis R.
year 2016
title Data Transmission Opportunities for Collaborative Cloud-Based Building Information Modeling
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.907-913
summary Collaboration within Building Information Modeling process is mainly based on file transfer while BIM data being exchanged in either vendor specific file formats or neutral format using Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). However, since the Web enables Cloud-based BIM services, it provides an opportunity to exchange data via Web transfer services. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to investigate what features of Cloud interoperability can assist a network-based BIM data transmission for a collaborative work flow in the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (AEC) industry. This study indicates that Cloud-BIM interoperability needs to deploy major components such as APIs, data transfer protocols, data formats, and standardization to redefine BIM data flow in the Cloud and to reshape the collaboration process.
keywords BIM; Cloud Computing; Data Transmission; Interoperability; IFC
series SIGRADI
email
last changed 2021/03/28 19:58

_id caadria2016_797
id caadria2016_797
authors Agusti?-Juan, Isolda and Guillaume Habert
year 2016
title An environmental perspective on digital fabrication in architecture and construction
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. 797-806
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.797
summary Digital fabrication processes and technologies are becom- ing an essential part of the modern product manufacturing. As the use of 3D printing grows, potential applications into large scale processes are emerging. The combined methods of computational design and robotic fabrication have demonstrated potential to expand architectur- al design. However, factors such as material use, energy demands, du- rability, GHG emissions and waste production must be recognized as the priorities over the entire life of any architectural project. Given the recent developments at architecture scale, this study aims to investi- gate the environmental consequences and opportunities of digital fab- rication in construction. This paper presents two case studies of classic building elements digitally fabricated. In each case study, the projects were assessed according to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) frame- work and compared with conventional construction with similar func- tion. The analysis highlighted the importance of material-efficient de- sign to achieve high environmental benefits in digitally fabricated architecture. The knowledge established in this research should be di- rected to the development of guidelines that help designers to make more sustainable choices in the implementation of digital fabrication in architecture and construction.
keywords Digital fabrication; LCA; sustainability; environment
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

_id acadia16_10
id acadia16_10
authors Ahlquist, Sean
year 2016
title Procedural Design
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. 10-11
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.010
series ACADIA
type introduction
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:54

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