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_id	02a1
authors	Mirabelli, P., Fortuzzi, A., Petric, J. and Maver, Th.
year	1994
title	Archive of European Architecture : A Proposal for Collaborative Action
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1994.029
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. 29-35
summary	Advances in information technology - particularly in multi media - offer a major challenge to the European Schools of Architecture. This paper proposes a collaborative venture in the compilation of an Interactive Multi-Media Archive of great european Architecture (IMAGE:A). It envisages an agreed specification and common mediums for access to and development of the archive. Discussion of this important initiative will, hopefully, feature throughout the Conference.
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	1a92
authors	Mirabelli, Paolo
year	2001
title	Public Cyberspace Planning and Design. Architect’s role in the construction of the virtual city
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2001.042
source	Architectural Information Management [19th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-8-1] Helsinki (Finland) 29-31 August 2001, pp. 42-46
summary	Architects need to consider ICT not as a tool for design but as a space to be designed. The relation between this space and the physical city must be driven from an impact to a positive and needed expansion of the urban space; an occasion to support and foster social integration and development. To achieve this, it is needed to put an effort in evolving both planning and design techniques as well as public policies for this mixed (physical/ digital) urban space. The references for doing it may be found more in the history of technology developments then in the technology itself, but a wide contribution from diverse disciplines is needed. How to do this, it’s mostly to be found out through projects, in which architects can play the fundamental role of planners that coordinate the activities of actors involved, while taking care of the public interest. Many cities are progressively losing the space devoted to foster solid social structures, so a relevant focus for projects may be aimed at the design of public cyberspace to recover the building of local social networks. A starting point could be found in the Community Networking movement, which architects could build upon, using their design skills in order to evolve this kind of spaces beyond the spontaneous and random phase. A wide range of issues are to be addressed: from needed public policies to accessibility that must be provided to anybody in order to avoid sharpening social alienation due to cultural, economical or physical reasons. An experiment is going to be carried out within a local development project promoted in Rome.
keywords	Cyberspace Design, Urban Planning, E-Society, Community Networking, Selfsustainable Local Development
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	sigradi2021_102
id	sigradi2021_102
authors	Miranda de Oliveira, Antônio Roberto and Amaral, Lucas
year	2021
title	Design and Digital Manufacturing: Changes and Challenges in Product Development in the Context of Remote Learning
source	Gomez, P and Braida, F (eds.), Designing Possibilities - Proceedings of the XXV International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2021), Online, 8 - 12 November 2021, pp. 1345–1357
summary	Context: This paper presents the results of the Digital Fabrication discipline in the Bachelor of Design course at CESAR School/Recife through remote education due to the need for social distance due to the pandemic by COVID-19. Purpose: Thus, this study provides a case report of the results achieved through the use of technological tools for product development, demonstrating how these technologies can contribute to the involvement of students in the processes of creation, production and innovation. Approach: This article seeks to bring to light the approach of Design methodologies, the importance of digital manufacturing techniques and rapid prototyping through additive manufacturing, as well as the aspects of product development aimed at human well-being and social innovation. Results: The results were positive, providing insights into the students' perception, goals achieved and practical activities accomplished in the context of remote education in the Design graduation course.
keywords	Design inclusivo, Bioinspirado, Fabricaçao digital, Ensino remoto
series	SIGraDi
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last changed	2022/05/23 12:11

_id	acadia09_242
id	acadia09_242
authors	Miranda, Pablo; Derix,Christian; Gamlesaeter, Asmund; Helme, Lucy
year	2009
title	Aedas R&D: Global Practices of Computational Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2009.242
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. 242-244
summary	This paper gives an overview of the approach of working methods at the Aedas R&D computational Design and Research [CDR] Group. It first contextualizes research in architectural practice and tries to propose an explanation for the difficulties in implementing it; then explains the evolution of the groups’ computing approach from bespoke to heuristic sets of lightweight applications. It concludes with examples of the developed computational design approach.
series	ACADIA
type	Short paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	e524
authors	Miranda, Valerian and Degelman, Larry 0.
year	1987
title	An Experimental Computer-Aided Design Studio
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1987.019
source	Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum [ACADIA Conference Proceedings] Raleigh (North Carolina / USA) 1987, pp. 19-28
summary	A pilot experiment was conducted in the use of microcomputers and Computer Aided Design (CAD) software for architectural design education. The CAD workstations were incorporated into two consecutive semesters of the third year design studio and consisted of TANDY 3000 HD (tm) microcomputers with 20 megabyte hard disks, digitizer tablets, digitizer mice, enhanced graphics capabilities, dot-matrix printers and multi-pen plotters. Software packages included the Personal Architect (tm), VersaCAD (tm), DataCAD (tm), word processing software etc. Student to machine ratio of 4 to 1 was maintained and the use of the equipment was made available to students for approximately 20 hours per day. Design assignments neither emphasized nor required the use of CAD techniques, as the experiment was designed to measure the students' acceptance of and adaptation to the use of CAD tools. The objective was to "teach" design in the traditional sense of a design studio, while making the computer an integral part of the setting in which the student learned designing and problem solving. Measurements were made of (1) time for the "fundamentals" learning curve, (2) time for a "basic competence" learning curve, (3) hours utilized by categories of type of use, (4) hours utilized by equipment and software type, and (5) progress in design ability as evaluated by the traditional jury review methods.
series	ACADIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	sigradi2016_430
id	sigradi2016_430
authors	Miret, Santiago
year	2016
title	Mil edificios, procesos maquínicos en estrategias proyectuales complejas [One thousand buildings, machinic processes in complex project strategies]
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.26-33
summary	This Paper refers to an ongoing Postgraduate Master thesis that is in the search to criticize the habitat devices in the framework of the collective housing project. The habitat devices are frozen configurations that hinders the processes of design in the discipline and conspires with the idea of innovation. This paper proposes new ways and models for the generative processes in Architecture. In this sense, six "disruptions" are deployed in order to attack the primary problems in collective housing projects generative processes.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2021/03/28 19:58

_id	cdrf2022_244
id	cdrf2022_244
authors	Miric Ljubica
year	2022
title	Collective Intelligence and Effects of Anticipation
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8637-6_21
source	Proceedings of the 2022 DigitalFUTURES The 4st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022)
summary	Based on the extrapolation of contemporary theories that mind is a prediction machine, this paper points out the repetitive nature of the prediction parameters of collective intelligence anticipation scenarios and questions the hybridity of fears and desires regarding the evolution of artificial intelligence. Through the analysis of mnemonic principles of remembrance it combines the ancient technique of the art of memory with the contemporary views on the dynamics of perceptions in order to establish a link between the spatial constructs and their rapid expansion through the presence of the digital medium while in parallel suggesting an approach to the integration of the necessity for a more sophisticated systems of artificial intelligence into the collective intelligence. The main question of this paper is whether the anticipation of the future results in the creation of such a future, can a prediction-based interaction between man and machine govern its outcome? In order to attempt to develop potential new methods of integrating an idea of a different, more neutral outcome, the focus will be on the characteristics of perception that surpass the influenced, emotional response, and the observation of the general, innate human mechanisms of alignment. Through the study of the principles of memory the aim of this paper is to ask whether the individual comprehension of space and time as disengaged in given examples can in fact produce a system of ideas compatible in its nature to that of the machine itself. What are the main aspects of both human and machine that would stem their hybridity, and how should the collective intelligence adapt to enable the interlink?
series	cdrf
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last changed	2024/05/29 14:02

_id	cdrf2021_179
id	cdrf2021_179
authors	Mirjam Konrad, Dana Saez, and Martin Trautz
year	2021
title	Integration of Algorithm-Based Optimization into the Design Process of Industrial Buildings: A Case Study
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_17
source	Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)
summary	Algorithm-based optimization is widely applied in many fields like industrial production, resulting in state-of-the-art workflows in the production process optimization. This project takes the cultural lag of conventional industrial architecture design as a motivation to investigate the implementation of algorithmbased optimization into traditional design processes. We argue that an enhanced way of architectural decision-making is possible. Current approaches use a translation of the whole design problem into a single, overly complicated optimization system. Contrary to that, this paper presents a novel workflow that defines precise design steps and applies optimizations only if suitable. Furthermore, this method can generate relevant results for factory planning design problems with contradicting factors, making it a promising approach for the complex challenges of i.e. resource-efficient building.
series	cdrf
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last changed	2022/09/29 07:53

_id	cdrf2021_349
id	cdrf2021_349
authors	Mirko Daneluzzo and Michele Daneluzzo
year	2021
title	Reinventing Staircases for Thermoplastic Additive Manufacturing
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_32
source	Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)
summary	The paper presents an ongoing project focusing on the application of additive manufacturing technologies for the design of staircases. Additive digital fabrication allows architects to reinvestigate materials, processes, and creates new design opportunities to explore novel aesthetical and functional expression in architecture, enabling a reinterpretation of the typology of the staircase, using thermoplastic materials. This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges of using 3D printing for fabricating custom stairs with complex geometries in two studied configurations.
series	cdrf
email
last changed	2022/09/29 07:53

_id	architectural_intelligence2023_9
id	architectural_intelligence2023_9
authors	Mirko Daneluzzo, Andrea Macruz, Hind Tawakul & Mona Al Hashimi
year	2023
title	Multispecies design: 3D-printed biomimetic structures to enhance humidity levels
doi	https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s44223-023-00027-y
source	Architectural Intelligence Journal
summary	The paper changes the focus of the design debate from a human-centered design methodology to a posthuman design that takes both human and nonhuman agents into account. It examines how designers might use a multispecies perspective to produce projects with distinguished intelligence and performance. To illustrate this, we describe a project of structures for plants that started on a course in an academic setting. The project methodology begins with “Thing Ethnography”, investigating the movement of a water bottle inside a house and its interaction with other objects. The correlation between water and plants was decided to be further expanded, considering how water might enhance the environmental humidity and create a cooler microclimate for indoor plants. According to their effectiveness, 3D-printed biomimetic structures were designed and manufactured as water droplet supports considering different materials, and positioned in various configurations around a plant. Humidity levels and temperature of the structures were measured. As a result, this created a novel method for mass customization and working with plants. The paper discusses the resultant evidence-based design and the environmental values related to it.
series	Architectural Intelligence
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last changed	2025/01/09 15:00

_id	acadia14projects_219
id	acadia14projects_219
authors	Mirmotahari, AmirReza; Theodosiou, Joanna; Al-Hadeethi, Shahad Thamer
year	2014
title	CrystalCloud
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.219.2
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. 219-222
summary	The aim of this project is to create a system that hybridizes two natural systems, clouds and crystals, and simultaneously explores the aspect of light. These rich domains with the introduction of small glass beads lead to an intricate fabric of architecture and moreover to a high-resolution fabric of light.
keywords	synthetic constructability, Multi Agent Systems in Design, Robotics and Autonomous Design Systems, Big Data, Simulation + Intuition, Design Decision Making, Generative Design, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Design Computing and Cognition
series	ACADIA
type	Student's Research Projects
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	0865
authors	Mishima, Yoshitaka and Szalapaj, Peter John
year	2001
title	Architectural Design Development through Multimedia Interaction
source	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures [ISBN 0-7923-7023-6] Eindhoven, 8-11 July 2001, pp. 299-314
summary	This paper describes the development of a multimedia system aimed at architects and architectural students for the purpose of helping them to understand the basic concepts of architectural analysis. Analytical features in the system that we have developed include many design-theoretic concepts such as massing, balance and circulation. Other concepts are more directly related to the built environment and include elements such as lighting, structure and construction. The system illustrates architectural analysis carried out on a range of building types dynamically, and allows users to navigate architectural analyses interactively. Users can learn about the differences between buildings and their corresponding analyses in a supportive non-linear learning process, and can explore building types depending upon their own interests or needs. The prototype system contains analyses of three British building projects. They show different types of architecture in order to demonstrate important design theoretic and environmental differences. Conceptual models in the system show important aspects of a particular analysis simply, and each analysis is additionally described with text, animations, video clips and interviews with architects (talking heads). Most of the models were generated by the use of architectural CAD software. Animation techniques were used to describe the analyses of buildings clearly and dynamically. Users can visualise how whole buildings were designed from an analytical point of view, and the system illustrates design thinking by showing dynamic presentations of analyses. Users can structure their own design learning processes through a series of interactions. These interactions are supported with flexible cross-referencing mechanisms implemented in Macromedia Director 8.0 exploiting Frame Markers, Event Handling, Navigation, and Buttons in the context of the object-oriented Lingo programming language. The navigation component of this system has a logical matrix structure reflecting the fact that analytical information is interrelated across building types, giving rise to vertical and horizontal patterns of access. The features of Director 8.0 can control this navigation in a flexible yet structured way. Users not only learn about analysis, but also how to present their own designs to the public through the use of different kinds of presentation techniques, particularly through the use of conceptual models. We intend that users can show their projects from their own analytical viewpoints instead of simply showing realistic images of final designs. Presentations can also be recorded in the system, and these can in turn be used as reference material for other users. This system is currently being developed further by storing presentations and translating them into different languages (e.g. Japanese) so that foreign users in other institutions can interact with these presentations. This system has been evaluated in the context of an undergraduate CAD course at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK. We are currently examining the usefulness of the system based upon an evaluation process, in addition to including more building types for future study.
keywords	Analysis Of Form, Dynamic Interaction, Conceptual Models
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2006/11/07 07:22

_id	a6f7
authors	Mitchell, J.R. and Radford, Antony D.
year	1986
title	Adding Knowledge to Computer-Aided Detailing
source	1986. pp. 31-35
summary	A knowledge based approach to computer-aided detailing is described with an example of a generative system for the design of eaves details for domestic architecture. The program uses Prolog as a knowledge base with an integrated color raster graphics display facility
keywords	knowledge base, systems, architecture, CAD, detailing
series	CADline
last changed	2003/06/02 13:58

_id	ce3b
authors	Mitchell, J.R. and Radford, Antony D.
year	1987
title	EAVE, A Generative Expert System for Detailing
source	Environment and Planning B. 1987. vol. 14: pp. 281-292
summary	Grammars of shapes and designs are rule-based models for the generation of members of a class of designs. The applicability of the formalism as a basis for generative expert systems for construction details in computer-aided design is discussed. A demonstration system is presented
keywords	applications, automation, synthesis, shape grammars, CAD, expert systems
series	CADline
last changed	2003/06/02 14:41

_id	a9d7
authors	Mitchell, J.W. and McCullough, M.
year	1991
title	Digital Design Media: A Handbook for Architects and Design Professionals
source	Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 421-422
summary	In Digital Design Media architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs-existing and future-as a whole. Clear structure, numerous historical references, and hundreds of illustrations make this framework both accessible to the nontechnical professional and broadening for the experienced computer-aided designer. The book will be especially valuable to anyone who is ready to expand their work in CAD beyond production drafting systems. The new second edition adds chapters one merging technologies, such as the Internet, but the book's original content is as valid as ever. Thousands of design students and practitioners have made this book a standard.
series	other
email
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	cf2007_317
id	cf2007_317
authors	Mitchell, John; Justin Wong and Jim Plume
year	2007
title	Design Collaboration Using IFC
source	Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures / 978-1-4020-6527-9 2007 [Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures / 978-1-4020-6527-9] Sydney (Australia) 11–13 July 2007, pp. 317-329
summary	This paper reports a study that has been undertaken as part of an on-going project to examine the capacity of building information modelling (BIM) techniques to support collaborative design in the building industry. In particular, our premise is that effective design collaboration relies on the ability to exchange BIM data in a robust way using an open information standard such as IFC. The focus of this present work has been on the processes involved in design collaboration between architects and engineers responsible for advising on thermal performance issues. We begin by looking at the kinds of data that needs to be exchanged to support such collaboration. We then test the exchange using a pilot project model and finally review the capacity of the IFC standard to support such processes.
series	CAAD Futures
email
last changed	2007/07/06 12:47

_id	acadia22pr_142
id	acadia22pr_142
authors	Mitchell, R. Scott
year	2022
title	The Arroyo Bridge - Collaborative Robotics for Large Scale Fabrication
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Projects Catalog of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-7-4]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 142-147.
summary	The Arroyo Bridge, spanning 80-feet across a ravine near Los Angeles, is anchored by four, 35-foot deep concrete pilings, hand-bored into the hillside to provide adequate support in the alluvial soil. An asymmetrical superstructure of over 600 discrete parts, the bridge is joined by unique part-to-part connections that frame the pedestrian walkway. From a distance, the biomorphic shape integrates into a steep landscape of eucalyptus, coming into view only upon approach. The tubular silhouette draws inspiration from the vascular architecture of leaves and layered branching system of trees in the neighboring forest.
series	ACADIA
type	project
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:06

_id	bc8d
authors	Mitchell, W.
year	1990
title	Digital Design Media
source	Ciudad de Bits. Space, Place and the Infobahn
summary	In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs-existing and future-as a whole. Clear structure, numerous historical references, and hundreds of illustrations make this framework both accessible to the nontechnical professional and broadening for the experienced computer-aided designer. The book will be especially valuable to anyone who is ready to expand their work in CAD beyond production drafting systems. The new second edition adds chapters one merging technologies, such as the Internet, but the book's original content is as valid as ever. Thousands of design students and practitioners have made this book a standard.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	ac8b
authors	Mitchell, W.
year	1984
title	CAD Technology, Its Effects on Practice and the Response of Education - an Overview
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1984.x.b3c
source	The Third European Conference on CAD in the Education of Architecture [eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Helsinki (Finnland) 20-22 September 1984.
summary	Related with the evolution of hardware there also is an evolution of CAD techniques. The very first CAD/CAM packages were developed on mainframes. They moved into practice when 16-bit minicomputers became available. The packages mainly were production drafting applications. The 32-bit super minicomputers give wider possibilities, but at the same time some software problems arise, namely the complexity of CAD- databases and the development and maintenance cost of large programs. With VLSI the distribution of intelligence becomes possible, the enthousiasm for CAD increases, but still the gap between available hardware and high quality software, remains high.Concerning CAD teaching there are severe problems. First of all there are not enough really good designers which know CAD in such a way that they can teach it. Second there is a shortage of equipment and a financial problem. Thirdly there is the question what the students need to know about CAD. which is not clear at the moment. At the University of California, Los Angeles, the following 5 subjects are teached: Computer Support, Computer Literacy, Professional Practice Implications, Exploration of CAD as a Design Medium and Theoretical Foundations of CAD. To use computers as a medium it is necessary to understand architecture, its objects, its operators and its evaluation criteria. The last topic is considered at research level.
series	eCAADe
email
more	www.ecaade.org
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	f507
authors	Mitchell, W.
year	1990
title	The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation and Cognition
source	The MIT Press, Cambridge
summary	The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. It provides a detailed discussion of languages of architectural form, their specification by means of formal grammars, their interpretation, and their role in structuring design thinking. Supplemented by more than 200 original illustrations, The Logic of Architecture reexamines central issues of design theory in the light of recent advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and the theory of computation. The richness of this approach permits sympathetic and constructive analysis of positions developed by a wide range of theorists and philosophers from Socrates to the present. Mitchell first considers how buildings may be described in words and shows how such descriptions may be formalized by the notation of first order predicate calculus. This leads to the idea of a critical language for speaking about the qualities of buildings. Turning to the question of representation by drawings and scale models, Mitchell then develops the notion of design worlds that provide graphic tokens which can be manipulated according to certain grammatical rules. In particular, he shows how domains of graphic compositions possible in a design world may be specified by formal shape grammars. Design worlds and critical languages are connected by showing how such languages may be interpreted in design worlds. Design processes are then viewed as computations in a design world with the objective of satisfying predicates of form and function stated in a critical language.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

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