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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_210
id	ecaadesigradi2019_210
authors	Castriotto, Caio, Giantini, Guilherme and Celani, Gabriela
year	2019
title	Biomimetic Reciprocal Frames - A design investigation on bird's nests and spatial structures
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.613
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. 613-620
summary	Reciprocal Frame (RF) is a constructive system typically applied with timber, since it is composed by discrete elements with short dimensions. It allows the construction of large spans and complex geometries. This kind of structure has been addressed by recent research projects that aim to produce it using computational tools and digital fabrication techniques. Moreover, the enhancement of these technologies enabled the integration of simulations of biological processes into the design process as a way to obtain better and optimal results, which is known as Biomimetics. This paper describes the development of a spatial structure that combines the principles of RF and the assembly process of natural agents, such as birds, in a digital environment. The tools used for the generation of the structure were Rhinoceros, Grasshopper and different add-ons, such as Culebra, Kangaroo, Pufferfish and Weaverbird.
keywords	Biomimetics; Reciprocal Frame; Nexorade; Computational Design; Agent-Based System
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	acadia19_140
id	acadia19_140
authors	Dambrosio, Niccol?; Zechmeister, Christoph; Bodea, Serban; Koslowski, Valentin; Gil-Pérez, Marta; Rongen, Bas
year	2019
title	Buga Fibre Pavilion
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.140
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. 140-149
summary	This research showcases the integrated design process and development of an ultra-light-weight, composite dome structure as a case study for the investigation of high-performance, long-span, fibre-reinforced-polymer (FRP) based building systems. Particular emphasis is given to the exploration of design strategies and the exposure of multidirectional flows of information across different fields under the premise of going beyond preliminary investigations on a demonstrator level, towards full scale architectural applications. Building upon previous research in the realm of lightweight fiber composites conducted at the University of Stuttgart, novel design strategies and fabrication methods are discussed. Based on the design and development of the Buga Fibre Pavilion for the Heilbronn Bundesgartenschau 2019, previously prototypically tested processes are further developed and implemented at a larger scale which attempt to reduce the necessary formwork to a minimum while achieving a flexible and scalable building system.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	ijac201917404
id	ijac201917404
authors	Erdolu, Emek
year	2019
title	Lines, triangles, and nets: A framework for designing input technologies and interaction techniques for computer-aided design
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 17 - no. 4, 357-381
summary	This article serves to the larger quest for increasing our capacities as designers, researchers, and scholars in understanding and developing human-computer interaction in computer-aided design. The central question is on how to ground the related research work in input technologies and interaction techniques for computer-aided design applications, which primarily focus on technology and implementation, within the actual territories of computer-aided design processes. To discuss that, the article first reviews a collection of research studies and projects that present input technologies and interaction techniques developed as alternative or complimentary to the mouse as used in computer-aided design applications. Based on the mode of interaction, these studies and projects are traced in four categories: hand-mediated systems that involve gesture- and touch-based techniques, multimodal systems that combine various ways of interaction including speech-based techniques, experimental systems such as brain-computer interaction and emotive-based techniques, and explorations in virtual reality- and augmented reality-based systems. The article then critically examines the limitations of these alternative systems related to the ways they have been envisioned, designed, and situated in studies as well as of the two existing research bases in human-computer interaction in which these studies could potentially be grounded and improved. The substance of examination is what is conceptualized as “frameworks of thought”—on variables and interrelations as elements of consideration within these efforts. Building upon the existing frameworks of thought, the final part discusses an alternative as a vehicle for incorporating layers of the material cultures of computer-aided design in designing, analyzing, and evaluating computer-aided design-geared input technologies and interaction techniques. The alternative framework offers the potential to help generate richer questions, considerations, and avenues of investigation.
keywords	Computer-aided design (CAD), human-computer interaction (HCI), input technologies and interaction techniques, material culture of computer-aided design (CAD), architectural design, engineering design, computational design
series	journal
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_id	caadria2019_602
id	caadria2019_602
authors	Freitas, JosÃ© and LeitÃ£o, AntÃ³nio
year	2019
title	Back to Reality - Dendritic structures using current construction techniques
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1.173
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. 173-182
summary	Architects throughout time have designed tree-inspired structures, not only to decorate their creations, but also to explore biomimicry to solve mechanical and structural problems. With the predominance of digital simulation tools, these dendritic-shaped structures are now more easily explored. However, these explorations tend to lack the rationalization required to make them applicable to current production means. In this paper, we take a step back and ensure the connection between the creation and the production of the designs generated with these new digital approaches. The present investigation combines design and analysis tools in search for tree-inspired structures that take advantage of the current techniques of building construction.
keywords	Biomimicry; Dendritic structures; Algorithmic design; Performative architecture; Structural analysis
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_239
id	ecaadesigradi2019_239
authors	Garrido, Federico and Meyer, Joost
year	2019
title	Dexterity-controlled Design Procedures
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.659
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. 659-668
summary	This paper explores the development of design procedures in relationship to their digital proceedings, in order to interface human movement and parametric design procedures. The research studied the use of Leap Motion controller, a gesture recognition device using infrared sensors combined with time-based generative tools in Rhinoceros Grasshopper. A physical, artistic procedure was used as a reference to model a digital design procedure, including a series of parametric definitions combined with them in an attempt to produce complex three-dimensional designs in real time. In a later stage of this research, a modular, open source, digitizing arm was developed to capture hand movement and interact with an autonomous parametric definition, augmenting even more the range of applications of dexterity-based digital design. The challenge of this experimental investigation lies in the negotiation of the designer's needs for a complex yet open design process and the possibilities of defined soft- and hardware solutions.
keywords	digital design; dexterity; parametric design; motion detection
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_273
id	ecaadesigradi2019_273
authors	Hadighi, Mahyar and Duarte, Jose
year	2019
title	Using Grammars to Trace Architectural Hybridity in American Modernism - The case of William Hajjar single-family house
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.529
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. 529-540
summary	In this paper, mid-century modern single-family houses designed by William Hajjar are analyzed through a shape grammar methodology within the context of the traditional architecture of an American college town. A member of the architecture faculty at the Pennsylvania State University, Hajjar was a practitioner in State College, PA, where the University Park campus is located, and an influential figure in the history of architecture in the area. The residential architecture he designed for and built in the area incorporates many of the formal and functional features typical of both modern European architecture and traditional American architecture. Based on a computational methodology, this study offers an investigation into this hybridity phenomenon by exploring Hajjar's architecture in relation to the traditional American architecture prevalent in the college town of State College.
keywords	shape grammar; American architecture; William Hajjar; hybridity; college town
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	ecaade2024_4
id	ecaade2024_4
authors	Irodotou, Louiza; Gkatzogiannis, Stefanos; Phocas, Marios C.; Tryfonos, George; Christoforou, Eftychios G.
year	2024
title	Application of a Vertical Effective Crank–Slider Approach in Reconfigurable Buildings through Computer-Aided Algorithmic Modelling
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2024.1.421
source	Kontovourkis, O, Phocas, MC and Wurzer, G (eds.), Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2024), Nicosia, 11-13 September 2024, Volume 1, pp. 421–430
summary	Elementary robotics mechanisms based on the effective crank–slider and four–bar kinematics methods have been applied in the past to develop architectural concepts of reconfigurable structures of planar rigid-bar linkages (Phocas et al., 2020; Phocas et al., 2019). The applications referred to planar structural systems interconnected in parallel to provide reconfigurable buildings with rectangular plan section. In enabling structural reconfigurability attributes within the spatial circular section buildings domain, a vertical setup of the basic crank–slider mechanism is proposed in the current paper. The kinematics mechanism is integrated on a column placed at the middle of an axisymmetric circular shaped spatial linkage structure. The definition of target case shapes of the structure is based on a series of numerical geometric analyses that consider certain architectural and construction criteria (i.e., number of structural members, length, system height, span, erectability etc.), as well as structural objectives (i.e., structural behavior improvement against predominant environmental actions) aiming to meet diverse operational requirements and lightweight construction. Computer-aided algorithmic modelling is used to analyze the system's kinematics, in order to provide a solid foundation and enable rapid adaptation for mechanisms that exhibit controlled reconfigurations. The analysis demonstrates the implementation of digital parametric design tools for the investigation of the kinematics of the system at a preliminary design stage, in avoiding thus time-demanding numerical analysis processes. The design process may further provide enhanced interdisciplinary performance-based design outcomes.
keywords	Reconfigurable Structures, Spatial Linkage Structures, Kinematics, Parametric Associative Design
series	eCAADe
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_id	cf2019_032
id	cf2019_032
authors	Khean, Nariddh; Alessandra Fabbri, David Gerber and M. Hank Haeusler
year	2019
title	Examining Potential Socio-economic Factors that Aﬀect Machine Learning Research in the AEC Industry
source	Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!" [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, p. 254
summary	Machine learning (ML) has increasingly dominated discussions about the shape of mankind’s future, permeating almost all facets of our digital, and even physical, world. Yet, contrary to the relentless march of almost all other industries, the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry have lagged behind in the uptake of ML for its own challenges. Through a systematic review of ML projects from a leading global engineering ﬁrm, this paper investigates social, political, economic, and cultural (SPEC) factors that have helped or hindered ML’s uptake. Further, the paper discusses how ML is perceived at various points in the economic hierarchy, how eﬀective forms of communication is vital in a highly-specialized workforce, and how ML’s unexpected eﬀectiveness have forced policy makers to reassess data governance and privacy; all the while considering what this means for the adoption of ML in the AEC industry. This investigation, its methodology, background research, systematic review, and its conclusion are presented.
keywords	Machine learning · Artiﬁcial intelligence · Research and development · Architecture, engineering, and construction industry · Social factors · Political factors · Economic factors · Cultural factors
series	CAAD Futures
type	normal paper
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last changed	2019/07/29 14:17

_id	ecaadesigradi2019_412
id	ecaadesigradi2019_412
authors	Leit?o de Souza, Thiago, Fialho, Valéria, Bicalho, Giovany, Schelk, Vinicius and Mendes, Isabella
year	2019
title	An Immersive 360° Experience in Rio de Janeiro in the Late 19th Century - The panorama of Victor Meirelles and Henri Langerock
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.3.107
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. 107-114
summary	This essay is related to the research project "The immersive experience in 360°: investigation, representation and digital immersion in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th and 20th centuries", developed at PROURB in FAU-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. This work will investigate the Panorama of Rio de Janeiro looking for memories and historical truths in its context: Which part represents a historical point of view? Which part is invention? How were the city and its landscape represented on the canvas? As the most well-known Rio de Janeiro's panorama, which project was idealized by the Brazilian painter Victor Meirelles de Lima (1832-1903) and the Belgian photo-painter Henri Charles Langerock (1830-1915), it was exhibited in Brussels 1888, Paris 1889, and Rio de Janeiro 1891-1896, with great recognition in all these cities. This paper will explore this Panorama, its initial studies, its landscape and the architecture depicted, newspapers descriptions of its exhibitions, and mainly, distinguishing among memories, historical truths and verisimilitudes. In order to achieve these objectives, digital and analogical systems of representations, sketches and computer graphics techniques, specially, tridimensional models will be developed and applied.
keywords	Panorama of Rio de Janeiro; Immersive experience in 360°; Geolocation; Virtual Reality; Digital Technologies; Cultural Heritage
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	cf2019_010
id	cf2019_010
authors	Lorenz, Clara-Larissa; Bleil De Souza, Spaeth and Packianather
year	2019
title	Machine Learning in Design Exploration: An Investigation of the Sensitivities of ANN-based Daylight Predictions
source	Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!" [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, pp. 75-87
summary	The use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) promises greater efficiency in the assessment of daylight situations than simulations. With the daylight factor under scrutiny and the recent adaptation of climate-based daylight metrics in British and European buildings standards, ANNs provide a possibility for instantaneous feedback on otherwise time-consuming performance metrices. This study demonstrates the application of ANNs as prediction systems in design exploration. A specific focus of the research is the flexibility of ANNs, their reliability and sensitivity to changes.
keywords	Artificial neural networks, atria, climate-based daylight modeling, daylight autonomy, daylight performance, parametric design
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2019/07/29 14:08

_id	caadria2019_000
id	caadria2019_000
authors	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.)
year	2019
title	CAADRIA 2019: Intelligent & Informed, Volume 1
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1
source	Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, 830 p.
summary	The territories of computational design are ever-changing and represent a substantial region that remains uncharted; one with expanding and permeable boundaries that continue to be fully breached. This ocean of opportunity implores researchers to embark on ambitious journeys of exploration. Undulating and temporal, computational design needs research that engages explicitly with the innovative, intelligent and informed exploitation of computational design, and with the array of computational technologies that the discipline may engage with. Human intelligence and creativity deliver the hegemonic direction for the field of computer-mediated architectural design research; an area where the computational component is a core aspect of the investigation. The actors in this are both witness to, and instigators of, the exciting, consequent, well-founded research that continues to deliver new knowledge, insights and information. This, then, explains the specific overarching theme of the conference: ‘Intelligent and Informed’. The scope of this theme is driven by the intention to take in aspects of machine intelligence, and a wide range of potential research that engages with the intelligent exploitation of computer-mediated techniques in Architecture.
series	CAADRIA
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	caadria2019_001
id	caadria2019_001
authors	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.)
year	2019
title	CAADRIA 2019: Intelligent & Informed, Volume 2
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2
source	Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, 830 p.
summary	The territories of computational design are ever-changing and represent a substantial region that remains uncharted; one with expanding and permeable boundaries that continue to be fully breached. This ocean of opportunity implores researchers to embark on ambitious journeys of exploration. Undulating and temporal, computational design needs research that engages explicitly with the innovative, intelligent and informed exploitation of computational design, and with the array of computational technologies that the discipline may engage with. Human intelligence and creativity deliver the hegemonic direction for the field of computer-mediated architectural design research; an area where the computational component is a core aspect of the investigation. The actors in this are both witness to, and instigators of, the exciting, consequent, well-founded research that continues to deliver new knowledge, insights and information. This, then, explains the specific overarching theme of the conference: ‘Intelligent and Informed’. The scope of this theme is driven by the intention to take in aspects of machine intelligence, and a wide range of potential research that engages with the intelligent exploitation of computer-mediated techniques in Architecture.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2022_74
id	caadria2022_74
authors	Mazza, Domenico, Kocaturk, Tuba and Kaljevic, Sofija
year	2022
title	Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) - Photogrammetry as the Surface for a Portable Museum
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.677
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 677-686
summary	This paper presents the development and evaluation of the Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM) prototype accessible at https://gdom.mindlab.cloud. GDOM is a portable museum‚our novel adaptation of the distributed museum model (Stuedahl & Lowe, 2013) which uses mobile devices to present museum collections attached to physical sites. Our prototype defines a way for intangible heritage associated with tangible landscapes to be accessible via personal digital devices using 360 3D scanned digital replicas of physical landscapes (photogrammetric digital models). Our work aligns with efforts set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) to safeguard cultural and natural heritage, by openly disseminating the heritage of physical sites seamlessly through the landscape. Using a research by design methodology we delivered our prototype as a modular web-based platform that leveraged the Matterport digital model platform. We qualitatively evaluated the prototype's usability and future development opportunities with 32 front-end users and 13 potential stakeholders. We received a wide gamut of responses that included: users feeling empowered by the greater accessibility, users finding a welcome common ground with comparable physical experiences, and users and potential stakeholders seeing the potential to re-create physical world experiences with modifications to the digital model along with on-site activation. Our potential stakeholders suggested ways in which GDOM could be integrated into the arts, education, and tourism to widen its utility and applicability. In future we see design potential in breaking out of the static presentation of the digital model and expanding our portable museum experience to work on-site as a complement to the remote experience. However, we recognise the way in which on-site activation integrate into users' typical activities can be tangential (McGookin et al., 2019) and this would necessitate further investigation into how to best integrate the experience on-site.
keywords	Cultural Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Digital Heritage, Web Platform, 3D Scanning, Photogrammetry, Digital model, Portable Museum, Distributed Museum, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia19_470
id	acadia19_470
authors	Meyboom, AnnaLisa; Correa, David; Krieg, Oliver David
year	2019
title	Stressed Skin Wood Surface Structure
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.470
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. 470-477
summary	Innovation in parametric design and robotic fabrication is in reciprocal relationship with the investigation of new structural types that facilitated by this technology. The stressed skin structure has historically been used to create lightweight curved structures, mainly in engineering applications such as naval vessels, aircraft, and space shuttles. Stressed skin structures were first referred to by Fairbairn in 1849. In England, the first use of the structure was in the Mosquito night bomber of World War II. In the United States, stressed skin structures were used at the same time, when the Wright Patterson Air Force Base designed and fabricated the Vultee BT-15 fuselage using fiberglass-reinforced polyester as the face material and both glass-fabric honeycomb and balsa wood core. With the renewed interest in wood as a structural building material, due to its sustainable characteristics, new potentials for the use of stressed skin structures made from wood on building scales are emerging. The authors present a material informed system that is characterized by its adaptability to freeform curvature on exterior surfaces. A stressed skin system can employ thinner materials that can be bent in their elastic bending range and then fixed into place, leading to the ability to be architecturally malleable, structurally highly efficient, as well as easily buildable. The interstitial space can also be used for services. Advanced digital fabrication and robotic manufacturing methods further enhance this capability by enabling precisely fabricated tolerances and embedded assembly instructions; these are essential to fabricate complex, multi-component forms. Through a prototypical installation, the authors demonstrate and discuss the technology of the stressed skin structure in wood considering current digital design and fabrication technologies.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	acadia19_606
id	acadia19_606
authors	Russo, Rhett
year	2019
title	Lithophanic Dunes: The Dunejars
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.606
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. 606-615
summary	The design of masonry, tile, and ceramics is an integral part of architectural history. High fired clays are unique in that they are amorphous, vitreous, and translucent. Similar types of light transmission through minerals and clays has been achieved in window panes using alabaster or marble, but unlike porcelain these cannot be cast, and they are susceptible to moisture. Additionally, glass and metal are commonly used to glaze ceramics, and this provides further possibility for the combination of translucency with surface ornamentation and decaling. It is within this architectural lineage, of compound stone and glass objects, that the Dunejars are situated. The Dunejars are translucent porcelain vessels that are designed as lenses to transmit different wavelengths of light into intricate and unexpected patterns. Similar recipes for porcelain were developed using wax positives during the 19th century to manufacture domestic Lithophanes; picturesque screens made of translucent porcelain, often displayed in windows or produced as candle shades (Maust 1966). The focus of the research involves pinpointing the lithophanic qualities of the clay so that they can be repeated by recipe, and refined through a digital workflow. The methods outlined here are the product of an interdisciplinary project residency at The European Ceramic Workcenter (Sundaymorning@EKWC) in 2018 to make tests, and obtain technical precision in the areas of, plaster mold design, slip-casting, finishing, firing, and glazing of the Dunejars. The modular implementation of these features at the scale of architecture can be applied across a range of scales, including fixtures, finishes and envelopes, all of which merit further investigation.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_522
id	ecaadesigradi2019_522
authors	Shi, Ji, Cho, Yesul, Taylor, Meghan and Correa, David
year	2019
title	Guiding Instability - A craft-based approach for modular 3D clay printed masonry screen units
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.477
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. 477-484
summary	As the field of 3D printing technologies expand, complex materials that require a deeper engagement, due to their more unstable properties, are of increasing interest. Cementitious composites, clays and other ceramic materials are of particular relevance: their potential for fast large-scale fabrication and local availability position these technologies at the forefront of expansion for 3D printing. Despite the extensive benefits inherent to clays, their irregularities and the largely unpredictable deviations that occur when printing from a digital model, currently limit design and architectural-scale applications. However, these deformations could conversely be harnessed as design generators, opening up avenues for both aesthetic and functional exploration. The paper presents an investigation into the inherent material instabilities of the clay 3D printing process for the development of an architectural masonry facade system. Through an iterative process based in craft, a new capacity for material expression and authenticity beyond previous manufacturing capabilities can become actualized.
keywords	3D printing; digital craft; clay; material computation; uncertainty; hybrid fabrication
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
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_id	artificial_intellicence2019_117
id	artificial_intellicence2019_117
authors	Stanislas Chaillou
year	2020
title	ArchiGAN: Artificial Intelligence x Architecture
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_8
source	Architectural Intelligence Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022)
summary	AI will soon massively empower architects in their day-to-day practice. This article provides a proof of concept. The framework used here offers a springboard for discussion, inviting architects to start engaging with AI, and data scientists to consider Architecture as a field of investigation. In this article, we summarize a part of our thesis, submitted at Harvard in May 2019, where Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (or GANs) get leveraged to design floor plans and entire buildings .
series	Architectural Intelligence
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_id	caadria2019_422
id	caadria2019_422
authors	Wang, Xiao, Tang, Peng and Shi, Xing
year	2019
title	Analysis and Conservation Methods of Traditional Architecture and Settlement Based on Knowledge Discovery and Digital Generation - A Case Study of Gunanjie Street in China
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1.757
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. 757-766
summary	In the conservation plan of traditional architecture and settlement, the mismatch between design and construction is an inevitable problem. The mismatch commonly shows as the variations in the cognition of the traditionality of architecture feature. In most cases, the evaluation of historical feature is made based on designers' subjective perception, experience, and understanding of the traditional style. Also, without an appropriate guide and unified control, it could make the conservation plan less efficient in practice. Therefore, a quantitative method for conservation plan is needed, which is expected to be effective especially for massive non-key but traditional ordinary buildings. In this study on Gunanjie Street, in Yixing, China, a new method of feature analysis and generative design was developed to regenerate the district. The proposed method first adapted new data acquisition and processing techniques to gather information and build the database. Cognition investigation and morphology analysis were then implemented to quantify and evaluate the features of historical characteristics, as well as the knowledge discovery tools, were further used to abstract the rules of the traditional facade. With these phases, the proposed method was able to generate the referable design schemes quantitatively and establish generally accepted conservation plans and guidelines.
keywords	Traditional architecture and settlement; historical feature; Knowledge Discovery; digital generation; conservation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2019_611
id	caadria2019_611
authors	Yap, Sarah, Ha, Gloria and Muslimin, Rizal
year	2019
title	Space Semantics - An investigation into the numerical codification of space
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.431
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. 431-440
summary	"Space-Semantics" is a computational design proposition that interrogates how architectural spaces can be interpreted and codified within an adaptable semantic framework. The investigation seeks to view space through an alternate lens, abstracting architectural spaces into a set of numerical descriptions that can either be used to interpret the qualities of an existing space, or as a seed to generate a coherent network of spaces based on identified spatial patterns within a chosen site. The article comprises of two parts: a theoretical investigation into representing spaces through numerically expressed semantic descriptions and a case study in the form of a proposal for an underground metro station within an urban context.
keywords	space; semantics; grammar; code; generative
series	CAADRIA
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