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_id	ijac20064306
id	ijac20064306
authors	Klinger, Kevin R.; Vermillion, Joshua
year	2006
title	Visualizing the Operative and Analytic: Representing the Digital Fabrication Feedback Loop and Managing the Digital Exchange
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 4 - no. 3, 79-97
summary	Digital architecture is process-based and reliant upon a conversation between digital visualization, analysis, and production. With the complexity of information generated in process-based digital practices, we need to effectively manage and exchange the information. Feedback loops are integral to this process/product, and thus require extensive management of complex versions of visual and data related information. Quite a lot of scholarly attention has been focused upon highlighting innovative projects using digital fabrication and serial customization. However, there is a scarcity of scholarly work about innovations in visualizing and representing the design data integral in this feedback loop. This paper will examine innovative representational devices such as the matrix, sectioning, layering, bracketing, nesting, and other new forms of organizing, visualizing, analyzing, and simulating complex data, intent upon communicating multiple levels of operations during the design and fabrication process. With a rigorous taxonomy of operative and analytic devices for process-based digital design development, we can begin to outline a trajectory for future evolutions in practice. This writing is an attempt to make a few steps in this direction, and demonstrate some of these new representational ideas in practice.
series	journal
last changed	2007/03/04 07:08

_id	acadia06_554
id	acadia06_554
authors	Klinger, Kevin
year	2006
title	Perimetric Boundary
source	Synthetic Landscapes [Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture] p. 554
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2006.x.t0l
summary	A strong dichotomy exists between the factors of fluctuating natural orders apparent in the river, and the striation of the land by human historical and cultural influence. The installation exists as surface of influence between these forces. The form is informed by parameters of light, vista, material, and process through a method of digitally folding and perforating sheets of steel to enable a self structuring membrane which rises and falls from the plateau edge. A swath of prairie grasses, rising and falling in their own cycle, demarcates this edge. A screen of 15 weathering steel sheets stretches for 63’ across the boundary of the human order and the encroaching erosion of the natural realm. From the initial generation of geometry pairings, well “adapted” pairings are spliced from the parent and “bred” with similarly fit geometries. The fit of these pairs is based on the relationships between the form and the desired criteria of reflection, screening, and framing. To properly combine these pairings, several mutations occur (indicated in red).
series	ACADIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	acadia11_112
id	acadia11_112
authors	Klinger, Kevin
year	2011
title	Informing Design through Production Formulations
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. 112-113
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2011.112
summary	Over the decade of the aughts, architectural discourse has charted a new course, and in the wake of the digital effect on mainstream architectural thinking, we find ourselves in a great age of exploration. Research in digital fabrication has moved from the general to the specific, in that it aims to focus efforts related to technological impact on particular cases and variable parameters which contribute to even larger ideas, such as manufacturing, the social impact, sustainable practices, etc. Specific work on building components, coupled with a pragmatic rigor about durability, strength, and production have provided concrete examples of work that spin out of these design-through-production investigations. To be certain, each new design-through-production project explores unique territory and contributes to the knowledge map by adding to a matrix of possible applications. Still, we align our work with the age-old discipline of architectural thinking, while privileging “Making, Materials, Performance, Form, and Function.” Indeed, form is informed by performance! The principles that govern the human decision-making, in light of this new kind of digitally generated work have yet to be clearly articulated, but techniques and methods have expanded to create new opportunities for making architecture. In fact, research has tended to be less about framing the new principles for making digital architecture and more about adding specific cases to the knowledge base, as each new project helps to define the collective body.
series	ACADIA
type	moderator overview
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	ecaade03_505_156_klinke
id	ecaade03_505_156_klinke
authors	Klinke-Schroth, Janine
year	2003
title	Pictures in Motion - Using moving images to approach urban tasks
source	Digital Design [21th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-1-6] Graz (Austria) 17-20 September 2003, pp. 505-508
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2003.505
summary	Pictures in Motion is an elective course offered at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), department of Urbanism and Design. The aim is to give students a chance to get involved with digital processing of data and various programs like picture editing and movie production in order to work in a very early stage of the design process with digital media as a way of a design approach.
keywords	Moving images, urban design, conceptual multimedia technologies, visualization, education
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.stba.uni-karlsruhe.de
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	ecaade2013_133
id	ecaade2013_133
authors	Klofutar Hergerši_, Ana; Punger_ar, Enej and Zupan_i_, Tadeja
year	2013
title	Non-Verbal Communication in Collaborative Architectural Design
source	Stouffs, Rudi and Sariyildiz, Sevil (eds.), Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference – Volume 1, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-20 September 2013, pp. 227-232
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2013.1.227
wos	WOS:000340635300023
summary	The paper introduces a novel approach to understanding the nature of visual communication within the design process in architectural education using open-source interfaces. It derives from the idea that visual non-verbal communication indicates the critical moments of the design process, where communication efficiency could be improved. The aim of this research is to evaluate how effective can non-verbal communication become in the early design phases. We will also discuss how this mode of communication works in collaborative design in architecture and how it relates verbal communication.
keywords	Collaboration; collaborative design; architecture; visual non-verbal communication; remote communication.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	caadria2013_176
id	caadria2013_176
authors	Knapp, Chris
year	2013
title	The Hand and the Machine: A Hybrid Approach to Complex Construction in a Work of Sir Peter Cook
source	Open Systems: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2013) / Singapore 15-18 May 2013, pp. 633-642
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2013.633
wos	WOS:000351496100062
summary	This paper describes and provides a critique of the design and implementation of the “scoops” – a set of bespoke multifunctioning architectural free-form concrete elements that are a highlight of the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture by the office of Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham (CRAB). The development includes the transfer of analogue design processes into digital 3D modelling, which is then analysed and rationalized via an exchange with consultants and procurement contractors. The complexity of the concrete works necessitated the use of digital fabrication to make their implementation affordable and within time constraints, with said complexity creating a variety of challenges for many aspects of the entire delivery team. The 3D model played a critical role in communicating intent and accuracy at all stages. The use of site-based craftsmanship combined with computer aided design and fabrication overlapped to realize the project.
keywords	In-situ concrete, 3D modelling, Rhinoceros, Peter cook, Digital fabrication
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	caadria2016_787
id	caadria2016_787
authors	Knapp, Chris; Jonathan Nelson, Andrew Kudless and Sascha Bohnenberger
year	2016
title	Lightweight material prototypes using dense bundled systems to emulate an ambient environment
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 787-796
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.787
summary	This paper describes and reflects upon a computational de- sign and digital fabrication research project that was developed and implemented over 2014-2015, with subsequent development continu- ing for applications at present. The aim of the research was to develop methods of modelling, analysis, and fabrication that facilitate integra- tive approaches to architectural design and construction. In this con- text, the development of material prototypes, digital simulations, and parametric frameworks were pursued in parallel in order to inform and reform successive iterations throughout the process, leading to a re- fined workflow for engineering, production, and speculation upon fu- ture directions of the work.
keywords	Digital fabrication; biomimicry; ambient environments; grasshopper; computational design
series	CAADRIA
email
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_id	caadria2014_150
id	caadria2014_150
authors	Knapp, Chris; Jonathan Neslon and Michael Parsons
year	2014
title	Constructing Atmospheres
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 149–158
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.149
summary	This paper documents and critically reflects upon the design, development, fabrication, and implementation of three pavilion projects developed during 2013-14. The core investigation of this work is the production of architectural spaces characterized by a quality of enveloping, diffuse, visual and spatial atmospheres. The principal activity of the research is aimed at refining methods for software-based exploration of formal complexities and the subsequent need to control variability and efficiency in fabrication output, using Grasshopper for Rhino to develop customized definitions particular to each specific project scenario. Linking the projects together are issues of scale, resolution of effect, and intent to move from disparate assemblies of structure and skin toward composite, manifold construction techniques that address multiple concerns (gravity, bracing, affect, etc) with a minimum of assembly. A material palette common to the current vernacular of CNC-based projects such as plywood, plastics, and other sheet materials is utilised. This work is invested in extending the possibilities of the architect and architecture as a discipline, extrapolating the workflow from these successive projects to the speculative impact of the work upon emerging possibilities of architectural construction and craft.
keywords	3d modelling; Digital fabrication; Rhinoceros; Grasshopper; Tessellation
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	acadia14projects_209
id	acadia14projects_209
authors	Knapp, Chris; Nelson, Jonathan
year	2014
title	Cellular Tessallation
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. 209-212
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.209.2
summary	Cellular Tessellation is a small yet generous pavilion put on display as part of the Sydney Vivid Light festival in 2014. The project is both spatial and aesthetic, bringing the quality of architectural inhabitation and visceral experience to an urban festival which is typically limited to visual engagement.
keywords	light, computational form, geometry, digital fabrication, aluminum
series	ACADIA
type	Practice Projects
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	c4ae
id	c4ae
authors	Knapp, Robert W. and McCall, Raymond
year	1996
title	PHIDIAS II - In Support of Collaborative Design
source	Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-05-5] Tucson (Arizona / USA) October 31 - November 2, 1996, pp. 147-154
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1996.147
summary	The World Wide Web in combination with Java and Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) create great opportunities for collaboration by distributed design teams. To take advantage of these opportunities, we have begun to create a version of the PHIDIAS hyperCAD system (McCall, Bennett and Johnson 1994) that will support communication and collaboration among designers over the Word Wide Web. PHIDIAS is an intelligent, hypermedia-based system for computer-aided design. Our strategy is to divide PHIDIAS into two parts: 1) a client-side user interface and 2) a server-side hyperCAD database engine. The client-side interface is being implemented using Java and VRML. Implementing the PHIDIAS front-end with Java enables program code distribution via the World Wide Web. VRML provides PHIDIAS with client-side computation and display of 3D graphics.
series	ACADIA
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	ecaadesigradi2019_195
id	ecaadesigradi2019_195
authors	Knecht, Katja, Stefanescu, Dimitrie A. and Koenig, Reinhard
year	2019
title	Citizen Engagement through Design Space Exploration - Integrating citizen knowledge and expert design in computational urban planning
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 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 785-794
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.785
summary	A common understanding exists that citizens should become more involved in the design, planning, and governance of the city. Due to a lack of common platforms and difficulties in the meaningful integration of the participatory input, however, the tools and methods currently employed in citizen engagement are often ill connected to the design and governance tools and processes used by experts. In this paper we describe a Grasshopper and Rhino based approach, which allows designers to share a subset of the design space formed by parametric design variants with citizens via the online interface Beta.Speckle. In a user study we evaluated the usability of the tool as well as studied the design choices of participants, which were found to be influenced by preferences for visual order and underlying economic, social, and environmental values. For the future design of participatory exercises, it was concluded that indicators relating to citizens' values and preferences will allow for a more effective exploration of the design space and increase the meaningfulness of results.
keywords	design space exploration; citizen engagement; parametric urban design; computational urban planning; space matrix
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	cf2005_1_37_234
id	cf2005_1_37_234
authors	KNIGHT Michael, DOKONAL Wolfgang, BROWN Andre and HANNIBAL Claire
year	2005
title	Contemporary Digital Techniques in the Early Stages of Design
source	Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures / ISBN 1-4020-3460-1] Vienna (Austria) 20–22 June 2005, pp. 165-174
summary	This paper reviews the role that computers can play in the early design stages and considers how far recent developments in commercial software have enabled designers to improve design performance through interaction with a CAAD system. An experimental approach is reported on.
keywords	design methodology, sketch, traditional, practice
series	CAAD Futures
email
last changed	2006/11/07 07:27

_id	ecaade03_153_183_knight
id	ecaade03_153_183_knight
authors	Knight, M. Brown, A.G.P., Hannibal, C., Noyelle, C. and Steer, O.
year	2003
title	Measurement of Presence in Large Scale Virtual Environments
source	Digital Design [21th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-1-6] Graz (Austria) 17-20 September 2003, pp. 153-160
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2003.153
summary	It is now widely accepted that a sense of presence in a virtual environment is a crucial part of the success of the ‘experience’. This paper extends the authors previous work in naturalistic interfaces and perception of image to test experimentally the degree to which the type of interface and visual nature of the virtual environment determine the experience of presence or ‘being there’ in a large scale architectural virtual environment. The importance of presence to the success of architectural virtual environments is an important discussion. Should architectural VEs strive to be hyper-real (with all the attendant hardware issues of manipulating large amounts of data in real-time) or does a degree of abstraction in representation still afford an acceptable degree of presence?
keywords	Virtual Environments, Presence
series	eCAADe
email
more	www.liv.ac.uk/abe/caadru
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	9057
authors	Knight, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Berridge, P. and Brown, A.
year	2001
title	Digital Hindcasting - Critical Analysis through Virtual Reconstruction
source	Architectural Information Management [19th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-8-1] Helsinki (Finland) 29-31 August 2001, pp. 529-533
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2001.529
summary	Manah is an abandoned oasis settlement in Oman. During what is termed the “Golden period” in the region’s cultural development the settlement became on of the most important cultural centres of the interior. For a long period Manah stood as the seat of learning in sciences and arts. A current project is underway to establish, as far as possible, how the settlement evolved; how tribal, cultural, religious and social factors impinged on Manah as it grew over the years. The work described here is directed as applying computational methods to augment the analysis and critical review of that evolution. We are aiming to explain the evolutionary process using computer mediated techniques, working backwards from the current state, to the inception of the settlement; hence the term Digital Hindcasting.
keywords	Reconstruction, Critical Analysis, Settlements
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	2004_167
id	2004_167
authors	Knight, Michael and Brown, Andre
year	2004
title	A Portable and Natural Interface to Architectural Virtual Environments
source	Architecture in the Network Society [22nd eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-2-4] Copenhagen (Denmark) 15-18 September 2004, pp. 167-172
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2004.167
summary	In previous papers the authors have described low cost, pragmatic interaction devices for architectural virtual environments, in particular the bike as a means of locomotion around a virtual urban environment. They have also been involved in work on portable systems for city navigation and representation, based around a personal digital assistant running pseudo 3d models of the city with an associated information database. This paper describes work that develops the two ideas of familiar real world interaction device and portability to produce a portable system for interaction with architectural urban models.
keywords	Virtual Environments; Locomotion; Portable; Interaction; Navigation
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	887c
authors	Knight, Michael and Brown, André
year	2001
title	Towards a natural and appropriate Architectural Virtual Reality: the nAVRgate project. Past, present, future
source	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures [ISBN 0-7923-7023-6] Eindhoven, 8-11 July 2001, pp. 139-149
summary	The lure of virtual environments is strong and the apparent potential is enticing. But questions of how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) issues should be handled and married with best practice in Human-Human Interaction (HHI) remains largely unresolved. How should architectural images and ideas be most appropriately represented, and how should designers interact and react through this computer mediated medium? Whilst there is never likely to be unanimity in answer to such questions, we can develop new ideas and new systems, test them, report on them and invite comment. The nature and novelty of virtual environments is such that refinements and innovations are likely to come from a variety of sources and in a variety of ways. The work described here explains the evolution and current plans for the development of a particular approach that has been developed and refined by the authors. Low-cost, effective and appropriate are the key words that have driven the developments behind the evolving nAVRgate system that has arisen from this work, and that is described here.
keywords	Virtual Environments, Navigation, Interaction, Perception
series	CAAD Futures
email
last changed	2006/11/07 07:22

_id	06e8
authors	Knight, Michael W. and Brown, Andre G.P.
year	2000
title	Interfaces for Virtual Environments; A Review Recent Developments and Potential Ways forward
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. 215-219
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2000.215
summary	The physical and visual nature of the interface devices and media that enable the human agent to interact with a virtual world have evolved over the past few years. In this paper we consider the different lines of development that have taken place in the refinement of these interfaces and summarise what has been learned about the appropriate nature of the interface for such interaction. In terms of the physical aspects we report on the kind of devices that have been used to enable the human agent to operate within the computer generated environment. We point out the successes and failures in the systems that have been tried out in recent years. Likewise we consider the kinds of software generated interface that have been used to represent virtual worlds. Again, we review the efficacy of the environments that have been devised; the quality of the Cyberplace. Our aim is to be able to comment on the effectiveness of the systems that have been devised from a number of points of view. We consider the physical and software-based aids for navigation; the nature of the representation of architectural worlds; strengthening “groundedness”; the inclusion of “otherness”; and reinforcement of the idea of “presence”
keywords	Virtual Environments, Games Engines, Collaborative Design, Navigation Metaphors
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.uni-weimar.de/ecaade/
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_id	caadria2003_a5-1
id	caadria2003_a5-1
authors	Knight, Michael W. and Brown, Andre G.P.
year	2003
title	NAVRgate X, A Naturalistic Navigation Metaphor for Large Scale Virtual Environments
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. 625-630
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2003.625
summary	This paper describes the latest in a series of real-world, low-cost interfaces for virtual reality. nAVRgate (the AVR being Architectural Virtual Reality) has looked at real-world analogies for interfacing with 'real' virtual environments in an attempt to improve the sense of presence, the phenomenon of sense of presence in virtual environments (VEs) often being seen as the real essence of Virtual Reality (Laurel, 1993)
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	ecaade2009_139
id	ecaade2009_139
authors	Knight, Michael; Dokonal, Wolfgang
year	2009
title	State of Affairs - Digital Architectural Design in Europe: A Look into into Education and Practice – Snapshot and Outlook
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. 191-196
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2009.191
wos	WOS:000334282200023
summary	This paper updates a research project that tries to take a snapshot on the use of computers in the average architectural firms in two European countries. Our main interest is to see whether the digital design methods are starting to have an impact in these offices. First results of this research using an online web questionnaire have been presented at the eCAADe 2007 conference in Frankfurt and have been updated and presented at the Sigradi 2008 conference in Havana. At the moment we are working with additional interviews and we are preparing a rerun of the questionnaire to have an idea about the current developments. This paper is still based mainly on the findings we presented at the Sigradi conference to bring this information to the eCAADe community as well. We will be presenting the results of the new questionnaire in Istanbul.
keywords	Digital design, early stage design
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:51

_id	96d0
authors	Knight, Mike W. and Brown, André
year	2000
title	Towards Naturalistic Navigation Metaphors for large scale Virtual Environments
source	SIGraDi’2000 - Construindo (n)o espacio digital (constructing the digital Space) [4th SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 85-88027-02-X] Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 25-28 september 2000, pp. 247-250
summary	This paper looks at the background to the development of alternative interfaces to Virtual Environments and suggests a reappraisal of some of the early work which allowed a sense of presence in the ‚real’ world. Initial work, the virtual exercise bike, is appraised, and new work is described which further develops the development of a low-cost interface system. Work in progress is described which is a combination of hard- and software. The solution described is a ‚hands free’ interface enabling the user to experience a VE in a similar manner to a physical environment, using movements of the head and feet for navigation. Whilst this is possible using expensive, proprietary equipment, the presented solution concentrates on a low cost approach. In line with this, the system uses a low cost gaming environment which is described and evaluated.
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:54

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