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_id	caadria2016_529
id	caadria2016_529
authors	Rust, Romana; David Jenny, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler
year	2016
title	Spatial Wire Cutting: Cooperative robotic cutting of non-ruled surface geometries for bespoke building components
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. 529-538
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.529
summary	The research project Spatial Wire Cutting (SWC) investi- gates a multi-robotic cutting technique that allows for an efficient production of geometrically complex architectural components. Being pursued by the group of Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich, this approach involves a spatially coordinated movement of two six- axis robotic arms that control the curvature of a hot-wire, which adopts itself against the resistance of the processed material (e.g. pol- ystyrene). In contrast to standard CNC hot-wire cutting processes, in which the cutting medium remains linear, it allows the automated fab- rication of non-ruled, doubly curved surfaces. This pursuit includes the development of a custom digital design and robotic control framework that combines computational simulation and manufactur- ing feedback information. Ultimately, SWC enables a considerably expanded design and fabrication space for complex architectural ge- ometries and their construction through automated robotic technology. This paper addresses the applied workflow and technology 1) such as computational design and simulation, robotic control and adaptive fabrication, 2) results of application within a two-week design and building workshop, and 3) will conclude with further steps of future research.
keywords	Computational design and digital fabrication; feedback-based automated manufacturing; multi-robot control; digital simulation; hot-wire cutting
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2016_234
id	ecaade2016_234
authors	Sousa, José Pedro and Martins, Pedro Filipe
year	2016
title	The Robotic Production of the GRC Panels in the CorkCrete Arch Project - A stratified strategy for the fabrication of customized molds
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. 153-160
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.153
wos	WOS:000402063700017
summary	The CorkCrete Arch was an experimental prototype built in the scope of a research project concerning the use of robotic fabrication technologies for non-standard solutions in architecture. It combined 2 materials, cork and GRC into a self-supporting lightweight building system, designed to explore the integration of different robotic fabrication technologies in one constructive solution. This paper is focused in providing a detailed description and analysis of the robotic fabrication process used in the production of the GRC components. The presented solution integrated robotic milling and hot-wire cutting technologies with a stratified mold design strategy that allowed for overcoming the limitations of each and enabled a time and cost efficient production process.
keywords	Robotic Hot-Wire Cutting; Digital Fabrication; Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete; Computational Design; Corkcrete
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2016_113
id	ecaade2016_113
authors	Poinet, Paul, Baharlou, Ehsan, Schwinn, Tobias and Menges, Achim
year	2016
title	Adaptive Pneumatic Shell Structures - Feedback-driven robotic stiffening of inflated extensible membranes and further rigidification for architectural applications
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. 549-558
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.549
wos	WOS:000402063700060
summary	The paper presents the development of a design framework that aims to reduce the complexity of designing and fabricating free-form inflatables structures, which often results in the generation of very complex geometries. In previous research the form-finding potential of actuated and constrained inflatable membranes has already been investigated however without a focus on fabrication (Otto 1979). Consequently, in established design-to-fabrication approaches, complex geometry is typically post-rationalized into smaller parts and are finally fabricated through methods, which need to take into account cutting pattern strategies and material constraints. The design framework developed and presented in this paper aims to transform a complex design process (that always requires further post-rationalization) into a more integrated one that simultaneously unfolds in a physical and digital environment - hence the term cyber-physical (Menges 2015). At a full scale, a flexible material (extensible membrane, e.g. latex) is actuated through inflation and modulated through additive stiffening processes, before being completely rigidified with glass fibers and working as a thin-shell under compression.
keywords	pneumatic systems; robotic fabrication; feedback strategy; cyber-physical; scanning processes
series	eCAADe
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_id	ascaad2016_048
id	ascaad2016_048
authors	Al Shiekh, Bassam
year	2016
title	Arabic Calligraphy and Parametric Architecture - Translation from a calligraphic force to an architectural form
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. 469-482
summary	This paper describes an on-going research that unites two distinct and seemingly unrelated interests. One is Arabic calligraphy and the other is parametric architecture. The effort is to integrate these interests and, in doing so, balance cultural issues with technological ones, traditional with contemporary and spiritual with material. Moreover, this paper is inspired by Arabic calligraphy and its influence on Zaha Hadid’s designs; it is invigorated by parametric systems and their capacity as a source of architectural forms. This paper will observe the rising importance of computation technologies to architecture, which has always been a form of negotiation between ‘function and fiction’ and ‘force and form’. The paper proposes a Parametric Calligraphic Machine that simultaneously produces, connects and separates calligraphic surfaces, calligraphic images and calligraphic reality. Therefore, the goal is to examine this hypothesis in order to produce a set of techniques, tools and methods that inform the three-dimensional design process of Arabic calligraphy’s contemporary possibilities by addressing a process description rather than a state description of creating calligraphic images and calligraphic surfaces. The theoretical approach highlights issues pertaining to calligraphy, spatiality, translation, generative systems, parametric design, visual structure, force and form.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	acadia16_164
id	acadia16_164
authors	Braumann, Johannes; Stumm, Sven; Brell-Cokcan, Sigrid
year	2016
title	Towards New Robotic Design Tools: Using Collaborative Robots within the Creative Industry
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. 164-173
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.164
summary	This research documents our initial experiences of using a new type of collaborative, industrial robot in the area of architecture, design, and construction. The KUKA LBR-iiwa differs from common robotic configurations in that it uses seven axes with integrated force-torque sensors and can be programmed in the Java programming language. Its force-sensitivity makes it safe to interact with, but also enables entirely new applications that use hand-guiding and utilize the force-sensors to compensate for high tolerances on building sites, similar to how we manually approach assembly tasks. Especially for the creative industry, the Java programming opens up completely new applications that would have previously required complex bus systems or industrial data interfaces. We will present a series of realized projects that showcase some of the potential of this new type of collaborative, safe robot, and discuss the advantages and limitations of the robotic system.
keywords	material tolerances, individualized production, iiwa, assembly, visual robot programming, collaborative robots
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	acadia16_72
id	acadia16_72
authors	Harrison, Paul
year	2016
title	What Bricks Want: Machine Learning and Iterative Ruin
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. 72-77
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.072
summary	Ruin has a bad name. Despite the obvious complications, failure provides a rich opportunity—how better to understand a building’s physicality than to watch it collapse? This paper offers a novel method to exploit failure through physical simulation and iterative machine learning. Using technology traditionally relegated to special effects, we can now understand collapse on a granular level: since modern-day physics engines track object-object collisions, they enable a close reading of the spatial preferences that underpin ruin. In the case of bricks, that preference is relatively simple—to fall. By idealizing bricks as rigid bodies, one can understand the effects of gravitational force on each individual brick in a masonry structure. These structures are sometimes able to ‘settle,’ resulting in a stable equilibrium state; in many cases, it means that they will simply collapse. Analyzing ruin in this way is informative, to be sure, but it proves most useful when applied in series. The evolutionary solver described in this paper closely monitors the performance of constituent bricks and ensures that the most successful structures are emulated by later generations. The tool consists of two parts: a user interface for design and the solver itself. Once the architect produces a potential design, the solver performs an evolutionary optimization; after a few hundred iterations, the end result is a structurally sound version of the unstable original. It is hoped that this hybrid of top-down and bottom-up design strategies offers an architecture that is ultimately strengthened by its contingencies.
keywords	rigid body analysis, machine learning, multi-agent structural optimization, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	ecaade2016_094
id	ecaade2016_094
authors	Kontovourkis, Odysseas and Konatzii, Panagiota
year	2016
title	Optimization Process Towards Robotic Manufacturing in Actual Scale - The Implementation of Genetic Algorithms in the Robotic Construction of Modular Formwork Systems
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. 169-178
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.169
wos	WOS:000402063700019
summary	The application of optimization processes in architectural design has gained significant attention among architects and recently has become a driving force towards more robust, reliable as well as flexible design investigations. Such application, require handling of multiple parameters, aiming at finding the range of possible solutions in morphological or topological problems of optimization, mostly during the design decision-making process and under the influence of functional, environmental, structural, or other design criteria. This ongoing research investigation puts forward the hypothesis that optimization processes might be equally applied during the construction decision-making process where architectural systems are examined in terms of their ability to be statically efficient and easily manufactured through the use of robotic machines. This is important to exist within a bidirectional platform of communication where the design decision-making will inform decision taken during pre-construction stage and vise versa. In order to test our hypothesis, two case studies are developed that implements genetic algorithms to examine the geometric and static behavior as well as the construction ability of proposed flexible three-dimensional modular formworks and overall systems for concrete casting, aiming to be robotically manufactured in actual scale.
keywords	Optimization process; genetic algorithms; robotic manufacturing; modular formwork system.
series	eCAADe
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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_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
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_id	acadia16_382
id	acadia16_382
authors	Lopez, Deborah; Charbel, Hadin; Obuchi, Yusuke; Sato, Jun; Igarashi, Takeo; Takami, Yosuke; Kiuchi, Toshikatsu
year	2016
title	Human Touch in Digital Fabrication
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. 382-393
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.382
summary	Human capabilities in architecture-scaled fabrication have the potential of being a driving force in both design and construction processes. However, while intuitive and flexible, humans are still often seen as being relatively slow, weak, and lacking the exacting precision necessary for structurally stable large-scale outputs—thus, hands-on involvement in on-site fabrication is typically kept at a minimum. Moreover, with increasingly advanced computational tools and robots in architectural contexts, the perfection and speed of production cannot be rivaled. Yet, these methods are generally non-engaging and do not necessarily require a skilled labor workforce, bringing to question the role of the craftsman in the digital age. This paper was developed with the focus of leveraging human adaptability and tendencies in the design and fabrication process, while using computational tools as a means of support. The presented setup consists of (i) a networked scanning and application of human movements and human on-site positioning, (ii) a lightweight and fast-drying extruded composite material, (iii) a handheld “smart” tool, and (iv) a structurally optimized generative form via an iterative feedback system. By redistributing the roles and interactions of humans and machines, the hybridized method makes use of the inherently intuitive yet imprecise qualities of humans, while maximizing the precision and optimization capabilities afforded by computational tools—thus incorporating what is traditionally seen as “human error” into a dynamically engaging and evolving design and fabrication process. The interdisciplinary approach was realized through the collaboration of structural engineering, architecture, and computer science laboratories.
keywords	human computer interaction and design, craft in design, tool streams and tool building, cognate streams, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
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_id	ascaad2016_020
id	ascaad2016_020
authors	Okawa, Haruna
year	2016
title	Computer Aided Analysis to Understand the Behavior of a Modular Chained Block - Towards an intentional control of a transformable architecture
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. 179-184
summary	This paper reports on the outcome of several tests that are run to examine the behavior of virtual and physical models of a chained block. Correlations between parameters of the component and the global geometry are studied using parametric modeling and physical model. Studies are limited to proportional and non-proportional relations according to the direction of the force. Further experiments are expected in the future to explore other forces. These computer-aided analyses offer a deeper understanding of the behavior of the system towards an intentional control of the global geometry.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	sigradi2016_498
id	sigradi2016_498
authors	Santos, Gabriela Bonifacio dos; Raposo, Marinah; Matta, Roberto Da; Cavalcanti, Caio
year	2016
title	Tecnologia no Desenvolvimento da Arte Interativa [Technology in the Development of Interactive Art]
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.326-330
summary	This article is the result of a project that has been developed in ten days during an academic workshop. The goal was to overcome the force of gravity by producing an environment sensitive to human actions. The action indicated to the group, “soil peeling”, was conceptually idealized by creating an atmosphere that had the ability to subvert the force of gravity. The premise of the project was to support a critical attitude towards anthropocentric movement by emphasizing the individualistic character inherent to contemporary human being. This attitude has been represented by reversing the forces hierarchy. The power to control gravity was then assigned to the agent and, while they were in touch with the installation, they would have full control over a natural phenomenon and could handle it in their favor.
keywords	Parametric design; Digital manufacturing; Responsive environment; Rapid prototyping; Anthropocene
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2016_084
id	ecaade2016_084
authors	Tessmann, Oliver, Rumpf, Moritz, Eisenbach, Philipp, Grohmann, Manfred and Äikäs, Topi
year	2016
title	Negotiate My Force Flow - Designing With Dynamic Concrete Formwork
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. 93-102
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.093
wos	WOS:000402063700011
summary	A composite system, made from layers of perforated plywood and latex film, together with ropes and rubber seals, performs as a flexible concrete formwork. In our research we investigated whether such a system could yield more than only one single repetitive concrete form. We sought to reduce the amount of material consumed by conventional formwork and we conceived formwork as part of the design process rather than a technical means during construction. We worked as a team of architects, structural engineers and artists and through the confluence of computational design, digital fabrication, material simulation and prototyping.
keywords	Dynamic formwork; concrete; flexible mould
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia16_424
id	acadia16_424
authors	Twose, Simon; du Chatenier, Rosa
year	2016
title	Experimental Material Research - Digital Chocolate
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. 424-431
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.424
summary	This research investigates the aesthetics of a shared agency between humans, computation and physical material. ‘Chocolate’ is manipulated in physical and virtual space simultaneously to extract aesthetic conditions that are a sum of human and non-human relations. This is an attempt to further the knowledge of designing, giving physical and digital materials force in determining their own aesthetics. The research springs from work in speculative aesthetics, particularly N. Katherine Hayles’s OOI (object-oriented inquiry) and Graham Harman’s OOO (object-oriented ontology) and explores how these ideas impact contemporary computational architectural design. To study this, a simple material has been chosen, chocolate, and used as a vehicle to investigate the dynamics of physical and digital materials and their shared/differing ‘resistances to human manipulation’ (Pickering 1995). Digital chocolate is ‘melted’ through virtual heat, and the results printed and cast in real chocolate, to be further manipulated in real space. The resistances and feedback of physical and digital chocolate to human ‘prodding’ (Hayles 2014) are analyzed in terms of a material’s qualities and tendencies in digital space versus those in physical space. Observations from this process are used to speculate on an aesthetics where humans, computation and physical material are mutually agential. This research is a pilot for a larger study taking on more complex conditions, such as building and cities, with a view to broadening how aesthetics is understood in architectural design. The contribution of this research to the field of architectural computation is thus in areas of aesthetic speculation and human/non-human architectural authorship.
keywords	object-oriented inquiry, speculative aesthetics, mutual agency, big data
series	ACADIA
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_id	ecaade2016_110
id	ecaade2016_110
authors	Verniz, Debora, Mateus, Luis, Duarte, José Pinto and Ferreira, Victor
year	2016
title	3D Reconstruction Survey of Complex Informal Settlements - Towards an understanding of the genesis of form
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. 365-370
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.365
summary	The Brazilian favelas are a kind of informal settlements characterized by steep topography and a maze-like structure. Like many other settlements of its kind that are prevalent in developing countries today, they are often considered a problem rather than a solution. This paper is part of a larger research that taking a realistic stand aims to understand the formal structure of this city-shaping force and capture it into a rule-based, computational model. The goal is to develop appropriate requalifying procedures to intervene in informal settlements and guidelines for designing formal settlements in similar sites. The paper is focused on the use of digital technologies to reconstruct in 3D a favela used as a case study, a preliminary step to understand its formal structure and create a computational model.
keywords	3D reconstruction; informal settlement; Santa Marta; SFM; 3D Point Cloud
series	eCAADe
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_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
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_id	ascaad2016_031
id	ascaad2016_031
authors	Amireh, Omar; Manal Ryalat and Tasbeeh Alaqtum
year	2016
title	Narrative Architectural Fiction in Mentally Built Environments
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. 283-294
summary	A thin line lies between reality and fiction; what is mentally imagined and what is visualized. It all depends on how ideas and images are perceived or what neurological activity is triggered in the user’s brain. Architects and designers spare no effort or tools in presenting buildings, architecture or designs in all forms or ways that would augment users’ experience whether on the perceptual or the cognitive level and in both the digital or the physical environments. In a progressive tendency they, the designers, tend to rely more and more on digitizing their vision and mission, which subsequently give them, impressive and expressive superiority, that would influence the users conscious on the one hand and manipulate their subconscious on the other. Within that process designers work hard to break any mental firewall that would prevent their ideas from pervading the space of any mental environment the user, build or visualize. In that context, to what extent such ways of mental entertainments used by architects, legitimize deception in design? What distinguishes employing the rhythmic simulation of the narrative fictional inceptions (virtual reality) from deploying the adaptive stimulation of the experience modeling conceptions. The difference between planting an idea and constructing an idea. It is not the intention of the paper to prove the failure of the computer aided design neither to stand against the digital architectural design media and applications development. It is rather to present a different way of understanding of how architectural design whether virtual, digital, or real can stimulates and induces codes and messages that is correlated to the brainwave cognitive attributes and can generate a narrative brain environment where the brain can construct and simulate its own fictional design. Doing so, the paper will review certain experimental architectural events and activities which integrate sound and sight elements and effects within some electronic, technical and digital environments.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	ecaade2016_055
id	ecaade2016_055
authors	Baranovskaya, Yuliya, Prado, Marshall, Dörstelmann, Moritz and Menges, Achim
year	2016
title	Knitflatable Architecture - Pneumatically Activated Preprogrammed Knitted Textiles
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. 571-580
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.571
wos	WOS:000402063700062
summary	Textiles are widely used in architecture for tensile structures, as they are lightweight and can easily span large distances. These structures typically require an external framework for a support. Inflatable structures are self-supporting but are limited to relatively simple forms or require complex and predetermined cut patterns. The development of an adaptive and programmable textile system with an integrative method for pneumatic activation would create a novel self-supporting structure with high degree of design and architectural potential. This creates a highly integrative hybrid system where the generic pneumatic membranes are constrained by the differentiated knitted textile skin that is stretched in several directions under air pressure. This allows for an innovative, lightweight, easily transportable design, where the preprogrammed knitting pattern defines the structure, geometry and formation, activated under pneumatic pressure.
keywords	programming textiles; binary textiles; analogue computing; air inflation; grading textile properties
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2016_449
id	sigradi2016_449
authors	Barnuevo, Thales; Sordi, Lucas De; Silva, Leandro; Silva, Neander Furtado; Aviani, Francisco Leite
year	2016
title	Componente Responsivo para Fachadas: Analise e Validaç?o [Responsive component for Facades: analysis and validation]
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.754-760
summary	The following text reports to the development of a climatic responsive component for facades programmed to respond to the movement of the sun as a way to reduce solar gain and glare into the interior ambient with the aim to reduce building’s need for energy. This research is part of a methodology of tests to verify the relevance to develop, in the future, a real scale model into the Brazilian context.
keywords	Ative facade; Responsive; Adaptive; Control
series	SIGRADI
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_id	acadia16_154
id	acadia16_154
authors	Brugnaro, Giulio; Baharlou, Ehsan; Vasey, Lauren; Menges, Achim
year	2016
title	Robotic Softness: An Adaptive Robotic Fabrication Process for Woven Structures
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. 154-163
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.154
summary	This paper investigates the potential of behavioral construction strategies for architectural production through the design and robotic fabrication of three-dimensional woven structures inspired by the behavioral fabrication logic used by the weaverbird during the construction of its nest. Initial research development led to the design of an adaptive robotic fabrication framework composed of an online agent-based system, a custom weaving end-effector and a coordinated sensing strategy utilizing 3D scanning.The outcome of the behavioral weaving process could not be predetermined a priori in a digital model, but rather emerged out of the negotiation among design intentions, fabrication constraints, performance criteria, material behaviors and specific site conditions. The key components of the system and their role in the fabrication process are presented both theoretically and technically, while the project serves as a case study of a robotic production method envisioned as a soft system: a flexible and adaptable framework in which the moment of design unfolds simultaneously with fabrication, informed by a constant flow of sensory information.
keywords	soft systems, agent-based systems, robotic fabrication, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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