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_id	caadria2018_245
id	caadria2018_245
authors	Chowdhury, Shuva and Schnabel, Marc Aurel
year	2018
title	An Algorithmic Methodology to Predict Urban Form - An Instrument for Urban Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.2.401
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 401-410
summary	We question the recent practices of conventional and participatory urban design approaches and offer a middle approach by exploring computational design tools in the design system. On the one hand, the top-down urban planning approaches investigate urban form as a holistic matter which only can be calibrated by urban professionals. These approaches are not able to offer enough information to the end users to predict the urban form. On the other hand, the bottom-up urban design approaches cannot visualise predicted urban scenarios, and most often the design decisions stay as general assumptions. We developed and tested a parametric design platform combines both approaches where all the stakeholders can participate and visualise multiple urban scenarios in real-time feedback. Parametric design along with CIM modelling system has influenced urban designers for a new endeavour in urban design. This paper presents a methodology to generate and visualise urban form. We present a novel decision-making platform that combines city level and local neighbourhood data to aid participatory urban design decisions. The platform allows for stakeholder collaboration and engagement in complex urban design processes.
keywords	knowledge-based system; algorithmic methodology ; design decision tool; urban form;
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2018_329
id	ecaade2018_329
authors	De Luca, Francesco, Nejur, Andrei and Dogan, Timur
year	2018
title	Facade-Floor-Cluster - Methodology for Determining Optimal Building Clusters for Solar Access and Floor Plan Layout in Urban Environments
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.585
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 585-594
summary	Daylight standards are one of the main factors for the shape and image of cities. With urbanization and ongoing densification of cities, new planning regulations are emerging in order to manage access to sun light. In Estonia a daylight standard defines the rights of light for existing buildings and the direct solar access requirement for new premises. The solar envelope method and environmental simulations to compute direct sun light hours on building façades can be used to design buildings that respect both daylight requirements. However, no existing tool integrates both methods in an easy to use manner. Further, the assessment of façade performance needs to be related to the design of interior layouts and of building clusters to be meaningful to architects. Hence, the present work presents a computational design workflow for the evaluation and optimisation of high density building clusters in urban environments in relation to direct solar access requirements and selected types of floor plans.
keywords	Performance-driven Design; Urban Design; Direct Solar Access; Environmental Simulations and Evaluations; Parametric Modelling
series	eCAADe
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_id	ascaad2021_065
id	ascaad2021_065
authors	Fraschini, Matteo; Julian Raxworthy
year	2021
title	Territories Made by Measure: The Parametric as a Way of Teaching Urban Design Theory
source	Abdelmohsen, S, El-Khouly, T, Mallasi, Z and Bennadji, A (eds.), Architecture in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: Transformations and Challenges [9th ASCAAD Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-907349-20-1] Cairo (Egypt) [Virtual Conference] 2-4 March 2021, pp. 494-506
summary	Design tools like Grasshopper are often used to either generate novel forms, to automate certain design processes or to incorporate scientific factors. However, any Grasshopper definition has certain assumptions about design and space built into it from its earliest genesis, when the initial algorithm is set out. Correspondingly, implicit theoretical positions are built into definitions, and therefore its results. Approaching parametric design as a question of architectural, landscape architectural or urban design theory allows the breaking down of traditional boundaries between the technical and the historical or theoretical, and the way parametric design, and urban design history & theory, can be conveyed in the teaching environment. Once the boundaries between software and history & theory are transgressed, Grasshopper can be a way of testing the principles embedded in historical designs and thus these two disciplines can be joined. In urban design, there is an inherent clash between an ideal model and existing urban geography or morphology, and also between formal (qualitative) and numerical (quantitative) aspects. If a model provides a necessary vision for future development, an existing topography then results from the continuous human and natural modifications of a territory. To explore this hypothesis, the “Urban Design Representation” subject in the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Cape Town taught in 2017 & 2018 was approached “parametrically” from these two opposite, albeit convergent, starting points: the conceptual/rational versus the physical/empiric representations of a territory. In this framework, Grasshopper was used to represent typical standards and parameters of modern urban planning (for example, Floor/Area Ratio, height and distance between buildings, site coverage, etc), and a typological approach was adopted to study and “decode” the relationship between public and private space, between the street, the block and topography, between solids and voids. This methodology permits a cross-comparison of different urban design models and the immediate evaluation of their formal outputs derived from parametric data.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	ecaade2018_110
id	ecaade2018_110
authors	Nguyen, Binh Vinh Duc, Watlom, Thanonchai, Peng, Chengzhi and Wang, Tsung-Hsien
year	2018
title	Prototyping Adaptive Architecture - Balancing Flexibility of Folding Patterns and Adaptability of Micro-Kinetic Movements
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.391
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 391-400
summary	The design process of dynamic architecture has been an emerging topic in recent studies, in which researchers try to find an effective method of generating and controlling adaptive components. In this paper, we present a digital-physical modelling process that seeks to explore tectonic fusion of origami folding patterns and micro-kinetic movements. A flexible modular prototype system is developed and evaluated through combining origami-based fabrication simulation and mathematical characterisation mimicking the pinecone's nastic movements. The modular design system is then applied to an urban site as a test case study. The results show how the pinecone-like nastic movements may be translated into design and fabrication of an adaptive architecture. We discuss the lessons learned from the digital-physical prototyping process finding the balance between geometric flexibility and micro-kinetic adaptability.
keywords	adaptive architecture; origami folding patterns; micro-kinetic movements; pinecone; parametric modelling; digital-physical prototyping
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_138
id	ecaade2018_138
authors	Abdulmawla, Abdulmalik, Schneider, Sven, Bielik, Martin and Koenig, Reinhard
year	2018
title	Integrated Data Analysis for Parametric Design Environment - mineR: a Grasshopper plugin based on R
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.319
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 319-326
summary	In this paper we introduce mineR- a tool that integrates statistical data analysis inside the parametric design environment Grasshopper. We first discuss how the integration of statistical data analysis would improve the parametric modelling workflow. Then we present the statistical programming language R. Thereafter, we show how mineR is built to facilitate the use of R in the context of parametric modelling. Using two example cases, we demonstrate the potential of implementing mineR in the context of urban design and analysis. Finally, we discuss the results and possible further developments.
keywords	Statistical Data Analysis; Parametric Design
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_232
id	ecaade2018_232
authors	Al Bondakji, Louna, Chatzi, Anna-Maria, Heidari Tabar, Minoo, Wesseler, Lisa-Marie and Werner, Liss C.
year	2018
title	VR-visualization of High-dimensional Urban Data
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.773
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 773-780
summary	The project aims to investigate the possibility of VR in a combination of visualizing high-dimensional urban data. Our study proposes a data-based tool for urban planners, architects, and researchers to 3D visualize and experience an urban quarter. Users have a possibility to choose a specific part of a city according to urban data input like "buildings, streets, and landscapes". This data-based tool is based on an algorithm to translate data from Shapefiles (.sh) in a form of a virtual cube model. The tool can be scaled and hence applied globally. The goal of the study is to improve understanding of the connection and analysis of high-dimensional urban data beyond a two-dimensional static graph or three-dimensional image. Professionals may find an optimized condition between urban data through abstract simulation. By implementing this tool in the early design process, researchers have an opportunity to develop a new vision for extending and optimizing urban materials.
keywords	Abstract Urban Data Visualization; Virtual Reality; Geographical Information System
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_219
id	ecaade2018_219
authors	Bai, Nan, Ye, Wenqia, Li, Jianan, Ding, Huichao, Pienaru, Meram-Irina and Bunschoten, Raoul
year	2018
title	Customised Collaborative Urban Design - A Collective User-based Urban Information System through Gaming
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.419
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 419-428
summary	As we step into a new data-based information age, it is important to get citizens involved in the whole design process. Our research tries to build up a user-based urban information system by collecting the data of neighborhood land use preference from all the residents through gaming. The result of each individual decision will be displayed in real time using Augmented Reality technology, while the collective decision dataset will be stored, analyzed and learnt by computer, forming an optimal layout that meets the highest demand of the community. A pre-experiment has been conducted in a. an abstract virtual site and b. an existing site by collecting opinions from 122 participants, which shows that the system works well as a new method for collaborative design. This system has the potential to be applied both in realistic planning processes, as a negotiation toolkit, and in virtual urban forming, in the case of computer games or space colonization.
keywords	Collaborative Design; Customization; Urban Design; Gaming; Information System
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2023_39
id	sigradi2023_39
authors	Borges, Marina, Karantino, Lucas and Gorges, Diego
year	2023
title	Walkability: Digital Parametric Process for Analyzing and Evaluating Walkability Criteria in Peripheral Central Regions of Belo Horizonte
source	García Amen, F, Goni Fitipaldo, A L and Armagno Gentile, Á (eds.), Accelerated Landscapes - Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2023), Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, 29 November - 1 December 2023, pp. 397–408
summary	According to one of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2018), it is important for cities to be inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to value pedestrians and consequently active mobility, giving priority to the concepts of the Transportation Oriented Development (TOD) methodology. Although the Master Plan (BELO HORIZONTE, 2019) proposes that areas located in regional centralities are enhancing active mobility, can residents actually benefit from these resources at a walkable distance to access basic services? Thus, the aim of this research is to utilize digital technologies to visualize, analyze, and assess pedestrians' access conditions to commerce and basic services, identifying areas lacking infrastructure. The goal is for the model to serve as a reference for the development of public policies. To achieve this, metadata was used for parametric modeling to study walkability in the peripheral region of the city of Belo Horizonte.
keywords	Walkability, Urban Data Analysis, Urban Design, Parametric Urbanism, Algorithmic Logic
series	SIGraDi
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_id	caadria2018_056
id	caadria2018_056
authors	Chirkin, Artem, Pishniy, Maxim and Sender, Arina
year	2018
title	Generilized Visibility-Based Design Evaluation Using GPU
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.2.483
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 483-492
summary	Visibility plays an important role in perception and use of an urban design, and thus often becomes a target of design analysis. This work presents a fast method of evaluating various visibility-based design characteristics, such as isovists or insolation exploiting the GPU rendering pipeline and compute shaders. The proposed method employs a two-stage algorithm on each point of interest. First, it projects the visible space around a vantage point onto an equirectangular map. Second, it folds the map using a flexibly defined function into a single value that is associated with the vantage point. Being executed on a grid of points in a 3D scene, it can be visualized as a heat map or utilized by another algorithm for further design analysis. The developed system provides nearly real-time analysis tools for an early-stage design process to a broad audience via web services.
keywords	design analysis; design evaluation; GPU; isovist; insolation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2020_098
id	caadria2020_098
authors	Davidova, Marie and McMeel, Dermott
year	2020
title	Codesigning with Blockchain for Synergetic Landscapes - The CoCreation of Blockchain Circular Economy through Systemic Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.333
source	D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, I. Koh (eds.), RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 333-342
summary	The paper is exploring methodology within the work in progress research by design through teaching project called 'Synergetic Landscapes'. It discusses codesign and cocreation processes that are crossing the academia, NGOs and applied practice within so called 'real life codesign laboratory' (DavidovÃ¡, PÃ¡nek, & PÃ¡nkovÃ¡, 2018). This laboratory performs in real time and real life environment. The work investigates synergised bio-digital (living, non-living, physical, analogue, digital and virtual) prototypical interventions in urban environment that are linked to circular economy and life cycles systems running on blockchain. It represents a holistic systemic interactive and performing approach to design processes that involve living, habitational and edible, social and reproductive, circular and token economic systems. Those together are to cogenerate synergetic landscapes.
keywords	codesign; blockchain; systemic design; prototyping; bio-digital design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2018_292
id	ecaade2018_292
authors	Dennemark, Martin, Aicher, Andreas, Schneider, Sven and Hailu, Tesfaye
year	2018
title	Generative Hydrology Network Analysis - A parametric approach to water infrastructure based urban planning
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.327
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 327-334
summary	Urban water systems need to be dimensioned well to be economical and distribute water in a good quality to all consumers. Their pipe sizes are dependent on demand and location of consuming nodes. Within uncertain development of cities, planning sustainable hydraulic networks is challenging. This paper explores, how the definition of urban design parameters can be supported using parametric urban design models and computational water network analysis. For the latter we developed new components for Grasshopper based on the open accessible water analysis tool EPANET. In two example cases we demonstrate potential applications of this tool for water-sensitive planning of emerging cities to find optimal positions for water sources or pipe diameters. In subsequent research, this could be used to derive probability-based recommendations for the dimensioning of a water network within uncertain growth.
keywords	water infrastructure; urban planning; parametric design; uncertainty; emerging cities
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_398
id	ecaadesigradi2019_398
authors	Fink, Theresa and Koenig, Reinhard
year	2019
title	Integrated Parametric Urban Design in Grasshopper / Rhinoceros 3D - Demonstrated on a Master Plan in Vienna
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.3.313
source	Sousa, JP, Xavier, JP and Castro Henriques, G (eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 3, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 313-322
summary	By 2050 an estimated 70 percent of the world's population will live in megacities with more than 10 million citizens (Renner 2018). This growth calls for new target-oriented, interdisciplinary methods in urban planning and design in cities to meet sustainable development targets. In response, this paper exemplifies an integrated urban design process on a master plan project in Vienna. The objective is to investigate the potential towards a holistic, digital, urban design process aimed at the development of a practical methodology for future designs. The presented urban design process includes analyses and simulation tools within Rhinoceros 3D and its plug-in Grasshopper as quality-enhancing mediums that facilitate the creative approaches in the course of the project. The increase in efficiency and variety of design variants shows a promising future for the practical suitability of this approach.
keywords	urban design; parametric modeling; urban simulation; design evaluation; environmental performance
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaade2018_165
id	ecaade2018_165
authors	Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dafna and Bruchim, Elad
year	2018
title	Considering Variant Movement Velocities on the 3D Dynamic Visibility Analysis (DVA) - Simulating the perception of urban users: pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.569
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 569-576
summary	The objective of this research project is to simulate and evaluate the effect of movement velocity and cognitive abilities on the visual perception of three groups of urban users: pedestrians, cyclists and car drivers.The simulation and analysis is based on the 3D Dynamic Visual Analysis (DVA) (Fisher-Gewirtzman, 2017). This visibility analysis model was developed in the Rhinoceros and Grasshopper software environments and is based on the conceptual model presented in Fisher-Gewirtzman (2016): a 3D Line of Sight (LOS) visibility analysis, taking into account the integrated effect of the 3D geometry of the environment and the variant elements of the view (such as the sky, trees and vegetation, buildings and building types, roads, water etc.). In this paper, the current advancement of the existing model considers the visual perception of human users employing three types of movement in the urban environment--pedestrians, cyclists and drivers--is explored.We expect this research project to exemplify the contribution of such a quantification and evaluation model to evaluating existing urban structures, and for supporting future human perception-based urban design processes.
keywords	visibility analysis and simulation; predicting perception of space; movement in the urban environment; pedestrians; cyclists; car drivers
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_176
id	ecaade2018_176
authors	Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dafna and Polak, Nir
year	2018
title	Integrating Crowdsourcing & Gamification in an Automatic Architectural Synthesis Process
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.439
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 439-444
summary	This work covers the methodological approach that is used to gather information from the wisdom of crowd, to be utilized in a machine learning process for the automatic generation of minimal apartment units. The flexibility in the synthesis process enables the generation of apartment units that seem to be random and some are unsuitable for dwelling. Thus, the synthesis process is required to classify units based on their suitability. The classification is deduced from opinions of human participants on previously generated units. As the definition of "suitability" may be subjective, this work offers a crowdsourcing method in order to reach a large number of participants, that as a whole would allow to produce an objective classification. Gaming elements have been adopted to make the crowdsourcing process more intuitive and inviting for external participants.
keywords	crowdsourcing and gamification; urban density; optimization; automated architecture synthesis; minimum apartments; visual openness
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_327
id	ecaade2018_327
authors	Izzo, Massimo
year	2018
title	Parametric Design as Interpreter of the Urban Compositional Problem - One basic application to city block modeling
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.335
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 335-344
summary	The paper explores parametric design technology from an urban design perspective of development. One possible finalization of technique as informer of urban space subdivision is presented, with an eye on geometry and its energy efficiency implications. The recognition of urban space as a field of complex equilibria, where different claims insist on the subdivision process, helps interpret methodology from a critical stance, at least within the margins of selected studies and a partial, yet indicative experiment.
keywords	complexity; parametric design; urban simulation; energy efficiency; Grasshopper; optimization
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_315
id	ecaade2018_315
authors	Koehler, Daniel, Abo Saleh, Sheghaf, Li, Hua, Ye, Chuwei, Zhou, Yaonaijia and Navasaityte, Rasa
year	2018
title	Mereologies - Combinatorial Design and the Description of Urban Form.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.085
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 85-94
summary	This paper discusses the ability to apply machine learning to the combinatorial design-assembly at the scale of a building to urban form. Connecting the historical lines of discrete automata in computer science and formal studies in architecture this research contributes to the field of additive material assemblies, aggregative architecture and their possible upscaling to urban design. The following case studies are a preparation to apply deep-learning on the computational descriptions of urban form. Departing from the game Go as a testbed for the development of deep-learning applications, an equivalent platform can be designed for architectural assembly. By this, the form of a building is defined via the overlap between separate building parts. Building on part-relations, this research uses mereology as a term for a set of recursive assembly strategies, integrated into the design aspects of the building parts. The models developed by research by design are formally described and tested under a digital simulation environment. The shown case study shows the process of how to transform geometrical elements to architectural parts based merely on their compositional aspects either in horizontal or three-dimensional arrangements.
keywords	Urban Form; Discrete Automata ; Combinatorics; Part-Relations; Mereology; Aggregative Architecture
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_322
id	ecaade2018_322
authors	Koehler, Daniel, Galika, Anna, Bai, Junyi and Pu, Qiuru
year	2018
title	Blockerties - The Distributive Design of the Blockchain Technology and its Impact on Urban Form.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.551
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 551-560
summary	This paper aims to link the blockchain technology with property issues and in extend architectural design decisions at the urban scale. In an urban design context, this paper investigates the new potentials of urban form connected to the application of the logic of the blockchain to urban design. With this, the article concentrates on the distributed way of sharing information, with no intent to focus on cryptography issues related to the blockchain. Transferring the blockchain's core concepts of data distribution through ledgers, to patterns of shared and private owned spaces it can lead to what we propose as polyphonic spaces, with overlapping uses. Urban realm, designed as a chain, initiates with the binary condition of private and shared but handles it as a way to interact, through nesting, its initial parts. We think that the blockchain theory is capable of challenging architecture by shifting the weight from individual elements of composition to compound entities (block) that incorporate all the information needed.Please write your abstract here by clicking this paragraph.
keywords	Blockchain; Urban Form; Combinatorics; Typology; Mereology; Aggregative Architecture
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2018_1600
id	sigradi2018_1600
authors	Lacroix, Igor
year	2018
title	Guerrilla urbanism and digital production: a study of temporary occupation of public spaces
source	SIGraDi 2018 [Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Brazil, São Carlos 7 - 9 November 2018, pp. 1159-1166
summary	The paper presents some of the spatial production involved in three events promoted by different organizations in the city of Brasilia, Brazil. The role of architecture was to materialize sensations, experiences and phenomena for the people who participated. This production defines a kind of urbanism produced by groups of people who are temporarily using public spaces of the city with creativity. Limited by minimum time and budgets, and located in a place where high technology is scarce, handcraft is a necessity in all production processes. The main intention is to analyze how the use of advanced technology corresponds to this type of situation.
keywords	Parametric Design; Artistic Production; Ephemeral Architecture; Urban Intervention; Guerrilla Urbanism
series	SIGRADI
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_id	caadria2018_302
id	caadria2018_302
authors	Lee, Alric, Tei, Hirokazu and Hotta, Kensuke
year	2018
title	Body-Borne Assistive Robots for Human-Dependent Precision Construction - The Compensation of Human Imprecision in Navigating 3-Dimensional Space with a Stand-Alone, Adaptive Robotic System
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.1.545
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 545-554
summary	The rapid growth of complex contemporary architecture design, contributed by the advance in parametric CAD/CAM software, is accompanied by challenges in the production process; it demands both highly trained workers and technical equipments. This paper reviews current technologies in robotics-aided construction and wearable computers for generic purposes, and proposes the design of a robotic device for construction guidance. It guides the user, the worker, through the assembly process of precision modular constructions, by providing procedural mechanical or haptic assistance in the 3-dimensional positioning of building components. The device is designed to be wearable, portable, and operable as a completely stand-alone system that requires no external infrastructure. A prototype of the device is tested with a mock-up masonry construction experiment, the result of which is reported in this paper, along with discussion for future improvement and application opportunities within the context of highly developed, condensed Japanese urban environments. A greater objective of this paper is to bridge current studies in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and digital fabrication in architecture and promote the potentials of human workers in future construction scenes.
keywords	digital fabrication; human-computer interaction; 3d positioning; wearable robotics; guided construction
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ijac201816304
id	ijac201816304
authors	Miao, Yufan; Reinhard Koenig, Katja Knecht, Kateryna Konieva, Peter Buš and Mei-Chih Chang
year	2018
title	Computational urban design prototyping: Interactive planning synthesis methods—a case study in Cape Town
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 16 - no. 3, 212-226
summary	This article is motivated by the fact that in Cape Town, South Africa, approximately 7.5 million people live in informal settlements and focuses on potential upgrading strategies for such sites. To this end, we developed a computational method for rapid urban design prototyping. The corresponding planning tool generates urban layouts including street network, blocks, parcels and buildings based on an urban designer’s specific requirements. It can be used to scale and replicate a developed urban planning concept to fit different sites. To facilitate the layout generation process computationally, we developed a new data structure to represent street networks, land parcellation, and the relationship between the two. We also introduced a nested parcellation strategy to reduce the number of irregular shapes generated due to algorithmic limitations. Network analysis methods are applied to control the distribution of buildings in the communities so that preferred neighborhood relationships can be considered in the design process. Finally, we demonstrate how to compare designs based on various urban analysis measures and discuss the limitations that arise when we apply our method in practice, especially when dealing with more complex urban design scenarios.
keywords	Procedural modeling, spatial synthesis, generative design, urban planning
series	journal
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