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_id	caadria2014_099
id	caadria2014_099
authors	Koh, Immanuel
year	2014
title	Generative-Glass: Prototyping Generative Architectural Systems with Artisan’s Glass-Blowing and Automated Digital Fabrication Techniques
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.389
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. 389–398
summary	This paper aims to investigate the ways in which the traditional processes of glassblowing techniques could be incorporated with contemporary generative design processes in the realization of new novel architectural systems. Pedagogical issues on how such prototyping processes could be better integrated within architectural education are also discussed. With the use of algorithmic design methodology to generate/visualize the components assembled in multitudes and digital fabrication machineries to produce the necessary moulds/jigs/tools/connection joints, a series of 5 different glass prototypes have been actualized at the scale of 1:1 or otherwise. The work is the direct outcome of a new programme founded and directed by the author as part of the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture‘s Visiting School in 2013. Part 1 briefly introduces the specific agenda and how the corresponding structure of the programme is designed to facilitate the glass research work done concurrently at the digital fabrication laboratory and glassblowing studio. Part 2 would systematically discuss in detail the design of each of the 5 main glass prototypes made, presented alongside photographs and diagrams to illustrate the prototypes’ respective assembly and fabrication logics. Part 3 would evaluate the work done and project plans for the next iteration of the research in 2014.
keywords	Glass; Digital Fabrication; Generative Design; Traditional Crafts
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2020_163
id	caadria2020_163
authors	Koh, Immanuel
year	2020
title	The Augmented Museum - A Machinic Experience with Deep Learning
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.639
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. 639-648
summary	Today we witness a shift in the role with which museum used to play -- from one that was simply a spatial container filled with physical artworks on display, to one that is now layered with the digital/online version of the artworks themselves. Deep learning algorithms have become an important means to process such large datasets of digital artworks in providing an alternative curatorial practice (biased/unbiased), and consequentially, augmenting the navigation of the museum's physical spaces. In collaboration with a selection of museums, a series of web/mobile applications have been made to investigate the potential of such machinic inference, as well as interference of the physical experience.
keywords	Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Experience Design; Artificial Intelligence
series	CAADRIA
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_id	sigradi2022_168
id	sigradi2022_168
authors	Koh, Immanuel
year	2022
title	Palette2Interior Architecture: From Syntactic and Semantic Colour Palettes to Generative Interiors with Deep Learning
source	Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF, Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, 7-11 November 2022 , pp. 187–198
summary	Colour palettes have long played a significant role in not only capturing design ambience (e.g., as mood boards), but more significantly, in translating an abstract intuition into an explicit ordering mechanism for design representation and synthesis, whether it is in the discipline of graphic design, interior design or architectural design. Might this difficult process of design synthesis from a low-dimensional colour input domain to a high-dimensional spatial design output domain be computationally mapped? Using today’s generative adversarial networks (GANs), the paper aims to investigate this plausibility, and in doing so, hoping to envision an AI-augmented design workflow and tooling. Newly-created datasets are made procedurally and used to train three different types of deep learning models in the specific context of generating living room interior layouts. The results suggest that a combination of syntactic and semantic generative processes is necessary for a critical appropriation of such AI models
keywords	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Neural Networks, Colour Palette, Interior Design
series	SIGraDi
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_id	caadria2023_1
id	caadria2023_1
authors	Koh, Immanuel
year	2023
title	AI-Bewitched Architecture of Hansel and Gretel: Food-to-Architecture in 2D & 3D with GANs and Diffusion Models
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2023.1.009
source	Immanuel Koh, Dagmar Reinhardt, Mohammed Makki, Mona Khakhar, Nic Bao (eds.), HUMAN-CENTRIC - Proceedings of the 28th CAADRIA Conference, Ahmedabad, 18-24 March 2023, pp. 9–18
summary	Architects such as Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, and Greg Lynn have implicitly turned culinary formalism into architectural formalism during their careers. How might AI assist in a similar act of bisociation (or conceptual blending)? The paper is the first to explore this food2architecture bisociation explicitly, and specifically with generative adversarial networks (GANs) such as CycleGAN and VQGAN-CLIP, and diffusion models such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Midjourney and DreamFusion (using Stable Diffusion). Instead of using textual input prompts to generate images of architecture only with the discipline’s own vocabulary, the research merges them with the vocabulary of food, thus exploiting their potential in blending their respective conceptual and formal characteristics. While these diffusion models have recently been used by the general public to generate 2D imagery posts on various social media platforms, no existing work has conducted a detailed and systematic analysis on their exclusive capacity in bisociating food and architecture. Imagery outputs generated during two workshops involving 150 designers and non-designers are included here as illustrations. Beginning and ending the paper with the all-familiar fairy tale of the gingerbread house, the research explores the creative design bisociative affordance of today's text-to-image and text-to-3D models by turning culinary inputs into architectural outputs -- envisioning an explicitly computational version of the implicit 'food2architecture' mental models plausibly used by some of the most creative architects.
keywords	Deep Learning, Midjourney, DALL-E 2, DreamFusion, Stable Diffusion, GANs
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2024_242
id	ecaade2024_242
authors	Koh, Immanuel; Saw, Man Lin
year	2024
title	Architectural Dramaturgy: A total and endless theatre with multimodal artificial intelligence
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2024.1.559
source	Kontovourkis, O, Phocas, MC and Wurzer, G (eds.), Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2024), Nicosia, 11-13 September 2024, Volume 1, pp. 559–564
summary	Close to a century ago, Walter Gropius proposed the highly influential but unrealised project ‘Total Theatre’ (1927). The project captured Gropius’ adapted formulation of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’(‘total work of art’) as ‘Total Design’ within the Bauhaus, and more specifically, in relation to ‘The Theatre of the Bauhaus’ (1924). The ‘Total Theatre’ was Gropius’ attempt to dynamically reconfigure the previously static relationship between actors and audience into one that is participatory and filmic in spatial layout. Around the same time in history, shortly after designing the set for Eugene O’Neill’s ‘The Emperor Jones’ in 1924, Frederick Kiesler began to conceptualise his ‘Endless Theatre’ (1926). In the former, Kiesler created a constructivist stage space with moving walls/floors/ceilings animating in-sync with the play’s narrative and producing cinematographic effects similar to those found in films. For both Gropius and Kiesler, the theatre is a fertile ground for incorporating the latest technologies to prototype a ‘totally’ multimodal and ‘endlessly’ generative form of architecture. Against the backdrop of such past intellectual efforts in architecture, and that of today’s rapidly foregrounding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in artificial intelligence (AI) within the architecture discipline, the paper posits that it is timely to revisit this conceptual cross-fertilisation of theatre and architecture – architectural dramaturgy. In doing so, the research aims to extend Gropius’s and Kiesler’s concept of the ‘total’ and the ‘endless’ respectively through the lens of the ‘computational’. The first experiment uses different datasets from existing established theatre creators to train and prompt-engineer relevant AI models, namely a text-to-text model for playwright Arthur Miller, a text-to-image model for director Ivo van Hove, and a text-to-audio model for composer Stephen Sondheim. In improving the coherence of the results, the second experiment replaces unimodality with multimodality leveraging a single source of video data (the poignant “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet) to formulate a human-in-the-loop interpretative framework by utilising a combination of text-image-to-image model and text-image-to-video model, and further postprocessed with image inpainting model and image-to-3D model. With the deliberate bracketing of site, programmes and other specificities typical of an architecture project, the research demonstrates how concepts borrowed from theatre when layered with multimodal AI could extend the discipline’s longstanding conception of a total and endless architecture.
keywords	Theatre, Deep Learning, Large Multimodal Models, Kiesler, Gropius
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2021_448
id	caadria2021_448
authors	Koh, Seow Jin, Mok, Chiew Kai, Tan, Rachel and Chen, Edmund
year	2021
title	Optimising Harbour Typology in the Form Finding Process using Computational Design: A case study of a Greenfield port facility
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.2.619
source	A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 619-628
summary	The bulk of computational design strategies and research have been focused on issues related to architectural form and building systems. This is done by employing computational tools to optimise architectural forms, building performance and generally, improve quality of living. Many of these methodologies are based on the concept of form finding - varying geometric elements to generate and evaluate options to derive optimised solutions. However, beyond building designs, the concept of form finding can find its relevance in other design applications too such as engineering, landscape, and in our case, the design of ports, or more specifically harbour typology. In most building scenarios, the plot of land earmarked for development is typically selected beforehand, hence little exploration have been done to optimise land topology, when in fact the profile of land is the governing feature in most designs. For performance driven facilities like ports with high economic and political impact, there is value in optimizing topology to maximise throughput. Through the multi-disciplinary and collaborative effort of stakeholders and specialists, our project explored optimizing harbour topology via performance-based approach using computational design. The phenomenon, including impact and effects of trade-offs, are discussed and presented in this paper through a case study of a Greenfield port facility.
keywords	form finding; form optimisation; port masterplanning; harbour typology; computational design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia19_522
id	acadia19_522
authors	Kohler, Daniel; Galika, Anna; Pu, Qiuru; Bai, Junyi
year	2019
title	Blockerties
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.522
source	ACADIA 19:UBIQUITY AND AUTONOMY [Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-59179-7] (The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Austin, Texas 21-26 October, 2019) pp. 522-531
summary	The paper aims for new urban forms of property enabled by computation models of distributed ledgers as they are currently being deployed with technologies like Blockchain. Distributed ledgers promise to constitute whole environments by chaining and sharing blocks of data. Upscaling this prospective, the paper describes objects with unique and strong compositional characteristics that act as closed black boxes and are able through distribution to create large scale effects. The final result of the nesting is the Interchain, a chain of chains that initiate with the characteristics of the contributing chains, and due to the distribution, unprecedented patterns arise. The resulting Interchain, observed with spatial and architectural characteristics, can project a new building form and a new urban model based on blockchain theory.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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_id	2653
authors	Kohler, N., Barth, B. Heitz, S. and Hermann, M.
year	1997
title	Life Cycle Models of Buildings - A New Approach
source	CAAD Futures 1997 [Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-7923-4726-9] München (Germany), 4-6 August 1997, pp. 519-531
summary	The idea of life cycle cost was developed a quarter of a century ago. A wide dissemination of the term was given through a report for the US Secretary of Defense "Life Cycle Cost in Equipment Procuration". This report was followed by a series of guide lines in the defense field and later on in other government activities. The basic definition of life cycle costs is: "The sum of all costs incurred during the lifetime of an item, i.e. the total of procurement and ownership costs". There are several life cycle costs models available in literature. In the building field attempts have been made to introduce the notion of life cycle costs mainly through building surveys and for public owned buildings. Recorded data of construction, refurbishment and maintenance costs of buildings show that over a 50 year period the total costs amount to approximate twice the investment costs (without financial costs).
keywords	Life Cycle Costs, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Product Models
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	1999/04/06 09:19

_id	ddss9450
id	ddss9450
authors	Kohsaka, Hiroyuki
year	1994
title	Spatial Decision Support System for Retail Activity
source	Second Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture & Urban Planning (Vaals, the Netherlands), August 15-19, 1994
summary	This presentation proposes an architecture of Spatial Support System (SDSS) for retail activity. This SDSS is made up of four key modules: data, monitoring, spatial analysis/modelling, and map and report generators. In the data module, spatial shopping data are gathered from Point of Sales (POS) Systems as well as trade area surveys. Two examples will be presented to collect spatial shopping data. One is from an ordinal trade area survey and the other is from point IC cards. The monitoring module can represent retail trade areas as three-dimensional surfaces as well as contour maps by using a colour graphics display after a cartographic analysis which consists of gridding and interpolation of these data. As an application example of monitoring module, retail trade area for a store or a shopping street will be shown as a three-dimensional surface. In addition, themonitoring module can describe a retail structure consisting of the trade area of several retail stores to analyze the spatial competition of them. In the spatial analysis/modelling module, optimization methods search for an optimal location of a new store and an impact analysis assesses the locational impacts of the store upon the existing stores. An optimal location of new supermarket will be solved as an example for this module.
series	DDSS
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last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	ed08
authors	Koile, Kimberle
year	1997
title	Design Conversations with Your Computer: Evaluating Experiential Qualities of Physical Form
source	CAAD Futures 1997 [Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-7923-4726-9] München (Germany), 4-6 August 1997, pp. 203-218
summary	This paper describes a prototype system that evaluates an architectural design using the designer's theories about how to manifest experiential qualities in physical form. The system uses Al methods in conjunction with geometric and non-geometric knowledge to represent experiential qualities, e.g. privacy, in terms of concrete details of a design, e.g. wall dimensions and locations. This paper describes the organization and implementation of the system, and reports the results of an experiment in which the system was used to evaluate Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie houses.
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	1999/04/06 09:19

_id	67ac
authors	Koivunen, Marja-Riitta and Mantyla, Martti
year	1988
title	Hut Windows : An Improved Architecture for a User Interface Management System
source	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. January, 1988. vol. 8: pp. 43-52 : ill. includes bibliography
summary	The design of Hut Windows, a user interface management system intended for applications in mechanical CAD, is the subject of this article. Hut Windows features a three-layered internal architecture, where the presentation, dialogue- control, and application processing layers are clearly separated from each other. This leads to increased simplicity and flexibility in user interface design over the more traditional situation where all of these layers are closely coupled
keywords	user interface, CAD, windowing, mechanical engineering
series	CADline
last changed	2003/06/02 13:58

_id	ecaade2014_060
id	ecaade2014_060
authors	Koki Akiyoshi and Hiroya Tanaka
year	2014
title	Local-reconfigurable Freeform surface with plywood - From the perspective of Japanese Tsugite-Shiguchi
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.1.527
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 527-535
summary	This research exhibits a novel construction method for Freeform surfaces with plywood, without using metal joints and bending. By introducing the perspective of Japanese Tsugite-Shiguchi, the research aims for a drastic change from node-oriented thinking to module-oriented thinking. This paper focuses on the investigation of how to simplify fabrication processes, how to realize the environmental capabilities of Freeform wood structures, and how to provide redundancy and stability to the whole architectural system. In order to challenge these problems, we examined three discretion methods. As a result, we have been successful to produce a double-layered surface, filled with triangular mesh, implemented only by cutting one sheet of plywood. Moreover, the system has also acquired a new nature: local-reconfigurability, wherein it can react and adapt to fit local parameters and requirements.
wos	WOS:000361384700052
keywords	Digital fabrication; freeform timber; without metal and bending; discrete surface; minimal components for mega-assembly
series	eCAADe
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_id	63bb
authors	Kokosalakis, J., Brown, G. and Moorhouse, J.
year	1997
title	Incremental Reflective Learning and Innovative Practice in Electronic Design Media
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.u1q
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
summary	This paper discusses the impact of a continuously developing CAAD learning strategy, describing in detail a few of these principles, and considering their dynamic impact through deeper more lasting learning, feeding a substantial intensification in the application of Architectural Designing with Computers, changing design methods with interesting analytical and creative results.Aspects of the CAAD teaching discussed include extended collaboration between CAAD and design tutors in defining learning outcomes and tutoring the students’ application of CAAD to design projects, inclusion of CAAD within traditional interim reviews and feedback for design projects and bringing emphasis on conceptual principles, structuring the model and simple programming into earlier stages of the teaching programme and a simple excursion into programming. Studio project examples indicate the interplay between teaching, learning and achievement. Some evidence is explored in greater detail. from the "Interstitial Layers" project utilising the appropriateness of CAAD to store and switch the visibility of spatial data in endless permutations and extensive combinations for mapping, analysing and strategically projecting patterns of city centre activities, fabric and space. Students’ demonstrate a dynamic command of CAAD: as a vehicle for conceptual design, a device to analytically review, criticise and modify the design, as a means to explain design ideas to tutors and to develop and detail final building designs. Reciprocal valuing of quality CAAD achievement between architecture students and staff is seen to be contributing to involvement and motivation, reinforcing striving for equality of achievement. Reference to a further strand of the new methodology considers the impact of tutoring based in researcher findings from video case study precedents of architects practising creative design through use of computers, on a more open, effective development of the architecture students’ own designing processes, culminating in interesting design work.
keywords	Incremental Learning, Understanding, CAAD-Design Approaches, Retention, Feedback, Review, Urban Spatial Forms, Spatial Analysis, "Interstitial Layers", Patterns, Conceptual Electronic Designing, Creative Innovation, Equality and Sharing
series	eCAADe
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more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/kokosa/jmup01.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	a12b
authors	Kokosalakis, J., Farrow, J. and Spalton, N.
year	1993
title	Introducing 2D Draughting and 3D CAD Modelling into the Information and Library Studies Curriculum in Response to Increasingly Complex Design Requirements of Information Resources
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1993.x.q0e
source	[eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Eindhoven (The Netherlands) 11-13 November 1993
summary	This paper describes enhancements to the Information and Library Studies curriculum at the Liverpool John Moores University. In the design process for buildings and space utilised for learning resources informed client involvement is seen as important by the information professional. A new module has been introduced with the aim of providing students with the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively with building design professionals. It is apparent that CAD has a place in this teaching. The programme of study is outlined, including a discussion of significant, relevant examples produced by the CAAD staff of the School of the Built Environment. The teaching methods were drawn from experience in the well established curricula and delivery of CAAD to the architecture and environmental planning students using School of the Built Environment Macintosh hardware and software. From the Aldham Robarts Learning Resource Centre, (presently nearing completion) examples will be shown of animated models, design, organisational and staffing solutions to new technological demands. These include transfer of the Austin - Smith: Lord Intergraph/MicroStation 3D model to Zoom, animation with Electric Image and Theseus and assisting library staff to use ArchiCAD to design and consider shelf planning arrangements for negotiation with the architects. There are interesting lessons to be learned about the advantages of CAD for future client control.
keywords	Information Professional, CAAD, Learning Resource Centre, Open Learning, Information and Library Studies, Curriculum.
series	eCAADe
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_id	8d21
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen and Moorhouse, Jon
year	1995
title	A Documentation Methodology for Multimedia Recording of Architects Computer Aided Architectural Designing
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1995.203
source	Multimedia and Architectural Disciplines [Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe / ISBN 0-9523687-1-4] Palermo (Italy) 16-18 November 1995, pp. 203-216
summary	The focus of this paper is on teaching design through Computer Aided Architectural Design. Our present activity is to prepare Multimedia interviews showing how architects are designing using CAAD. We have for some time had relative success with students learning to design using the CAAD system extensively and creatively for their studio projects. This has led us to consider how best to teach in a way which encourages this creativity to extend and flourish. As with learning, broadly, and specifically with developing design ability, it is important to direct students to relevant established precedents of recent and classic examples of respected architects' approaches to similar design activities, in a body of historical and theoretical background. This tradition in teaching provides rich, invaluable learning material in design approaches and solutions. It appears that most material attempting to fill this role for CAADesign is in the form of written material, finished designs, or animations. Possibly the only way Computer Aided Architectural Designing activity can be understood fully is by documenting it in its own original media, (excepting direct first hand live observation). We are therefore preparing Multimedia records of interviews with architects and their real time computer activity, to build up a rich base of reference material supporting and expanding learning to design through CAAD.
series	eCAADe
more	http://dpce.ing.unipa.it/Webshare/Wwwroot/ecaade95/Pag_27.htm
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_id	4ae8
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen, Hohmann, L.M. and Pamplin, I.
year	1999
title	Benefits of Data Integration in Building Modelling: 3D Object Oriented Professional Collaboration
source	AVOCAAD Second International Conference [AVOCAAD Conference Proceedings / ISBN 90-76101-02-07] Brussels (Belgium) 8-10 April 1999, pp. 103-130
summary	This paper will review current progress across the building construction industry in meeting demands for use of data integration with the 3D building model as the coordinating device in building design and development. Decades of national initiatives from NEDO (1990) to Egan (1998) have striven to encourage collaboration in first the building design team and later targetting in programmas the means to accomplish this. In its 14th year 'The User Group' has intensified efforts to persuade the industry of the benefits of associating all data involved from the first briefing and conception of design needs and ideas, through the development of the design, testing for structures, costs, heating, lighting, urban and rural environmental impact, facilities management, adaptation and even the eventual controlled demolition of the building. Examples in this paper will be reported from 'The User Group' conference, "Profit from Data Integration: An industry update", (NEC, Birmingham, Nov. 1998), to indicate how various organisations are now profiting from data integration in 3D object orientated modelling.
series	AVOCAAD
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last changed	2005/09/09 10:48

_id	26a5
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen
year	1994
title	Recent Developments Using ArchiCAD in Education: LJMU experience
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1994.x.u2t
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, p. 224
summary	The teaching forum : Based on the CAD Suite for Division of Arts & Professional Studies Emphasis here is on teaching of formal class groups, demos from the Mac with OHP interface display panel usually with DTP hand outs, programmed in with project themes. eg. Attributes of materials - rendering transparency, reflection & shadow casting features timed for the Clay and Glass Design project. CONS - More able students tend to be held up by the slower ones. Some students rush ahead using the hand outs and get out of sync with the rest.
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	010d
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen
year	1996
title	The Role and Status of Computing and Participation of Design Clients in the Curriculum
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1996.227
source	Education for Practice [14th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-2-2] Lund (Sweden) 12-14 September 1996, pp. 227-238
summary	This paper is not intended as a fully researched exploration into architecture course coverage, but an attempt to introduce debate regarding some concerns on the role and status of Computing and consumer participation in the hope that CAAD peers will discuss and reflect with other specialists. A number of commentaries on serious deficiencies in the education of architects point to poor take-up of computing into the curriculum and an almost disassociation of the eventual designed building user from decisions on the design. By comparison it seems easier to find architects today who involve clients almost throughout the design process and increasing competency and continuity of CAAD usage in practices. The few brief references to Schools’ curricula are not formalised random studies. Certainly many excellent features will have been omitted. The intention is to start the debate. Finally a few directions are noted and some conclusions proffered. An argument is made for 3D CAAD models as the backbone and direct negotiating focus for design arbitration between consumer, designer [or students] and other professional collaborators in tesigning buildings, particularly where complex forms and spatial relationships are involved.
series	eCAADe
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_id	8de0
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen
year	1996
title	THE CAAC 3D Model as the Focus, or Vehicle for Effective Participation with the Design's Client, Observer or User
source	Approaches to Computer Aided Architectural Composition [ISBN 83-905377-1-0] 1996, pp. 133-152
summary	Architectural composition is central to most education and training of architects. Hence, though not every architect's role in practice deals directly with architectural composition, all will have a greater likelihood of ability to visualise and understand others' visual concepts than the average client. This text is concerned with the involvement of the client in composition of the building design. The medium of the three dimensional model, manoeuvrable at the computer screen or in Virtual Reality resembles well the intended physical reality of the designed building that the client will either own, use, occupy, or observe and so can assist tremendously. It is suggested that through this empowering vehicle of the CAAC model, far more informed response and tangible, visible vocabulary is accessible to the client to assist dialogue. This text proposes that practice can indicate better participation as a more evident principle. CAAC enables dynamic influences on the architectural composition of the building as accountable, truly potential dialogue towards design outcome from the construction team. The case rests with current exploratory cases of dynamic, participatory architectural composition activity, as a sign for the future.
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_id	c59c
authors	Kokosalakis, Jen
year	1997
title	C AD VANTAGE for Communities, Professionals and Students
source	AVOCAAD First International Conference [AVOCAAD Conference Proceedings / ISBN 90-76101-01-09] Brussels (Belgium) 10-12 April 1997, pp. 235-254
summary	I propose to consider how added value for professionals, and the consumers of their buildings and students of these processes might be attained. Through the vehicle of new technologies including the humble 'CAD' system a fuller collaboration in design decision- making is aided through representation of 3 dimensional design ideas and their comprehension from different 'vantage' points. Thus computing may enhance opportunity for more informed dialogue involving verbal and visual responses between the intentions of the architect and client and promise to open up more of the architectural design process to participation by the building consumers, bringing advantage' to all actors in the design process. More liberated sketching at the system is becoming evident as programmers, and users' skills adapt to the search for more enabling, creative and easier tools, procedures and interfaces freeing responsiveness to consumer wishes. Reflection from clients and practitioners brings hope that a more informed dialogue is enabled through computer supported designing. The beginnings of CAAD support to community groups acts as a facilitator. Contacting and working with community groups follows effective 'Community Development' precedents established in the Liverpool of the sixties; to contact, activate, enable and provide necessary skill supports for community-driven striving for resolution of housing problems. Results of this, ploughed back into CAD teaching for Environmental Planners, brings increased awareness and visualisation of environmental, architectural and human issues and promises to begin a new cycle of more informed participation for citizens, architects, planners and consultants.
series	AVOCAAD
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