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_id	ecaade2011_051
id	ecaade2011_051
authors	Marcos, Carlos L.
year	2011
title	New materiality: ideation, representation and digital fabrication
source	RESPECTING FRAGILE PLACES [29th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-9-4912070-1-3], University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture (Slovenia) 21-24 September 2011, pp.351-360
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2011.351
wos	WOS:000335665500040
summary	Digital fabrication has become the true counterpoint to computer aided design in architecture. Thanks to new C.A.D./C.A.M. technologies architectural design can now manufacture complex buildings that only a decade ago could have been almost impossible to develop. This convergence between C.A.D./C.A.M. technologies is producing a trend from construction to manufacturing. Arbitrariness of architectural form should not be confused with arbitrariness of architectural design, the latter being contradictory with the very essence of design. Conventional or digital architecture must achieve design consistency and must rely on architecture’s basic principle, that of necessity. New materiality is a term being coined in relation to digital fabrication and the way it should address materiality in architecture. Innovation in the use of conventional materials, the ways in which they may be manufactured or tiled, as well as the emergence of new materials may outline what new materiality is about.
keywords	Digital fabrication; new materiality; ideation; representation; open form
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/05/01 23:21

_id	ecaade2012_279
id	ecaade2012_279
authors	Marcos, Carlos L.
year	2012
title	Beyond Phenomenal or Literal Transparency: Physical Digitality
source	Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-3-7, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. 551-560
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.2.551
wos	WOS:000330320600058
summary	The interesting distinction established by Collin Rowe and Robert Slutzky regarding the concept of transparency in modern architecture can be further enriched in relation to digital architecture and the new ways in which architects may address the design of material limits. The polarity between materiality and virtuality, between being and appearance is challenged with the concept of eversion and could lead to what we have referred to as virtual transparency. The intricate performative latticed skins designed and fabricated thanks to C.A.D./C.A.M. techniques have produced different states of transparent visual effects that either conceal or partially suggest silhouettes producing latticed transparencies. Finally, the development of next generation liquid crystal displays may introduce highly responsive transparent membranes in architecture allowing a one step further virtual transparency that could be described as translucent transparency.
keywords	Phenomenal transparency; eversion; virtual transparency; latticed transparency; translucent transparency
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ecaade2015_127
id	ecaade2015_127
authors	Marcos, Carlos L. and Fernández, AngelJ
year	2015
title	Spacing Time - Engaging Temporality in the Realm of Architectural Space
source	Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 613-622
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.2.613
wos	WOS:000372316000068
summary	The paper is a theoretical approach regarding digital architecture, performance and time. It tries to reflect on the philosophical taxonomy of time -cosmological, phenomenological and narrative- and how digitally conscious architectural design developed by architects, media artists, engineers and multidisciplinary teams address the engagement of the architectural space in real-time. The traditional static conception of architecture is altered through performativity and the ideals of permanence and endurance radically questioned. The research also constitutes a reflection on interaction, participation and performance in an ample sense with regard to performative architecture and some urban implications it may entail. Various examples addressing these topics mainly installed or built during the last decade exemplify the different issues that the paper reflects on. A critical reading of the installations and the intelligent-façades commented is posed to the reader together with the conceptual implications the different performative approaches involve and the goals they may achieve. The question remains if buildings instead of being or meaning should, more than ever, perform.
series	eCAADe
email
more	https://mh-engage.ltcc.tuwien.ac.at/engage/ui/watch.html?id=5a611bf8-693a-11e5-b815-00190f04dc4c
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ecaade2018_363
id	ecaade2018_363
authors	Marcos, Carlos L. and Pignatelli Fernández de Arévalo, Pedro
year	2018
title	Diagrammatic Approaches in Architectural Design - Addressing architectural and urban design through the use of diagrams
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 595-604
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.595
summary	Diagrams have an extraordinary potential as a tool for the analysis of architectural and urban problems.They can also be considered a design strategy in themselves according to Eisenman's understanding of this graphic notation system. Diagrams have proved to be a valid design tool for architecture beyond the professional practice within the design studio. Students were given a design tool which was alien to their previous practices and it worked well as a propositional graphic device for the design of an architectural artefact. As a graphic tool that may be embodied in grids the possibility to enrich the design by superimposition techniques may well serve as a trigger for collaborative work, embedding in the design different layers of meaning and design solutions proposed by various students enhancing a level of complexity which the proposal of a single student may not achieve. From a didactic point of view, the use of these design strategy among the class, enabled to tackle different problems so that the work in the urban scale was also successfully addressed as part of the course aims.
keywords	diagrams; architectural design; urban design; collaborative work
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ecaade2017_257
id	ecaade2017_257
authors	Marcos, Carlos L., Capone, Mara and Lanzara, Emanuela
year	2017
title	Digitally Conscious Design - From the Ideation of a Lamp to its Fabrication as a Case Study
source	Fioravanti, A, Cursi, S, Elahmar, S, Gargaro, S, Loffreda, G, Novembri, G, Trento, A (eds.), ShoCK! - Sharing Computational Knowledge! - Proceedings of the 35th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 20-22 September 2017, pp. 219-228
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2017.2.219
summary	This research tries to reflect on the idea of digitally conscious design, from the inception to the manufacturing process of a prototype. A theoretical reflection on the topic is followed by the discussion about the results at two different universities (Alicante and Naples) where students have been proposed a similar assignment: a digitally conscious design of a lamp. In Alicante, the methodological approach was guided by the relation of the ideation process and the use of specific digital fabrication strategies; students were encouraged to develop and rework their designs taking into account the way in which they should be digitally fabricated. In Naples the teaching proposal involved a disciplinary approach; a deep understanding of the digital fabrication processes including the manufacturing limitations of the machinery employed involving a precise geometric control over the design. In both cases, students had to face a real study case of the design and production making use of digital tools. This comprehensive approach implied the consideration of the project as a process making students aware of the difficulties of getting their ideas materialised through digital fabrication and how their designs had to evolve in order to step over the problems encountered in the manufacturing process in different ways.
keywords	digital consciousness; digital fabrication; digital ideation; design constraints
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	sigradi2009_788
id	sigradi2009_788
authors	Marcos, Micheline Helen Cot
year	2009
title	Análise da Emissão de CO2 em Edificações através do Uso de uma Ferramenta CAD-BIM [Analysis of CO2 emission in construction using a CAD-BIM system]
source	SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16-18, 2009
summary	The main objective of this research is to determine through the use of a CAD-BIM system, the emission of CO2 in the pre-operational phase of construction. Based on a case study in quantitative analysis of materials and the BIM system, it was possible to quantify the amount of CO2 emitted during the pre-operational life cycle of a building. By using this feature you can provide, before the begining of construction, the total CO2 that will released to the environment, and other analysis.
keywords	Emissão de CO2; fase pré-operacional; ciclo de vida; CAD-BIM; ArchiCad
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	acadia13_423
id	acadia13_423
authors	Marcu, Mara
year	2013
title	Sambó
source	ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture [Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-926724-22-5] Cambridge 24-26 October, 2013), pp. 423-424
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2013.423
summary	The research speculates on the adaptability of the Jeffersonian alcove bed, triple hung window, truncated pyramid skylight and octagonal porch, all embedded in a programmatic wall, as the basis for the mythically charged, paradoxical Jeffersonian Sambó.
keywords	archaic/avant-garde.
series	ACADIA
type	Research Poster
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia15_110
id	acadia15_110
authors	Marcu, Mara; Tang, Ming
year	2015
title	Data Mapping and Ornament in Digital Craft
source	ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene [Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-53726-8] Cincinnati 19-25 October, 2015), pp. 110-120
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2015.110
summary	With an ever-increasing index of digital artifacts, we have begun to exhaust variation as an adaptive technique. The problem with incremental modulation (here understood as sequential and slowly progressing change of a set of parameters within a field condition) is that in essence it leads to morphologically equivalent and, hence, repetitive patterns of habitation. While the role of variation proved key in pushing forward an essential body of research testing and optimizing principles of mass customization, its residual effects become critically disconcerting. This paper presents an investigation of tectonic mutations for the generation of form, seen through data simulation experiments and machining artifacts. Through several projects we investigate the effects of ornament created as a result of the new relationship between generative modeling, simulation, and fabrication in the digital age. Subject to (de)generative mutation techniques, ornament can be under-stood as a result of overlaid data, whether the data is performance related or not, in both massing and surface conditions. This new working methodology will mitigate between the incertitude regarding time, history and memory, and by reinventing their relation it will reassess ornament’s agency within the digital culture. Design methods are extended by exploring, collecting, analyzing, and representing data through various materialization processes. Design is therefore reconsidered as being injected with the concepts of data driven design and dependent on the inter-play between performance and aesthetics. In this way, we consider the footprint - or the subsequent impact - of the human onto the nonhuman using artificial intelligence as a medium. These intentionally or accidentally engraved layers of information begin to describe potential trajectories of novel survival modes in the Anthropocene.
keywords	Data mapping, ornament, generative modeling, simulation, CNC fabrication, degenerative mutation
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	cdrf2021_211
id	cdrf2021_211
authors	Marcus Farr, Andrea Macruz, and Alexandre Ulson
year	2021
title	Material Response: Technology, Material Systems and Responsive Design
source	Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_20
summary	This paper investigates the role technology and materials play in making meaningful connections between people, architectural space and the workplace. It indicates that design can synergize with responsive technology and material systems to leverage new power for future workplace interaction design. We have created a spatial prototype paired with a series of simulations that act as a proposal to stimulate workplace interaction. The project employs a responsive ceiling that combines a fluid computational pattern with temperature-responsive bi-material laminates with thermochromic coatings and electrically programmed micro-controllers. The project is then connected to a computer code that computes readings based upon ongoing interactions with humans wearing body sensors. The methodology categorizes the simulation results into aroused states and calm states. As the computational patterns and colors change, we are made aware of the relationships between space, technology, and the human sensorium. This conversation brings insight into how we can design more effectively for workplace interactions.
series	cdrf
email
last changed	2022/09/29 07:53

_id	cdrf2022_408
id	cdrf2022_408
authors	Marcus Farr
year	2022
title	Bio-digital Sand Logics: Dune Sand Material and Computational Design
source	Proceedings of the 2022 DigitalFUTURES The 4st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022)
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8637-6_35
summary	This paper discusses the creation of a new sand-based material, performative testing, and the computational logic involved in the design of a prototypical architectural system. Dune sand is known to be an unstable material compared to river or marine sand and as a result it is not normally used for construction. Because of this, desert regions have grown a reliance upon imported materials creating massive sustainability issues due to large scale global shipping, importation and resource extraction. This research indicates there is a viable opportunity to leverage dune sand as an ongoing line of inquiry for material science and design in local desert regions. It establishes that there is very little architectural research being done in this particular area. The methodology begins with experiments in bio-material using dune sand as a compound, and then establishes a construction system based upon a manifold of experiments. Along with material investigations, the process uses a Scientific Testing Method (STM) and Hypothesis in Action (HIA) as part of the testing methodology.
series	cdrf
email
last changed	2024/05/29 14:03

_id	acadia14_167
id	acadia14_167
authors	Marcus, Adam
year	2014
title	Centennial Chromagraph: Data Spatialization and Computational Craft
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 167-176
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.167
summary	This paper describes the design, fabrication, and assembly process of Centennial Chromagraph, a large-scale installation recently constructed for the centennial anniversary of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. The project is an exercise in data spatialization: using computational design tools to generate formal and spatial constructions with large quantities of information.
keywords	Category: Generative Design / Big Data; Keywords: data spatialization, big data, computational design, digital fabrication, digital craft, information aesthetics
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia14projects_19
id	acadia14projects_19
authors	Marcus, Adam
year	2014
title	Modular Variations
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Projects of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9789126724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 19-22
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.019
summary	Modular Variations is a design research project that investigates the notion of variation as it relates to contemporary techniques of computational design. The project explores this question by developing reconfigurable molds constructed from a set of finite, simple components and capable of producing a large range of variable cast plaster modules that can be stacked into a wall assembly.
keywords	Category: Computational Design Research; Keywords: digital fabrication, computational design, variation, mass customization, reconfigurable molds
series	ACADIA
type	Research Projects
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia21_204
id	acadia21_204
authors	Marcus, Adam
year	2021
title	Arbor: Tectonic Contingencies and Ecological Engagement
source	ACADIA 2021: Realignments: Toward Critical Computation [Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-986-08056-7]. Online and Global. 3-6 November 2021. edited by B. Bogosian, K. Dörfler, B. Farahi, J. Garcia del Castillo y López, J. Grant, V. Noel, S. Parascho, and J. Scott. 204-209.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2021.204
summary	Arbor is a data spatialization of the urban forest of Palo Alto, California. The sculptural installation consists of 120 ribs arranged radially within King Plaza fronting Palo Alto City Hall. It uses the database of over 45,000 public trees in the city’s Open Data Portal (City of Palo Alto, n.d.) as the basis for a collective, three-dimensional map of one aspect of the city’s ecology. The installation performs like a compass, with each rib corresponding directionally to a respective “pie slice” of territory raiding outwards from City Hall. The trees are represented by bumps on the outer edge of each rib, so the zones with more trees result in ribs with more relief. The ribs are arranged in a circle, gradually changing in height, profile, and color to create a dynamic form that is different from each side
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2023/10/22 12:06

_id	acadia14projects_75
id	acadia14projects_75
authors	Marcus, Adam; Ikeda, Margaret; Jones, Evan
year	2014
title	Architecture In The Making: Performance, Prototyping, and Pedagogy at Full Scale
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Projects of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9789126724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp.75-78
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.075.2
summary	This research documents the output of an Integrated Building Design studio taught at California College of the Arts in spring, 2014. The studio partnered with the Autodesk / Instructables Pier 9 Workshop to produce a series of full-scale metal facade prototypes that demonstrate comprehensive understanding of performance, detail, and assembly.
keywords	Category: Digital fabrication and construction; Keywords: fabrication, prototyping, pedagogy, performance-driven design, collaboration, computational design
series	ACADIA
type	Research Projects
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia18_414
id	acadia18_414
authors	Marcus, Adam; Ikeda, Margaret; Jones, Evan; Metcalf, Taylor; Oliver, John; Hammerstrom, Kamille; Gossard, Daniel
year	2018
title	Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab. Optimized upside-down benthos for sea level rise adaptation
source	ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. [Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-17729-7] Mexico City, Mexico 18-20 October, 2018, pp. 414-423
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2018.414
summary	This paper describes the Buoyant Ecologies project, an ongoing research collaboration between architects, marine ecologists, and manufacturers focused on developing integrated architectural, ecological, and material responses to climate change and sea level rise. The research employs techniques of design computation and robotic fabrication to develop an approach to coastal resilience that is rooted in material performance as it relates to marine habitats. The project explores the design and production of highly performative fiber-reinforced polymer substrates that interact productively with the underwater ecosystem to promote multi-scalar habitats for invertebrate animals, encouraging ecological diversity and serving as wave-attenuating structures that mitigate coastal erosion. In this regard, the research leverages computational workflows of modeling, simulation, and fabrication to interface between human and nonhuman species in a way that benefits the broader ecosystem. The paper discusses an iterative prototyping process that has led to the design and construction of the Float Lab, a larger-scale prototype of a floating breakwater.
keywords	full paper, materials & adaptive systems, performance + simulation, digital fabrication, collaboration
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia18_46
id	acadia18_46
authors	Marcus, Adam; Kudless, Andrew
year	2018
title	Drawing Codes. Experimental protocols of architectural representation
source	ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. [Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-17729-7] Mexico City, Mexico 18-20 October, 2018, pp. 46-55
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2018.046
summary	Emerging technologies of design and production have largely changed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has greatly diminished. As our design tools have increasingly become computational and the production of our drawings have become predominantly automated, this paper examines the effects on the architectural discipline and attempts to catalog examples of how artists, designers, architects, and programmers have used rule-based techniques in the process of drawing as a critical act in their process. Furthermore, the paper presents the Drawing Codes project, an ongoing research and exhibition platform that critically investigates the intersection of code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment. The project features commissioned drawings by a range of contemporary architects and designers as a means of gathering a diverse set of perspectives on how computational techniques, but more importantly, computational thinking, can reexamine the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.
keywords	full paper, design theory & history, representation + perception, procedural design, art and technology
series	ACADIA
type	paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia23_v1_160
id	acadia23_v1_160
authors	Marcus, Adam; Rossi-Mastracci, Jessica
year	2023
title	Earthen Tectonics: Digitally Fabricated Form Liners for Modular Rammed Earth Fabrication
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 160-165.
summary	This project melds digital and analog workflows to test methods for integrating digital fabrication into traditional practices of rammed earth construction. Developed in two separate workshops with students at the University of Minnesota and California College of the Arts, the research experiments with the use of digitally-fabricated form liners in the production of rammed earth modules that can accommodate a variety of variable and performative textures (Figure 1). The work includes material experimentation to test optimal mixtures, compositions, tamping techniques, and the possibilities of including bio-based, recycled, or harvested materials. Custom fabricated liners are integrated into conventional formworks to produce highly variable earthen modules, conceived as an alternative to concrete and other more carbon-intensive materials.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2024/04/17 13:58

_id	53c6
authors	Mardaljevic, John
year	2000
title	Daylight Simulation: Validation, Sky Models and Daylight Coefficients
source	De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
summary	The application of lighting simulation techniques for daylight illuminance modelling in architectural spaces is described in this thesis. The prediction tool used for all the work described here is the Radiance lighting simulation system. An overview of the features and capabilities of the Radiance system is presented. Daylight simulation using the Radiance system is described in some detail. The relation between physical quantities and the lighting simulation parameters is made clear in a series of progressively more complex examples. Effective use of the inter-reflection calculation is described. The illuminance calculation is validated under real sky conditions for a full-size office space. The simulation model used sky luminance patterns that were based directly on measurements. Internal illuminance predictions are compared with measurements for 754 skies that cover a wide range of naturally occurring conditions. The processing of the sky luminance measurements for the lighting simulation is described. The accuracy of the illuminance predictions is shown to be, in the main, comparable with the accuracy of the model input data. There were a number of predictions with low accuracy. Evidence is presented to show that these result from imprecision in the model specification - such as, uncertainty of the circumsolar luminance - rather than the prediction algorithms themselves. Procedures to visualise and reduce illuminance and lighting-related data are presented. The ability of sky models to reproduce measured sky luminance patterns for the purpose of predicting internal illuminance is investigated. Four sky models and two sky models blends are assessed. Predictions of internal illuminance using sky models/blends are compared against those using measured sky luminance patterns. The sky model blends and the Perez All-weather model are shown to perform comparably well. Illuminance predictions using measured skies however were invariably better than those using sky models/blends. Several formulations of the daylight coefficient approach for predicting time varying illuminances are presented. Radiance is used to predict the daylight coefficients from which internal illuminances are derived. The form and magnitude of the daylight coefficients are related to the scene geometry and the discretisation scheme. Internal illuminances are derived for four daylight coefficient formulations based on the measured luminance patterns for the 754 skies. For the best of the formulations, the accuracy of the daylight coefficient derived illuminances is shown to be comparable to that using the standard Radiance calculation method. The use of the daylight coefficient approach to both accurately and efficiently predict hourly internal daylight illuminance levels for an entire year is described. Daylight coefficients are invariant to building orientation for a fixed building configuration. This property of daylight coefficients is exploited to yield hourly internal illuminances for a full year as a function of building orientation. Visual data analysis techniques are used to display and process the massive number of derived illuminances.
series	thesis:PhD
email
more	http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/~jm/thesis/
last changed	2003/02/12 22:37

_id	ddssar0224
id	ddssar0224
authors	Mardjono, F., Trum, H.M.G.J. and Janssen, J.
year	2002
title	Development of a Decision Support Tool for Bamboo Building Design
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Sixth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part one: Architecture Proceedings Avegoor, the Netherlands), 2002
summary	The design process of a bamboo building is sometimes very complex for building designers, since there is no accepted design methodology for it. This process may be caused by a lack of relevant information provided to the designer. Based on this issue, this paper proposes a decision support system for application in bamboo building design that might be helpful for the designer in his/her design process. For this purpose, a decision support tool for bamboo building design process is being developed. Thedevelopment of the tool uses approaches, i.e. a taxonomy of bamboo building to identify the design problems, IDEFÆ to model the decision support tool, and develops a dedicated tool for Bamboo building design process. This tool has been tested in an international bamboo-housing workshop, hence results, suggestions, and recommendations from the workshop will be analysed. With this tool, the bamboo-building designer can make a bamboo building design in a systematic way. This tool also helpsthe designer to be as best informed, explicit, correct, and complete as possible during the design process.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	ddssar0020
id	ddssar0020
authors	Mardjono, Fitri
year	2000
title	Development of a decision support system for bamboo building design
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Fifth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part one: Architecture Proceedings (Nijkerk, the Netherlands)
summary	Bamboo, the fastest growing woody plant, is used as a common building material in bamboo-growing countries and recently also in non-bamboo-growing countries. In spite of this fact, building designers or users of a building have problems using bamboo as a building material since they lack information and guidance in how to use bamboo. This paper proposes a decision support system (DSS) that might be useful for designers when they design a bamboo building. It presents an early-stage design process of bamboo building and the development of a DSS. The architecture of this system is based on the theory of DSS and knowledge of bamboo that should be integrated in the design process of bamboo building. So there are three components: a DSS, design process, and knowledge of bamboo. The process starts with determination of the building system, database construction of bamboo building parts, and the rule for using bamboo in each building part. The process focuses on systematisation of each design stage and integration of the building parts to construct a monolith bamboo building. The purpose of systematisation is to offer designers a means of categorising problem solving during the design process in terms of, for example, assumption, criteria, alternatives, and acceptable solutions.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

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