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_id	cf2003_m_079
id	cf2003_m_079
authors	PETRIC, J., CONTI, G. and UCELLI, G.
year	2003
title	Designing within Virtual Worlds
source	Digital Design - Research and Practice [Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures / ISBN 1-4020-1210-1] Tainan (Taiwan) 13–15 October 2003, pp. 213-224
summary	This paper celebrates the successful outcome of a trial of an innovative multi-platform distributed design decision support system in which the shared design environment exists within the virtual world. The outcome is the result of a sustained three-year research and development effort, within an internationally recognised research group. The project set itself a number of ambitious targets within the broad spectrum of distributed design decision support, viz: • A multi-platform environment: the trial demonstrates inter-operability of different machine platforms - from a home PC to an international standard Virtual Reality Centre. • A distributed environment: the trial demonstrates the high level of understanding amongst the design team separated by time and space. • An ability to propose, discuss and agree upon, design decision from within the virtual world. Hitherto, virtual environments were viewing galleries; designers had to leave them to effect design changes in a conventional CAD package. The trial described in the paper amply demonstrates the potential to design, collaboratively and, in distributed mode, from within the virtual world. The two ideas upon which the system (known as JCAD-VR) is built are: • That all the users present in the virtual world have to be able to share the same virtual environment in a "transparent fashion"; • The user interface, instead of the traditional menu/windows based layout, is part of the virtual world itself. Any element of the interface becomes an object belonging to the 3D world and therefore it is treated as any other object. Each element of the interface can then be moved or scaled according to the user’s needs. The entire project is based on client-server architecture where every user logs into a virtual world and starts sharing design tasks with other users. The authors propose to present a video which demonstrates the positive outcome of the trials to date. More importantly, perhaps, the authors will put the achievements of the R+D into the context of past aspirations and developments in the subject area and, most importantly of all, suggest how these modest achievements will impact on the next decade of increasingly rapid R+D.
keywords	collaboration, distributed design, interface, virtual environment
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2003/09/22 12:21

_id	e81e
authors	Petric, J., Ucelli, G. and Conti, G.
year	2002
title	Participatory Design in Collaborative Virtual Environments
source	SIGraDi 2002 - [Proceedings of the 6th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Caracas (Venezuela) 27-29 november 2002, pp. 159-162
summary	This paper re-establishes the theoretical framework for participatory design evolved in the late sixties and early seventies as part of the movement towards a more explicit design methodology and attempts an explanation of why the concept failed to gain commitment from the architectural and urban design professionals. The issue of user participation in the processes of building and urban design is enjoying renewed attention following its relative neglect over the last 20 years due, in large measure, to significant advances in emerging information technologies, particularly multimedia, virtual reality and internettechnologies. This paper then gives an account of two significant and relevant developments in the evolution of the application of informationtechnologies with which the authors have been engaged. These are:a responsive and interactive interface to wholly immersive and realistic virtual reality representations of proposed buildings and urban neighbourhoods. an intuitive and platform-independent VR modelling environment allowing collaborative evolution of the scheme from withinthe virtual world. The efficacy of these IT developments is tested in the context of a design exercise in which three designers, from distributedlocations and using different computer platforms, collaboratively design an Information Centre from within the virtual world.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:57

_id	caadria2003_b6-3
id	caadria2003_b6-3
authors	Petric, Jelena and Lindsay, Malcolm
year	2003
title	Digital Prototyping
source	CAADRIA 2003 [Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 974-9584-13-9] Bangkok Thailand 18-20 October 2003, pp. 837-852
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2003.837
summary	This paper summarises existing technologies for both visual and physical prototyping of buildings. It recounts the R+D carried out in the ABACUS Group at the University of Strathclyde to secure the seamless transition of a digital prototype for a building from a PC model to a Virtual Environment Laboratory, for interactive immersive viewing, and subsequently to a Rapid Prototyping facility, for the creation of a physical scale model. Examples are drawn from architecture practice and from architectural education..
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	sigradi2003_095
id	sigradi2003_095
authors	Petric, Jelena and Maver, Tom
year	2003
title	Digital Prototyping in the Architectural Design Studio
source	SIGraDi 2003 - [Proceedings of the 7th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Rosario Argentina 5-7 november 2003
summary	This paper describes the inter-related use of three digital prototyping technologies by undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture and Building Science at the University of Strathclyde. These are: virtual reality computer graphics (CG), rapid manufacture (RM) of physical scale models from digital data, and acquisition of digital data relating to the shape of a physical object by some form of laser scanning (LS). The paper describes two experiments - one relating to housing, the other to a transport museum - to determine how seamlessly, accurately and usefully the (student) architect can move from one technology to another in the course of design.
keywords	Computer graphics, rapid manufacture, laser scanning
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:57

_id	ecaade03_013_88_petric
id	ecaade03_013_88_petric
authors	Petric, Jelena and Maver, Tom
year	2003
title	Virtual Reality, Rapid Prototyping and Shape Grabbing - A New Generation of Tools in the Architectural Design Studio
source	Digital Design [21th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-1-6] Graz (Austria) 17-20 September 2003, pp. 13-16
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2003.013
summary	Virtual Reality (VR) and to some extent Rapid Prototyping (RP) are established in the design studios of the more progressive Schools of Architecture; Shape Grabbing (SG) - i.e. the capture of digital information from a physical 3D model - much less so. This paper recounts an experiment conducted by a third/fourth year student which explores one Shape Grabbing technology as a means of closing the VR/RP/SG cycle.
keywords	Shape grab, laser scan, rapid prototype
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.abacus.strath.ac.uk
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	457b
authors	Petric, Jelena and Maver, Tom
year	1993
title	CAD in the Design Studio
source	[eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Eindhoven (The Netherlands) 11-13 November 1993
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1993.x.r4w
summary	This paper summarised a multi-media presentation which was authored without tuition by a 4th year student of the Department of Architecture & Building Science in the University of Strathclyde - Lindsay Johnston. In it she gives a detailed account of a 12 week project to design a Primary School relying very heavily on computer aided design support. It was a requirement of the brief that the design produced by the student should come within the (severe) cost, area and energy consumption constraints set out in the brief.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	e898
authors	Petric, Jelena and Maver, Tom
year	2001
title	Education for the Virtual Age
source	Architectural Information Management [19th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-8-1] Helsinki (Finland) 29-31 August 2001, pp. 176-179
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2001.176
summary	This paper suggests that the theoretic framework devised in the late 1960s to help structure the IT curriculum in Schools of Architecture has served the community of teachers and students well but must be re-visited to take proper account of the recent and rapid developments in Virtual Reality and Real Virtuality. The paper offers definitions which differentiate these terms and suggests that the emerging technologies will have a major impact on the issues of sustainability, user participation and creativity. It ends with an appeal for the discussion of the theoretical and philosophical ideas raised by virtuality, and the development of the skills to test them, to be put at the heart of the architectural agenda and curriculum.
keywords	Virtual Reality, Real Virtuality, Design Theory, Architectural Curriculum
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	a706
authors	Petric, Jelena
year	1997
title	Use of Multi-Media in the Design of a Community Media Centre
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.k1u
summary	This paper describes the innovative use of a range of multi-media information technologies: a) to analyse the economic, social, cultural and political factors which relate to the proposed site for a new Media Centre in a deprived area of Glasgow.; b) to model the physical characteristics of the site and its vicinity; c) to explain to, and encourage participation of the community in the evaluation of design ideas for the Media Centre and thereby create a "media culture"
keywords	Multi-Media
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/petric/petric.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	e22f
authors	Petric, Jelena
year	2000
title	Time for a Reality Check
source	Promise and Reality: State of the Art versus State of Practice in Computing for the Design and Planning Process [18th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-6-5] Weimar (Germany) 22-24 June 2000, pp. 317-320
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2000.317
summary	In this current era it is the information technologies that has set the stage for the drama of human life to be acted out. The information revolution has created global links on a scale unparalleled in human history. With exciting explorations into virtuality (the current buzz word) our life experiences, dreams and ambitions will be mapped into cyber-space and our "real" reality will become indistinguishable from our virtual reality. We are on the verge of experiencing a complete sensory immersion in this man-made cyber-dream. We will be able to enter virtual space that has as much richness and tangible quality as the world from which it sprang.
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.uni-weimar.de/ecaade/
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	ecaade2020_243
id	ecaade2020_243
authors	Petrov, Martin and Walker, James
year	2020
title	Optioneering Methods for Optimization - Methods of exploring primary and secondary performance criteria in urban design
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 29-36
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.029
summary	Architectural design optimization (ADO) is the notion of satisfying performance criteria within a constraint parameter space to find the best solution with the least trade-offs. This process tends to produce a vast amount of designs of varying quality and requires design space exploration (DSE) to review the myriad of designs so that an optimal candidate for design development can be chosen. This paper will explore different applied workflows for using optimization in an urban design competition, which seek to overcome the limitations of using optimization and DSE with a time constraint.
keywords	Optioneering; Architectural Design Optimization; Design Space Exploration; Multi-Objective Optimization; Genetic Algorithms
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	ef46
authors	Petrovic, I.
year	1991
title	Integrative Knowledge-Based Design Systems : A View
source	The Computer Integrated Future, CIB W78 Seminar September, 1991. Unnumbered : ill. includes bibliography.
summary	The paper describes a recent project whose objective was to redesign GIMSEX-PERT, an existing architectural knowledge- based design system developed in 1987. Its critical generative problems appeared to be the rigid structure and limited evaluation criteria. The project's outcome is DESTOOLS, based on the 'object-oriented-methodology' inspired by the traditional trial-and-error approach. It includes a set of interchangeable design methods that can be applied interactively by any desired sequence, producing or transforming a GIMS Building System object. Such 'moderately- loose' system structure offers flexibility in use, avoids pitfalls of knowledge-based design systems with rigid structure, and is applicable in design research, education and practice
keywords	knowledge base, design, architecture, methods, systems, education, practice, integration, evaluation
series	CADline
last changed	2003/06/02 13:58

_id	0ec7
authors	Petrovic, I.K.
year	1996
title	Computer design agents and creative interfaces
source	Automation in Construction 5 (3) (1996) pp. 151-159
summary	The paper describes computer design agents, their relationships with creative interfaces, and some experiments in producing novel designs. The problems of further research in this field are outlined.
series	journal paper
more	http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon
last changed	2003/05/15 21:23

_id	a4e9
authors	Petrovic, Igor and Svetel, Igor
year	1999
title	From Number Cruncher to Digital Being: The Changing Role of Computer in CAAD
source	Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 33-39
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.033
summary	The paper reflects on a thirteen-year period of CAAD research and development by a small group of researchers and practitioners. Starting with simple algorithmic drafting programmes, the work transcended to expert systems and distributed artificial intelligence, using computers as tools. The research cycle is about to begin afresh; computers in the next century shall not be detached entities but the extensions of man. The computer shall be the medium that will enable a designer to be what he/she really is. This future has already begun.
keywords	History of CAAD, CAAD Design Paradigms, CAADfuture
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	8e62
authors	Petrovic, Ivan and Svetel, Igor
year	1993
title	A Sketch of a Distributed Architectural Design System
source	[eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Eindhoven (The Netherlands) 11-13 November 1993
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1993.x.m8f
summary	The system is composed of design agents acting on the object-to-be-designed model. The system has no central control. Problem-solving is performed at the local level. The most important agents at present are: ARCH: A Generator, OYSTER: An Evaluator and PDP-AAM Interpreter, PDP-AAM: A Neural-Net-Based Evaluator and Generator.
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	c95f
authors	Petrovic, Ivan and Svetel, Igor
year	1994
title	Conversation on Design Action: By Men or by Machines?
source	The Virtual Studio [Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design / ISBN 0-9523687-0-6] Glasgow (Scotland) 7-10 September 1994, pp. 15-23
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1994.015
summary	A design studio of the future shall be based on dislocated, distributed design services, and feature the ‘design by collaboration’ enabled by the computer transmitted information. However, in a collaborative design process, computer may take an additional role, i.e., as an “ultimately structured dynamic communication medium ... based on the notion of commitment and interpretation” (Winograd and Flores 1987). Various models of ‘intelligent’ design systems based on the ideas of ‘open, distributed, artificial intelligence systems’ have shown that the computer-based design agents which act on the object-to-be-designed model could be involved in a “conversation for action” (Winograd and Flores, Ibid.). The aim of the paper is to illustrate a computer-based design system that enables ‘a-kind-of’ conversations by the design agents before the design decisions were made. After the description of a design experiment and the conversation that went on between the design agents, the traits of the applied ‘design design system’ are discussed.
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	cd81
authors	Petrovic, Ivan K.
year	1995
title	A FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES OF COMPUTER DESIGN AGENTS
source	Computing in Design - Enabling, Capturing and Sharing Ideas [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-04-7] University of Washington (Seattle, Washington / USA) October 19-22, 1995, pp. 171-186
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1995.171
summary	The paper presents a progress report on a project investigating the possible application of a framework for cooperative-activities of computer design agents in the conceptual phase of architectural design. A process leading to definition of the expected performances of design agents is desribed, and some possible applications illustrated. The framework includes not only the objective, but also, the "subjective" agents. It is expected that the framework would offer an insight into the intricacies of CAAD in an educational environment, and provide the exploration paths and an efficient production of alternative solutions in an office.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	0924
authors	Petrovic, Ivan K.
year	1998
title	IT as Design Enabling Technology
source	Computerised Craftsmanship [eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Paris (France) 24-26 September 1998, pp. 178-84
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1998.178
summary	The purpose of this paper is to present a recent design offer for design and realisation of a sizable housing development. The computers were significantly involved in both, making the offer, and organisation of project design phase. The story illustrates some interesting relationships between IT and certain types of design problems. The paper presents how the offer was prepared, discuss whether the computers would be beneficial in getting the design tasks done, and finally, pose the question whether such design tasks could be achieved without the help of computers. The explicit design tasks and use of the computer tools make this case of "computerised craftsmenhip" appropriate for presentation in educational environments.
series	eCAADe
more	http://www.paris-valdemarne.archi.fr/archive/ecaade98/html/19petrovic/index.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	6a67
authors	Petrovic, Ivan
year	1997
title	Computer Design Agents in a Brainstorming Session
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.h8n
summary	We are exploring possibility of using computer design agents that can perform in a manner loosely resembling that of human designers, and conform their performance to the participants in a brainstorming session during a design process.
keywords	CAAD, Design Methodology, Subjective Evaluation
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/petrovic/Petrovic.html
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	ecaadesigradi2019_467
id	ecaadesigradi2019_467
authors	Petrš, Jan, Dahy, Hanaa and Florián, Miloš
year	2019
title	From MoleMOD to MoleSTRING - Design of self-assembly structures actuated by shareable soft robots
source	Sousa, JP, Xavier, JP and Castro Henriques, G (eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 3, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 179-188
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.3.179
summary	This paper proposes a self-assembling system for architectural application. It is a reaction to current building crisis and high energy consumption by building industry. This Unique system is based on a reconfiguration of passive elements by low-cost soft robots able to move inside as well as configure them into 2D/3D structures similar to recent Modular robots. A goal is to significantly reduce the high price and complexity of state of the art modular robots by minimization of mechatronic parts and using soft materials. The concept focuses on life-cycle management when one system can achieve assembly, reconfiguration, and disassembly with a minimum of waste. The paper compares three different versions of a self-assembly system called MoleMOD: MoleCUBE, MoleCHAIN, and MoleSTRING.
keywords	Self-assembly; Soft robotics; Modular robotics; Reconfigurable string; Adaptive architecture
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

_id	ecaade2017_089
id	ecaade2017_089
authors	Petrš, Jan, Havelka, Jan, Florián, Miloš and Novák, Jan
year	2017
title	MoleMOD - On Design specification and applications of a self-reconfigurable constructional robotic system
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. 159-166
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2017.2.159
summary	The paper explores the use of in-house developed self-reconfigurable modular robotic system in civil construction activities and investigates a concept where an arbitrary Civil Engineering structure or a daily use industrial product are self-assembled from a number of self-reconfigurable composite blocks. The system extends current range of modular robot systems (mDrs) where autonomous modules self-assemble into a wide variety of forms. However, contrary to conventional mDrs, MoleMOD has not mechatronic actuating parts permanently fixed to each individual module. The MoleMOD actuators are separable and operate inside the modules, tight them together or relocate them to required configuration. It significantly reduces number of expensive mechatronics parts and the environment the actuators operate. Although MoleMOD focuses on architecture, it can take over other mDrs tasks as research and rescue. This paper describes properties, advantages, foreseen applications, and basic design specifications of the second generation prototype.
keywords	Modular robotic systems; Mobile robotic systems; Adaptive architecture; MoleMOD; Smart materials and structures; Multi-robot systems
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 08:00

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