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_id artificial_intellicence2019_87
id artificial_intellicence2019_87
authors Ming Lu, Wei Ran Zhu, and Philip F. Yuan
year 2020
title Toward a Collaborative Robotic Platform: FUROBOT
source Architectural Intelligence Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)
doi https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_6
summary In usual robotic fabrication by 6-axis industrial robots such as KUKA, ABB, and other brands, the usual robot’s 4th, 5th, and 6th axis is exactly converged in one point. When this type robot (pieper) is doing movement commands, setting the degree of 4th axis close to zero is an ideal condition for motion stability, especially for putting device which connects to tool head on 4th axis arm part. In plastic melting or others print which not cares the rotation angle about the printing direction (the printing direction means the effector’s output normal direction vector, KUKA is X axis, ABB is Z axis), the optimization of 4th axis technology not only makes printing stable but also makes better quality for printing. The paper introduces a new algorithm to get the analytics solution. The algorithm is clearly explained by mathematics and geometry ways. At the end of the paper, a grasshopper custom plugin is provided, which contains this new algorithm, with this plugin, people can get the optimized target path plane more easily.
series Architectural Intelligence
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_id acadia21_530
id acadia21_530
authors Adel, Arash; Augustynowicz, Edyta; Wehrle, Thomas
year 2021
title Robotic Timber Construction
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 S. Parascho, J. Scott, and K. Dörfler. 530-537.
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2021.530
summary Several research projects (Gramazio et al. 2014; Willmann et al. 2015; Helm et al. 2017; Adel et al. 2018; Adel Ahmadian 2020) have investigated the use of automated assembly technologies (e.g., industrial robotic arms) for the fabrication of nonstandard timber structures. Building on these projects, we present a novel and transferable process for the robotic fabrication of bespoke timber subassemblies made of off-the-shelf standard timber elements. A nonstandard timber structure (Figure 2), consisting of four bespoke subassemblies: three vertical supports and a Zollinger (Allen 1999) roof structure, acts as the case study for the research and validates the feasibility of the proposed process.
series ACADIA
type project
email
last changed 2023/10/22 12:06

_id caadria2020_233
id caadria2020_233
authors Bar-Sinai, Karen Lee, Shaked, Tom and Sprecher, Aaron
year 2020
title Sensibility at Large - A Post-Anthropocene Vision for Architectural Landscape Editing
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. 223-232
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.223
summary The irreversible imprint of humankind on Earth calls for revisiting current construction practices. This paper forwards a vision for post-Anthropocene, large-scale, architectural, and landscape construction. This vision relates to transforming natural terrains into architecture using on-site robotic tools and enabling greater sustainability through increased sensibility. Despite advancements in large-scale digital fabrication in architecture, the field still mainly focuses on the production of objects. The proposed vision aims to advance theory and practice towards territorial scale digital fabrication of environments. Three notions are proposed: material-aware construction, large-scale customization, and integrated fabrication. These aspects are demonstrated through research and teaching projects. Using scale models, they explore the deployment of robotic tools toward reforming, stabilizing, and reconstituting soil in an architectural context. Together, they propose a theoretical ground for in situ digital fabrication for a new era, relinking architecture to the terrains upon which it is formed.
keywords Digital Fabrication; territorial scale; on-site robotics; geomaterials; computational design
series CAADRIA
email
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_id ecaade2020_197
id ecaade2020_197
authors Haghighi, MohammadYousef and Mahdavinejad, Mohammadjavad
year 2020
title HelioPhilia Intelligent Kinetic Canopy
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. 243-250
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.243
summary In the contemporary changing world, digital architecture is to bring us new horizons and opportunities to take a determining step toward future. It results in speed and precision in process of design and construction. Moreover, the world is shifting to smartness. This paper is to develop a comprehensive mechanism to design an innovative canopy inspired from nature. Therefore, the canopy is going to inspire from young sunflowers. The canopy consists of a multi-functional waffle-frame. The main wing of the platform structure can have alternative utilization and the amount of light passing through it can be adjusted by using shade on the waffle spaces. Solar panels can also be used on the frames conductive to supply the energy independently. This HelioPhilia canopy always seeking the daylight, therefore, it cast a shadow behind itself to provide much more comfortable environment for whom choose there to be inside as a user. The results emphasize on the role of learning from nature in successful digital design process.
keywords HelioPhilia Architecture; Intelligent Architecture; Kinetic Spaces; Digital Fabrication; High-Performance Architecture; Interactive Design
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:51

_id artificial_intellicence2019_207
id artificial_intellicence2019_207
authors Hao Zheng
year 2020
title Form Finding and Evaluating Through Machine Learning: The Prediction of Personal Design Preference in Polyhedral Structures
source Architectural Intelligence Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2025)
doi https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_13
summary 3D Graphic Statics (3DGS) is a geometry-based structural design and analysis method, helping designers to generate 3D polyhedral forms by manipulating force diagrams with given boundary conditions. By subdividing 3D force diagrams with different rules, a variety of forms can be generated, resulting in more members with shorter lengths and richer overall complexity in forms. However, it is hard to evaluate the preference toward different forms from the aspect of aesthetics, especially for a specific architect with his own scene of beauty and taste of forms. Therefore, this article proposes a method to quantify the design preference of forms using machine learning and find the form with the highest score based on the result of the preference test from the architect. A dataset of forms was firstly generated, then the architect was asked to keep picking a favorite form from a set of forms several times in order to record the preference. After being trained with the test result, the neural network can evaluate a new inputted form with a score from 0 to 1, indicating the predicted preference of the architect, showing the possibility of using machine learning to quantitatively evaluate personal design taste.
series Architectural Intelligence
email
last changed 2022/09/29 07:28

_id ijac202018301
id ijac202018301
authors Ladron de Guevara, Manuel; Luis Ricardo Borunda, Daragh Byrne, and Ramesh Krishnamurti
year 2020
title Multi-resolution in architecture as a design driver for additive manufacturing applications
source International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 3, 218-234
summary Additive manufacturing is evolving toward more sophisticated territory for architects and designers, mainly through the increased use of scripting tools. Recognizing this, we present a design and fabrication pipeline comprised of a class of techniques for fabrication and methods of design through discrete computational models. These support a process responsive to varied design intents: this structured workflow expands the design and fabrication space of any input shape, without having to explicitly deal with the complexity of discrete models beforehand. We discuss a multi-resolution-based methodology that incorporates discrete computational methods, spatial additive manufacturing with both robotic and commercial three-dimensional printers, as well as, a free-oriented technique. Finally, we explore the impact of computational power on design outcome, examining in-depth the concept of resolution as a design driver.
keywords Multi-resolution, discrete models, customized fabrication, differentiated infills, design methodology
series journal
email
last changed 2020/11/02 13:34

_id ecaade2024_60
id ecaade2024_60
authors Wan, Zijun; Sun, Shuaibing; Meng, Fanjing; Yan, Yu
year 2024
title How Augment Reality Support Public Participation in the Urban Design Decision-Making: A ten - year literature review
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 2, pp. 455–464
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2024.2.455
summary Emerging applications of AR have demonstrated its powerful visualization capabilities, which is a potential solution to enhance public participation in the urban design process. However, there is still a lack of complete understanding of how AR gets involved in this decision-making process. Therefore, this paper reviews 33 empirical studies relating to the topic through the four steps of “PRISMA”. The results indicate that the quantity and quality of research is increasing yearly. As AR technology progresses, the techniques and research methods used in those studies show a trend toward diversification and customization; this has also led to a shift in the scale of urban design from large and abstract to small and concrete. In terms of content, the topics have gradually changed from “people group” to “technology”, and then to “environment”. Notably, a small number of cases in tangible interaction and multi-user collaboration have emerged from 2020 — areas showing great promise. In terms of user assessments, most studies give positive feedback, but there are currently concerns about problems in poor AR visualizations, privacy risks, and the social inequality caused by technical affordance.
keywords Augment reality, Urban design and planning, Public participation, Collaborative and participative design, Design decision-making
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2024/11/17 22:05

_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
email
last changed 2020/11/02 13:39

_id ijac202018403
id ijac202018403
authors Dagmar Reinhardt, Matthias Hank Haeusler, Kerry London, Lian Loke, Yingbin Feng, Eduardo De Oliveira Barata, Charlotte Firth, Kate Dunn, Nariddh Khean, Alessandra Fabbri, Dylan Wozniak-O’Connor and Rin Masuda
year 2020
title CoBuilt 4.0: Investigating the potential of collaborative robotics for subject matter experts
source International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 4, 353–370
summary Human-robot interactions can offer alternatives and new pathways for construction industries, industrial growth and skilled labour, particularly in a context of industry 4.0. This research investigates the potential of collaborative robots (CoBots) for the construction industry and subject matter experts; by surveying industry requirements and assessments of CoBot acceptance; by investing processes and sequences of work protocols for standard architecture robots; and by exploring motion capture and tracking systems for a collaborative framework between human and robot co-workers. The research investigates CoBots as a labour and collaborative resource for construction processes that require precision, adaptability and variability.Thus, this paper reports on a joint industry, government and academic research investigation in an Australian construction context. In section 1, we introduce background data to architecture robotics in the context of construction industries and reports on three sections. Section 2 reports on current industry applications and survey results from industry and trade feedback for the adoption of robots specifically to task complexity, perceived safety, and risk awareness. Section 3, as a result of research conducted in Section 2, introduces a pilot study for carpentry task sequences with capture of computable actions. Section 4 provides a discussion of results and preliminary findings. Section 5 concludes with an outlook on how the capture of computable actions provide the foundation to future research for capturing motion and machine learning.
keywords Industry 4.0, collaborative robotics, on-site robotic fabrication, industry research, machine learning
series journal
email
last changed 2021/06/03 23:29

_id ecaade2020_037
id ecaade2020_037
authors Dortheimer, Jonathan, Neuman, Eran and Milo, Tova
year 2020
title A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural 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. 155-164
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.155
summary This paper provides an overview of "Architasker", a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like sketching, 2D and 3D CAD; design selection; and design review as an evolutionary process. The architectural crowdsourcing model underlying the platform is contextualized in the state-of-the-art research on creative crowdsourcing methods and is supported by relevant evidence from empirical experiments. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the method to generate architectural artifacts by harnessing the skills, talents, and experience of architects and the opinions and values of the stakeholders.
keywords Crowdsourcing; Participatory Design; Human Computation; Creative Crowdsourcing; Co-Design; Collective Intelligence
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:55

_id ecaade2020_116
id ecaade2020_116
authors Firth, Charlotte, Dunn, Kate and Haeusler, M.Hank
year 2020
title Design Process for a Soft Flexible Palm - Improving grasp strength in an anthropomorphic end effector for collaborative robots in construction
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. 423-432
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.423
summary This paper describes an iterative design process to create an anthropomorphic end-effector for a collaborative robot in construction. The focus is on improving the palm or juncture of the handlike end effector. Anthropomorphic end effectors typically have stiff, rigid palms that only provide support to the fingers rather than being an active part of the end effector. This research contributes to new knowledge through a detailed investigation of the role the palm has in improving the grip strength and control. This control and strength is essential for operating tools commonly used on construction sites. Consequently, the paper asks the question and investigates if a flexible palm could provide added support and grip for end effectors needed for complex processes.Via an action-based research method, the paper uses soft robotic techniques to experiment with a range of pneumatic iterative solutions to create a functioning palm, inspired by the human hand. The resulting end effector will aim to mimic the behaviours of the human hand.This investigation, its proposed hypothesis, methodology, implications, significance and evaluation are presented in the paper.
keywords End Effector; Hybrid Tools; Soft Robotics; Anthropomorphic
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:50

_id caadria2020_021
id caadria2020_021
authors Firth, Charlotte, Dunn, Kate, King, Madison and Haeusler, M. Hank
year 2020
title Development of an Anthropomorphic End-effector for Collaborative use on Construction Sites
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. 363-372
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.363
summary This paper describes the design and development of anthropomorphic end effectors for collaborative robots for use in the construction industry. The research focuses on the form and function of the end effectors including an in-depth investigation of soft robotic techniques and sensor technologies. There is critical and legislative demand for automation in construction to meet increasing labour shortages, a growing population and ensure safe work environments. In an attempt to address these demands industry originally looked to replace human labour, however, in the last 5 years, the focus has shifted to human-machine collaboration, particularly collaborative robots. To ensure safety and increase productivity, end effectors also need to be well designed and collaborative. This research, its proposed hypothesis, methodology, implications, significance and evaluation are presented in the paper.
keywords End Effector; Construction Industry; Collaborative Robotics; Soft Robotics; Sensor Technology
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:50

_id sigradi2020_349
id sigradi2020_349
authors González-Böhme, Luis Felipe; García-Alvarado, Rodrigo; Quitral-Zapata, Francisco Javier; Valenzuela-Astudillo, Eduardo Antonio
year 2020
title SISCOM: Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems in Construction
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. 349-356
summary We present an ongoing research project focused on the development of more efficient setups for cooperative multi-robot systems in 3D-printed construction. Early kinematic simulations of a mobile robotic cell prototype with two ceiling-mounted orbiting manipulators have provided new insights into 3D printing topology. An extrusion nozzle is mounted on each collaborative robot whose primary function is to match the extrusion path to the print contour while they move along a circular path. The challenge of setting up on site a semi-structured environment for cooperative multi-robot 3D printing led us to think up a new species of construction 3D printer.
keywords 3D-Printed construction, Cooperative multi-robot system, Mobile robotic cell, Collaborative robot, Robots in architecture
series SIGraDi
email
last changed 2021/07/16 11:49

_id acadia20_182p
id acadia20_182p
authors Grasser, Alexander; Parger, Alexandra; Hirschberg, Urs
year 2020
title Realtime Architecture Platform: CollabWood
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. 182-187
summary This project presents a Realtime Architecture Platform applied in a telepresence design studio to design and construct the CollabWood prototype. The platform, developed by the authors, enables an open workflow to collaborate and design in unity. It provides a persistent online environment for real-time architectural production. The work method is based on the concept of collaborative objects and distributed designers. These collaborative objects are the shared content: discrete parts, prefabs, or blocks that enable interaction, communication, and collaboration between its users and owners. The distributed designers can contribute by instantiating these collaborative objects. Users placing an object react to the local neighboring conditions and therefore add their embodied design decision to the global architecture. The users get immersed in digital proximity by communicating through the integrated chat or digital calls, discussing strategies, debating design intentions, analyzing the built structure, and scanning for improvements. This pervasive collaboration lays the foundation for a democratization of the design process. As a proof of concept, this method was implemented with 20 students in a telepresence design studio. The participants embraced the real-time workflow and applied the collaborative tool throughout the semester from different locations and time zones. Using the platform to design the CollabWood prototype in real-time collaboratively was realized as a 1:1 project with local, accessible material and AR technology for assembly. The global pandemic accelerated the importance of collaboration. Realtime Architecture Platform’s response of providing an accessible common platform for real-time interaction, design, and collaboration can be regarded as a first step towards how we might work together in the future.
series ACADIA
type project
email
last changed 2021/10/26 08:08

_id cdrf2021_13
id cdrf2021_13
authors Hao Wen, Pengcheng Gu, Yuchao Zhang, Shuai Zou, and Patrik Schumacher
year 2021
title A Generative Approach to Social Ecologies in Project [Symbios]City
source Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)

doi https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_2
summary The following paper talks about the studio project [Symbios]City, which is developed as a design research project in 2020–2021 Schumacher’ studio on social ecology of the graduate program in Architectural Association’s design research lab. The project aims to create an assemblage of social ecologies through a rich but cohesive multi-authored urban district. The primary ambition is to generate an urban area with a characterful, varied identity, that achieves a balanced order between unity and difference avoiding both the sterile and disorienting monotony of centrally planned modernist cities and the (equally disorienting) visual chaos of an agglomeration of utterly unrelated interventions as we find now frequently. Through a thorough research process, our project evolves mainly out of three principles that are taken into consideration for the development of our project: topological optimization, phenomenology, and ecology. By “ecology”, we understand it as a living network of information exchange. Therefore, every strategy we employ is not merely about reacting to the weather conditions, but instead it is an inquiry into the various ways we can exploit the latter, a translation of the weather conditions into spatial and programmatic properties. [Symbios]City therefore aims at developing a multi-authored urban area with a rich identity that achieves a balance between the various elements. [Symbios]City began formally from topological optimization, developed based on studies on ecology, and concluded the design following our phenomenological explorations, aiming at a complex design project that unifies the perception of all scales of design: from the platform to the skyscrapers.
series cdrf
email
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_id ecaade2020_156
id ecaade2020_156
authors Hemmerling, Marco and Maris, Simon
year 2020
title INTERCOM - A platform for collaborative design processes
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. 173-180
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.173
summary The INTERCOM project propounds a cloud-based collaboration platform for digital planning processes in architecture. The concept is based on an openBIM approach and ensures open access for all partners involved. At its core it provides IFC-based and model-related online tools for planning, communication and collaboration. The interaction with the model and the exchange with other project partners takes place in real-time via a model-related chat and BCF exports. In addition, the integration of e-learning modules (e.g. video tutorials, wikis, project documents) encourages problem solving through further education. Especially the integration of communication and collaboration tools is supposed to enhance the decision making throughout the design process and become a key factor for a successful and coordinated BIM process. Primarily INTERCOM has been developed as a prototype for teaching BIM in interdisciplinary teams. Subsequently, the application can also be adopted for professional practice. The paper evaluates previous experiences from BIM cloud teaching and discusses the conception and development of the proposed collaborative platform.
keywords architecture curriculum; didactics; building information modeling (BIM); collaborative design process; common data environment (CDE)
series eCAADe
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:49

_id artificial_intellicence2019_129
id artificial_intellicence2019_129
authors Hua Chai, Liming Zhang, and Philip F. Yuan
year 2020
title Advanced Timber Construction Platform Multi-Robot System for Timber Structure Design and Prefabrication
source Architectural Intelligence Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2023)
doi https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_9
summary Robotic Timber Construction has been widely researched in the last decade with remarkable advancements. While existing robotic timber construction technologies were mostly developed for specific tasks, integrated platforms aiming for industrialization has become a new trend. Through the integration of timber machining center and advanced robotics, this research tries to develop an advanced timber construction platform with multi-robot system. The Timber Construction Platform is designed as a combination of three parts: multi-robot system, sensing system, and control system. While equipped with basic functions of machining centers that allows multi-scale multifunctional timber components’ prefabrication, the platform also served as an experimental facility for innovative robotic timber construction techniques, and a service platform that integrates timber structure design and construction through real-time information collection and feedback. Thereby, this platform has the potential to be directly integrated into the timber construction industry, and contributes to a mass-customized mode of timber structures design and construction.
series Architectural Intelligence
email
last changed 2022/09/29 07:28

_id caadria2020_180
id caadria2020_180
authors Jensen, Mads Brath and Das, Avishek
year 2020
title Technologies and Techniques for Collaborative Robotics in Architecture - - establishing a framework for human-robotic design exploration
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. 293-302
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.293
summary This study investigates the technological and methodological challenges in establishing an indeterministic approach to robotic fabrication that allows for a collaborative and creative design/fabrication process. The research objective enquires into how robotic processes in architecture can move from deterministic fabrication processes towards explorative and indeterministic design processes. To address this research objective, the study specifically explores how an architect and a robot can engage in a process of co-creation and co-evolution, that is enabled by a collaborative robotic arm equipped with an electric gripper and a web camera. Through a case-based experiment, of designing and constructing an adjustable façade system consisting of parallel wood lamellas, designer and robotic system co-create by means of interactive processes. The study will present and discuss the technological implementations used to construct the interactive robotic-based design process, with emphasis on the integration of visual analysis features in Grasshopper and on the benefits of establishing a state machine for interactive and creative robotic control in architecture.
keywords Design cognition; Digital fabrication ; Construction; Human-computer interaction
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_id caadria2020_184
id caadria2020_184
authors Kawagishi, Noboru, Fuji, Takaaki, Hotta, Kensuke and Hotta, Akito
year 2020
title Comparative Study on Urban Virtual Modeling Platforms for Urban Planning and Design Practice
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. 31-40
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.031
summary This paper examines urban virtual modelling platforms (UVMPs) to be used for urban planning and design practice, thus following points are revealed; firstly, comparing existing platforms in the case study, capability of each platform is pointed out. Secondly, potentials of UVMPs for urban planning and design process, including A) Collaborative Design, B) Simulation-based Design and C) AI-involved Design are also tested in the case study. Consequently, a possible system with above potentials is tested and the workflow for urban planning and design practice using UVMPs is suggested.
keywords Digital Twin; Urban Planning; Collaborative Design; Simulation-based Design; AI-involved Design
series CAADRIA
email
last changed 2022/06/07 07:52

_id acadia20_484
id acadia20_484
authors Kim, Namjoo; Otitigbe, Eto; Shannon, Caroline; Smith, Brian; Seyedahmadian, Alireza; Höweler, Eric; Yoon, J. Meejin; Marshall, Durham; Durham, James
year 2020
title Parametric Photo V-Carve for Variable Surfaces
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. 484-493.
doi https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.484
summary This research project was part of the design and construction of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) at the University of Virginia (UVA). The MEL was dedicated to an estimated 4,000 enslaved persons who worked at UVA between 1817 and 1865. The 80-foot-diameter memorial is a tapered toroidal shape composed of 75 stone blocks. This project demonstrates how computational design tools along with robotic digital fabrication can be used to achieve unique social and experiential effects in an architectural application. The memorial’s design was informed by an extensive community engagement process that clarified the importance of including a visual representation of enslaved people on the memorial. With this input, the eyes of Isabella Gibbons were selected to be used as a symbolic representation of triumph on the outer wall of the memorial. The MEL project could not rely solely on prior methods or existing software applications to design and fabricate this portrait due to four particularities of the project: material, geometry, representation, and scale. To address these challenges, the MEL design team employed an interdisciplinary collaborative process to develop an innovative parametric design technique: parametric photo V-carve. This technique allowed the MEL design team to render a large-scale photo-realistic portrait into stone. This project demonstrates how the synthesis of artistic motivations, computational design, and robotic digital fabrication can develop unique expressions that shape personal and cultural experiences.
series ACADIA
type paper
email
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