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_id	ecaade2022_217
id	ecaade2022_217
authors	Panagiotidou, Vasiliki and Koerner, Andreas
year	2022
title	From Intricate to Coarse and Back - A voxel-based workflow to approximate high-res geometries for digital environmental simulations
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.491
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. 491–500
summary	Digital environmental simulations can present a computational bottleneck concerning the complexity of geometry. Therefore, a series of workarounds, ranging from cloud-based solutions to machine learning simulations as surrogate simulations are conventionally applied in practice. Concurrently, contemporary advances in procedural modelling in architecture result in design concepts with high polygon counts. This leads to an ever- increasing resolution discrepancy between design and analysis models. Responding to this problem, this research presents a step-by-step approximation workflow for handling and transferring high-resolution geometries between procedural modelling and environmental simulation software. The workflow is intended to allow designers to quickly assess a design’s interaction with environmental parameters such as airflow and solar radiation and further articulate them. A controllable voxelization procedure is applied to approximate the original geometry and therefore reduce the resolution. Controllable in this context refers to the user’s ability to locally adjust the voxel resolution to fit design needs. After export and simulation, 3d results are imported back into the design environment. The colour properties are re-mapped onto the original high- resolution geometry following a weighted proximity technique. The developed data transfer pipeline allows designers to integrate environmental analysis during initial design steps, which is essential for accessibility in the design profession. This can help to environmentally inform generative designs as well as to make simulation workflows more accessible when working with a wider range of geometries. In this, it reduces the perceived discrepancy between the concept and simulation model. This eases the use and allows a wider audience of users to develop co-creation processes between computation, architecture, and environment.
keywords	Simulation, Accessibility, Computation, Environmental Data, Workflow
series	eCAADe
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_id	ascaad2022_099
id	ascaad2022_099
authors	Sencan, Inanc
year	2022
title	Progeny: A Grasshopper Plug-in that Augments Cellular Automata Algorithms for 3D Form Explorations
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. 377-391
summary	Cellular automata (CA) is a well-known computation method introduced by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s. Since then, it has been studied in various fields such as computer science, biology, physics, chemistry, and art. The Classic CA algorithm is a calculation of a grid of cells' binary states based on neighboring cells and a set of rules. With the variation of these parameters, the CA algorithm has evolved into alternative versions such as 3D CA, Multiple neighborhood CA, Multiple rules CA, and Stochastic CA (Url-1). As a rule-based generative algorithm, CA has been used as a bottom-up design approach in the architectural design process in the search for form (Frazer,1995; Dinçer et al., 2014), in simulating the displacement of individuals in space, and in revealing complex relations at the urban scale (Güzelci, 2013). There are implementations of CA tools in 3D design software for designers as additional scripts or plug-ins. However, these often have limited ability to create customized CA algorithms by the designer. This study aims to create a customizable framework for 3D CA algorithms to be used in 3D form explorations by designers. Grasshopper3D, which is a visual scripting environment in Rhinoceros 3D, is used to implement the framework. The main difference between this work and the current Grasshopper3D plug-ins for CA simulation is the customizability and the real-time control of the framework. The parameters that allow the CA algorithm to be customized are; the initial state of the 3D grid, neighborhood conditions, cell states and rules. CA algorithms are created for each customizable parameter using the framework. Those algorithms are evaluated based on the ability to generate form. A voxel-based approach is used to generate geometry from the points created by the 3D cellular automata. In future, forms generated using this framework can be used as a form generating tool for digital environments.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	ecaade2022_113
id	ecaade2022_113
authors	van Son, Nicholas A. and Prado, Marshall
year	2022
title	Computational Schematic Design Utilizing Self-Organizing Programmatic Agents - A novel approach to visualizing and organizing urban and architectural data
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.095
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 95–104
summary	Architectural design requires the negotiation of a wide variety of often conflicting constraints and conditions. This puts a tremendous burden on designers to understand and evaluate all the design and site parameters in the conceptual phase of the project. Design methodologies that utilize conventional means of representation such as site diagrams, maps, or other orthographic projections may not be adequate to produce truly integrative design solutions. They often simplify conditions for user clarity or eliminate volumetric and temporal data entirely. As computational design tools develop and the mapping of georeferenced urban data becomes more commonplace, it becomes possible to integrate spatial information into design strategies and evaluate various relationships more effectively. Taking clues from medical imaging, voxel data is used to represent volumetric gradients in material properties and densities of spatial conditions. This method can be used to generate morphogenic spatial analysis of an existing site. The research presented here explores how self-organizing programmatic agents can use this analysis and embedded behaviors to visualize performative schematic design scenarios. These agents, which represent a variety of functional spaces, programmatic requirements, design constraints, and value sets, can negotiate the myriad of environmental and socio- economic site conditions as well as interact with other adaptive programmatic spaces. Each agent can iteratively search for the space that best suits the desired conditions of its program. Various agents compete for space so the overall performance of the spatial arrangement is maximized. This self-organizing spatial system presents a novel and viable means for designers to more effectively implement both urban data and computational design methods into architectural design scenarios.
keywords	Agent-based Modeling, Voxels, Generative Design, Self-Organizing, Urban Data Mapping, Optimization, Spatial Analysis
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2022_290
id	ecaade2022_290
authors	Yalçinkaya, Sezgi and Çolakoglu, Meryem Birgül
year	2022
title	A Visibility Algorithm Based on Voxel Modelling Method Developed for Architectural Geometries
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.057
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 57–66
summary	A visibility algorithm has been developed and practiced on the iconic towers of Istanbul from various locations with multiple observation points. This research accepts visibility as a binary subject and limited subjective perspectives. Using visibility as a design strategy is a prevalent technique for designers. Applying visibility aspects to the design is an outcome of psychological research in the 60s. Benedikt was the first person who added visibility to his architectural studies. Visibility refers to being able to see or be seen from a distance. This research accepts and practices this definition on two iconic towers of the city of Istanbul with the model MoV (Model of Visibility) developed. The implantation of the developed model is represented with the voxel modeling method. To be able to provide volumetric data, voxel-based representation was explicitly applied to the digital models of iconic towers. This representation model aimed to illustrate and quantify the visible and non-visible areas according to the location of the observation point’s visibility range.
keywords	Visibility, Isovist, Algorithym, Iconic Structures, Visibility Values, Developed Algorithm
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2024/04/22 07:10

_id	acadia23_v1_116
id	acadia23_v1_116
authors	Derme, Tiziano; Mitterberger, Daniela
year	2023
title	Sylva: An Autonomous Hydroponic Garden Cared for by Two Robots
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 116-121.
summary	Sylva is an autonomous hydroponic garden, hanging in mid-air and maintained by two robots. Sylva was built for the Princesa of Asturias Foundation in Oviedo, Spain (Figure 1). The aim of the installation was to visualize a live and growing data set in architectural and geometric terms. For this, we designed a robotic garden that changes and grows according to this dataset. This indoor habitat combined various disciplines, including botany, computer vision, robotics, and architectural design. The synthesis of these interdisciplinary components into a cohesive landscape reflects current debates on ecology and the relationship between nature, machines, and automation (Figure 2). It further investigates the role of gardens and nature in the architecture domain. Currently, such a relationship has often been associated with practices of exploitation, domination, and taming of the natural (Blais 2022). Sylva, on the contrary, sees in the typology of the garden an opportunity to expand the term “ecology in architecture” towards new forms of technological mediation ( Derme and Mitterberger 2022).
series	ACADIA
type	project
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_id	ecaade2022_70
id	ecaade2022_70
authors	Kavuncuoglu, Canberk, Akgün, Yenal and Özener, Ozan Önder
year	2022
title	Kinetic Architecture and BIM Integration - A case study on a Bricard linkage canopy system
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.243
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. 243–252
summary	This paper presents a case study focusing on BIM integration to kinetic structure design based on an extended kinetic BIM (KBIM) ontology through a Bricard linkage canopy system. With the parametric abstraction of structural system components and kinematic behaviors, the design process was carried out in a BIM environment using KBIM models and objects. The study results show the effectiveness of the proposed KBIM framework for the synthesis and assessment of design alternatives according to total system performance, architectonic composition, and environmental responsiveness.
keywords	BIM, Kinetic Architecture, Bricard Linkage, Parametric Design
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2022_168
id	sigradi2022_168
authors	Koh, Immanuel
year	2022
title	Palette2Interior Architecture: From Syntactic and Semantic Colour Palettes to Generative Interiors with Deep Learning
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. 187–198
summary	Colour palettes have long played a significant role in not only capturing design ambience (e.g., as mood boards), but more significantly, in translating an abstract intuition into an explicit ordering mechanism for design representation and synthesis, whether it is in the discipline of graphic design, interior design or architectural design. Might this difficult process of design synthesis from a low-dimensional colour input domain to a high-dimensional spatial design output domain be computationally mapped? Using today’s generative adversarial networks (GANs), the paper aims to investigate this plausibility, and in doing so, hoping to envision an AI-augmented design workflow and tooling. Newly-created datasets are made procedurally and used to train three different types of deep learning models in the specific context of generating living room interior layouts. The results suggest that a combination of syntactic and semantic generative processes is necessary for a critical appropriation of such AI models
keywords	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Neural Networks, Colour Palette, Interior Design
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2023/05/16 16:55

_id	ascaad2023_042
id	ascaad2023_042
authors	Žigmundová, Viktória; Suchánková, Kateøina; Stretavská, Antónia; Míèa, Jakub; Rayne, Taylor; Tsikoliya, Shota ; ,
year	2023
title	Additive Manufacturing of Mycelium Composites for Sustainable Landscape Architecture
source	C+++: Computation, Culture, and Context – Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Arab Society for Computation in Architecture, Art and Design (ASCAAD), University of Petra, Amman, Jordan [Hybrid Conference] 7-9 November 2023, pp. 863-877.
summary	This study explores the potential of mycelium composites as a sustainable and eco-friendly material for landscape architecture in the context of today's global climate and environmental crisis. Mycelium, the vegetative part of fungi, has shown promising properties such as acoustic and thermal insulation, biodegradability, and environmental performance (Vasatko et al., 2022). The central remit of this research is in proposing bespoke computational and robotic fabrication methods and workflows for investigating the performance of mycelial materials and observing their properties and growth response. Taken together, the topic of this paper is to illustrate the application and composition of such fabrication techniques as an integrated multi-material system, capable of combining the complex, organic relationships between clay, lignocellulosic substrate, and fungi with a focus on the potential of such composite materials for implementation within the built environment. Outlined here are the processes and procedures essential to this multi-material fabrication framework, including a detailed account of a series of substrate material mixtures and printed clay scaffold geometries, both of which exhibit properties informed by the material synthesis and fabrication process. We foremost propose the strategic mixing of different substrate types to be 3D printed with clay as a strategy for probing the optimization of mycelial overgrowth and binding to the 3D printed geometries. Subsequently, we proceed in detailing the study’s approach and process of 3D printing the mixtures of recycled material, drying the geometry, and sterilizing the final design once inoculated with the mycelium. Ultimately, we motivate this research in pursuit of further understanding of mycelium's material and mycoremediation capacities in service of more environmentally responsive and responsible architectural applications.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2024/02/13 14:34

_id	ecaade2022_270
id	ecaade2022_270
authors	Akcay Kavakoglu, Aysegul, Almac, Bihter, Eser, Begum and Alacam, Sema
year	2022
title	AI Driven Creativity in Early Design Education - A pedagogical approach in the age of Industry 5.0
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.133
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. 133–142
summary	This study presents a pedagogical experiment on the integration of AI into the project studio in the early stages of design education. The motivation of the study is to support creative encounters in design studios by promoting student-design representation, student-student, and student-artificial intelligence (AI) interaction. In the scope of this study, a short-term studio project is used as a case study to examine these creative encounters. The experiment covers five stages that enable a recursive analysis-synthesis action. The stages include (i) precedent analysis of a given set of building façades images, (ii) feature extraction, (iii) composing new façade representations through employing previously generated features, (iv) training an AI by the use of styleGAN2-ADA with the outcomes of stage 3, (v) Use of synthetically generated façade images as a design driver. The pedagogical experiment is evaluated through the lenses of novelty, style, surprisingness, and complexity concepts. The challenges and potentials are introduced, as well as elaborations on the future directions of the interplay between AI-oriented making and first-year student making.
keywords	Artificial Intelligence, Computational Creativity, Design Education, StyleGAN2-ADA
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia22_742
id	acadia22_742
authors	Leach, Neil
year	2022
title	What is Creativity?
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. 742-751.
summary	This paper explores what we can perhaps begin to understand about the nature of creativity in the mirror of AI, with reference to the now famous Go match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol. It argues that one particular famous move in that match sheds light on some of the crucial questions regarding creativity. It compares this move to the ‘smart’ architectural designs generated by AI, and asks whether computers can be creative, or whether they are simply conducting a ‘search and synthesis’ operation. Finally, the paper asks the provocative question, as to whether creativity even exists, or whether it is a myth that can now be debunked, thanks to our insights from the world of AI.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	ecaade2022_42
id	ecaade2022_42
authors	Liu, Xuehan, Wang, Likai and Ji, Guohua
year	2022
title	Optimization Approaches in Performance-Based Architectural Design - A comparison study
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.599
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. 599–608
summary	Over the past decade, computational design optimization has been increasingly applied to the studies related to early-stage architectural design exploration and information extraction, in which various optimization approaches have been adopted such as single- objective optimization (SOO) and multi-objective optimization (MOO). Despite this, the impact of optimization approaches on information extraction has been relatively under- researched. In this regard, this paper presents a comparison study of different optimization approaches, with a special focus on search efficiency and information extraction. In the comparison study, we investigate the impact of different optimization approaches on information extraction and design cognition and finally, discuss the utility of these approaches to architectural design ideation and synthesis.
keywords	Computational Design, Design Optimization, Design Exploration, Performance-based Design, Early-stage Architectural Design
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2022_279
id	sigradi2022_279
authors	Torreblanca-Díaz, David A.
year	2022
title	Biodigital Jewelry Through Parametric Design and Additive Fabrication Technologies
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. 1237–1248
summary	Traditional jewelry is the result of knowledge that have been inherited from generation to generation, a traditional activity focused on the skills and manual dexterity of the artisan. In recent decades, a new paradigm for jewelry has emerged thanks to the integration of parametric design and digital additive fabrication technologies. A design project was proposed, aimed to create a series of jewels connecting nature, emotions, and digital technologies. The following methodological sequence was carried out (1) Selection of referents from nature (2) Design concept (3) Parameterized morphological synthesis (4) Morphological explorations (5) Detailed design (6) Materialization through additive fabrication technologies (7) User testing and emotional evaluation (8) Conclusions and improvement proposal. People perceived that the proposals were based on nature, there was a tendency towards positive emotions, such as fascination, desire, pride and hope. Finally, the methods used can be used in other design projects.
keywords	Bio-inspired design, Biophilic design, Parametric design, Digital fabrication technologies, Additive fabrication technologies
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2023/05/16 16:57

_id	sigradi2022_116
id	sigradi2022_116
authors	Torreblanca-Díaz, David A.; Velásquez Pena, Juan Pablo
year	2022
title	Biodigital Product Design Through Additive Fabrication Technologies: Stool Project
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. 1189–1200
summary	Designers and architects have widely used references from nature for their projects; bioinformed design has had a significant evolution in recent decades, largely thanks to digital technologies advantages, especially digital fabrication and parametric software. This text presents the process of design, experimentation and materialization of a stool based on three-dimensional patterns extracted from nature. The project followed this methodological sequence (1) Selection of biological referents (2) Morphologic synthesis (3) Compression test (4) Analysis of thicknesses and stress (5) Fabrication of 1:1 scale prototype through Fused Deposition Modelling technology -FDM- (6) User testing (7) Conclusions and improvement proposal. The 1:1 scale prototype fabrication process presented various challenges in terms of dimensions, printing times and costs. Finally, the prototype demonstrated that it is possible to materialize functional and resistant objects through FDM; the proposed goals were achieved in the context of a valuable experience, as a result of a transdisciplinary collaboration.
keywords	Biomimicry, Biodigital design, Parametric design, Additive fabrication technologies, Fused deposition modelling technology
series	SIGraDi
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_id	ecaade2022_168
id	ecaade2022_168
authors	Abdulmawla, Abdulmalik, Schneider, Sven, Koenig, Reinhard, Bielik, Martin and Fuchkina, Ekaterina
year	2022
title	Parametric Urban Data Structuring and Spatial Query - Advanced data mapping and selection methods for parametric modelling environments
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.277
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 277–286
summary	This paper presents a method for organising urban data inside the CAD environment into a hierarchical structure, which promotes the ease of transferring information between all available urban elements, from streets to buildings passing by the plots and blocks. This is done using parametric methods that map the urban data using the available CAD and GIS records. Finally, the paper presents a couple of example scenarios where such methods are most needed and how much they could facilitate more detailed and complex data to be accessed, compared, and analysed.
keywords	Urban Query, Urban Geometry, Spatial Mapping
series	eCAADe
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_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
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_id	ecaade2022_202
id	ecaade2022_202
authors	Acican, Oyku and Luyten, Laurens
year	2022
title	Experiential Learning of Structural Systems - Comparison of design-based and experiment-based pedagogies
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.535
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 535–544
summary	This research aims to compare two experiential learning methods’ effectiveness for (1) a deeper understanding of structural behaviour, and (2) skills to design architectural forms that are structurally informed. A course was planned to investigate the effect of the type and order of the two teaching units: (1) guided experiments on a parametric design model, and (2) parametric design of a tower and custom experiments using Grasshopper and Karamba. Results indicate that the group that started with the experiments learned to ask the relevant questions by experimenting with the appropriate parameters that helped them to find the structural principles and apply them during their design phase. The group that started with the design were lost in the structural concepts and in identifying the meaningful parameters to test for. However, after the experiment was completed, this group could make a knowledge transfer. Acquisition of structures knowledge may require the experience of multiple situations while the application of this knowledge may involve selecting the relevant structural experience with the architectural form-finding process. In the future, a proposed experiential learning method will be compared with an instructive learning approach of structural systems for architecture students.
keywords	Structures Education, Experiential Learning, Parametric Structural Analysis, Comparative Pedagogy
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2022_234
id	ecaade2022_234
authors	Afsar, Secil, Estévez, Alberto T., Abdallah, Yomna K., Turhan, Gozde Damla, Ozel, Berfin and Doyuran, Aslihan
year	2022
title	Activating Co-Creation Methodologies of 3D Printing with Biocomposites Developed from Local Organic Wastes
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.215
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. 215–224
summary	Compared to the take-make-waste-oriented linear economy model, the circular model has been studied since the 1980s. Due to consumption-oriented lifestyles along with having a tendency of considering waste materials as trash, studies on sustainable materials management (SMM) have remained at a theoretical level or created temporary and limited impacts. To ensure SMM supports The European Green Deal, there is a necessity of developing top-down and bottom-up strategies simultaneously, which can be metaphorized as digging a tunnel from two different directions to meet in the middle of a mountain. In parallel with the New European Bauhaus concept, this research aims to create a case study for boosting bottom-up and data-driven methodologies to produce short-loop products made of bio-based biocomposite materials from local food & organic wastes. The Architecture departments of two universities from different countries collaborated to practice these design democratization methodologies using data transfer paths. The 3D printable models, firmware code, and detailed explanation of working with a customized 3D printer paste extruder were shared using online tools. Accordingly, the bio-based biocomposite recipe from eggshell, xanthan gum, and citric acid, which can be provided from local shops, food & organic wastes, was investigated concurrently to enhance its printability feature for generating interior design elements such as a vase or vertical gardening unit. While sharing each step from open-source platforms with adding snapshots and videos allows further development between two universities, it also makes room for other researchers/makers/designers to replicate the process/product. By combining modern manufacturing and traditional crafting methods with materials produced with DIY techniques from local resources, and using global data transfer platforms to transfer data instead of products themselves, this research seeks to unlock the value of co-creative design practices for SMM.
keywords	Sustainable Materials Management, Co-Creation, Food Waste, 3D Printing, New European Bauhaus
series	eCAADe
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_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
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_id	ijac202220108
id	ijac202220108
authors	Alsalman, Osama; Halil Erhan
year	2022
title	D-ART for collaboration in evaluating design alternatives
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2022, Vol. 20 - no. 1, pp. 114–128
summary	Evaluating design ideas is an integral part of designing built environments. It involves multiple stakeholders with diverse backgrounds reviewing design solutions by studying their form and performance data. Although there are computational systems for supporting evaluation tasks, they are either highly specialised for designers or configured for a particular workflow with limited functions. We developed a Design Analytics method aiming at a collaborative and data-driven evaluation of alternatives in the design-evaluate-feedback cycle. Adopting this approach, we introduce D-ART as a prototype system composed of customisable Web interfaces for presenting design alternatives, enabling stakeholders to participate in data-informed discourse on alternatives and providing feedback to the design team. Its system design considers requirements gathered through literature review, critical analysis of the existing systems and collaboration with our industry partners. Finally, we assessed D-ART’s design through an expert review evaluation, which generally reported positive results on the system’s goals.
keywords	Data-driven design, participatory design, design analytics, design alternatives, visual analytics, design evaluation
series	journal
last changed	2024/04/17 14:29

_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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