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_id	ecaade2020_047
id	ecaade2020_047
authors	Brown, Lachlan, Yip, Michael, Gardner, Nicole, Haeusler, M. Hank, Khean, Nariddh, Zavoleas, Yannis and Ramos, Cristina
year	2020
title	Drawing Recognition - Integrating Machine Learning Systems into Architectural Design Workflows
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 289-298
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.289
summary	Machine Learning (ML) has valuable applications that are yet to be proliferated in the AEC industry. Yet, ML offers arguably significant new ways to produce and assist design. However, ML tools are too often out of the reach of designers, severely limiting opportunities to improve the methods by which designers design. To address this and to optimise the practices of designers, the research aims to create a ML tool that can be integrated into architectural design workflows. Thus, this research investigates how ML can be used to universally move BIM data across various design platforms through the development of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for the recognition and labelling of rooms within floor plan images of multi-residential apartments. The effects of this computation and thinking shift will have meaningful impacts on future practices enveloping all major aspects of our built environment from designing, to construction to management.
keywords	machine learning; convolutional neural networks; labelling and classification; design recognition
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2020_051
id	caadria2020_051
authors	Homolja, Mitra, Maghool, Sayyed Amir Hossain and Schnabel, Marc Aurel
year	2020
title	The Impact of Moving through the Built Environment on Emotional and Neurophysiological State - A Systematic Literature Review
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 1, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 641-650
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.1.641
summary	Despite theoretical evidence about the capabilities of visual properties of space for manipulating inhabitants' emotions, a gap in knowledge exists for empirical studies in controlled environments. Interdisciplinary studies at the intersection of architecture, psychology, and neuroscience can provide robust guidelines and criteria for designers to engineer emotions. Due to the novelty of the field, the theoretical framework for such studies is not well established. Consequently, this paper presents a systematic literature review to find and synthesize recent relevant studies at this intersection. Based on these findings, we will investigate the impact of other visuo-spatial stimuli on emotions in a rigorous way. According to the theories of emotions, manipulation of emotions is linked to oscillations in physiological responses caused by exposure to sensory stimuli. Moreover, there is a consensus that human perception is action-oriented. Therefore, our review focuses on studies that employ biosensors as subjects move in physical or virtual environments.
keywords	Neuroarchitecture; Brain Body Sensors; Virtual Reality; Physiological Response; Emotional Response
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2020_036
id	ecaade2020_036
authors	Kamari, Aliakbar and Kirkegaard, Poul Henning
year	2020
title	Holistic Building Design - An integrated building design methodology based on systems thinking for reaching sustainability
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 505-514
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.505
summary	This paper introduces a new perspective on methodological requirements in building design related to questions of sustainability, where stakeholders ought to look at design in an integrated way when economy, society, and technical components are embedded in an ecological holistic perspective. To bind these different aspects together and face complexity, while the goal is to reach sustainability, Holistic Building Design (HBD) is drawn on existing concepts of systems thinking (ST), integrated design processes (IDP), and application of innovative technologies through building information modeling (BIM). The main aim of this approach is to involve deeper in all aspects of sustainable building design. The methodology is introduced and empirically practiced in a master's level course, and a general overview besides the first results of this on-going process are presented in this paper. It is observed that the HBD framework could significantly influence the understanding of the design process and enhancing it by iterative decision-making and turning the focus on the early design stage.
keywords	Sustainability; Systems thinking; Integrated Design Process; Building Information Modeling; Holistic Building Design; Complexity
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2020_511
id	ecaade2020_511
authors	Maierhofer, Mathias, Ulber, Marie, Mahall, Mona, Serbest, Asli and Menges, Achim
year	2020
title	Designing (for) Change - Towards adaptivity-specific architectural design for situational open Environments
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 575-584
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.575
summary	The introduction of cybernetic principles to the architectural discourse some 50 years ago stimulated a new notion of buildings as dynamic and under-specified systems. Although their traditional conception as static and deterministic objects has remained predominant to this day, concepts for adaptive architecture capable of interacting with their surroundings and occupants have gained renewed attention in recent decades. However, investigations so far have largely concentrated on small-scale applications or individual adaptation strategies. The notion of situational open Environments, as argued in this paper, provides a framework through which adaptivity can be conceived and explored more holistically as well as on an inhabitable scale. Environments reject deterministic design and adaptation solutions and hence call for integrative and interactive design strategies that not only allow for the exploration of particularly adaptable (i.e. underspecified) architectural morphologies, but also for the communication and negotiation during their further development beyond deployment. In respect thereof, this paper discusses the potentials and implications of computational (design) strategies, meaning the agencies of buildings, designers, residents, and surroundings. The presented research originates from the author's involvement in an interdisciplinary research project centered around the development of an adaptive high-rise building that incorporates various adaptation strategies.
keywords	Adaptive Architecture; Architectural Environment; Computational Design; Agent-based Modeling; Architecture Theory; Cybernetics
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia20_130p
id	acadia20_130p
authors	Swingle, Tyler; Zampini, Davide; Clifford, Brandon
year	2020
title	Patty & Jan
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. 130-135
summary	The construction of architecture relies on an orchestra of moving parts and components throughout the process. These components are designed for the primary loads of the ultimate resting positions, but must also accommodate for secondary loads that occur during the assembly process. Safety, budget, and timing are the most influential factors in conducting the orchestra of architectural construction and typically set the tempo. Patty & Jan explore the curious and playful possibilities of secondary loads such as movement, momentum, and impact. This impractical assembly is not intended to negate practical considerations, but to elevate the field of construction above problem-solving. Patty & Jan builds upon previous research into moving massive masonry elements with little energy by controlling the center of mass (CoM) via physical computation and innovative concrete technologies such as proprietary chemical admixtures and special lightweight additions to entrain air as well as impart high fluidity. The resulting densities of the two concrete mixtures range from one-third the density to double the density of conventional concrete. Patty & Jan contributes to this ongoing research by incorporating the fourth dimension into the assembly process. Patty & Jan are a partnership. They have a reciprocal relationship with one another that ensures one cannot assemble without the other. Beginning with Patty and Jan at a pre-determined distance apart, a weighted tool is removed from Patty to alter the CoM and create a righting moment. Rotating along the riding surface, Patty over rotates to collide with Jan and strikes a resounding echo. The controlled impact triggers Jan first to rotate backward, rebound off its braking surface, and then counter-rotate towards Patty. The two meet along their assembly surfaces in the middle and slip effortlessly into their final assembled position. The resulting performance of Patty & Jan is an embedded intelligence of a theatrical assembly between two massive concrete masonry units (MCMU) through their momentum. Patty & Jan demonstrate the ability to predict the inherent movements and autonomous assemblies of MCMUs. It extends the potential of assembly methods to be social generators such as spectacles or performances. This research is a foundation for thinking about more extensive and more complex construction choreographies that engage material as well as human bodies in the building of architecture.
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	ijac202018205
id	ijac202018205
authors	Ahlquist, Sean
year	2020
title	Negotiating human engagement and the fixity of computational design: Toward a performative design space for the differently-abled bodymind
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 2, 174-193
summary	Computational design affords agency: the ability to orchestrate the material, spatial, and technical architectural system. In this specific case, it occurs through enhanced, authored means to facilitate making and performance—typically driven by concerns of structural optimization, material use, and responsivity to environmental factors—of an atmospheric rather than social nature. At issue is the positioning of this particular manner of agency solely with the architect auteur. This abruptly halts—at the moment in which fabrication commences—the ability to amend, redefine, or newly introduce fundamentally transformational constituents and their interrelationships and, most importantly, to explore the possibility for extraordinary outcomes. When the architecture becomes a functional, social, and cultural entity, in the hands of the idealized abled-bodied user, agency—especially for one of an otherly body or mind—is long gone. Even an empathetic auteur may not be able to access the motivations of the differently-abled body and neuro- divergent mind, effectively locking the constraints of the design process, which creates an exclusionary system to those beyond the purview of said auteur. It can therefore be deduced that the mechanisms or authors of a conventional computational design process cannot eradicate the exclusionary reality of an architectural system. Agency is critical, yet a more expansive terminology for agent and agency is needed. The burden to conceive of capacities that will always be highly temporal, social, unpredictable, and purposefully unknown must be shifted far from the scope of the traditional directors of the architectural system. Agency, and who it is conferred upon, must function in a manner that dissolves the distinctions between the design, the action of designing, the author of design, and those subjected to it.
keywords	Adaptive environments, neurodiversity, inclusion, systems thinking, computational design, disability theory, material systems, design agency
series	journal
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last changed	2020/11/02 13:34

_id	caadria2020_046
id	caadria2020_046
authors	Alva, Pradeep, Lee, Han Jie, Lin, Zhuoli, Mehta, Palak, Chen, Jielin and Janssen, Patrick
year	2020
title	Geo-computation for District Planning - An Agile Automated Modelling Approach
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 1, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 793-802
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.1.793
summary	This paper focuses on developing a novel geo-computational methodology for automating the generation of design options for district planning. The knowledge contribution focuses on the ability of the planners and designers to interact with and override the automated process. This approach is referred to as "agile automated modelling". The approach is demonstrated through a case study in which three adjacent districts are generated with a total area of approximately 1300 hectares. An automated modelling process is implemented based on a set of core planning principles established by the planners. The automated process generates street networks, land parcels, and 3-dimensional urban models. The process is broken down into three steps and users are then able to intervene at the end of every step to override and modify the outputs. This aims to help planners and designers to iteratively generate and assess various planning outcomes.
keywords	Geo-computation; procedural modelling; GIS; planning automation; neural network
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2020_133
id	ecaade2020_133
authors	Andrade Zandavali, Barbara, Paul Anderson, Joshua and Patel, Chetan
year	2020
title	Embodied Learning through Fabrication Aware Design
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 145-154
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.145
summary	The contemporary culture of geometry-driven design stands as consequence of an institutionalised segregation between the fields of architecture, structure and construction. In turn, digital design methods that are both material and fabrication aware from the outset create space for uncertainty and the potential for embodied learning. Following this principle, this paper summarises the outcomes of a workshop developed to investigate the contribution of fabrication aware design methods in the production of a masonry block using both analogue and digital manufacturing. Students were to develop and investigate a design, through assembly techniques and configurations orientated around manual hot wire cutting, robotic tooling and three-dimensional printing. Outcomes were manufactured and compared regarding work precision, production time, material efficiency, cost and scalability. The analysis indicated that the most accurate results yielded from the robotic tooling system, and simultaneously exhibited the most efficient use of time, while the three-dimensional printer generated the least material waste, due to the nature of additive production. Fabrication aware design and comparative analysis enabled students to make more informed decisions while the use of rapid prototyping facilitated a relationship between digitalization and materiality allowing for a space in which uncertainty and reflection could be fostered. Reinforcing that fabrication aware design methods can unify the field and provide guidance to designers over multi-lateral aspects of a project.
keywords	Fabrication-Aware Design; Rapid Prototyping; Embodiment
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2020_60
id	sigradi2020_60
authors	Asmar, Karen El; Sareen, Harpreet
year	2020
title	Machinic Interpolations: A GAN Pipeline for Integrating Lateral Thinking in Computational Tools of Architecture
source	SIGraDi 2020 [Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Online Conference 18 - 20 November 2020, pp. 60-66
summary	In this paper, we discuss a new tool pipeline that aims to re-integrate lateral thinking strategies in computational tools of architecture. We present a 4-step AI-driven pipeline, based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), that draws from the ability to access the latent space of a machine and use this space as a digital design environment. We demonstrate examples of navigating in this space using vector arithmetic and interpolations as a method to generate a series of images that are then translated to 3D voxel structures. Through a gallery of forms, we show how this series of techniques could result in unexpected spaces and outputs beyond what could be produced by human capability alone.
keywords	Latent space, GANs, Lateral thinking, Computational tools, Artificial intelligence
series	SIGraDi
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_id	ecaade2022_16
id	ecaade2022_16
authors	Bailey, Grayson, Kammler, Olaf, Weiser, Rene, Fuchkina, Ekaterina and Schneider, Sven
year	2022
title	Performing Immersive Virtual Environment User Studies with VREVAL
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 437–446
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.437
summary	The new construction that is projected to take place between 2020 and 2040 plays a critical role in embodied carbon emissions. The change in material selection is inversely proportional to the budget as the project progresses. Given the fact that early-stage design processes often do not include environmental performance metrics, there is an opportunity to investigate a toolset that enables early-stage design processes to integrate this type of analysis into the preferred workflow of concept designers. The value here is that early-stage environmental feedback can inform the crucial decisions that are made in the beginning, giving a greater chance for a building with better environmental performance in terms of its life cycle. This paper presents the development of a tool called LearnCarbon, as a plugin of Rhino3d, used to educate architects and engineers in the early stages about the environmental impact of their design. It facilitates two neural networks trained with the Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study by Carbon Leadership Forum, which learns the relationship between building geometry, typology, and construction type with the Global Warming potential (GWP) in tons of C02 equivalent (tCO2e). The first one, a regression model, can predict the GWP based on the massing model of a building, along with information about typology and location. The second one, a classification model, predicts the construction type given a massing model and target GWP. LearnCarbon can help improve the building life cycle impact significantly through early predictions of the structure’s material and can be used as a tool for facilitating sustainable discussions between the architect and the client.
keywords	Pre-Occupancy Evaluation, Immersive Virtual Environment, Wayfinding, User Centered Design, Architectural Study Design
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2020_418
id	ecaade2020_418
authors	Barczik, Günter and Königstein, Gesa
year	2020
title	Immediacy, Tools and Topography - Towards overcoming the digital divide between designers and developers
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 709-715
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.709
summary	We introduce direct, versatile and almost tactile techniques for designing topographies and density distributions in architecture and landscape architecture through a sequence of digital 2D drawing and 3D modeling tools. We situate these techniques within the broader context of the growing digital divide between designers and developers of design tools. We explain, demonstrate and discuss:(i) the relevance of the techniques in design tasks, (ii) advantages of our tool sequences, (iii) the functionality of the tools, their hitherto underused connection and their sequential use. We reason that hitherto, accessibility of design tools (or simplicity of input and handling) has been much less developed than their performance (or complexity of output and variability) and call on developers to remedy this.
keywords	Landscape Architecture; Topography Design; Design Tools
series	eCAADe
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_id	ijac202018302
id	ijac202018302
authors	Brath Jensen, Mads; Isak Worre Foged and Hans Jørgen Andersen
year	2020
title	A framework for interactive human–robot design exploration
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 3, 235-253
summary	This study seeks to identify key aspects for increased integration of interactive robotics within the creative design process. Through its character as foundational research, the study aims to contribute to the advancement of new explorative design methods to support architects in their exploration of fabrication and assembly of an integrated performance-driven architecture. The article describes and investigates a proposed design framework for supporting an interactive human–robot design process. The proposed framework is examined through a 3-week architectural studio, with university master students exploring the design of a brick construction with the support of an interactive robotic platform. Evaluation of the proposed framework was done by triangulation of the authors’ qualitative user observations, quantitative logging of the students’ individual design processes, and through questionnaires completed after finishing the studies. The result suggests that interactive human–robot fabrication is a relevant mode of design with positive effect on the process of creative design exploration.
keywords	Design methods, robotic design processes, interactive robotics, computational design, design exploration, creativity
series	other
type	normal paper
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last changed	2020/11/02 13:39

_id	ecaade2020_307
id	ecaade2020_307
authors	Caetano, Ines and Leitao, António
year	2020
title	When the Geometry Informs the Algorithm - A hybrid visual/textual programming framework for facade design
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 371-380
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.371
summary	Facade design is becoming increasingly complex, forcing architects to more frequently resort to analysis and optimization processes. However, these processes are time-consuming and require the coordination of multiple tools. Algorithmic Design (AD) has the potential to overcome these limitations through the use of algorithms implemented in Textual Programming Languages (TPLs) or Visual Programming Languages (VPLs). VPLs are more used in architecture due to their smoother learning curve and user-friendliness, but TPLs are better suited than VPLs for handling complex AD problems. To make TPLs more appealing to architects, we incorporated VPLs' features in the textual paradigm, namely, Visual Input Mechanisms (VIMs). In this paper, we propose an extension to an existing AD framework for the design exploration, analysis, and optimization of facades to support a TPL-based approach that handles VIMs.
keywords	Algorithmic Design; Facade Design; Textual Languages; Visual Input
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia20_638
id	acadia20_638
authors	Claypool, Mollie; Jimenez Garcia, Manuel; Retsin, Gilles; Jaschke, Clara; Saey, Kevin
year	2020
title	Discrete Automation
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 638-647.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.638
summary	Globally, the built environment is inequitable. And while construction automation is often heralded as the solution to labor shortages and the housing crisis, such methods tend to focus on technology, neglecting the wider socioeconomic contexts. Automated Architecture (AUAR), a spinoff of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, asserts that a values-centered, decentralized approach to automation centered around local communities can begin to address this material hegemony. The paper introduces and discusses AUAR’s platform-based framework, Discrete Automation, which subverts the status quo of automation that excludes those who are already disadvantaged into an inclusive network capable of providing solutions to both the automation gap and the assembly problem. Through both the wider context of existing modular housing platforms and issues of the current use of automated technologies in architectural production, Discrete Automation is discussed through the example of Block Type A, a discrete timber building system, which in conjunction with its combinatorial app constitutes the base of a community-led housing platform developed by AUAR. Built case studies are introduced alongside a discussion of the applied methodologies and an outlook on the platform’s potential for scalability in an equitable, sustainable manner.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	caadria2020_237
id	caadria2020_237
authors	Dai, Sida and Kleiss, Michael
year	2020
title	Shape Grammars in Computational Generative Design for Origami
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. 557-566
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.557
summary	This article presents a method to introduce the concept of computer-generated design into origami design through shape grammar. In the previous origami design method, rigorous and complicated mathematical calculations takes a lot of energy from the designers. This research simplifies the design process of crease pattern into the generating and applying shape grammar rules. As a blank space in the current design field, the generative design of origami greatly expands the possibility of origami design and also provides the basis for the further use of computer technology in origami design
keywords	Shape Grammars; Generative Design; Origami
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia20_232p
id	acadia20_232p
authors	Dinarama, Erze
year	2020
title	Calligraphies of Disturbances
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. 232-235
summary	The project explores disturbances through the lens of landscape and architecture. The disturbance is a concept used in ecology to describe changes in environmental conditions that cause changes in the ecosystem. The project recognizes disturbances as a constant state of landscape and architecture. It examines ways in which this concept can generate an architectural and landscape idea through ecological thinking and computational tools. The project explores a toxic landscape - the coal mining in the vicinity of Prishtina. It transforms it into an open seed bank and a site of ecological research that studies changes in ecological patterns in a constantly disturbed site. The resulting constructed ecology is not only a remediation site but an experimental data landscape as well, that investigates the interaction between toxic agents/hyperobjects and ecological patterns on site: considering geology, hydrogeology, hydrography, topography, climate conditions, and vegetation as interconnected and inseparable layers of the site. As such, it renders our interrelationship with non-human agents visible. The project explores new methodologies and representation for territorial design in the contemporary environment. In particular, disturbances are related to the new calligraphy of the world, a new drawing, and a new geography.
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	ecaade2020_190
id	ecaade2020_190
authors	Dounas, Theodoros, Jabi, Wassim and Lombardi, Davide
year	2020
title	Smart Contracts for Decentralised Building Information Modelling
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 565-574
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.565
summary	The paper presents a model for decentralizing building information modelling, through implementing its infrastructure using the decentralized web. We discuss the shortcomings of BIM in terms of its infrastructure, with a focus on tracing identities of design authorship in this collective design tool. In parallel we examine the issues with BIM in the cloud and propose a decentralized infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain and the Interplanetary filesystem (IPFS). A series of computing nodes, that act as nodes on the Ethereum Blockchain, host disk storage with which they participate in a larger storage pool on the Interplanetary Filesystem. This storage is made available through an API is used by architects and designers creating and editing a building information model that resides on the IPFS decentralised storage. Through this infrastructure central servers are eliminated, and BIM libraries and models can be shared with others in an immutable and transparent manner. As such Architecture practices are able to exploit their intellectual property in novel ways, by making it public on the internet. The infrastructure also allows the decentralised creation of a resilient global pool of data that allows the participation of computation agents in the creation and simulation of BIM models.
keywords	Blockchain; decentralisation; immutability; resilience; Building Information Modelling
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia20_320
id	acadia20_320
authors	Fang, Zhihao; Wu, Yuning; Hassonjee, Ammar; Bidgoli, Ardavan; Cardoso-Llach PhD, Daniel
year	2020
title	Towards a Distributed, Robotically Assisted Construction Framework
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 320-329.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.320
summary	In this paper we document progress towards an architectural framework for adaptive and distributed robotically assisted construction. Drawing from state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques, our framework allows for a variable number of robots to adaptively execute simple construction tasks. The paper describes the framework, demonstrates its potential through simulations of pick-and-place and spray-coating construction tasks conducted by a fleet of drones, and outlines a proof-of-concept experiment. With these elements the paper contributes to current research in architectural and construction robotics, particularly to efforts towards more adaptive and hybrid human-machine construction ecosystems. The code is available at: https://github.com/c0deLab/RAiC
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	acadia20_720
id	acadia20_720
authors	Farahi, Behnaz
year	2020
title	Can the subaltern speak?
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 720-729.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.720
summary	How could design be used as a method of interrogation for addressing larger cultural, social, or political issues? How could we explore the possibility of using emerging technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence in order to subvert the status quo? The project presented in this paper is inspired by the historical masks, known as Niqab, worn by the Bandari women from southern Iran. It has been said that these masks were developed during Portuguese colonial rule as a way to protect the wearer from the gaze of slave masters looking for pretty women. In this project two robotic masks seemingly begin to develop their own language to communicate with each other, blinking their eyelashes in rapid succession, using Morse code generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The project draws on a Facebook experiment where two AI bots began to develop their own language. It also draws on an incident when an American soldier used his eyes to blink the word “TORTURE” using Morse code during his captivity in Vietnam, and stories of women using code to report domestic abuse during the COVID-19 lockdown. Here the “wink” of the sexual predator is subverted into a language to protect women from the advances of a predator. Through the lens of the design methodology that is referred to as “critical making,” this project bridges AI, interactive design, and critical thinking. Moreover, while most feminist discourse takes a Eurocentric view, this project addresses feminism from a non-Western perspective.
series	ACADIA
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_id	caadria2020_168
id	caadria2020_168
authors	Fingrut, Adam
year	2020
title	Integrating Design Studio Teaching with Computation and Robotics in Hong Kong
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. 343-350
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.343
summary	There is a persistent need among Hong Kong Architecture students to develop greater aptitude for critical and design thinking. The mechanics of criticality entail observation, reflection and the development of a knowledgeable response. This important process aligns with a tool-based iterative design research approach, where a cycle of action, observation, reflection, and reaction can take place. In order to complement fundamentals in architectural design, a focus on tools and tool-making approaches toward the development of a critical architectural proposal needs to be incorporated into core curriculum. Through the integration of robotics, automation and computational design approaches into the design studio environment, tool making for producing architectural media (drawings and models) can most effectively be explored. With an emphasis on design and programming tools for component fabrication and assembly, students can develop their own criterion for evaluation as a knowledge-based response to their investigations and proposed architectural systems.
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