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_id	caadria2022_82
id	caadria2022_82
authors	Globa, Anastasia, Reinhardt, Dagmar, Keane, Adrienne and Davies, Peter
year	2022
title	Building Resilience - Using Parametric Modelling and Game Engines to Simulate the Impacts of Secondary Structures in Bushfire Events
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 749-758
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.749
summary	Bushfires are a global phenomenon, closely connected to climate change and safety, resilience and sustainability of cities and human settlements. Government agencies, architects and researchers across institutions are committed to improving Australia‚s resilience to bushfires yet grappling with ways to further mitigate risks. ‚Build back better‚ is the often-used phrase to support bushfire resilience, yet there remains a limited understanding of how secondary structures, such as storage sheds, garages, and fences contribute to or mitigate fire loss. These secondary structures are integral to properties yet fall, largely, outside land use planning approval processes and other regulations. Computational modelling can be adapted to deliver visualisations that increase awareness. We developed several simulation approaches which addressed distances, relationship to and the construction materials of secondary structures, terrain slopes and environmental forces. We conclude that gaming engines may offer the optimal immersive opportunity for residents and others to visualise fire risks related to secondary structures to increase awareness and improve bushfire readiness behaviours.
keywords	bushfire, auxiliary structures, game engine, visualisation modelling, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia23_v1_92
id	acadia23_v1_92
authors	Fishman, Cynthia
year	2023
title	BiomimicReality: An Interactive VR Environment Based on Biomimicry
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 92-97.
summary	Climate change is not a theoretical construct that might affect future generations; it is happening now. Wildfires, drought, and extreme temperatures are occurring throughout the world, and are projected to get worse. These environmental changes affect all species on this planet. Due to the overwhelming, depressing, and complex subject matter that is climate change, people can feel apathetic or tune out when it is being discussed, in addition to having feelings of hopelessness surrounding the future. These feelings are categorized as eco-anxiety (Ágoston et al. 2022, 1-3).
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	ecaade2022_366
id	ecaade2022_366
authors	Geropanta, Vasiliki, Karagianni, Anna, Parthenios, Panagiotis, Ampatzoglou, Triantafyllos, Fatouros, Loukas, Simantiraki, Vasiliki, Brokos-Melissaratos, Orestis and Eleftheriadis, Dimitris
year	2022
title	Digitalization of Participatory Greening - The case of UnionYouth in Chania
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 1, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 469–478
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.469
summary	The contemporary climate crisis pushed communities of actors, cities and citizens to use smart technology, digital platforms, and data-based intelligence to steer creative solutions for greening in their urban ecosystems. This phenomenon brought about an increasing imperative for citizen participation and inclusion, in the co-design of green infrastructures, suggesting alternative ways to deal with the lack or misuse of public space. In this framework, this paper analyzes the case of ''UnionYouth in Chania'', a project that aims a) to build an environmental awareness strategy for Generation Z, b) to promote capacity-building processes related to climate change and environmental protection, c) actually transform the city public space through participatory processes. Specifically, the project describes the creation of a digital platform and a mobile app consisting of several engagement tools that allow interaction between the digital community of youth, the city's decision-makers, and city greening actors. Therefore, the first part of the paper talks about the necessity of promoting today's participatory processes in the city for climate change mitigation through a literature review that emerged in the last decade. The second part of the paper examines a case study, namely UnionYouth in Chania, a digital collaborative platform that promotes methods for greening the city through district-based, activity-based, and network-based redesign solutions. The third part of the paper brings about interesting reflections on the relationship between the analog and digital world, and how bottom-up processes may be an important tool in city planning. The overall scope of the analysis of the specific case study is to bring insights into the architectural world, as a means to create more bridges with citizens and communities and contribute to their greening understanding.
keywords	Climate Change, Generation Z, Green Infrastructure, Raise Awareness, Mobile Application, Participatory Design, Smart City
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2022_360
id	caadria2022_360
authors	McMeel, Dermott and Petrovic, Emina K.
year	2022
title	Architecture Value Change in Response to the Anthropocene: The Contribution of Digital Innovation
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 415-424
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.415
summary	The confluence of different interests‚the Anthropocene, productivity, sustainability, economics‚calls for a need to re-think how the professions evaluate the built environment. There is a myriad of different strands of work under this umbrella which‚broadly‚point to a shift in the value framework for those people and professions who have agency in, and are responsible for, the creation of the built environment. This paper has two objectives. First, by drawing from the writing of architectural theorist Juhani Pallasmaa it teases out themes useful to conceptualise the value change. The goal is to delineate particular views around the creation of and our relation to the built environment. Second, it presents three projects: (1) tracking chemical composition of construction materials, (2) an app that encourages e-commerce in building multi-species environments, and (3) a concept for an economy in construction waste leveraging possibilities presented by blockchain technology. The aim is to shed light on how the emerging blockchain technology might alter values and organisational systems of the built environment in response to the Anthropocene and climate crisis.
keywords	Design, Anthropocene, Value Change, Blockchain, System Design, SDG 9, SDG 11, SDG 12
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2022_118
id	caadria2022_118
authors	Reitberger, Roland, Banihashemi, Farzan and Lang, Werner
year	2022
title	Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Combined Building Energy Simulation and Life Cycle Assessment, Implications for the Early Urban Design Process
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 629-638
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.629
summary	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a suitable approach for evaluating environmental impact (e.g. Global Warming Potential (GWP)) related to construction elements and building operation. Since both contribute significantly to the lifecycle based GWP of buildings, combined consideration is necessary. This applies especially for the early design stages when measures for climate change mitigation can be implemented in a cost-efficient manner. In this paper, we describe a sensitivity and uncertainty analysis (SA/UA) for energy simulation and LCA with a total of 8,000 parameter combinations. Thereby, we investigated valuable input for the setup of a collaborative design process with limited information. Standardised Regression Coefficients (SRCs) were used to obtain sensitivity and resulting uncertainties were investigated. The results indicate Primary Energy Source (PES), compactness and energy standard to be the most important information for the robustness of the combined LCA approach. Uncertainty can be reduced by e.g. defining the energy system in an early stage or by designing compact buildings. Related to the early design stages, the application of combined approaches for SA and UA is recommended, as the results differ for embodied and operational emissions.
keywords	early design stages, Sensitivity Analysis (SA), Uncertainty Analysis (UA), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), urban scale, synergy potential, SDG 13
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2022_169
id	caadria2022_169
authors	Xu, Hang and Wang, Tsung-Hsien
year	2022
title	An Integrated Parametric Generation and Computational Workflow to Support Sustainable City Planning
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 535-544
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.535
summary	To examine how efforts in the built environment can contribute to global climate change mitigation at the urban scale, urban building energy modelling (UBEM) is one of the research areas gaining increasing interest in recent years. However, limited studies systematically illustrate a comprehensive UBEM workflow for most architects and urban planners considering available public datasets, particularly at the early conceptual design phase. In current UBEM studies, major challenges arise from the lack of fine-grained measured urban data and incompatibility between software. To address these challenges and support future sustainable cities and communities, this paper proposed a streamlined computational workflow of UBEM to facilitate sustainable urban design development. Through a case study of Sheffield in the UK, this paper demonstrated an automated and standardised computational workflow that can test the decarbonisation potential in built environments by evaluating energy demand and supply scenarios at an urban scale. This workflow is envisaged to be applicable at various scales of an urban region given an appropriate geographic information system (GIS) dataset.
keywords	Parametric Design Generation, Urban Sustainability, Urban Building Energy Modelling, Building Performance Simulation, Renewable Energy, Decarbonisation, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2022_228
id	ecaade2022_228
authors	Körner, Andreas
year	2022
title	Chromogenic Composites - A case study combining thermochromics with heat transfer simulations and digital fabrication in architectural education
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 1, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 291–300
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.291
summary	Over the last few decades, environmental considerations have become increasingly important in architecture. To predict and simulate material changes and environmental forces can help architects to articulate surfaces. In architectural education, an increasing amount of the curricula are engaging with aspects of energy design, sustainability, and environmental simulations. The successful integration of related novel technologies in education has been demonstrated in the past. This paper documents a technical seminar that focused on the combination of digital environmental simulations and smart materials to create chromogenic prototypes for environmentally responsive architectural composites. Thermochromic chromogenics are substances that reversibly change colour depending on temperature. Specifically, the task was to come up with novel techniques to combine such materials with varying substrates to achieve dynamic panels. The course design was informed by a variety of design research and learning concepts. Students were asked to use digital heat transfer simulations to predict the smart material changes of computationally designed panels. Each of the eight idiosyncratic prototypes was modified with a variety of techniques and coated with thermochromic ink to achieve complex heat signature patterns. The resulting chromogenic composites were documented and analyzed using photos and infrared thermography. The seminar’s results showed that the three aspects (simulation, material, fabrication) can help to introduce eco-relevant technologies to design education. For this paper, both the outcomes and the course design itself were reviewed to better understand the co-creation process of the three aspects. This evaluation provided a rich repertoire of possibilities to combine different technologies for creative environmental design in architecture; all while maintaining an engaging teaching environment.
keywords	Education, Smart Materials, Simulation, Prototyping, Heat Transfer
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2022_33
id	caadria2022_33
authors	Alva, Pradeep, Mosteiro-Romero, Martin, Miller, Clayton and Stouffs, Rudi
year	2022
title	Digital Twin-Based Resilience Evaluation of District-Scale Archetypes
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 525-534
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.525
summary	District-scale energy demand models can be powerful tools for understanding interactions in complex urban areas and optimising energy systems in new developments. The process of coupling characteristics of urban environments with simulation software to achieve accurate results is nascent. We developed a digital twin through a web map application for a 170ha district-scale university campus as a pilot. The impact on the built environment is simulated with pandemic (COVID-19) and climate change scenarios. The former can be observed through varying occupancy rates and average cooling loads in the buildings during the lockdown period. The digital twin dashboard was built with visualisations of the 3D campus, real-time data from sensors, energy demand simulation results from the City Energy Analyst (CEA) tool, and occupancy rates from WiFi data. The ongoing work focuses on formulating a resilience assessment metric to measure the robustness of buildings to these disruptions. This district-scale digital twin demonstration can help in facilities management and planning applications. The results show that the digital twin approach can support decarbonising initiatives for cities.
keywords	Digital twin, City Information Modelling, Planning Support System, energy demand model, SGD 11, SGD 13
series	CAADRIA
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_id	sigradi2022_187
id	sigradi2022_187
authors	Andia, Alfredo
year	2022
title	SynBio-Design: Building new infrastructures and territories with Synthetic Biology.
source	Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF, Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, 7-11 November 2022 , pp. 1213–1224
summary	Which kind of imagination do we need for the future of our planet? In the past 150 years, we have completely transformed our biosphere. Today we have arrived at points of no return in global warming! The temperature of the Arctic Ocean will increase by 3-5°C by mid-century. This will lead to disastrous ocean acidification, sea-level rise, and worst of all the thawing of the permafrost that will release 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In this paper, we argue that building with biology will be the most important force to transform our planet. Since 2006, Synthetic Biology (SynBio) has surfaced as the fastest-growing technology in human history. SynBio involves emerging techniques that allow us to design, edit, and engineer all kinds of living organisms. In this paper, we elaborate on its potential development in growing infrastructures and its impacts on architectural thinking.
keywords	Bio-Inspired Design, Synthetic Biology, Bio-Architecture, Climate Change, Biotechnology
series	SIGraDi
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_id	caadria2022_59
id	caadria2022_59
authors	Banihashemi, Farzan, Reitberger, Roland and Lang, Werner
year	2022
title	Investigating Urban Heat Island and Vegetation Effects Under the Influence of Climate Change in Early Design Stages
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 679-688
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.679
summary	Different criteria need to be considered for optimal strategies in the early design stages of urban developments. Under the influence of climate change, the urban heat island effect (UHI) is a phenomenon that gains importance in the early design stages. Here, different parameters, for instance, vegetation ratio in the city district and building density, play a significant role in the UHI effect. These parameters need to be quantified through different simulation tools for optimal climate adaptation and mitigation measures on the urban district scale. However, not all parameters and their influence are clear to the decision-makers and actors in the early design stages. Hence, we propose a Monte Carlo based sensitivity analysis (SA) and uncertainty analysis (UA) to show the significance of different parameters and quantify them. The SA aims to identify the major influencing parameters, whereas the UA quantifies the effect on the energy performance and indoor thermal comfort of occupants. The workflow is integrated into a collaborative design platform and applied in a case study to support decision-makers in the early design stages for new developments, densification, or refurbishment scenarios.
keywords	Monte Carlo Simulation, Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, Building Energy Simulation, SDG 13, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2022_145
id	caadria2022_145
authors	Duering, Serjoscha, Fink, Theresa, Chronis, Angelos and Konig, Reinhard
year	2022
title	Environmental Performance Assessment - The Optimisation of High-Rises in Vienna
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 545-554
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.545
summary	Our cities are facing different kinds of challenges - in parallel to the urban transformation and densification, climate targets and objectives of decision-makers are on the daily agenda of planning. Therefore, the planning of new neighbourhoods and buildings in high-density areas is complex in many ways. It requires intelligent processes that automate specific aspects of planning and thus enable impact-oriented planning in the early phases. The impacts on environment, economy and society have to be considered for a sustainable planning result in order to make responsible decisions. The objective of this paper is to explore pathways towards a framework for the environmental performance assessment and the optimisation of high-rise buildings with a particular focus on processing large amounts of data in order to derive actionable insights. A development area in the urban centre of Vienna serves as case study to exemplify the potential of automated model generation and applying ML algorithm to accelerate simulation time and extend the design space of possible solutions. As a result, the generated designs are screened on the basis of their performance using a Design Space Exploration approach. The potential for optimisation is evaluated in terms of their environmental impact on the immediate environment.
keywords	simulation, prediction and evaluation, machine learning, computational modelling, digital design, high-rises, SGD 11, SDG 13
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2022_004
id	ascaad2022_004
authors	Falih, Zahraa; Mahdavinejad, Mohammadjavad; Tarawneh, Deyala; Al-Mamaniori, Hamza
year	2022
title	Solar Energy Control Strategy using Interactive Modules
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. 117-138
summary	The concept of interactive canopy emerged as a notable manifestation of smart buildings in architectural endeavors, using artificial intelligence applications in computational architecture, interactive canopies came as a potential response for living organisms to combat external environmental changes as well as reduce energy consumption in buildings. This research aims to explore architecture with higher efficiency through the impact of environmentally technological factors on the design form by introducing solar energy into the design process through the implementation of interactive curtains that interact with the sun in the form of an umbrella. The main objective of the umbrellas is to protect the users from the sun's harmful rays. After designing an interactive cell using Grasshopper, the methodology follows an analytical and experimental approach, the analytical section is summarized by conducting a case study of multiple models and analyzing the techniques used in these models to discover the significant advantages and disadvantages of the design. While the experimental section demonstrates the mechanism for implementing the interactive modules. The research suggests that by designing an interactive canopy that responds to external changes and senses solar radiation in ways that when the intensity of solar radiation increases and the sun is perpendicular to the dynamic units, will lead to maintaining a more balanced level of illumination. The work efficiency is studied by simulating it by Climate Studio.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	caadria2022_286
id	caadria2022_286
authors	Khean, Nariddh, During, Serjoscha, Chronis, Angelos, Konig, Reinhard and Haeusler, Matthias Hank
year	2022
title	An Assessment of Tool Interoperability and its Effect on Technological Uptake for Urban Microclimate Prediction with Deep Learning Models
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 273-282
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.1.273
summary	The benefits of deep learning (DL) models often overshadow the high costs associated with training them. Especially when the intention of the resultant model is a more climate resilient built environment, overlooking these costs are borderline hypocritical. However, the DL models that model natural phenomena‚conventionally simulated through predictable mathematical modelling‚don't succumb to the costly pitfalls of retraining when a model's predictions diverge from reality over time. Thus, the focus of this research will be on the application of DL models in urban microclimate simulations based on computational fluid dynamics. When applied, predicting wind factors through DL, rather than arduously simulating, can offer orders of magnitude of improved computational speed and costs. However, despite the plethora of research conducted on the training of such models, there is comparatively little work done on deploying them. This research posits: to truly use DL for climate resilience, it is not enough to simply train models, but also to deploy them in an environment conducive of rapid uptake with minimal barrier to entry. Thus, this research develops a Grasshopper plugin that offers planners and architects the benefits gained from DL. The outcomes of this research will be a tangible tool that practitioners can immediately use, toward making effectual change.
keywords	Deep Learning, Technological Adoption, Fluid Dynamics, Urban Microclimate Simulation, Grasshopper, SDG 11
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2022_344
id	caadria2022_344
authors	Krezlik, Adrian
year	2022
title	Considering Energy, Materials and Health Factors in Architectural Design, Two Renovation Strategies for the Portuguese Building Stock
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 619-628
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.619
summary	According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the built environment has a significant share in global final energy use, greenhouse gases emission, land-system change, and biodiversity loss to list some indicators. In Europe, the biggest challenge is to regenerate existing building stock to create a positive impact on Nature. The Portuguese housing stock is old: 56% is more than 30 years old, and it has a low level of thermal comfort and energy efficiency. The first thermal regulations appeared in 1990 and therefore most of the houses need urgent renovation to meet EU decarbonization goals, and to improve energy efficiency, as well as well-being and comfort of residents. This paper presents a method that aims to verify existing solutions known from vernacular architecture as complementary to existing strategies. It employs digital simulation to verify whether they could be used for renovation, measuring their impact on human and planetary health. The paper shows that there is a wide spectrum of parameters that influence the renovation process and that it is possible to enhance building performance using vernacular knowledge.
keywords	Building Energy Modelling, Life Cycle Assessment, Occupant Health, Energy Renovation, Vernacular Mimicry, SDG 3, SDG 11, SDG 13
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ijac202220301
id	ijac202220301
authors	Martins, Iago Longue; Ana Paula Lyra
year	2022
title	Development and application of an algorithmic-parametric tool to assess the contribution of urban forestry to mitigate floods
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2022, Vol. 20 - no. 3, pp. 496–510
summary	As an impact of climate change, water-related disasters, such as floods, are becoming more frequent. In this context, there is an increasing demand to improve the resiliency of urban settlements, using multiple approaches and techniques. This paper assesses one of those techniques, by developing an algorithmicparametric tool to quantify how urban forestry reduces flood impacts from rainfall runoff. The assessment was comprised by three main methodological steps: (#1) observing the scientific literature on “the sponge effect” observed in green infrastructures; (#2) developing an algorithmic-parametric tool using the Grasshopper application to estimate rainfall runoff, considering the influence of urban forestry design factors; and (#3) performing digital simulations with this parametric tool using a Rhinoceros-Grasshopper interface. Results indicate this method is effective in assessing the efficacy of green interventions to mitigate urban flood damage and also in foreseeing how different design strategies impact urban hydrological dynamics.
keywords	parametric analysis, urban forestry, climate change, urban planning, water-resilient cities
series	journal
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_id	caadria2022_276
id	caadria2022_276
authors	Mondal, Tushar
year	2022
title	Autonomous Transhumance
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 253-262
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.253
summary	The Arctic is a zone of confluent resources where climate change has begun disrupting the once stable ecological and transhumant lifestyles. Encroachment on pastureland by oil, gas and mining facilities limit reindeer herding activity, and the presence of such infrastructure continues to alter their sensory perceptions and consequently their capacity to read and navigate their environment. Parallel to this, thawing permafrost results in the release of gaseous methane, causing landforms called pingos to explode without detectable warning. This paper proposes a strategy for adapting to these rapid changes by implementing an autonomous system to balance the Arctic ecology through two mutual dependent interventions- (1) Regenerating the pingos to prevent explosion and create new pastoral lands. (2) Seasonally herding the reindeer to these new pastures. The project uses primary data, physical tests, and current technological tools to inform the discourse and suggest a derivative solution. Advanced computational tools like machine learning, robotics, and simulations are used to speculate upon the post-carbon Arctic ecology. The project performs through a strategy of local interventions, networking the living and non-living agents in a tight rope act that balances the Arctic ecology.
keywords	Arctic, Pingo, Regenerated Landscape, Reindeer, Autonomous Herding, SDG 13, SDG 15
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia22_506
id	acadia22_506
authors	Ozarisoy, Bertug; Altan, Hasim
year	2022
title	Passive Cooling Strategies for Thriving in a Changing Climate
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. 506-523.
summary	This paper investigates the thermal performance of 288 flats in three different nationally representative collective housing archetypes in the southeastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where the climate is subtropical (Csa) and partly semi-arid (Bsh), as designated in the Köppen climate classification system. The participants’ experiences and thermal sensation votes were assessed to predict individual aspects of adaptive thermal comfort, and the relevance thereof on overheating, and in situ measurements—including indoor air temperatures, thermal imaging survey, recorded building-fabric-element heat fluxes, on-site environmental conditions monitoring, and review of household energy bills to accurately determine actual energy use—were collected
series	ACADIA
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_id	sigradi2022_164
id	sigradi2022_164
authors	Rodriguez Cortez, Fernando Hernan; Gatica Laurie, Braulio Alfonso; Garcia-Alvarado, Rodrigo
year	2022
title	Hydrological recovery of the landscape through generative design.
source	Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF, Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, 7-11 November 2022 , pp. 1113–1122
summary	The climate crisis confronts us with global scenarios of water deficiency, which leads us to optimize rainwater harvesting (RWH) methods applied to landscapes. These are sophisticated projects with high technical investment per hectare designed and executed. Therefore, to balance the cost of engineering, through advanced digital design tools, it has become an objective to use landscape architecture as a resource for mitigating water deficit and climate change. In order to restore the relationship between the natural and built environment through virtual processing. This work exposes a new geometric analysis methodology, verified in a case study, which applies generative parametric programming to increase the water capacity of a natural landscape. This work demonstrates the potential of digital design for the ecological recovery of the territory.
keywords	Smart Cities and Environments, Sustainable Design, Generative Design, Mixed realities, hydrological design
series	SIGraDi
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_id	acadia22_536
id	acadia22_536
authors	Tian, Hui; Yao, Jiali; Tu, Shimin
year	2022
title	The Potential of Mitigating Urban Heat Island with Vacant Lands in Philadelphia
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. 536-545.
summary	Under the context of climate change, the urban heat island (UHI) is a challenging problem in Philadelphia as the number of days with extreme heat every year keeps increasing. Taking into account limited green space but a considerable amount of vacant lands in Philadelphia, we would test the cooling effect of greening vacant lands in UHI by exploring the quantitative relationship between land covers and Land Surface Temperature (LST) with novel machine learning technologies.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	sigradi2022_92
id	sigradi2022_92
authors	Vaez Afshar, Sepehr; Aytaç, Gülºen; Eshaghi, Sarvin; Vaez Afshar, Sana
year	2022
title	Online Footprint - A serious game for reducing digital carbon emission
source	Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF, Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, 7-11 November 2022 , pp. 1043–1052
summary	Life is getting digital more than ever as technology improves. While the Internet is responsible for two percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is underestimated as a pollutant. Since public awareness is one of the most important preservation methods, it can contribute to protecting the environment from carbon emissions by raising people's understanding. In this regard, serious games, as a type of gamification transmitting educational content besides entertainment, immerse the player in enjoyment while teaching them a specific topic or enhancing their skills in a field. This study proposes a serious game, taking the digital unseen carbon footprint and its effects on the landscape into the topic. The game considers SDG goals provided by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. In this regard, the research uses SDGs 4 and 7 by providing quality education for all and access to sustainable energy by changing people's everyday habits.
keywords	Online learning, Internet footprint, Climate change, Serious games, SDGs
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2023/05/16 16:57

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