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_id	sigradi2012_47
id	sigradi2012_47
authors	Menegotto, José Luis
year	2012
title	Fachada Cinética: aplicando aritmética modular para controlar padrões de movimento [Kinetic facade: applying modular arithmetic for controlling movement patterns]
source	SIGraDi 2012 [Proceedings of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Brasil - Fortaleza 13-16 November 2012, pp. 388-391
summary	This article reports the experience of creating a support application for designing kinetic facades. The tool´s goal is the creation of a visual simulation system that permits full control over the movement of geometric patterns. In this case, we try to control the variation of polarized glasses used on architectural facades. The study presents a modeling technique of geometrical grids created and controlled by modular arithmetic operations. The programmed algorithm allows performing periodic geometric patterns. The research is aimed at formalizing a library of patterns and types of possible movements through ratings and an abstract symbolic representation.
keywords	BIM; AutoCAD; kinetics facades; AutoLISP
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	cf2015_381
id	cf2015_381
authors	Menegotto, José Luis
year	2015
title	A framework for speech-oriented CAD and BIM systems
source	The next city - New technologies and the future of the built environment [16th International Conference CAAD Futures 2015. Sao Paulo, July 8-10, 2015. Electronic Proceedings/ ISBN 978-85-85783-53-2] Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 8-10, 2015, pp. 381.
summary	This article discusses the development of a Speech Oriented Graphics Interface embedded in CAD and BIM software. The aim is to provide the means to work with complex 3D BIM models with minimal touch operations. We can cite the growing need for tools and user interfaces to assist designers in handling complex models, minimizing the risk of producing changes accidentally. In this area, the integration of a graphical database in BIM applications can be seen as an advantage over traditional CAD applications. However, we can note a difficulty in this integration, due to the need to maintain the constant levels of mental concentration required in order to effectively manage a larger inter-connected graphical database. Specifically in this area, voice interfaces can help by avoiding the need of "touch" to work with the 3D models, looking for improving its robustness and consistency. In addition, SR is used in order to reduce cognitive stress among the users, trying eliminating the need to memorize and remember commands, names and locations in GUI interfaces.
keywords	Accessibility, Text to Speech, Speech Recognition, CAD-BIM.
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2015/06/29 07:55

_id	sigradi2016_383
id	sigradi2016_383
authors	Menegotto, José Luis
year	2016
title	Explicitando a estrutura do prédio em modelos BIM [Giving an explicit definition of a building structure in BIM models]
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.459-465
summary	This paper presents an API implementation for a BIM program written in .NET platform. The goal of this application is to launch the structure of a building automatically. The automation creates and controls the building's structural elements types using external text files with a dual purpose of being the source of information and to be the explicit description of the project. Our target is to create a definition of semantics that integrate the application with a voice user interface (VUI). The present version of the work is focused on a conventional and compact building type.
keywords	Structural automation; Revit; Speech recognition
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	sigradi2023_137
id	sigradi2023_137
authors	Menegotto, José Luis
year	2023
title	BIM Ontology. Some Aspects of Project Knowledge: the Building, IFCs and STOs.
source	García Amen, F, Goni Fitipaldo, A L and Armagno Gentile, Á (eds.), Accelerated Landscapes - Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2023), Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, 29 November - 1 December 2023, pp. 433–446
summary	This article reports on the methodology for creating an ontology constructor application (API). The API writes the ontology in OWL (Ontology Web Language). To implement the system, two elements were used: 1) a set of Excel spreadsheets that contain the hierarchical and logical structure of classes, object properties, data properties, and instances for testing purposes. These elements will define the ontological axiomatics within a well-defined BIM domain; and 2) a mechanism for processing the spreadsheets, programmed in Dynamo with DesignScript language. The mechanism reads the content of the spreadsheet and writes it in OWL format using the Manchester syntax. The work is introduced remembering some key concepts present in research carried out in this field of computer science during the 80s and 90s. The use of ontologies aims the integration of BIM data and Semantic Web, to operate digital construction environments within the Open Linked Data paradigm.
keywords	BIM ontology, Open Linked Data, Semantic Web, DesignScript, ABNT
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2024/03/08 14:07

_id	sigradi2014_181
id	sigradi2014_181
authors	Meneses Bedoya, Edgar Alonso; Benjamín Montoya Jaramillo
year	2014
title	La utopía de la implementación del B.I.M en la industria de la construcción en Colombia [The utopia of the implementation of B.I.M in the construction industry in Colombia]
source	SiGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay - Montevideo 12 - 14 November 2014, pp. 398-402
summary	The aim of the research is analyze from different case studies, how does implemented BIM in the construction industry in Colombia, benefits, difficulties and drawbacks, trying to answer the questions that arise from the experience of this implementation: how does impact the BIM the industry construction, in a context where technological processes and craft activities with very low operational control converge? and How does this implementation affects companies should incorporate innovative models that require profound organizational changes ?.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	sigradi2017_100
id	sigradi2017_100
authors	Meneses-Carlos, Fernando; Daniela Frogheri
year	2017
title	Entre el autor y la emergencia social: Una respuesta legítima al contexto [Between the author and the social emergence: a legitimate response to the context]
source	SIGraDi 2017 [Proceedings of the 21th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-227-439-5] Chile, Concepción 22 - 24 November 2017, pp.699-707
summary	This paper will address the possibility of a design based on social emergence in contrast with author based design in a realized project. It will discuss the process and its implications within the theory and technological framework of this experience, simultaneously legitimizing the possibility of applying design and digital fabrication technologies in the Latin American context, exposing advantages and disadvantages of the experiment, concluding with a couple scenarios, one in which design is marginalized to technique, and the other were it broadens its field of knowledge.
keywords	Architecture; Participative Design; Emergency; Social; Facilitator.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	sigradi2017_080
id	sigradi2017_080
authors	Meneses-Carlos, Fernando; Daniela Frogheri
year	2017
title	Espacios habitables sensibles: Microorganismos como herramientas de diseño [Sensitive habitable spaces: Microorganisms as design tools.]
source	SIGraDi 2017 [Proceedings of the 21th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-227-439-5] Chile, Concepción 22 - 24 November 2017, pp.550-559
summary	This article aims to validate the possibility of including technology from micobiologies and synthetic biology in architecture and design. For this analysis, five projects are presented: a project of our own, developed by the research group, another with a direct application in architecture and three additional projects form the world of microbiology, which review topics such as energy generation, materials production and improving air quality thought microorganisms. This analysis, aims to legitimate, and expose the advantages and limits of a potential union between the molecular world and the design of the habitable space.
keywords	Architecture, Microorganisms, Sensitive, Emergency; Monads
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2016_428
id	sigradi2016_428
authors	Menezes, Alexandre Monteiro de; Viana, Maria de Lourdes Silva; Pereira Junior, Mario Lucio; Palhares, Sérgio Ricardo
year	2016
title	Projeto Simultâneo: A formaç?o do profissional contemporâneo e o mercado da construç?o civil [Simultaneous Design: The formation of the contemporary professional and construction market]
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.188-193
summary	This research investigates the adequacy of the contemporary professional formation to professional practice in the construction market. The work investigates the teaching of building and structures design in schools of architecture and civil engineering in Belo Horizonte. There is evidence that the use of contemporary information technology such as BIM (Building Information Modeling) enables integrated teaching of architecture and engineering, allowing simultaneous work. The hypothesis is that there is a mismatch between contemporary teaching and practice and methodological changes seeking simultaneous practice, respond adequately to contemporary assumptions of learning. The confirmation of this hypothesis subsidizes developments for future research.
keywords	BIM (Building Information Modeling); Building Design; Architecture; Civil Engineering
series	SIGRADI
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_id	6305
authors	Meng, Brita
year	1990
title	With a Little Help From My MAC
source	MACWORLD September, 1990. pp. 181-188 : ill.
summary	Computers now enable disabled people to work without leaving home, communicate without being able to speak, and read without being able to turn pages or see. For many individuals with disabilities computers are more than just an easier way to do things. They are a way to achieve independence and maintain self esteem. Some of the Macintosh features are described in connection to disability study cases
keywords	disabilities, hardware, tools,
series	CADline
last changed	1999/02/12 15:09

_id	caadria2020_107
id	caadria2020_107
authors	Meng, Leo Lin, Graham, Jeremy and Haeusler, M. Hank
year	2020
title	t-SNE: A Dimensionality Reduction Tool for Design Data Visualisation
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.629
source	D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, I. Koh (eds.), RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 629-638
summary	One can argue that data is the 'new oil'. Yet more important than the sheer quantity of data is the question, in the context of architecture and design, how data is represented in design, as this is becoming a more relevant question to the architecture profession. We argue that data, in particular n-dimensional, is often hidden even in BIM models. Hence we propose a new way of understanding the space by (1) generate and integrate space analytics data using space syntax method as well as space usage data and (2) visualise the data using t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding (t-SNE), an unsupervised learning and dimensionality reduction tool to help intuitively display high dimensions of data. This approach may help to discover the 'hidden layers' of the building information that may be otherwise omitted. This investigation, its proposed hypothesis, methodology, implications, significance and evaluation are presented in the paper.
keywords	Data-Driven Design; t-SNE; Machine Learning; Space Syntax
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2007_057
id	ascaad2007_057
authors	Menges, A.
year	2007
title	Computational Morphogenesis: Integral Form Generation and Materialization Processes
source	Em‘body’ing Virtual Architecture: The Third International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2007), 28-30 November 2007, Alexandria, Egypt, pp. 725-744
summary	Natural morphogenesis, the process of evolutionary development and growth, derives polymorphic systems that obtain their complex form, organisation and versatility from the interaction of system intrinsic material capacities and external environmental influences and forces. One striking aspect of natural morphogenesis is that formation and materialisation processes are always inherently and inseparably related. In stark contrast to these integral development processes of material form, architecture as a material practice is mainly based on design approaches that are characterised by a hierarchical relationship that prioritises the definition and generation of form over its subsequent materialisation. This paper will present an alternative approach to design that entails unfolding morphological complexity and performative capacity without differentiating between form generation and materialisation processes. Based on an understanding of material systems not as derivatives of standardized building systems and elements but rather as generative drivers in the design process this approach seeks to develop and employ computational techniques and digital fabrication technologies to unfold innate material capacity and specific latent gestalt. Extending the concept of material systems by embedding their material characteristics, geometric behaviour, manufacturing constraints and assembly logics within integral computational models promotes an understanding of form, material and structure not as separate elements, but rather as complex interrelations in polymorphic systems resulting from the response to varied input and environmental influences and derived through the logics and constraints of advanced manufacturing processes. These processes will be explained along 8 research projects.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2008/01/21 22:00

_id	acadia09_66
id	acadia09_66
authors	Menges, Achim
year	2009
title	Performative Wood: Integral Computational Design for Timber Constructions
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2009.066
source	ACADIA 09: reForm( ) - Building a Better Tomorrow [Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-9842705-0-7] Chicago (Illinois) 22-25 October, 2009), pp. 66-74
summary	Wood differs from most building materials in that it is a naturally grown biological tissue. Thus wood displays significant differentiation in its material makeup and structure as compared to most industrially produced, isotropic materials. Upon closer examination wood can be described as an anisotropic natural fiber system with different material characteristics and related behavior in different directions relative to the main grain orientation. Because of its differentiated internal capillary structure wood is also hygroscopic. It absorbs and releases moisture in exchange with the environment and these fluctuations cause differential dimensional changes. In architectural history the inherent heterogeneity of wood and the related more complex material characteristics have been mainly understood as a major deficiency by the related crafts, timber industry, engineers and architects alike. This paper will present an alternative design approach and associated computational design tools that aim at understanding wood’s differentiated material make up as its major capacity rather than a deficiency. Along two design experiments the related research on an integral computational design approach towards unfolding wood’s intrinsic material characteristics and performative capacity will be discussed. The first experiment explores the anisotropic characteristics of wood by exploiting the differential bending behavior in relation to the local induction of forces through which a specific overall morphology can be achieved. The second experiment focuses on the hygroscopic property of wood as the base for developing a surface structure that responds to changes in relative humidity with no need for any additional electronic or mechanical control.
keywords	Wood, materiality, prototype, performance, responsive design
series	ACADIA
type	Normal paper
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_id	acadia10_151
id	acadia10_151
authors	Menges, Achim
year	2010
title	Material Information: Integrating Material Characteristics and Behavior in Computational Design for Performative Wood Construction
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2010.151
source	ACADIA 10: LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture [Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-4507-3471-4] New York 21-24 October, 2010), pp. 151-158
summary	Architecture as a material practice is still predominantly based on design approaches that are characterized by a hierarchical relationship that prioritizes the generation of geometric information for the description of architectural systems and elements over material specific information. Thus, in the early design stage, the material’s innate characteristics and inherent capacities remain largely unconsidered. This is particularly evident in the way wood constructions are designed today. In comparison to most construction materials that are industrially produced and thus relatively homogeneous and isotropic, wood is profoundly different in that it is a naturally grown biological tissue with a highly differentiated material makeup . This paper will present research investigating how the transition from currently predominant modes of representational Computer Aided Design to algorithmic Computational Design allows for a significant change in employing wood’s complex anisotropic behaviour, resulting from its differentiated anatomical structure. In computational design, the relation between procedural formation, driving information, and ensuing form, enables the systematic integration of material information. This materially informed computational design processes will be explained through two research projects and the resultant prototype structures. The first project shows how an information feedback between material properties, system behaviour, the generative computational process, and robotic manufacturing allows for unfolding material-specific gestalt and tapping into the performative potential of wood. The second project focuses on embedding the unique material information and anatomical features of individual wooden elements in a continuous scanning, computational design and digital fabrication process, and thus introduces novel ways of integrating the biological variability and natural irregularities of wood in architectural design.
keywords	Computational Design, Digital Fabrication, Material Properties, Behavioural Modelling
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	ecaade2009_006
id	ecaade2009_006
authors	Menges, Achim
year	2009
title	Integral Computational Design for Composite Spacer Fabric Structures: Integral Processes of Form Generation and Fabrication for Sandwich Structured Composites with 3D Warp-Knitted Textile Core
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2009.289
source	Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-8-9] Istanbul (Turkey) 16-19 September 2009, pp. 289-298
summary	Spacer fabrics are three dimensionally warp-knitted textiles that can be draped over complex double curved surfaces with no need for cut patterns or additional seams. This paper explains the development of an integral computational approach to the design and fabrication of sandwich composite structures with a spacer fabric core. Contrary to the common hierarchy of architectural design processes that prioritizes the definition of form over the inherent characteristics of materialization, this approach aims at an integral computational design process capable of unfolding a design from the constraints of making. The way the material capacity of spacer fabrics combined with the constraints of sandwich composite manufacturing directly informs the computational design process will be explained along the development of two prototype structures.
wos	WOS:000334282200035
keywords	Integral computational design, computational morphogenesis, computer aided manufacturing, digital fabrication, computational design methodology, composite structure, material system, spacer fabric, 3D warp-knitted textile, sandwich lay-up
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	acadia11_72
id	acadia11_72
authors	Menges, Achim
year	2011
title	Integrative Design Computation: Integrating material behaviour and robotic manufacturing processes in computational design for performative wood constructions
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2011.072
source	ACADIA 11: Integration through Computation [Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)] [ISBN 978-1-6136-4595-6] Banff (Alberta) 13-16 October, 2011, pp. 72-81
summary	In contrast to most other building materials, wood is a naturally grown biological tissue. Today, the organic nature of wood is recognized as a major advantage. Wood is one of the very few naturally renewable, fully recyclable, extremely energy efficient and CO2-positive construction materials. On the other hand, compared to industrially produced, isotropic materials, the inherent heterogeneity and differentiated material makeup of wood’s anatomic structure is still considered problematic by architects and engineers alike. This is due to the fact that, even today, most design tools employed in architecture are still incapable of integrating and thus instrumentalizing the material properties and related complex behavior of wood. The research presented in this paper focuses on the development of a computational design approach that is based on the integration of material properties and characteristics. Understanding wood as a natural composite system of cellulose fibers embedded in a lignin and hemicelluloses matrix characterized by relatively high strain at failure, that is high load-bearing capacity with relatively low stiffness, the particular focus of this paper is the investigation of how the bending behavior of wood can become a generative design driver in such computational processes. In combination with the additional integration of the possibilities and constraints of robotic manufacturing processes, this enables the design and production of truly material-specific and highly performative wood architecture. The paper will provide a detailed explanation of such an integrative approach to design computation and the related methods and techniques. This is complemented by the description of three specific research projects, which were conducted as part of the overall research and all resulted in full scale prototype structures. The research projects demonstrate different approaches to the computational design integration of material behavior and robotic manufacturing constraints. Based on a solution space defined by the material itself, this enables novel ways of computationally deriving both material-specific gestalt and performative capacity of one of the oldest construction materials we have.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	architectural_intelligence2024_5
id	architectural_intelligence2024_5
authors	Mengjuan Hu, Jiading Zhong, Yujie Chu & Jianlin Liu
year	2024
title	Assessment on natural ventilation and pollutant dispersion around sunken squares by transient simulation
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s44223-024-00049-0
source	Architectural Intelligence Journal
summary	Sunken square is a semi-open public space that has been gaining popularity in urban planning and designs. Its semi-open design is beneficial to ventilation of the connected underground spaces, but it is also subject to potential exposure to ground-level traffic pollutants. To evaluate the semi-open design’s influence on the balance between underground ventilation efficiency and the pollutant exposure, this study uses large eddy simulation (LES) to simulate turbulent wind flow characteristics and pollutant dispersion in a typical sunken square. The sunken square is connected to two indoor spaces with single-sided opening, and the design features of staircase and arcade are further tested for their influences on the wind flow field. The air change rate per hour (ACH, h-1) is adopted to quantify the ventilation efficiency of the two connected indoor spaces. Results show that the staircases amplify wind velocities for the indoor spaces but also bring higher pollutant concentrations inside together. Moreover, the design of the arcade at the opening prompts the vortex to shift towards the entrance, leading to a heightened concentration of pollutants. Meanwhile, the effective ACH is mostly contributed by the turbulent diffusion (ACHt), while the mean flow (ACHm) has much less effect on the ventilation of the indoor spaces. These findings of this study provide references for sunken square design.
series	Architectural Intelligence
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last changed	2025/01/09 15:03

_id	acadia12_87
id	acadia12_87
authors	Menicovich, David ; Gallardo, Daniele ; Bevilaqua, Riccardo ; Vollen, Jason
year	2012
title	Generation and Integration of an Aerodynamic Performance Data Base Within the Concept Design Phase of Tall Buildings
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.087
source	ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 87-96
summary	Despite the fact that tall buildings are the most wind affected architectural typology, testing for aerodynamic performance is conducted during the later design phases well after the overall geometry has been developed. In this context, aerodynamic performance studies are limited to evaluating an existing design rather than a systematic performance study of design options driving form generation. Beyond constrains of time and cost of wind tunnel testing, which is still more reliable than Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for wind conditions around buildings, aerodynamic performance criteria lack an immediate interface with parametric design tools. This study details a framework for empirical data collection through wind tunnel testing of building mechatronic models and the expansion of the collected dataset by determining a mathematical interpolating model using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm developing an Aerodynamic Performance Data Base (APDB). Frederick Keisler called the interacting of forces CO-REALITY, which he defined as The Science of Relationships. In the same article Keisler proclaims that the Form Follows Function is an outmoded understanding that design must demonstrate continuous variability in response to interactions of competing forces. This topographic space is both constant and fleeting where form is developed through the broadcasting of conflict and divergence as a system seeks balance and where one state of matter is passing by another; a decidedly fluid system. However, in spite of the fact that most of our environment consists of fluids or fluid reactions, instantaneous and geologic, natural and engineered, we have restricted ourselves to approaching the design of buildings and their interactions with the environment through solids, their properties and geometry; flow is considered well after the concept design stage and as validation of form. The research described herein explores alternative relations between the object and the flows around it as an iterative process, moving away from the traditional approach of Form Follows Function to Form Follows Flow.
keywords	Tall Buildings , Mechatronics , Artificial Neural Network , Aerodynamic Performance Data Base
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	acadiaregional2011_027
id	acadiaregional2011_027
authors	Meniru, Kene
year	2011
title	Modeling Building Information in a Parametric Environment
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2011.x.b9s
source	Parametricism (SPC) ACADIA Regional 2011 Conference Proceedings
summary	The building design stage starts with an early effort by the architect to create a sketch which embodies the fundamental building knowledge that forms the basis for all later work. This knowledge is mostly lost in current building design practice procedures where the sketch is reduced to individual building components such as walls, floors, etc. By the time the building is constructed, new efforts have to be made to document information about the building necessary to control and maintain it during operation. This paper represents the next step to a Ph.D. study that describes the early building process and important features to support. It presents a sample design session from the study and based on observations from this session, it identifies and describes important digital objects that can be used to capture building knowledge in the sketch.
series	ACADIA
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	sigradi2011_098
id	sigradi2011_098
authors	Mensato da Silva, Isabelle Maria; Tanoue Vizioli, Simone Helena
year	2011
title	O uso do tablet no ensino de Arquitetura: primeiras impressões [The use of the tablet in teaching Architecture: first impressions]
source	SIGraDi 2011 [Proceedings of the 15th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Argentina - Santa Fe 16-18 November 2011, pp. 43-47
summary	This research main objective is to discuss the importance of freehand drawings in the architectural design process within the digital environment using tablets. Also aims to identify the sum of trials and perceptions kept in the drawings through the use of the tablets and the perpetuation of each own and personal sketch, accomplishing the perceptual awareness. Contributes on the researcher develoment, who ?re-studied? the Discipline of Architectural Drawing, replacing pencil and paper by the tablet. It is remarkable that this is not only a change of media, from paper to tablet, but the possibility of synergy between two graphic logics.
keywords	Freehand drawing; graphic; tablet; digital media; teaching
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	ga9914
id	ga9914
authors	Meogrossi, Piero
year	1999
title	The Idea of Rome: The Shape of Utopy
source	International Conference on Generative Art
summary	After having spent many years in researching about the topographical connections in the city and over the monumental sites and the main architectures of Rome (Palatino, Coliseum, Appia Antica are the areas where he’s working as director of restoring for the Rome Soprintendenza Archeologica) the architect Piero Meogrossi confirms his personal thesis dealing with a strategic oriented direction showing a geomanthic dynamism able to drive the urban growth. A key measure axis used to plan the topography submits the urban shape and the design itself at different ages revealing a virtual matrix whose hidden identity remains astronomically and simbolically characterized by the specific season position of the sun accorded to the dies natalis of Rome, the famous april XXIth connected with the romulean age and the tradictional Squared Rome. Such recognition over the archeological city connects the legendary and historical tales to the main monuments of Rome whose architectonical centers become instrumental knots to control, to accord and to submit to a DNA topographical codex, a symbolical axis-decuimanus by which the romans drive rules of the earth and of the sky (natural perspectives and sundial measures). The utopian reconstruction of the "sun-city plan" has confirmed the quality of the project by Sixtus Vth, the XVIIth century pope who wanted to create, as a new Romulus, a town design able to make comparison with the dynamic shape of the roman antiquities, a "net-city" whose infrastructures (obelisques and streets, etc.) let understood the value of that ancient topographical axis linking each others the center of the optagonal labyrinth to the center of Palatino,to the center of arch of Costantine to the center of Coliseum, to the center of optagonal hall in the golden kingdome by Nero........and further on. Rome, as example of historical town due to the western culture globality, needs to discover and organise those phisical memories,hidden identies whose ancient shape which can yet offer opportunies for the future plans and projects but only if the reality will be pushed by an Utopian vision as the Roman Column 200mt.high,accorded to the shapes upwritten, a Meogrossi’s project winner of the Utopia award in a national competition for the Rome of third millennium.
series	other
more	http://www.generativeart.com/
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