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_id	ijac201917105
id	ijac201917105
authors	Agkathidis, Asterios; Yorgos Berdos and André Brown
year	2019
title	Active membranes: 3D printing of elastic fibre patterns on pre-stretched textiles
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 17 - no. 1, 74-87
summary	There has been a steady growth, over several decades, in the deployment of fabrics in architectural applications; both in terms of quantity and variety of application. More recently, three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing have added to the palette of technologies that designers in architecture and related disciplines can call upon. Here, we report on research that brings those two technologies together – the development of active membrane elements and structures. We show how these active membranes have been achieved by laminating three-dimensional printed elasto-plastic fibres onto pre-stretched textile membranes. We report on a set of experimentations involving one-, two- and multi-directional geometric arrangements that take TPU 95 and polypropylene filaments and apply them to Lycra textile sheets, to form active composite panels. The process involves a parameterised design, actualised through a fabrication process including stress-line simulation, fibre pattern three-dimensional printing and the lamination of embossed patterns onto a pre-stretched membrane; followed by the release of tension afterwards in order to allow controlled, self-generation of the final geometry. Our findings document the investigation into mapping between the initial two-dimensional geometries and their resulting three-dimensional doubly curved forms. We also reflect on the products of the resulting, partly serendipitous, design process.
keywords	Digital fabrication, three-dimensional printing, parametric design, material computation, fabrics
series	journal
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_619
id	ecaadesigradi2019_619
authors	Beyer, Bastian, Suárez, Daniel and Palz, Norbert
year	2019
title	Microbiologically Activated Knitted Composites - Reimagining a column for the 21st century
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.541
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 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 541-552
summary	A column is an archetypal constituent of architecture which historically underwent constant reiteration in accordance with the prevalent architectural style, material culture or technical and structural possibilities. The project reimagined this architectural element through harnessing the synergies of digital design, textile logic, and contemporary biotechnology. Textile materiality and aesthetic are deeply rooted in architectural history as a soft and ephemeral antipode to rigid building materials. An investigation in historic mechanical hand-knitting techniques allowed to extract their underlying structural and geometric logic to develop a structural optimisation pipeline with a graded yarn as a base material and a geometric optimization based on local distribution of knitting patterns. Bacterially driven biocalcification was applied to transform the soft textile structure into a rigid material. Hereby an active textile microbiome was established through colonizing of the yarn with the bacterium S. pasteurii which successively precipitated calcite on microscale within the textile substrate hence ultimately influencing the global structural behaviour of the column.
keywords	textile microbiome; material customization; knitting; yarn augmentation
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_521
id	ecaadesigradi2019_521
authors	Millentrup, Viktoria, Ramsgaard Thomsen, Mette and Nicholas, Paul
year	2019
title	Actuated Textile Hybrids - Textile smocking for designing dynamic force equilibria in membrane structures
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.521
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 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 521-530
summary	This paper introduces Actuated Textile Hybrids, and describes the steps needed to steer the form finding processes necessary for their production. The method presented employs an integration of an "activated" instead of a pre-stressed textile membrane to design different stages of force equilibrium within the Hybrid Structure, and to investigate the potentials of ever flexible shaping of tensile elements. The set-up for the Textile Hybrid consists of three main elements which are digitally and physically analysed in their inextricable interdependence in force, form and material. Together, the bending active beam (rod), the textile membrane and an applied pattern which actively shrinks surface areas of the membrane (activation), create the base for the form finding process.With advanced Finite Element Modelling software and the architects resulting ability to engineer responsive building-systems for a dynamic environment, it is essential to rethink the construction methods and the building-material of the classic building envelope. This is to not only develop a smartly engineered sustainable skin but also a boundary object which, due to its adaptation, develops the potential to interconnect with its surrounding to re-establish the relationships between nature, home and inhabitant.
keywords	Textile Hybrid; Kiwi3D; Form-Finding; Material Studies; Structural System; Membrane Structure
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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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	caadria2019_328
id	caadria2019_328
authors	Boychenko, Kristina
year	2019
title	Agency of Interactive Space in Social Relationship
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.381
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 381-390
summary	Embedded computation allows built space to be intelligent and get smarter, becoming interactive and gaining agency with ability not to merely adapt to changing conditions, but to process information and react, observe and learn, communicate and make decisions. The paper investigates agency of interactive space based on interpretation of input data, like users' response to the spatial agency, data from environment or other actors, and ability to change its performance accordingly. The research is focused on the role of interactive space as an active participant in social relationship communicating with users, constantly changing and having its' attitude. The research is aimed at defining social role of interactive environments and explains how they interact with users, what qualities are enabled by interactive behaviour and how do they influence space perception, revealing the significance of bi-directional communication between society and smart spaces. Interactive space does not just providing location for activities and facility for lifestyle, but influences these activities. Users and interactive space constitute one social network being constantly aware of each other establishing bi-directional communication.
keywords	interactive architecture; computation; programmable; design; social
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_249
id	ecaadesigradi2019_249
authors	Chiarella, Mauro, Gronda, Luciana and Veizaga, Martín
year	2019
title	RILAB - architectural envelopes - From spatial representation (generative algorithm) to geometric physical optimization (scientific modeling)
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.3.017
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. 17-24
summary	Augmented graphical thinking operates by integrating algorithmic, heuristic, and manufacturing processes. The Representation and Ideation Laboratory (RILAB-2018) exercise begins with the application of a parametric definition developed by the team of teachers, allowing for the construction of structural systems by the means of the combination of segmental shells and bending-active. The main objetive is the construction of a scientific model of simulation for bending-active laminar structures has brought into reality trustworthy previews for architectural envelopes through the interaction of parametrized relational variables. This way we put designers in a strategic role for the building of the pre-analysis models, allowing more preciseness at the time of picking and defining materials, shapes, spaces and technologies and thus minimizing the decisions based solely in the definition of structural typological categories, local tradition or direct experience. The results verify that the strategic integration of models of geometric physical optimization and spatial representation greatly expand the capabilities in the construction of the complex system that operates in the act of projecting architecture.
keywords	architectural envelopes; augmented graphic thinking; geometric optimization; bending-active
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	caadria2020_090
id	caadria2020_090
authors	Crolla, Kristof and Goepel, Garvin
year	2020
title	Designing with Uncertainty - Objectile vibrancy in the TOROO bamboo pavilion
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.507
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. 507-516
summary	This paper challenges digital preoccupations with precision and control and questions the status of tolerance, allowance and error in post-digital, human-centred architectural production. It uses the participatory action research design-and-build project TOROO, a light-weight bending-active bamboo shell structure, built in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in June 2019, as a demonstrator project to discuss how protean digital design diagrams, named 'vibrant objectiles,' are capable of productively absorbing serendipity throughout project crystallisation processes, increasing designer agency in challenging construction contexts with high degrees of unpredictability. The demonstrator project is then used to discuss future research directions that were exposed by the project. Finally, the applicability of working with 'vibrant objectiles' is discussed beyond its local project use. Common characteristics and requirements are extracted, highlighting project setup preconditions for which the scope covered by the architect needs to be both broadened and relaxed to allow for feedback from design implementation phases.
keywords	Post-digital; Bamboo; Bending-active shell structures; Uncertainty; Objectile
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2019_240
id	caadria2019_240
authors	Dorta, TomÃ¡s, Safin, StÃ©phane, BoudhraÃ¢, Sana and Beaudry Marchand, Emmanuel
year	2019
title	Co-Designing in Social VR - Process awareness and suitable representations to empower user participation
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.141
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 141-150
summary	To allow non-designers' involvement in design projects new methods are needed. Co-design gives the same opportunity to all the multidisciplinary participants to co-create ideas simultaneously. Nevertheless, current co-design processes involving such users tend to limit their contribution to the proposal of basic design ideas only through brainstorming. The co-design approach needs to be enhanced by a properly suited representational ecosystem supporting active participation and by conscious use of structured verbal exchanges giving awareness of the creative process. In this respect, we developed two social virtual reality co-design systems, and a co-design verbal exchange methodology to favour participants' awareness of the co-creative process. By using such representations and verbal exchanges, participants could co-create with more ease by benefiting from being informed of the process and from the collective immersion, empowering their participation. This paper presents the rationale behind this approach of using Social VR in co-design and the feedback of three co-design workshops.
keywords	Social VR; Project awareness ; Representational ecosystem; User participation; Co-design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_438
id	ecaadesigradi2019_438
authors	Iunes Salles Esteves, Paula, Carmo Pena Martinez, Andressa, Francisco da Matta Vegi, Lucas, Rodrigues Cardoso, Igor, Nacif Rocha, Mauro, dos Santos Ferreira, Ricardo and Mônaco dos Santos, Denise
year	2019
title	SEEstem - Wearable navigation device for people with visual impairments
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.681
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 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 681-690
summary	Visually impaired people represent a large amount of the Brazilian population. However, although a wide range of existing legislation ensures accessibility, most of the Brazilian public spaces are inadequate to accommodate disabled citizens. In this context, this paper presents a digital device, which combines the smartphone technologies with Arduino microcontrollers, for orientation and obstacle detection. We tested the minimum viable product and the first vest prototype through a user-centered usability test, which combines HCI assessments to other techniques, such as semi-structured interviews. As known, these wearable devices and mobile applications are in the center of the Internet of Things discussion. This study is expected to be an alternative for the urban mobility of visually impaired people, allowing them to have a more active and independent behavior in public spaces.
keywords	Assistive wearable devices; Visually impaired people; Accessibility; Human-computer interaction; Collaborative design.
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	acadia20_142p
id	acadia20_142p
authors	Kilian, Axel
year	2020
title	The Flexing Room
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume II: Projects [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95253-6]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by M. Yablonina, A. Marcus, S. Doyle, M. del Campo, V. Ago, B. Slocum. 142-147
summary	Robotics has been largely confined to the object category with fewer examples at the scale of buildings. Robotic buildings present unique challenges in communicating intent to the enclosed user. Precedent work in architectural robotics explored the performative dimension, the playful and interactive qualities, and the cognitive challenges of AI systems interacting with people in architecture. The Flexing Room robotic skeleton was installed at MIT at its full designed height for the first time and tested for two weeks in the summer of 2019. The approximately 13-foot-tall structure is comprised of 36 pneumatic actuators and an active bend fiberglass structure. The full height allowed for a wide range of postures the structure could take. Acoustic monitoring through Piezo pickup mics was added that allowed for basic rhythmic responses of the structure to people tapping or otherwise triggering the vibration sensors. Data streams were collected synchronously from Kinect skeleton tracking, piezo pickup mics, camera streams, and posture data. The emphasis in this test period was first to establish reliable hardware operations at full scale and second to record correlated data streams of the sensors installed in the structure together with the actuation triggers and the human poses of the inhabitant. The full-scale installation of hardware was successful and proved the feasibility of the structural and actuation approach previously tested on a one-level setup. The range of postures was increased and more transparent for the occupant. The perception of the structure as space was also improved as the system reached regular ceiling height and formed a clearer architectural scale enclosure. The ambition of communicating through architectural postures has not been achieved yet, but promising directions emerged from the test and data collection
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	acadia19_332
id	acadia19_332
authors	Koerner, Andreas
year	2019
title	Thermochromic Articulations
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.332
source	ACADIA 19:UBIQUITY AND AUTONOMY [Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-59179-7] (The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Austin, Texas 21-26 October, 2019) pp. 332- 337
summary	The ongoing research presented in this paper lies on the threshold between computational design and digital fabrication with a strong focus on emergent techniques for environmental design. The main hypothesis is, that with an increasing granularity of thermal comfort - observing a trend towards more heterogeneous indoor microclimates – new design challenges arise. Architectural fabrics will be required to communicate indoor climate conditions to the inhabitants, to maintain high levels of thermal comfort locally but specifically. This research investigates a novel generative design methodology, which links computational fluid dynamics simulations, robotic fabrication and material-inert performances. The resulting environmentally active panels respond to climatic conditions and by this communicate parameters of thermal comfort, such as temperature, airflow, and humidity, to the inhabitants. This paper presents a digital design workflow, a prototype for a thermochromic panel, and speculates on potential development. Communicating invisible parameters of thermal comfort to users is a crucial requirement when designing large continuous indoor volumes, when blurring the dichotomous duality of inside and outside and when designing highly porous architecture.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	acadia21_70
id	acadia21_70
authors	McAndrew, Claire; Jaschke, Clara; Retsin, Gilles; Saey, Kevin; Claypool, Mollie; Parissi, Danaë
year	2021
title	House Block
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2021.070
source	ACADIA 2021: Realignments: Toward Critical Computation [Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-986-08056-7]. Online and Global. 3-6 November 2021. edited by B. Bogosian, K. Dörfler, B. Farahi, J. Garcia del Castillo y López, J. Grant, V. Noel, S. Parascho, and J. Scott. 70-75.
summary	House Block was a temporary housing prototype in East London, UK from April to May 2021. The project constituted the most recent in a series of experiments developing Automated Architecture (AUAR) Labs’ discrete framework for housing production, one which repositions the architect as curator of a system and enables participants to engage with active agency. Recognizing that there is a knowledge gap to be addressed for this reconfiguration of practices to take form, this project centred on making automation and its potential for local communities tangible. This sits within broader calls advocating for a more material alignment of inclusive design with makers and 21st Century making in practice (see, for example, Luck 2018). House Block was designed and built using AUAR’s discrete housing system consisting of a kit of parts, known as Block Type A. Each block was CNC milled from a single sheet of plywood, assembled by hand, and then post-tensioned on site. Constructed from 270 identical blocks, there are no predefined geometric types or hierarchy between parts. The discrete enables an open-ended, adaptive system where each block can be used as a column, floor slab, wall, or stair—allowing for disconnection, reconfiguration, and reassembly (Retsin 2019). The democratisation of design and production that defines the discrete creates points for alternative value systems to enter, for critical realignments in architectural production.
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	caadria2021_445
id	caadria2021_445
authors	Noel, Vernelle A. A., Nikookar, Niloofar, Pye, Jamieson, Tran, Phuong 'Karen' and Laudeman, Sara
year	2021
title	The Infinite Line Active Bending Pavilion: Culture,Craft and Computation
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.351
source	A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 351-360
summary	Active bending projects today employ highly specialized, complex computer software and machines for design, simulation, and materialization. At times, these projects lack a sensitivity to cultures limited in high-tech infrastructures but rich in low-tech knowledges. Situated Computations is an approach to computational design that grounds it in the social world by acknowledging historical, cultural, and material contexts of design and making, as well as the social and political structures that drive them. In this article, we ask, how can a Situated Computations approach to contemporary active bending broaden the design space and uplift low-tech cultural practices? To answer this question, we design and build "The Infinite Line"- an active bending pavilion that draws on the history, material practices, and knowledges in design in the Trinidad Carnival - for the 2019 International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) exhibition in Barcelona, Spain. We conclude that Situated Computations provide an opportunity to integrate local knowledges, histories, design practices, and material behaviors as drivers in active bending approaches, so that structure, material practices, and cultural settings are considered concurrently.
keywords	Situated Computations; craft; wire-bending; active bending structures; Trinidad Carnival; dancing sculptures
series	CAADRIA
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_id	cf2019_064
id	cf2019_064
authors	Noronha Pinto de Oliveira E Sousa, Marcela and Maria Gabriela Caffarena Celani
year	2019
title	Towards Urban Densification Using Shape Grammar to Develop Components for Retrofitting Street Design
source	Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!" [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, p. 505
summary	Cities will have to become denser to accommodate expanding urban populations, creating a challenge for urban mobility. Existing urban infrastructure must be retrofitted to promote the use of collective and active modes of transportation. This article presents a prescriptive grammar, for retrofitting urban street design in the context of densification, based on patterns extracted from current guides and manuals. This prescriptive grammar is a crossover between concepts of shape grammar and pattern language, joining generative capabilities of geometric shape grammars with descriptive and prescriptive approaches commonly referred to as design patterns. An example is presented to illustrate its application.
keywords	Shape Grammar, Parametric Urbanism, Travel Behavior
series	CAAD Futures
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_529
id	ecaadesigradi2019_529
authors	Rezoug, Amina and Özkar, Mine
year	2019
title	When Residents Are Makers:Using Additive Manufacturing for Rehabilitating Modernist Housing Heritage
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.611
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 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 611-618
summary	French colonial authorities realized numerous Modernist housing projects in the city of Algiers in the 1950s. Residents, mostly of low-income local communities, have modified these buildings over time to fulfill updated needs in overpopulation. While the government relocated the residents of some complexes to new settlements and demolished the buildings, in some, residences continued to live in and adapt the physical properties of the dwellings for new generations. These residents are already active agents in housing rehabilitation. Their modifications are almost systemic and have a language, inspiring sustainable approaches that are alternative to complete abolishment of architectural heritage. The efforts of the residents can be organized and enhanced with digital fabrication and open source sharing platforms of the maker culture. In pursuit of a rehabilitation strategy to these sites, we formally analyze the dweller modifications and assess the residents' competencies in order to formulate a context-oriented resident-driven do-it-yourself support framework.
keywords	DIY; 3d printing; user empowerment; modernist housing heritage
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	lasg_whitepapers_2019_291
id	lasg_whitepapers_2019_291
authors	Sabin, Jenny
year	2019
title	Lumen
source	Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2019 [ISBN 978-1-988366-18-0] Riverside Architectural Press: Toronto, Canada 2019. pp.291 - 318
summary	This paper documents the computational design methods, digital fabrication strategies, and generative design process for [Lumen], winner of MoMA & MoMA PS1’s 2017 Young Architects Program. The project was installed in the courtyard at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, during the summer of 2017. Two lightweight 3D digitally knitted fabric canopy structures composed of responsive tubular and cellular components employ recycled textiles, photo-luminescent and solar active yarns that absorb and store UV energy, change color, and emit light. This environment offers spaces of respite, exchange, and engagement as a 150 x 75-foot misting system responds to visitors’ proximity, activating fabric stalactites that produce a refreshing micro-climate. Families of robotically prototyped and woven recycled spool chairs provide seating throughout the courtyard. The canopies are digitally fabricated with over 1,000,000 yards of high tech responsive yarn and are supported by three 40+ foot tensegrity towers and the surrounding matrix of courtyard walls. Material responses to sunlight as well as physical participation are integral parts of our exploratory approach to the 2017 YAP brief. The project is mathematically generated through form-finding simulations informed by the sun, site, materials, program, and the material morphology of knitted cellular components. Resisting a biomimetic approach, [Lumen] employs an analogic design process where complex material behavior and processes are integrated with personal engagement and diverse programs. The comprehensive installation was designed by Jenny Sabin Studio and fabricated by Shima Seiki WHOLEGARMENT, Jacobsson Carruthers, and Dazian with structural engineering by Arup and lighting by Focus Lighting.
keywords	living architecture systems group, organicism, intelligent systems, design methods, engineering and art, new media art, interactive art, dissipative systems, technology, cognition, responsiveness, biomaterials, artificial natures, 4DSOUND, materials, virtual projections,
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_464
id	ecaadesigradi2019_464
authors	Santiago, Pedro
year	2019
title	Evolutionary Optimization of Building Facade Form for Energy and Comfort in Urban Environment through BIM and Algorithmic Modeling - A case study in Porto, Portugal
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.153
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 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 153-160
summary	Consolidated urban areas usually present a challenge for the sustainable design decisions for the architect. The site, orientation and surrounding built environment compromise both passive and active systems, shortening the possible optimization measures available, leaving the designer with doubts as far as efficiency is concerned.BIM methodologies and visual programming languages have opened up a very wide range of design and analysis tools allowing the architect to make informed decisions based on data extracted from the models. Nonetheless it's optimization is through a slow process of trial and error, creating a significant limitation. This paper discusses the potentialities of the use of evolutionary algorithms to generate optimized solutions for facade solar orientation. A comparison between three different evolutionary algorithms aiming for solar radiation, inside average temperature allows to conclude the best result versus time consumed. Although under similar results the multi-objective EA represents the best compromise between time and final objective on the case study chosen for the paper. The interconnectivity in real time of BIM and algorithmic modeling softwares represents an advantage for time saving sustainable design decisions.
keywords	BIM; Evolutionary Optimization; Sustainable design
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_098
id	ecaadesigradi2019_098
authors	So?ez, Ludmila, Tosello, Maria Elena, San Martín, Esteban and Longoni, Agustín
year	2019
title	Interdisciplinary design guidelines of an interface-device for a more accessible urban space.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.775
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 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 775-784
summary	This work is part of the interdisciplinary research project "Mediations of augmented space: artifacts, interfaces and representations in artistic and design disciplines", based at the Computing and Design Center of the Facultad de Arquitectura, Dise?o y Urbanismo of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina), and directed by PhD. Arch. María Elena Tosello. The work, which was developed in the framework of a grant directed by MSc. Arch. Griselda Bertoni, proposes to reflect on certain limitations that may affect the experience of public space, and how, through the integration of artifacts, interfaces and augmented public spaces, a better appropriation, mobility and habitability of cities can be promoted for seniors. The work seeks to make a creative contribution so that older adults can exercise the right to mobility and feel active citizens of society.
keywords	design-driven innovation; augmented space; elderly; mobility
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_593
id	ecaadesigradi2019_593
authors	Vermillion, Joshua and de Salvatierra, Alberto
year	2019
title	Physical Computing, Prototyping, and Participatory Pedagogies - Make-a-thon as interdisciplinary catalyst for bottom-up social change
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.359
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 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 359-366
summary	This paper describes a recent make-a-thon event to engage architecture students with physical computing systems while working with engineering and entrepreneurship students. Focusing on the scale of the object or device, the pedagogical goals were to create a productive, transdisciplinary exchange--a pluralistic blend of design charrette, engineering hackathon, and entrepreneurial pitch competition. The Arduino platform and active learning methods were deployed in order to engage with a novice, diverse group of students, leading to outcomes that were responsive to the ever-shifting technological landscape and could be spun into future commercial ventures.
keywords	Physical Computing; Prototyping; Pedagogy
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	caadria2019_659
id	caadria2019_659
authors	Wang, Xiang, Guo, Zhe, Zhang, Xiao, Jin, Jinxi and Yuan, Philip F.
year	2019
title	Design, Analysis and Robotic Fabrication of a Bending-Active Shell Structure with Thin Sheets Based on Curved-Crease-Folding Technique
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1.063
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 63-72
summary	This paper shows a design and building application of an innovative structure concept which is developed by the authors. The long-span shell structure (8m10m2.5m) built with 1.5mm thin aluminum sheets demonstrates the possibility to apply bending-active structures with flexible thin sheet material in shell structures to enhance the global and local stiffness. The structure is mainly originated from the curved-crease-folding technique which enhances the structural stiffness by introducing curvature to the surfaces. The Y-shape structural elements define the basic geometrical rules and find its global double-curved geometry via the folding of the three lateral ribs. The full-scale prototype and its design and fabrication techniques show a design framework of the structure from its form-finding, surface optimization, robotic simulated fabrication to the final full-scale assembly. As a pioneer pavilion in a research workshop, students' design with diverse forms also show the widely possible application of this structural concept.
keywords	shell structure; thin aluminum sheets; bending-active; robotic creased-folding
series	CAADRIA
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