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_id	sigradi2016_814
id	sigradi2016_814
authors	Herrera, Pablo C.
year	2016
title	Artesanía en Latinoamérica: Experiencias en el contexto de la Fabricación Digital [Artisanship in Latin America: Experiences in the context of Digital Fabrication]
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.426-432
summary	In moments when the artisanship tradition seems to disappear because of industrial production, we analyze cases where digital fabrication and visual programming were used in Latin American craft, encouraged by architects with skills in digital tools. The situations confront artisans with access to digital platforms and internet, use of learned skills, and the need to modify the technological level in their products and processes. Regional initiatives, which could change contemporary design history in the region with the establishing of a trans-disciplinary systematized synergy, show that traditional materials are used and unique components maintain their originality, from a region that attempts to enter into new global markets.
keywords	Artisan; Latin America; Digital Fabrication; Craft
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2016_592
id	sigradi2016_592
authors	Vasconselos, Tássia Borges de; Sperling, David Moreno
year	2016
title	Entre representaç?es, parâmetros e algoritmos: um panorama do ensino de projeto de arquitetura em ambiente digital na América Latina [Among representations, parameters and algorithms: a panorama of digital architectural design teaching in Latin America]
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.94-100
summary	This study focuses in the context of the recognition and appropriation of graphic representation technologies and digital design on Architectural teaching in Latin America. From categories proposed by Oxman (2006) and Kotnik (2010) and through a systematic review in Cumincad database (Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design), this study presents a panorama of the state-of-art of the digital design teaching in Architecture, between 2010 and 2016. The results suggest a context of coexistence and transition from representational interaction for parametric interaction
keywords	Computer Aided Architectural Design; Design methodology Teaching; Digital Architectural Design
series	SIGRADI
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_id	acadia16_124
id	acadia16_124
authors	Ferrarello, Laura
year	2016
title	The Tectonic of the Hybrid Real: Data Manipulation, Oxymoron Materiality, and Human-Machine Creative Collaboration
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.124
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. 124-129
summary	This paper describes the latest progress of the design platform Digital Impressionism (DI), created by staff and students in the Information Experience Design programme at the Royal College of Art in London. DI aims to bridge human creative thinking with machine computation, under the theoretical method/concept of oxymoron tectonic. Oxymoron tectonic describes the process under which hybrid materiality, that is the materiality created between the digital and the physical, takes form in human-machine creative interactions. The methodology intends to employ multimaterial 3D printers in combination with data manipulation (a process that gives data physical substance), pointclouds, and the influence of intangible environmental data (like sound and wind) to model physical forms by interfacing digital and physical making. In DI, modeling is a hybrid set of actions that take place at the boundary of the physical and digital. Through this interactive platform, design is experienced as a complex, hybrid process, which we call a digital tectonic; forms are constructed via a creative feedback loop of human engagement with nonhuman agents to form a creative network of sustainable and interactive design and fabrication. By developing a mutual understanding of design, machines and humans work together in the process of design and making.
keywords	human-computer interaction and design, craft in design computation
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	acadia16_12
id	acadia16_12
authors	Gerber, David Jason; Pantazis, Evangelos
year	2016
title	A Multi-Agent System for Facade Design: A design methodology for Design Exploration, Analysis and Simulated Robotic Fabrication
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.012
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. 12-23
summary	For contemporary design practices, there still remains a disconnect between design tools used for early stage design exploration and performance analysis, and those used for fabrication and construction of complex tectonic architectural systems. The research brings forward downstream fabrication constraints into the up-stream design exploration and design decision making. This paper addresses the issues of developing an integrated digital design work-flow and details a research framework for the incorporation of environmental performance into a robotic fabrication for early stage design exploration and generation of intricate and complex alternative façade designs. The method allows the user to import a design surface, define design parameters, set a number of environmental performance objectives, and then simulate and select a robotic construction strategy. Based on these inputs, design alternatives are generated and evaluated in terms of their performance criteria in consideration of their robotically simulated constructability. In order to validate the proposed framework, an experimental case study of office building façade designs that are generatively created from a multi-agent system for design methodology is design explored and evaluated. Initial results define a heuristic function for improving simulated robotic constructability and illustrate the functionality of our prototype. Project limitations and future research steps are then discussed.
keywords	generative design, multi-objective design optimization, robotic fabrication, simulation, design performance, design decision making
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	caadria2016_651
id	caadria2016_651
authors	Loh, Paul; Jane. Burry and Malte Wagenfeld
year	2016
title	Workmanship of Risk: continuous designing in digital fabrication
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.651
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. 651-660
summary	Research projects exploring the realm of digital fabrication have shifted in recent years from developing novel techniques and outcomes to the development of tools that are part of the design pro- cess. The alignment of material systems with digital fabrication tech- nology and tooling processes have led to new terminology such as ‘digital craft’ and ‘digital making’; both terms imply a relationship be- tween craft and digital design and fabrication. Also implied is an inti- mate relationship between material production, digital tools and CNC fabrication techniques; critical ingredients in contemporary design processes. David Pye’s concept of ‘the workmanship of risk’ is used extensively in current discourse as a means to qualify digital fabrica- tion as craft production. This reading of digital fabrication as craft is limited because the word craft is used as an analogy to draw parallels between craft production and digital fabrication. There is a gap in the knowledge of what contemporary craft practice can bring to digital fabrication as a discourse or more precisely, the mechanism that al- lows digital fabrication projects to be read as a form of craft practice. This paper suggests that craft practice is rooted in the relationship be- tween material, tools and technique as an intricate workflow within a project; quantifying risk is just a means to assess this relationship. The workflow however can be considered as autopoietic in nature; it is both self-referential and self-making at the same time as continuously designing.
keywords	Digital craft; digital fabrication; systems theory
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_809
id	caadria2016_809
authors	Nakapan, Walaiporn
year	2016
title	Using the SAMR Model to transform mobile learning in a History of Art and Architecture Classroom
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.809
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. 809-818
summary	This paper presents the progress of a pilot classroom, which uses mobile devices to enhance instructor-student classroom interac- tions and students’ learning of the History of Art and Architecture. The main objective of this research was to find a way of improving classroom activities, for the coming year, by making the best possible use of technology to enable students to learn more successfully and improve their understanding of the lesson content. In this paper, class- room activities during 2014 and 2015 are analysed using the SAMR Model coupled with Bloom’s revised taxonomy and the EdTech Quin- tet Model. In addition, a plan for the redesign and improvement of ac- tivities in 2016 is proposed, the effectiveness of the SAMR model at improving in class activities is discussed and a perspective on how to develop the classroom using the “SAMR ladder” is included. The re- sults show that in 2015, 25% of the students in the class achieved an A grade, and less than 5% were graded F compared to 26% in 2012.
keywords	Design education; mobile-based learning; History of Art and Architecture; SAMR model
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia16_78
id	acadia16_78
authors	Parker, Matthew; Taron, Joshua M.
year	2016
title	Form-Making in SIFT Imaged Environments
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.078
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. 78-87
summary	Within the contemporary condition, turbulence that confronts architecture is no longer unpredictable weather patterns or wild beasts, but the unintended forces of a constantly connected digital infrastructure that demands constant attention. If, as Mark Wigley puts it, “architecture is always constructed in and against a storm” it is time for architecture to reevaluate its ability to separate us from a new storm-one that situates technology, global connectivity, human, non-human and composite users, and algorithmic architecture itself as new weather systems. Toward this end, this paper explores architecture’s ability to mediate and produce algorithmic turbulence generated through image-based sensing of the built environment. Through a close reading of Le Corbusier’s Urbanisme, we argue that for much of the 20th and the early part of the 21st century, cities have been designed to produce diagrams of smooth and homogenous flows. However, distributed personal technologies produce virtual layers that unevenly map onto the city, resulting in turbulent forces that computational platforms aim to conceal behind a visual narrative of accuracy, cohesion, anticipation, and order. By focusing on SIFT algorithms and their ability to extract n-dimensional vectors from two-dimensional images, this research explores computational workflows that mobilize turbulence towards the production of indeterminate form. These forms demarcate a new kind of challenge for both architecture and the city, whereby a cultural appetite to deploy algorithms that produce a smooth and seamless image of the world comes hand in hand with the turbulent and disruptive autonomy of those very same algorithms. By revisiting Urbanisme, a new set of architectural objectives are established that contextualize SIFTS within an urban agenda.
keywords	complex morphology, sift algorithms, architectural representation, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	caadria2016_579
id	caadria2016_579
authors	Tan, Rachel and Stylianos Dritsas
year	2016
title	Clay Robotics: Tool making and sculpting of clay with a six-axis robot
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.579
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. 579-588
summary	The objective of the project is to design a reproducible clay sculpting process with an industrial robotic arm using parametric con- trol to directly translate mesh geometry from Computer Aided Design (CAD) environment into a lump of clay. This is accomplished through an algorithmic design process developed in Grasshopper using the C# programming language. The design process is enabled by our robotics modelling and simulation library which provides tools for kinematics modelling, motion planning, visual simulation and networked com- munication with the robotic system. Our process generates robot joint axis angle instructions through inverse kinematics which results into linear tool paths realised in physical space. Unlike common subtrac- tive processes such as Computer Numeric Control (CNC) milling where solid material is often pulverised during machining operations, our process employs a carving technique to remove material by dis- placement and deposition due to the soft and self-adhesive nature of the clay material. Optimisation of self-cleaning paths are implemented and integrated into the sculpting process to increase pathing efficiency and end product quality. This paper documents the process developed, the obstacles faced in motion planning of the robotic system and dis- cusses the potential for creative applications in digital fabrication us- ing advanced machines that in certain terms exceed human capability yet in others are unable to reach the quality of handmade works of art.
keywords	Design computation; digital fabrication; architectural robotics
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_353
id	caadria2016_353
authors	Yuan, Feng; Shuyi Huang and Tong Xiao
year	2016
title	Physical and numerical simulation as a generative design tool
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.353
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. 353-362
summary	Environmentally sound and high-performance buildings are contributing towards a sustainable future. With increased density of contemporary urban space and the urgent desire to promote building performance, a better understanding of wind behaviour will positively influence future design explorations. In the traditional sequential ar- chitectural practice, there is a gap between design and performance simulation. This paper presents an experimental and systematic study of the performance-oriented design tools, strategies and workflows utilized in the concept prototyping of a high-rise building. It describes a new approach to incorporate wind tunnel testing, computational flu- id dynamics simulation as well as parametric software, sensors and open-source electronics platform into an accessible, interactive and low-cost form generation kit, rapidly evaluating the performance of potential design options in the early design stage. As indicated in this research, environmental simulation can be a decision-making tool, in- tegrating the concept of continuity into the design process.
keywords	Environmental performance; building aerodynamics; wind tunnel testing; computational fluid dynamics
series	CAADRIA
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_id	sigradi2016_615
id	sigradi2016_615
authors	Almeida , Rafael Goffinet de; Santos, Fábio Lopes Souza
year	2016
title	Um olhar sobre a relação entre sujeitos e meios técnicos: O público como construção social mediada [Looking at the relationship between subjects and technical means: The audience as mediated social construction]
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.872-879
summary	This article analyses some of the proposals produced in the late 1970´s by the American contemporary artist Dan Graham, in which he uses technical means to investigate the audience´s perception and behavior. The questions raised highlight reciprocity phenomena and identity constructions – factors that affect our experience and behavior in contemporary cities daily life. All of these issues derive from Graham´s investigations of the main information and communication technologies (media) produced at that time, and which continue to offer reflections on current relationship between technical means and the subject – that is, his/her condition as audience, observer, spectator or user.
keywords	Dan Graham; Contemporary art; Contemporary Architecture and City; Technical means; Contemporary spatiality
series	other
type	normal paper
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last changed	2017/06/21 14:49

_id	sigradi2016_621
id	sigradi2016_621
authors	Gomes, Maria Cecília Rocha Couto; Santos, Ana Paula Baltazar dos; Arruda, Guilherme Ferreira de; Cabral Filho , José dos Santos; Silva, Luís Henrique Marques de Oliveira; Diniz, Luiza Encarnaç?o; Lima, Mariana Julia Souza Barbosa; Stralen, Mateus de Sousa van
year	2016
title	Parametrizaç?o para além do processo de projeto: experimentando aberturas para interaç?o [Parametrization beyond the design process: trying out openness for interaction]
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.790-794
summary	This paper discusses the use of parametrization and digital fabrication in architecture proposing a shift from increasing the architect’s control over the final product (determinist paradigm), towards increasing users' interaction. It presents the design process of an experimental interactive object intended to meet the former discussion and test the limits and difficulties that might arise during the process. Such an object was developed by Lagear (UFMG), as a response to the exhibition Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America, CAAD FUTURES 2015.
keywords	Interactive object; Parametrization; Digital Fabrication; Representation; Interaction
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2016_167
id	ecaade2016_167
authors	Goodship, Paul
year	2016
title	Understanding the Role of Spatial Connectivity in Integrating Informal Settlements, through the Case of Medellin's Urban Cable-cars.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.079
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. 79-88
summary	Throughout Latin America urban cable-cars are fast becoming a normal sight with urban transport systems, taking residents and tourists to and from previously isolated locations and providing a new form of accessibility that was not possible before. As its popularity grows, it is important to understand the role that improved spatial connectivity plays in transforming these communities and discuss how this can be best measured. This is because the spatial conditions of informal settlements are often forgotten about when planning large scale upgrading programs. Therefore, the aim of this article is to explore ways to interpret the role of spatial connectivity in the transformation process of informal settlements, through the case of Medellin's Urban Cable-car and the exploration of 'speed' as a measurable variable.
wos	WOS:000402064400007
keywords	Spatial Connectivity; Space Syntax; Speed; Urban Cable-cars
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2016_560
id	sigradi2016_560
authors	Rodríguez Barros, Diana; Mandagarán, María
year	2016
title	Dise?o especulativo, Co-creación y Casa del Puente. Un caso de prácticas didácticas en entorno post-digital en la carrera de Arquitectura [Speculative Design, Co-Creation and Casa del Puente. A case of teaching practices in post-digital environment in the career of 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.194-200
summary	The creation can be considered as co-creation in both shared operations from interventions linked to the presence of the other. In virtual environments and interconnected in the Web, post-digital environments, these activities are provided in a unique way. Certain proyectual practices framed in Design Thinking, are stimulated by a proactive action in this direction. In particular, as in the case of Speculative Design, which explores implications of what is not reality yet, and links new technologies, scientific applications and aesthetic trends. In this direction we present teaching practices, next to Media-Labs modalities. They were realized by architecture students. They were focused in re-inserts, re-functionalizations and re-significations of the Casa del Puente, Mar del Plata, emblematic building of latin american modernism. The experience, with mostly positive result, was analyzed and evaluated according to co-creativity indicators. We conclude that these experiences rub the expressive and creative disciplinaries boundaries of Architecture career, and are close to transdisciplinar concept of Art Thinking.
keywords	Didactic practice; Architecture; Speculative design; Co-creation; Bridge’s house/Casa del Puente
series	SIGRADI
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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	sigradi2016_728
id	sigradi2016_728
authors	Sáez Gutiérrez, Nicolás Antonio; Gatica Laurie, Braulio
year	2016
title	Réplica Virtual. Ca?mara obscura con disen?o paramétrico y fabricación digital. Una arquitectura de la imagen virtual [Virtual Replica. Camera Obscure With Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication. An Architecture of the Virtual Image]
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.885-891
summary	Virtual Replica is a contemporary artistic project that reflects upon our relation with the world. It is a camera (room) obscuradesigned with the aid of parametric software in order to be fabricated with CNC technology based on thin layers of plywood. An ephemeral architecture that creates an immersive experience for the visitor who is surrounded by a number of “virtual screens” exhibiting inverted images of the immediate exterior. This paper proposes the phenomenon of camera obscura as a proto building that gives life to an architecture of the image, using it as its built as well as its theoretical fundamental reference.
keywords	Camera Oscura; Image Architecture; Parametric Design; Digital Fabrication; Contemporary Art
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2016_407
id	sigradi2016_407
authors	Veiga, Breno Tisi Mendes da; Florio, Wilson
year	2016
title	A visualizaç?o espacial através da modelagem paramétrica e da fabricaç?o digital em edifícios curvilíneos de Oscar Niemeyer no Memorial da América Latina [The spatial visualization through parametric modeling and digital fabrication in curvilinear buildings by Oscar Niemeyer in the Latin America Memorial]
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.686-692
summary	This paper analyzes the geometry of three buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the Latin America Memorial, the Hall of Acts Tiradentes, the Victor Civita Library and the Simón Bolívar Auditorium, through the use of parametric modeling, geometric modeling and rapid prototyping. This research comes to fill a gap in what concerns the lack of demonstration of the underlying geometry of Niemeyer’s projects.
keywords	Geometry; Parametric modeling; Rapid Prototyping; Oscar Niemeyer
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ascaad2016_033
id	ascaad2016_033
authors	Vance Iii, Ulysses S.; Noel Hernandez, O. Tabor, I. Donaldson and M. Elliott
year	2016
title	Acts of Spatializing Healthy - The Adolescent Body in Motion
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. 309-318
summary	Physical Activity, which is essential for maintaining a healthy condition, is often a non-parallel particular in the curriculum of early adolescent education. Isolated to recess and gym class, or situated as separate extra-curricular activities, its metrics tend to be behavioral and external to cognitive activities. In order to address recent reductions in physical activity for adolescents, which the White House has interpreted as directly related to increased obesity rates in pre-adolescents over the last decade, a series of interventions within learning environments, class space, and facility syntax were developed to introduce activity breaks throughout the class day. This paper posits the findings from hybrid computer aided visualization and simulation tools used in defining adequate space for adolescent physical activity in the classroom. Primarily the research questions the volume of space attributable to each student based on the size of the classroom and number of students per academic year. The findings develop both the hybrid digital systems that map geographies of movement in adolescent bodies and work to facilitate an understanding of physical activity ecologies that can be prescribed to varying components in an educational institution. Additionally the findings contribute to multiple speculative apparatus intent on redefining class space, by situating certain physical activities with specific spatial modifications. In turn, establishing a formal agenda for situating activities in these conditions and determining the plausibility of devices in educational institutions that can encourage movement.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	ascaad2016_052
id	ascaad2016_052
authors	Al-Badry, Sally; Cesar Cheng, Sebastian Lundberg and Georgios Berdos
year	2016
title	Living on the Edge - Reinventing the amphibiotic habitat of the Mesopotamian Marshlands
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. 513-526
summary	The Mesopotamian Marshlands form one of the first landscapes where people started to transform and manipulate the natural environment in order to sustain human habitation. For thousands of years, people have transformed natural ecosystems into agricultural fields, residential clusters and other agglomerated environments to sustain long-term settlement. In this way, the development of human society has been intricately linked to the extraction, processing and consumption of natural resources. The Mesopotamian Marshlands, located in one of the hottest and most arid areas on the planet, formed a unique wetlands ecosystem, which apart from millions of people, sustained a very high number of wildlife and endemic species. Several historical, political, social and climatic changes, which densely occurred during the past century, completely destroyed the unique civilisation of the area, made all the wild flora and fauna disappear and forced hundreds of thousands of people to migrate. During the last decade, many efforts have been made to restore the marshlands. However, these efforts are lacking a comprehensive design strategy, coherent goals and deep understanding of the complex current geopolitical situation, making the restoration process an extremely difficult task. This work aims at providing strategies for recovering the Mesopotamian Marshlands, organising productive functions in order to sustain the local population and design a new inhabitation model, using advanced computational tools while taking into account the extreme climatic conditions and several unique cultural aspects. Part of the aim of this work is to advance the use of computation and explore the opportunities that digital tools afford in helping find solutions to complex design problems where various design variables need to be coordinated to satisfy the design goals. Today, advanced computation enables designers to use population consumption demands, ecological processes and environmental inputs as design parameters to develop more robust and resilient regional planning strategies. This work has the double aim of first, presenting a framework for re-inhabiting the Marshlands of Mesopotamia. Second, the work suggests a design methodology based on computer-aided design for developing and organising productive functions and patterns of human occupation in wetland environments.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	acadia17_102
id	acadia17_102
authors	Aparicio, German
year	2017
title	Data-Insight-Driven Project Delivery: Approach to Accelerated Project Delivery Using Data Analytics, Data Mining and Data Visualization
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2017.102
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. 102-109
summary	Today, 98% of megaprojects face cost overruns or delays. The average cost increase is 80% and the average slippage is 20 months behind schedule (McKinsey 2015). It is becoming increasingly challenging to efficiently support the scale, complexity and ambition of these projects. Simultaneously, project data is being captured at growing rates. We continue to capture more data on a project than ever before. Total data captured back in 2009 in the construction industry reached over 51 petabytes, or 51 million gigabytes (Mckinsey 2016). It is becoming increasingly necessary to develop new ways to leverage our project data to better manage the complexity on our projects and allow the many stakeholders to make better more informed decisions. This paper focuses on utilizing advances in data mining, data analytics and data visualization as means to extract project information from massive datasets in a timely fashion to assist in making key informed decisions for project delivery. As part of this paper, we present an innovative new use of these technologies as applied to a large-scale infrastructural megaproject, to deliver a set of over 4,000 construction documents in a six-month period that has the potential to dramatically transform our industry and the way we deliver projects in the future. This paper describes a framework used to measure production performance as part of any project’s set of project controls for accelerated project delivery.
keywords	design methods; information processing; data mining; big data; data visualization
series	ACADIA
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_id	caadria2016_343
id	caadria2016_343
authors	Asriana, Nova and Aswin Indraprastha
year	2016
title	Making Sense of Agent-based Simulation: Developing Design Strategy for Pedestrian-centric Urban Space
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.343
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. 343-352
summary	This study investigates the relationships of field observa- tion, multi-agent simulation and space-syntax theory in spatial config- uration for developing design strategy for a case study, a tourist hub area in Musi Riverside, Palembang. Having such potential advantage and to tackle existing social and urban issues, our study developed a design approach based on multi-agent simulation enhanced by space syntax theory. The goal of this study is a deep understanding of multi agent simulation through mechanism of validation using field obser- vation and by taking into account the existing urban features. The purpose is to develop design strategy of pedestrian-centric urban space to be functioned as a tourist hub based on computational modelling. Following the paths result of pedestrian flow by multi-agents simula- tion, we elaborated the analysis of facility programming by means of Space Syntax theory. It shows the ranking of facility programs based on their relative connectivity and integration. By merging this result, it assembles programs and their circulation spaces by means of compu- tational simulation. Experimenting in both fields show a novel ap- proach for pedestrian-centric design in urban scale, particularly since behavioural models rarely used in early stage of design process. It shows that multi-agent simulation should be coupled with field obser- vation.
keywords	Multi-agents simulation; network analysis; Space Syntax theory; design strategy; urban space
series	CAADRIA
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