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_id	acadia22pr_124
id	acadia22pr_124
authors	Ago, Viola; Tursack, Hans
year	2022
title	Understorey - A Pavilion in Parts
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 124-129.
summary	In the summer of 2018, our collaboration was awarded a University Design Fellowship from the Exhibit Columbus organization to design, fabricate, and build a large pavilion in Columbus, Indiana as part of a biannual contemporary architecture exhibition. Our proposal for the competition was a pavilion that would double as an ecological education center. Our inspiration for this program was triggered in part by our reading of Jane Bennett’s materialist philosophy outlined in her book Vibrant Matter (2009). Through Bennett’s lens, our design rendered our site’s context as an animate field, replete with pre-existing material composites that we wanted to celebrate through a series of displays, information boards, and artificial lighting. In this, the installation would feature samples of local plants, minerals, and rocks, indigenous to Southern Indiana.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:06

_id	acadia22_001
id	acadia22_001
authors	Akbarzadeh, Masoud; Aviv, Dorit; Jamelle, Hina; Stuart-Smith, Robert
year	2022
title	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog]
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 240p.
summary	Hybrids & Haecceities seeks novel approaches to design and research that dissolve binary conditions and inherent hierarchies in order to embrace new modes of practice. Haecceities describe the qualities or properties of objects that define them as unique. Concurrently, Hybrids are entities with characteristics enhanced by the process of combining two or more elements with different properties. In concert, these terms offer a provocation toward more inclusive and specific forms of computational design. Hybrids & Haecceities aligns with a fundamental shift away from abstract generalized models of production toward greater degrees of customization at unprecedented scales, made possible by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With greater reliance on cyber-physical systems, this shift supports more diverse and considered forms of embodiment and participation in the built environment. Conversely, the design and construction industries have profound global effects with significant political, economic, and environmental impacts. The urgent need to decarbonize buildings, and at the same time, provide equitable infrastructure to communities at risk, places responsibility on the design disciplines to form new collaborations in the effort to address today’s social and ecological crises.
series	ACADIA
type	projects catalog
email
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_id	acadia22_000
id	acadia22_000
authors	Akbarzadeh, Masoud; Aviv, Dorit; Jamelle, Hina; Stuart-Smith, Robert
year	2022
title	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings]
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 839p.
summary	Hybrids & Haecceities seeks novel approaches to design and research that dissolve binary conditions and inherent hierarchies in order to embrace new modes of practice. Haecceities describe the qualities or properties of objects that define them as unique. Concurrently, Hybrids are entities with characteristics enhanced by the process of combining two or more elements with different properties. In concert, these terms offer a provocation toward more inclusive and specific forms of computational design. Hybrids & Haecceities aligns with a fundamental shift away from abstract generalized models of production toward greater degrees of customization at unprecedented scales, made possible by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With greater reliance on cyber-physical systems, this shift supports more diverse and considered forms of embodiment and participation in the built environment. Conversely, the design and construction industries have profound global effects with significant political, economic, and environmental impacts. The urgent need to decarbonize buildings, and at the same time, provide equitable infrastructure to communities at risk, places responsibility on the design disciplines to form new collaborations in the effort to address today’s social and ecological crises.
series	ACADIA
type	proceedings
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22_128
id	acadia22_128
authors	Azel, Nicolas; Pachuca, Brandon; Wilson, Lucien
year	2022
title	Closing the Gap
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 128-137.
summary	This paper shares KPF Cloud Tools, a platform for using Rhino Compute (McNeel’s REST API for RhinoCommon and Grasshopper) to run a library of Grasshopper tools through a cloud server via a Rhino plugin with a procedurally generated user interface, making it quick to deploy new tools (Robert McNeel & Associates 2010). We describe the professional challenges that the KPF Cloud Tools platform solves, document the technical implementation of the platform, and illustrate its benefit through the impact on a large architectural practice.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22pr_94
id	acadia22pr_94
authors	Fereos, Pavlos; Efthimiou, Eftychios-Nicolaos; Bauer, Kilian; Edelmann, Julian
year	2022
title	Additive Hyper-Ornamental Prototypes - Surface Articulation as Structural Leverage in 3D Printing
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 94-99.
summary	This project presents two experimental prototypes built using a 6-axis Cobot (Universal Robots UR10e collaborative robot) and PETG (polyethylene terephthalate glycol) filament processed by a plastic extruder (Herz Robot 0.8). The aim was to incorporate intricate design elements into 3D models to test or even increase the material’s structural abilities and to 3D print large and highly articulated architectural mock-up models on a 1:1 scale.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
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_id	acadia22pr_202
id	acadia22pr_202
authors	Johnson, Jason Kelly; Gattegno, Nataly
year	2022
title	Orbital - Computational Garden Folly
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 202-207.
summary	Orbital is a computational garden folly, exploring geometric and material exuberance, digital design and fabrication. It evokes not only organic forms found in nature, but also giant robots and futuristic space vehicles. The structure is composed of three coiled legs that spiral towards the sky. The exterior double-curved surfaces are defined by stainless steel origami skins, while the interior space is wrapped by a vortex of colorful tactile aluminum shingles. Orbital’s dynamic form evokes an era of rapid change and uncertainty, while also inspiring curiosity and playful interaction.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:06

_id	acadia22_90
id	acadia22_90
authors	Li, Chenxiao; Yuan, Mingyang; Han, Zilong; Faircloth, Billie; Anderson, Jeffrey S.; King, Nathan; Stuart-Smith, Robert
year	2022
title	Smart Branching
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 90-97.
summary	Through the design and fabrication of a 1.3m-high physical prototype sampled from our facade proposal, we developed a relatively automated project pipeline. It aims to achieve the generative and evolutionary design and a non-planar clay deposition method for tubular branching components.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22pr_70
id	acadia22pr_70
authors	McCoy, Paul Germaine
year	2022
title	Instruments of Culture - Layered Representations of the Alhambra
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 70-75.
summary	This project aims to renew the role of ornament in architecture through a close reading of the relationship between the site of the Alhambra and the city of Granada. The design research layers three surveys of the Nasrid Kingdom’s legacy in the region: the multifarious ornament embedded in the walls of the Alhambra—as both ornament and decorations— and the cistern infrastructure embedded in the ground of Granada.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:04

_id	ascaad2022_121
id	ascaad2022_121
authors	Mohsen, Hiba; Tohme, Mohamad; Nashi, Rawan
year	2022
title	From Passive to Immersive: Metaverse as a Pedagogical Approach in History Class: Presenting a Constant Reminder of Historical Remnants and a Customizable Reality for Future Preferences; Beirut as a Case Study
source	Hybrid Spaces of the Metaverse - Architecture in the Age of the Metaverse: Opportunities and Potentials [10th ASCAAD Conference Proceedings] Debbieh (Lebanon) [Virtual Conference] 12-13 October 2022, pp. 202-219
summary	It is widely acknowledged that passive, non-immersive strategies of teaching adopted in history classes in Lebanon do not offer the right platform for knowledge retention in students. With that said, virtual reality and the use of Metaverse as a pedagogical approach is prophesied as the most apt to invoke a positive attitude from children towards the topic being studied, and thus, in this case, it increases their awareness of the existing built heritage they live amidst. This research sets out from a recent project implemented by Beirut Arab University, together with three UN agencies. The latter aimed for “developing children emotional attachment to the territory of Beirut Blast through activating their participation in the construction of cognitive maps by playing with spatial maps strategically designed in a game environment”. A thorough assessment of the outcomes of the activities implemented throughout the project, including the executed physical models and game boards that simulate myriad neighborhoods in Beirut, is carried out, followed by an analytical comparison of these outcomes with those from using the proposed innovative digital tools. A pilot study is conducted on Martyr’s square to assess how virtual tools can enhance the sensory experience and perception of the built space, making youth active learners rather than passive. It illustrates how introducing children to educating architecture from a young age not only nurtures their awareness of their local neighborhoods, but also generates responsible citizens. The outcome of this study can be divided over a timeline of past, present, and future. The virtual recreation of old Beirut aims to enhance the virtual learning experience as opposed to that from books and chalkboards. Children are expected to formulate a better understanding of their heritage, become more attached to the remnants of the latter, and set out to customize the reality to their preferences or vision of how a better, sustainable Beirut looks like.
series	ASCAAD
email
last changed	2024/02/16 13:38

_id	acadia22_290
id	acadia22_290
authors	Mun, Kristine; Bogosian, Biayna
year	2022
title	Experimentations in Neuroscience for Architecture
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 290-293.
summary	Integrating computational methods in design and construction has intensified the discipline’s focus on quantifying buildings and occupants. However, when quantifying the human body, the metrics are often related to the physical dimensions (proportions, loads, heat, cold) and not psychological or psychophysical (stress, perception, emotion). This Field Note builds on the authors’ experience and research focused on a ‘Neuroscience for Architecture’ approach to designing healthier environments
series	ACADIA
type	field note
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22_294
id	acadia22_294
authors	Nelson, Cameron
year	2022
title	Field Guide to Meta-Architecture
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 294-299.
summary	Architecture, as a discipline, is enjoying a front row seat to the cosmological big bang of the Metaverse. Countless designers have flooded into a new forum for 3D worldbuilding, with a significant portion of new content attributable to moonlighting architects. This trend is partly catalyzed by accessible game engine technology, increased emphasis on technical literacy in the field, and the rise of remote work and the gig economy as alternatives or supplements to traditional career paths. Educators, practitioners, students, and amateurs curious about this space should be aware of earlier “virtual worlds” like Second Life in order to contextualize the aesthetic and social contributions of the “Metaverse’s” latest incarnation. This article also calls upon architects to help imagine a more digital-native architecture of the Metaverse, beyond mere imitation of the real.
series	ACADIA
type	field note
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	ijac202220304
id	ijac202220304
authors	Pavan, Luís H; Lucas F Oliveira; Camila P Mangrich; Gabriela Harthmann; Jose R Kos
year	2022
title	Visualizing connections: University campus and social infrastructure
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2022, Vol. 20 - no. 3, pp. 553–566
summary	As a social infrastructure, the material substrates of a campus intertwine with the sociabilities it supports. Intending to identify the integration potential between a Brazilian public university campus and its surrounding neighborhoods, we mapped the campus’ social infrastructures and identified through diagrammatic studies its morphological dimensions. Internet routers distributed on the university campus provided georeferenced data of the human dynamics on campus. Counting user connections in groups of access points, we obtained the population density of the potential social infrastructure use. Afterward, associating Wi-Fi data and typological information, we traced itineraries that connect these infrastructures. The results encompass a systemic view that highlights the campus’ potential to develop sociability within a complex service network. Furthermore, through new readings of the social infrastructures, we suggest alternative potential uses. These results highlight the hybrid methodologies that associate objective characteristics of the built environment with data-driven methodologies, such as Wi-Fi-generated datasets
keywords	Social infrastructure, Wi-Fi data visualization, hybrid methodologies, university campus, sociability
series	journal
last changed	2024/04/17 14:29

_id	acadia22_336
id	acadia22_336
authors	Rudin, Rebecka; Zboinska, Malgorzata A.; Sämfors, Sanna; Gatenholm, Paul
year	2022
title	RePrint
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 336-345.
summary	This study presents digital workflows for architectural restoration, based on the concept of aesthetic retrofitting of deteriorated wooden architectural elements through the application of surface finishes from a novel biomaterial—microfibrillated cellulose hydrogel upcycled from forestry waste. The workflows were established through experimental digital design and reproduction of wooden architectural details in an existing historical building, and executed within an integrated digital framework combining photogrammetry, 2D graphics processing, computational design, and robotic 3D printing.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22_120
id	acadia22_120
authors	Sanchez, Jose
year	2022
title	Entangled Simulations
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 120-127.
summary	This paper aims to establish a critique of models of simulation that argue for an objec- tive reality and, in contrast, proposes the possibility of an entangled reading of simulation drawing from second-order cybernetics and Arturo Escobar’s definition of “Political Ontology.“ This framework is demonstrated in the development of Common’hood, a video game soft- ware simulation that combines narrative structures with system dynamics questioning the capacity of cognitive and aspirational imaginaries to distort the mathematical foundations of the software.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22_598
id	acadia22_598
authors	Shen, Yang-Ting; Wang, Mi-Chi; Huang, Lien-Kai; Gao, You-Min; Yen, Chia-Chin
year	2022
title	The Reproduction of Chinese Traditional Timber Structure
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 598-603.
summary	In Chinese traditional timber building, “Dou-gong” stands as one of the most distinctive features to present the Chinese structure style. However, the preservation and reproduction of Dou-gong face difficulties due to the withering craftsman issue. This paper proposes a method to digitize the structure into BIM (building information modeling) and reproduce it via robot-based fabrication. By modeling these Dou-gong components with BIM technologies, we can establish a geometrical and non-geometrical 3D database. Then we use Autodesk Fusion and Grasshopper to design the robotic fabrication information whose information is transferred from 3D database models. Based on the fabrication information, including work paths and tool parameters, the KUKA robotic arm with six axes can precisely mill the wood materials into Dou-gong components without any traditional craftsman’s processing.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:04

_id	acadia22_24
id	acadia22_24
authors	Stephan, Nicolas; Lemarié, Marine; Moisi, Alexandra; Rutzinger, Stefan; Schinegger, Kristina
year	2022
title	Approaching Architectonic Interfaces
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 24-33.
summary	The paper describes the notion of the “architectonic interface” and its design implementations and concludes with a corresponding design methodology. It summarizes key moments in interdisciplinary discourse in physics, ergonomics, philosophy, and cultural theory extended into the field of architecture, and further as related to a prototypical definition of an architectonic interface. This field-related definition guides the design process and informs it with four aspects: surface, relation, territorial space, and embodied interaction. These four aspects describe the associations between the elements of the interface, both animate and inanimate entities. To put to the test the architectonic interface, a robotic installation was developed as part of an architecture museum exhibition, which demonstrates the interface’s ability to create a space of interaction between users, robots, objects, and movements in both the physical and the virtual reality. This effectively generates a territory of dependencies between these actors through the medium of the architectural object as a data carrier emblematic of the architectonic interface.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	acadia22_44
id	acadia22_44
authors	Stuart-Smith, Robert; Darekar, Durgesh; Danahy, Patrick; Kocer, Basaran Bahadir; Pawar, Vijay; Kovac, Mirko ; ,
year	2022
title	Collective Aerial Additive Manufacturing
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 44-57.
summary	This paper proposes a multi-agent mission-planning robot control framework and simulation environment for Collective Aerial Additive Manufacturing (Collective AAM) together with an approach to the design of scaffold-free 3D shell geometries suited to Collective AAM’s adaptive and incremental approach to concurrent building.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	architectural_intelligence2022_6
id	architectural_intelligence2022_6
authors	Achim Menges, Fabian Kannenberg & Christoph Zechmeister
year	2022
title	Computational co-design of fibrous architecture
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s44223-022-00004-x
source	Architectural Intelligence Journal
summary	Fibrous architecture constitutes an alternative approach to conventional building systems and established construction methods. It shows the potential to converge architectural concerns such as spatial expression and structural elegance, with urgently required resource effectiveness and material efficiency, in a genuinely computational approach. Fundamental characteristics of fibre composite are shared with fibre structures in the natural world, enabling the transfer of design principles and providing a vast repertoire of inspiration. Robotic fabrication based on coreless filament winding, a technique to deposit resin impregnated fibre filaments with only minimal formwork, as well as integrative computational design methods are imperative to the development of complex fibrous building systems. Two projects, the BUGA Fibre Pavilion as an example for long-span structures, and Maison Fibre as an example of multi-storey architecture, showcase the application of those techniques in an architectural context and highlight areas of further research opportunities. The highly interrelated aesthetic, structural and fabrication characteristics of fibre nets are difficult to understand and go beyond a designer’s comprehension and intuition. An AI powered, self-learning agent system aims to extend and thoroughly explore the design space of fibre structures to unlock the full design potential coreless filament winding offers. In order to ensure feedback between all relevant design and performance criteria and enable interdisciplinary convergence, these novel design methods are embedded in a larger co-design framework. It formalizes the interaction of involved interdisciplinary domains and allows for interactive collaboration based on a central data model, serving as a base for design optimisation and exploration. To further advance research on fibre composites in architecture, bio-based materials are considered, continuing the journey of discovery of fibrous architecture to fundamentally rethinking design and construction towards a novel, computational material culture in architecture.
series	Architectural Intelligence
email
last changed	2025/01/09 15:00

_id	ascaad2022_013
id	ascaad2022_013
authors	Al-Suwaidi, Mohammed; Agkathidis, Asterios; Haidar, Adonis; Lombardi, Davide
year	2022
title	Application of Immersive Technologies in the Early Design Stage in Architecture Education: A Systematic Review
source	Hybrid Spaces of the Metaverse - Architecture in the Age of the Metaverse: Opportunities and Potentials [10th ASCAAD Conference Proceedings] Debbieh (Lebanon) [Virtual Conference] 12-13 October 2022, pp. 313-330
summary	This paper reviews existing research on the use of immersive technologies, Virtual Reality in particular, in various stages of the architectural design process. Nine research papers were systematically reviewed and analyzed. They were filtered down by using the keywords: ‘Virtual/Augmented Reality, Architectural Education, Gravity Sketch, Unity and Virtual Environments’ from two main databases that focus on digital and computer-aided design research: Cumulative Index about publications in Computer Aided Architectural Design (CuminCAD) and Elsevier's abstract and citation database (Scopus). The selection of papers was filtered down based on relevant approaches which investigate architectural design, creative thinking and teaching methodology using immersive technologies. Another criterion applied to the filtering process of the research papers is the exploration and integration process of new tools and overlapping external software to aid the existing workflow of the user. Our findings explore the evolution of immersive tools to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of virtual reality-based software and hardware, as a creative development tool in the field of education and practice. This paper also proposes a novel teaching methodology that incorporates immersive technologies in the early design phase of architectural education.
series	ASCAAD
email
last changed	2024/02/16 13:24

_id	acadia23_v1_136
id	acadia23_v1_136
authors	Alima, Natalia
year	2023
title	InterspeciesForms
source	ACADIA 2023: Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy [Volume 1: Projects Catalog of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. Denver. 26-28 October 2023. edited by A. Crawford, N. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, M. Swackhamer 136-143.
summary	The hybridization of architectural, biological and robotic agencies Situated in the field of architectural biodesign, InterspeciesForms explores a closer relationship between the fungus Pleurotus ostreatus and the designer in the creation of form. The intention of hybridizing mycelia’s agency of growth with architectural design intention is to generate novel, non-indexical crossbred designed outcomes that evolve preconceived notions of architectural form. Mycelium are threadlike fibrous root systems made up of hyphae, that form the vegetative part of a fungus (Jones 2020). Known as the hackers of the wood wide web (Simard 1997) mycelia form complex symbiotic relationships with other species that inhabit our earth. Michael Lim states “Fungi redefine resourcefulness, collaboration, resilience and symbiosis” (Lim 2022, p. 14). When wandering around the forest to connect with other species or searching for food, fungi form elaborate and entangled networks by spreading their hyphal tips. Shown in Figure 1, this living labyrinth results in the aesthetic formation of an intricate web. Due to the organisms ability to determine the most effective direction of growth, communicate with its surrounding ecosystem, and connect with other species, fungi are indeed an intelligent species with a unique aesthetic that must not be ignored. In drawing on these concepts, I refer to the organism’s ability to search for, tangle, and digest its surroundings as ‘mycelia agency of growth’. It is this specific behavioral characteristic that is the focus of this research, with which I, as the architect, set out to co-create and hybridize with.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
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