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_id	ddss2006-pb-35
id	DDSS2006-PB-35
authors	M.C.G. te Brömmelstroet
year	2006
title	Properly Equip Planners, Instead of Just Manning Equipment - A first step in a user-oriented PSS development approach as support for the integration of land use and transport planning
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Progress in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, ISBN-10: 90-386-1756-9, ISBN-13: 978-90-386-1756-5, p. 35-50
summary	There is a growing need for planning support in planning practice, especially in land use and transport integration. Recent studies have shown that instruments that provide such are seldom implemented. Building on recommendations of those studies, this paper explores how to develop a planning support system (PSS) for this specific field of planning and shows some preliminary results of the first steps towards such a PSS. An qualitative assessment on the strengths and weaknesses of two recently developed instruments that share this goal; the VPR and the SDS+STE. Due to time constraints, the focus is on the background and framework of the study.
keywords	Land use and transport, PSS, computer-aided planning, participatory design
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	caadria2019_290
id	caadria2019_290
authors	Ma, Chenlong, Zhu, Shuyan and Xiang, Ke
year	2019
title	Digital Aided FaÃ§ade Design Introduced in a Traditional Design Workflow - An experience from one large-scale museum design and construction practice
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1.675
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 675-684
summary	This paper discusses the opportunities and barriers of adopting parametric tools in discrete elements of the design development documentation processes in parallel with more traditional 2D computer aided architectural design (CAAD). We believe it is a more reasonable way for small to middle sized design companies in China, to introduce parametric design method into the design and construction process, especially when there being a long way from traditional CAAD approach to an all-BIM future in China.
keywords	parametric tools; collaborative design; faÃ§ade design
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2021_251
id	caadria2021_251
authors	Ma, Chun Yu and van Ameijde, Jeroen
year	2021
title	Participatory Housing: Discrete Design and Construction Systems for High-Rise Housing in Hong Kong
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.271
source	A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 271-280
summary	There has been a recent increase in the exploration of mereological systems, speculating on how digital design, assembly and reconfiguration of digital materials (Gershenfeld, 2015) enables digitally informed physical worlds that change over time. Besides opportunities for construction and design automation, there is a potential to reimagine how multiple stakeholders can participate in the computational decision-making process, using the benefits of the mass customization of logistics (Retsin, 2019). This paper presents a research-by-design project that applies a digital and discrete material system to high-rise housing in Hong Kong. The project has developed an integrated approach to design, construction, and inhabitation, using a system of discrete parts which can be assembled in various apartment configurations, to incorporate varying occupants requirements and facilitate negotiations and changes over time.
keywords	Participatory Design; Generative Design; Adaptable Architecture; High-rise Housing
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	caadria2021_333
id	caadria2021_333
authors	Ma, Chun Yu, Chan, Yan Yu Jennifer and Crolla, Kristof
year	2021
title	Expanding Bending-Active Bamboo Gridshell Structures' Design Solution Space Through Hybrid Assembly Systems
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.331
source	A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 331-340
summary	This paper discusses the development and testing of a novel design method for the low-tech construction of bending-active bamboo gridshell structures. It expands this typologys current design solution space by combining and building up on two common production methods for light-weight shell structures: 1) the lay-up method, typically used in bamboo architecture in which members are added one at a time, and 2) the flatbed method, in which a prefabricated equidistant flat grid without shear rigidity is propped up and deformed into its final doubly curved shape. The novel methodology expands the systems design solution space by incorporating singularities within the grid topology and by layering multiple separate grids. This allows for spatially radically different building geometries without loss of implementation workflow efficiency. A demonstrator design project, tested through a large-scale prototype model, is described to illustrate the possible spatially engaging architectural design opportunities presented by the novel approach.
keywords	Bending-active structures; Bamboo architecture; Shell structures; Low-tech fabrication; Form finding
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2011_068
id	ecaade2011_068
authors	Ma, Jin Yul; Choo, Seung Yeon; Seo, Ji Hyo; Jeong, Seung Woo
year	2011
title	A Study on BIM based Energy Efficient Design Improvement for Rural Standard Drawing and Specification in South Korea: Focusing on Using Buffer-Zone
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2011.430
source	RESPECTING FRAGILE PLACES [29th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-9-4912070-1-3], University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture (Slovenia) 21-24 September 2011, pp.430-438
summary	Throughout the world, global warming has been considered a severe problem, which has led to efforts being made for technical development to reduce greenhouse gases in the building sector. As more attention has been paid to energy consumption by residential housing in the building sector, policies and studies on domestic dwellings tend to focus on quality improvement and energy-efficient housing development rather than quantitative housing supply. Yet, policies and guidelines considering residential energy efficiency are inclined to focus on performance and lack in integrated consideration in connection with design. Hence, it seems necessary to compare and analyze design and energy efficiency and to study correlations between housing design and energy. Lately, BIM technology has been used in buildings domestically and proved reliable in respect of its features that enable overall comparison and prediction of housing design, performance and efficiency. The present study is to use the BIM technology to analyze energy consumption and the standard drawing schemes for rural areas to find ways to improve efficient design in singles housing sector and to suggest how to take advantage of buffer zones and how to improve housing design in favor of energy efficiency.
wos	WOS:000335665500049
keywords	BIM; Energy Analysis Tool; Rural Standard Drawing; Buffer-Zone; Sustainable design
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/05/01 23:21

_id	ddss2004_ra-129
id	ddss2004_ra-129
authors	Ma, L., Th. Arentze, A. Borgers, and H. Timmermans
year	2004
title	Using Bayesian Decision Networks for Knowledge Representation under Conditions of Uncertainty in Multi-Agent Land Use Simulation Models
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) Recent Advances in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-24088, p. 129-144
summary	Land suitability analysis typically involves the assessment of the suitability of land units without knowing the future spatial distribution of land use. Traditional planning techniques have used “algebraic equations” to express land suitability as a weighted function of suitability scores across multiple criteria. However, the existing multi-criteria evaluation methods do not systematically account for uncertainty about the land use in adjacent and other cells. This paper proposes an alternative approach to land suitability analysis that does address the problem of uncertainty. In particular, Bayesian decision networks are suggested as a means of knowledge representation for agents in a multi-agent land use simulation system. Bayesian decision networks model the uncertainty in terms of probabilities specified in the network representing the expertise of specialists with respect to specific land uses. This paper discusses the approach and illustrates its use in the context of a retail agent.
keywords	Land Suitability Analysis, Multi-Agents, Knowledge Representation, Bayesian Decision Networks
series	DDSS
last changed	2004/07/03 22:13

_id	cf2019_059
id	cf2019_059
authors	Ma, Lisha ; Xiaofang Yuan, Yu Wu and Wuzhen Zhu
year	2019
title	A National Pattern Generation Method Based on Cultural Design Genetic Derivation
source	Ji-Hyun Lee (Eds.) "Hello, Culture!" [18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, Proceedings / ISBN 978-89-89453-05-5] Daejeon, Korea, p. 500
summary	It is a great challenge to digitally generate emotionally satisfying patterns with national style characteristics to meet diversified consumer demands for national patterns. As the core of national culture’s gestation, growth and development, cultural genes can realize cultural inheritance and maintain national identity . From the view of design, the basic feature elements of cultural genes are extracted by original national pattern deconstruction and semantically summarized to form specific cultural design genes suitable for the rapid design of national pattern. Further, the topology principle and ComputerAided design is introduced to simultaneously generate pattern shapes using Self-Crossing and Cross-Crossing transformation by shape grammar. Then, the pattern elements are arranged according to the initial ethnic pattern composition rules to generate new series of ethnic patterns. Finally, Chinese Tibetan pattern is patterned as an example to demonstrate that this research can creates patterns faster and in line with the user's intent.
keywords	National pattern, Cultural design gene, Pattern deconstruction, Shape grammar, Computer-Aided design
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2019/07/29 14:18

_id	caadria2016_477
id	caadria2016_477
authors	Ma, Y. P.; M. C. Lin and C. C. Hsu
year	2016
title	Enhance Architectural Heritage Conservation Using BIM Technology
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.477
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. 477-486
summary	Common problems tend to surface during the restoration and maintenance of wooden structures for architectural heritage: (1) recording and communicating geometric and non-geometric infor- mation, (2) integrating and managing the multiple phases of construc- tion and (3) the structural damage that can be incurred during the dis- mantling process. This leads to less confidence in the quality of restoration and maintenance. This study considers the traditional wooden structures in Taiwan as a basis to discuss the issues faced dur- ing restoration and the gap in communication between designers and builders. Using new techniques, resources and the concept of BIM, a plugin is developed for guiding restoration. It serves as a BIM-based communication platform for designers and builders, enabling the real- time exchange of information to minimise any gaps that may exist be- tween the designers’ information and that of the builders. This allows information related to the restoration to be more accurate and offers the assurance that the traditional architecture retains its original struc- ture and value.
keywords	Architectural heritage; conservation; digital achievement; BIM; wooden frameworks
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	caadria2003_b7-3
id	caadria2003_b7-3
authors	Ma, Y.-P., Lee, C.-H. and Jeng, T.
year	2003
title	Inavigator: A Spatially-Aware Tangible Interface for Interactive 3D Visualization
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2003.963
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. 963-974
summary	The purpose of this work is to design a spatially-aware tangible interface for interactive 3D visualization. We explore an integrated platform whereby digital representations are integrated with physical artifacts. Our work provides a means to display separated perspective views of a design on multiple-projection physical planes. Users can directly interact with the physical planes to view digital information. By coupling physical artifacts with digital representations, the view of 3D information is mapped to physical space. Our work reduces the cognitive load on novice designers, and enhances the user's capability of understanding the relationships between multiple design representations.
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	caadria2017_063
id	caadria2017_063
authors	Ma, Yidong and Xu, Weiguo
year	2017
title	Physarealm - A Bio-inspired Stigmergic Algorithm Tool for Form-Finding
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2017.499
source	P. Janssen, P. Loh, A. Raonic, M. A. Schnabel (eds.), Protocols, Flows, and Glitches - Proceedings of the 22nd CAADRIA Conference, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, 5-8 April 2017, pp. 499-508
summary	Physarum Polycephalum is a widespread eukaryotic microbe capable of producing effective networks between food particles to solve spatial planning problems. This paper investigates a previous algorithm for simulating Physarum Polycephalum. An open-source tool named Physarealm is developed for simulation in Rhino's graphical algorithm editor, Grasshopper. The tool adopts a previous stigmergic multi-agent algorithm for simulation and expands its boundary into three dimensions. In addition, this tool adds some custom rules, thus giving the designer more creative control over the produced results. Two research projects have applied this tool in the design process. The first project mainly takes advantage of the tool's path-planning ability, while the second one utilizes its aesthetic values, demonstrating the potential of the tool for further applications.
keywords	stigmergy; multi-agent systems; form finding; computation; biomimicry
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2006_paper30
id	ascaad2006_paper30
authors	Ma, Yue and Mohammed Zaheeruddin
year	2006
title	A Real-Time Simulation Tool for Fault Detection and Diagnosis of HVAC Systems
source	Computing in Architecture / Re-Thinking the Discourse: The Second International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2006), 25-27 April 2006, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
summary	In this study, a real-time simulation tool was developed for online monitoring, control and diagnosis of HVAC systems. A twozone variable air volume terminal reheat (VAV-TRH) HVAC system is considered. The developed program can be used in offline and online environments. The offline environment allows the operators to examine optimal control strategies, and to investigate problems associated with improper size of components which could be the root cause of the fault. The online environment is useful for monitoring, control and diagnosis of HVAC systems. A set of expert rules were applied to identify the faults. Simulation results show that the developed tool is able to correctly identify the fault patterns and therefore can be used for improving operating performance of HVAC systems.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2007/04/08 19:47

_id	ddssar0221
id	ddssar0221
authors	Maassen, W., De Groot, E. and Scholten, J.E.
year	2002
title	Design of an Early Support Tool For Building Services Design:A Design Tool Study
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Sixth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part one: Architecture Proceedings Avegoor, the Netherlands), 2002
summary	There is a need for Dutch design support tools for building services that can be used in early design stages. TNO Building and Construction Research has therefore initiated the research project described here. The project will result in a model for a design support tool for early design of building services in the Netherlands. This tool should make it possible to quickly compare alternative conceptual design solutions and to visualize possible consequences of the underlying design decisions.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	bb7f
authors	Mabel, Fabiana
year	2002
title	Cidades Invisíveis – uma construção interpretativa [ Invisible cities - an interpretative construction ]
source	SIGraDi 2002 - [Proceedings of the 6th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Caracas (Venezuela) 27-29 november 2002, pp. 91-93
summary	Crear una imagen virtual digital colectiva, de una de las 57 ciudades descrito por Italo Calvino en el libro” Las ciudades invisibles “. Imaginar la ciudad y superar su concepto geográfico. Hacer-la un elemento aglutinadotes de las experiencias y sentimientos humanos, una fuente inagotable en transformación. Permitir una creación personal y colectiva, a través de los elementos que son al mismo tiempo descriptivos e imaginativos, que hace o no parte del mundo real, nosotros reportamos al mundo de los sueños, de la factura, lugares dónde todo es posible.Una invitación para sentir y entender sin la prisa, analizando los detalles como en una obra de arte. Un espacio digital que hace posible un diálogo no sólo en el campo del discurso pero también de la mirada, de crear, de hacer, de dividir y de comprensión. El pasaje para una nueva forma de la interacción, dónde los cambios acontecen libre e independientemente,sin la dirección de flujos, derribando las barreras espacio-tempo.Una búsqueda poética que tomará forma a través de la construcción de un mundo, compuesto por los elementos como: la luz, el sonido, las imágenes, las animaciones, objetan 2D y 3D, textos y videos. Estará disponible en el sitio”Ciudad arte” (www.cidadearte.com.br)
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	277f
authors	Mabel, Fabiana
year	2001
title	CIDADE ARTE: UM PROJETO VIRTUAL-DIGITAL (City Art: A Virtual-Digital Project)
source	SIGraDi biobio2001 - [Proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics / ISBN 956-7813-12-4] Concepcion (Chile) 21-23 november 2001, pp. 248-250
summary	“Art city” is focus in analizing the traditional process of urban plan - using the highest tecnology - to propose an urban plan of the ocupation in the real and virtual space. The timing and space has transformed during this new way of representation. Allow the exposition of the elements in differents years and cultures , the change of objects and process, to receive and transmit information. Doesn’t represent a specific place; the elaboration depend the way we realize and how we deal with the propsing and inside the struture of navegation
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	ijac20064206
id	ijac20064206
authors	MacBain, Keith; Spillers, William R.
year	2006
title	A Tool for the design of Fabric Structures
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 4 - no. 2, 81-94
summary	This paper describes the development of a tool, now available for use over the Internet, for the preliminary design of a class of fabric structures. This tool is based on the so-called grid method in which vertical equilibrium over a grid in the horizontal plane is used to determine shape for a cable net. It can subsequently be combined with other analysis routines to produce a detailed structural design.
series	journal
last changed	2007/03/04 07:08

_id	25a2
authors	MacCallum, C. and Hanna, R.
year	1997
title	DEFLECT: A Computer Aided Learning Package for Teaching Structural Design - Phase Two
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.f6j
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
summary	This paper reports on Phase Two of a SHEFC funded project jointly carried out by the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University of Paisley, the Mackintosh School of Architecture, and Lamp Software. The project aims to build a computer-assisted learning package on the response of structures to load. The software will be used as an interactive teaching tool for both architectural and engineering students. The package has four levels: Beginners (Level 1), Intermediate (Level 2) and Advanced (Levels 3 and 4). The first two levels have been completed after continuous feedback from both institutions. Level 1 is geared towards architectural and engineering students to help them understand structural behaviour of building components, such as deflection. Level 2 is a graphical editor that enables students to draw precisely the structure of their designs, investigate the deflection of structural members and identify areas of tension and compression. Levels 3 and 4 are a design tool which is aimed at architectural and civil engineering students where they can design and analyse realistic structures by choosing structural members from a library, and specify materials and multiple loads. Phase One of DEFLECT was presented in the 14th ECAADE conference , which was held at the University of Lund, Sweden. In Phase Two, the range of structural examples was expanded to include typological classics. This was accompanied by additional teaching and learning material. The package was enlarged to include bending moment and shear force diagrams, tapered and curved members, and additional materials such as glass.
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/maccull/maccull.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	8832
authors	MacCallum, C. and Hanna, R.
year	1996
title	DEFLECT: A Computer Aided Learning Package For Teaching Structural Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1996.253
source	Education for Practice [14th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-2-2] Lund (Sweden) 12-14 September 1996, pp. 253-262
summary	The teaching of structures and its integration with design teaching has been seen as one of the major problems in design education in schools of architecture world-wide. A number of suggestions have been put forward to improve the quality of teaching in structures in architecture. These include the production of computer based learning materials, and the use of the computer as a ‘substitute’ tutor. This paper reports on a SHEFC funded project jointly carried out by the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Paisley, the Mackintosh School of Architecture, and Lamp Software. The project aims to build a computer-assisted learning package on the response of structures to load. The software will be used as an interactive teaching tool for both architectural and engineering students. The package has three levels: Beginners (Level 1), Intermediate (Level 2) and Advanced (Level 3). The first two levels have been completed after continuous feedback from both institutions. Level 1 is geared towards architectural and engineering students to help them understand structural behaviour of building components, such as deflection. Level 2 is a graphical editor that enables students to draw precisely the structure of their designs, investigate the deflection of structural members and identify areas of tension and compression. Level 3 is a design tool aimed at architectural and civil engineering students where they can design and analyse realistic structures by choosing structural members from a library, and specify materials and multiple loads. Prior to its final release, the software package was appraised by students from both institutions. Analysis of results from questionnaires revealed that students expressed a great deal of 'satisfaction' with many of its teaching and learning attributes. The outcome of this project will promote and enhance students’ understanding of the response of structures to load; it will also help students grasp the impact of varying building materials and cross sectional properties on the structural form.
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	caadria2021_220
id	caadria2021_220
authors	MacDonald, Katie and Schumann, Kyle
year	2021
title	Twinned Assemblage - Curating and Distilling Digital Doppelgangers
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2021.1.693
source	A. Globa, J. van Ameijde, A. Fingrut, N. Kim, T.T.S. Lo (eds.), PROJECTIONS - Proceedings of the 26th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Online, Hong Kong, 29 March - 1 April 2021, pp. 693-702
summary	Recent developments in digital fabrication have made increasingly intelligent use of machine visioning and 3D scanning. These technologies enable ever-higher resolution digital models of physical material, and present opportunities for physical material to gain agency in the design process. Digital design workflows using such technologies require ever-greater computing power as the resolution of digitized models increases, and high-fidelity 3D scanning systems become cost-prohibitive, creating obstacles to widespread use. Twinned assemblage uses consumer-grade photogrammetry software, lowering the cost of equipment required, and presents a series of distillation methods that strategically reduce the fidelity of data digitally describing a physical object. Distillation methods discussed include reducing a mesh to a low-poly geometry, identifying the location and orientation of an object's largest faces, and creating 2D sections, among others. These methods can be designed intentionally to extract or highlight certain qualities in digital models, that in turn inform aggregation strategies generated through computational simulation. This paper presents several examples of such aggregations in a variety of materials, conveying benefits and challenges of the process. Such methods present opportunities for granting agency to physical materials in the design process, and for the democratized use of digitizing technologies.
keywords	Authorship; Digitizing; Material Agency; Digital Design; Democratized Technology
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia19_266
id	acadia19_266
authors	MacDonald, Katie; Schumann, Kyle; Hauptman, Jonas
year	2019
title	Digital Fabrication of Standardless Materials
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2019.266
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. 266-275
summary	Digital fabrication techniques have long been aimed at creating unique geometries and forms from standardized, often industrially produced or processed material. These materials have predictable, uniform geometries which allow the fabrication process to be aimed at producing variation through Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) milling of topological surfaces from volumetric stock or profiles from sheet material. More recently, digital fabrication techniques have been expanded and categorized to address the inherent variation in a found material. Digital materiallurgy defines an approach where standard techniques are applied to non-standard materials; in form-searching, non-standard materials such as unmilled timber members or chunks of concrete waste are analyzed for optimization within a digital fabrication process. Processes of photogrammetry, 3D scanning, and parametric analysis have been used to advance these methods and minimize part reduction and material waste. In this paper, we explore how such methods may be applied to materials without traditional standards—allowing for materials that are inherently variable in geometry to be made usable and for such eccentricities to be leveraged within a design. This paper uses bamboo as a case study for standardless material, and proposes an integrated digital fabrication method for using such material: (1) material stock analysis using sensing technology, (2) parametric best-fit part selection that optimizes a given piece of material within an assembly, and (3) parametric feedback between available material and the design of an assembly which allows for the assembly to adjust its geometry to a set of available parts.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia11_132
id	acadia11_132
authors	MacDowell, Parke; Tomova, Diana
year	2011
title	Robotic Rod-bending: Digital Drawing in Physical Space
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2011.132
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. 132-137
summary	This paper details preliminary project-based design research that emphasizes the development of tools and processes in tandem with the development of ideas and forms. Amid increasingly mechanized fabrication processes, this project injects the human as code-writer and tool-builder, asserting authorship within the modes of production themselves. The initial output from this foray, wavePavilion is an architectural installation generated by computer algorithms and built using custom digital fabrication technology. Completed in June 2010, the project is located on the grounds of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. wavePavilion has a footprint of 20x30 feet and stands 14 feet tall, containing over a kilometer of 1/4-inch diameter steel rod.
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
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