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_id	caadria2006_227
id	caadria2006_227
authors	KENFIELD GRIFFITH, LARRY SASS
year	2006
title	COMPUTING & MATERIALIZING NON-UNIFORM SHAPES: An evolutionary approach to generate and digital fabricate non-uniform masonry walls
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 227-235
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.m4e
summary	A novel evolutionary system used for the production of design information for digital fabrication is presented. This program generates information for physical construction as architectural models of double-curved walls built from unique masonry units. We present a series of computer programs and physical models as examples of straight and curved walls generated from an evolutionary system built for design. The wall examples here are built of non-uniform, interlocking units. This project is an exploration of evolutionary design tools that construct double-curved structures in CAD for fabrication with a 3D printer.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	af13
authors	Kennedy, Michael
year	1987
title	The Initial Start: Beginning CAADD for the Brand New Student
source	Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum [ACADIA Conference Proceedings] Raleigh (North Carolina / USA) 1987, pp. 65-76
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1987.065
summary	Described is a teaching system presently being used during the first five weeks of a first course in Computer Aided Architectural Design and Drafting (After these five weeks students spend eleven weeks actively using a 2-D drafting package and a 3-D surface modeling package). It is the view of the author that a student can obtain much more from her or his first course in CAADD if some fundamental concepts are covered specifically and dramatically, rather than assumed or conveyed by osmosis. On the other hand, one does not want to significantly delay the teaching of he principal objective: how to use a computer as a partner in design and production. The answer to meeting these two divergent objectives is two-fold: (1) careful organization with computer based tutorials, and (2) integration of architectonic lessons during the introduction. The objectives of he initial five weeks are (1) to demystify computers, (2) teach the fundamental concepts of computer systems relating to hardware (disks, cpu, memory, display), and software (programs, data, files), (3) illustrate programming and program design, and (4) convey the concept of discrete symbol manipulation and its relation to graphics and text.
series	ACADIA
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_id	392b
authors	Kensek, K. and Dodd, L. and Cipolla, N.
year	2002
title	Fantastic Reconstructions or Reconstructions of the Fantastic? Tracking and Presenting Ambiguity, Alternatives, and Documentation in Virtual Worlds
source	Thresholds - Design, Research, Education and Practice, in the Space Between the Physical and the Virtual [Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture / ISBN 1-880250-11-X] Pomona (California) 24-27 October 2002, pp. 289-302
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2002.289
summary	This paper considers the presence of ambiguity, evidence, and alternatives in virtual reconstructions ofancient, historic, and other no-longer-existing environments. Because the foundation of thesereconstructions is data coupled to interpretations, virtual intellectual products can be grounded throughcritique and citations. The real-world basis for a virtual world may include multiple sources of evidence.This paper will demonstrate a methodology for making ambiguity, the quality of the evidence, andalternative reconstructions dynamically transparent to a user. This methodology harnesses thedynamism and perceptual expectations of multimedia-literate users. In our experiments we have mainlyused Flash and rollovers to create a static version of a “self-tour” that lets the viewer engage ambiguityand evidence in a virtual world dynamically and interactively so that the level of confidence can bemediated and adjusted as desired.By creating these tools, reconstructions can be explicitly linked to the real world while maintaining theflexibility, experience, and interactivity of the multimedia environment. Most importantly, the virtualrendition offers researchers the ability to show a complex set of variables dynamically, thereby allowingthem to be intuitively and interactively grasped in combination, a process that is not presently possibleusing standard techniques of static research presentation.
series	ACADIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:52

_id	f197
authors	Kensek, K., Leuppi, J. and Noble, D.
year	2000
title	Plank Lines of Ribbed Timber Shell Structures
source	Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture [Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture / 1-880250-09-8] Washington D.C. 19-22 October 2000, pp. 261-266
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2000.261
summary	This paper discusses a method for determining the plank lines of ribbed timber shell structures. The information is necessary for the construction of the roof, but the information is usually not depicted accurately in three-dimensional modeling programs.
keywords	Geodesic Line, Finite Element Algorithm, Ribbed Shell Structure, Lightweight Structure, Timber Construction.
series	ACADIA
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_id	15
authors	Kensek, Karen
year	1998
title	Reconstruccion Digital de Arquitectura: Un Metodo de EnseÒanza en Modelaje, Rendering, y Animacion (Digital Reconstruction of Architecture: A Method of Training in Modelling, Rendering and Animation)
source	II Seminario Iberoamericano de Grafico Digital [SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-97190-0-X] Mar del Plata (Argentina) 9-11 september 1998, pp. 132-139
summary	Throughout time, scholars have been resurrecting the architecture of past ages, Sir Arthur Evans with the Palace of Knossos in Crete, Heinrich Schliemann with the ruins of Troy, and Thor Hyerdahl with the Kontiki and Ra ship reconstructions. Digital reconstruction provides a powerful means to portray architecture and environments that no longer exist; structures that exist in a decayed form can be restored to an appearance of their former condition; and artist's visions that never existed can be reinterpreted in three-dimensions. These types of projects are highly suitable for teaching students, especially in advanced classes, how to use computer graphics for modeling, rendering, and animation. It is often difficult to gather accurate geometric and texture data and the information that is available is often ambiguous or even contradictory. The ambiguity of the information forces the students to truly study and attempt to comprehend what they are trying to model. Indeed, working with incomplete and contradictory graphical information is a normal part of architectural practice that one often has to deal with in the early stages of design
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:53

_id	6d34
authors	Kensek, Karen and Noble, Doug (Eds.)
year	1992
title	Mission - Method - Madness [Conference Proceedings]
source	ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-01-2 ) 1992, 232 p.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1992
summary	The papers represent a wide variety of exploration into the uses of computers in architecture. We have tried to impose order onto the collection by organizing them into six sessions: Metaphor, Mission, Method, Modeling for Visualization, Modeling, and Generative Systems. As with any ordering system for such a diverse selection, some session papers are strongly related while others are loosely grouped. Madness, an additional session not in the proceedings, will include short presentations of work in progress. Regarding the individual papers, it is particularly exciting to see research being conducted that is founded on previous work done by others. It is also interesting to note that half of the papers have been submitted by teams of authors. Whether this represents "computer supported cooperative work" remains to be seen. Certainly the work in this book represents an interesting and wide variety of explorations into computer supported design in architecture.
series	ACADIA
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more	http://www.acadia.org
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_id	cd37
authors	Kensek, Karen and Noble, Douglas
year	1998
title	Digital Reconstruction: The Architecture of Raphael Soriano
source	ACADIA Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 11-12
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1998.011
summary	With the research help of Wolfgang Wagener, the students in our computer graphics class are using form•Z, 3D Studio, and Premiere to document and interpret the work of Raphael Soriano. These images are from a class currently underway in fall semester, 1998, at USC. The students are responsible for modeling, rendering, and animating (with the help of GIFBuilder), their buildings in form•Z, with an emphasis on exterior form. Then they model, render, and animate their projects in 3D Studio concentrating on the interior and interpreting how the building might have been furnished. Other studies covered the use of QuickTime VR and Web page development. Additional work will be done to make the work more “realistic” in response to critiques by Wagener. The next stage of the project is to explain the important features of the building through the use of Premiere. Students may choose to use a purely documentary style or MTV approach or other presentation “style” as long as they clearly define the intent of the presentation and then execute it.
series	ACADIA
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_id	6062
authors	Kensek, Karen and Noble, Douglas
year	1999
title	Digital Constructions of Art Works: A Method for Exploring Four Dimensions
source	III Congreso Iberoamericano de Grafico Digital [SIGRADI Conference Proceedings] Montevideo (Uruguay) September 29th - October 1st 1999, pp. 259-263
summary	To animate is to give life or motion to an object. In this study, the method for exploring in four dimensions was the use of animation in a three dimensional model; the objects were well known paintings or drawings. Although architectural studies were encouraged, a range of paintings was chosen and different intentions about the role of animation were investigated.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:53

_id	c239
authors	Kensek, Karen M. and Noble, Douglas E.
year	1994
title	Student Initiated Computer Explorations in the Design Studio
source	Reconnecting [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-03-9] Washington University (Saint Louis / USA) 1994, pp. 187-194
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1994.187
summary	Many schools of architecture have been attempting to integrate computer applications into their curriculum. This paper will briefly discuss computer-aided design courses that are offered at USC, courses that are similar to those being offered at many universities, and then describe three exceptional cases where the student initiated the use of the computer in a way that was unexpected and different from the methods being taught. A result of conscious deliberation by the student, this experimentation resulted in unexpected discoveries by the instructors of the course. It is this digital serendipity that we wish to explore and discuss. Only occasionally do we hear much about these explorations in formal proceedings and conferences, but they are some of the most intriguing and interesting aspects of computer integration in design.
series	ACADIA
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_id	sigradi2005_640
id	sigradi2005_640
authors	Kensek, Karen M.
year	2005
title	Digital Reconstructions: Confidence and AmbiguitY
source	SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 2, pp. 640-644
summary	Digital representations have progressed tremendously from the earliest wireframe images to realistic ray-traced renderings that are often indistinguishable from real-life. Yet, in many cases, in the fooling of the eyes, one should not also fool the brain. Especially in the reconstruction of the past, it may be useful for the visualization to also contain information about the certainty of the result. Methods exist to show what data was missing and is now restored and the confidence level of the reconstruction. This in-progress summary paper will discuss the overall usefulness of many of these techniques and list methods from architecture, archaeology, and other fields towards providing information beyond the visualization.
series	SIGRADI
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_id	acadia06_030
id	acadia06_030
authors	Kensek, Karen M.
year	2006
title	Computers in Architecture or “Are we there yet?” A short, rambling, personal essay
source	Synthetic Landscapes [Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture] pp. 30-31
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2006.030
summary	White Paper - Reflecting on 25 years of ACADIA
series	ACADIA
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_id	cc20
authors	Kensing, Finn
year	1998
title	Participatory Design: Issues and Concerns
source	Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 7(3): 167-185; Jan 1998
summary	We characterize Participatory Design (PD) as a maturing area of research and as anevolving practice among design professionals. Although PD has been applied outside of technologydesign, here we focus on PD in relation to the introduction of computer-based systems at work.We discuss three main issues addressed by PD researchers; the politics of design; the nature ofparticipation; and method, tools and techniques for participation. We also report on the conditionsfor the transfer of “PD results” to workers, user groups, and design professionals that have characterizedPD over time and across geopolitical terrains. The topic of the sustainability of PD within anorganizational context is also considered. The article concludes with a discussion of common issuesexplored within PD and CSCWand frames directions for a continuing dialogue between researchersand practitioners from the two fields. The article draws on a review of PD and CSCW literatures aswell as on our own research and practical experiences.
keywords	CSCW; Design Professionals; Participatory Design; Politics of Design; Sustainability
series	other
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last changed	2002/07/07 16:01

_id	sigradi2005_178
id	sigradi2005_178
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2005
title	Synthesis of cutting-edge technologies and miniature tooling in the physical modelling of architectural objects designed on CAD
source	SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 1, pp. 178-183
summary	Developments made in the Rapid Prototyping and CAD/CAM (including CNC and Laser) Technologies are giving designers the advantage of building physical realities, at whatever scale, directly and automatically from computer files, with the explicit implications of speed, precision and flexibility. Yet there are modeling details that can only be solved through the use of specialized materials, accessories and miniature tools which neither fall under the CNC, laser or rapid prototyping categories, but complement them. The most emphatic aspect of this research is to show how technical expertise, craftsmanship and detailing in the making of physical models require the intervention of not-so-well-known tools and machines. In the absence of an ideal technology to convert all 3-d digital models into physical models, and despite the advent of CAD-CAM and Rapid Prototyping, the combination of high technology and miniature tooling becomes the ultimate way to go in order to solve many modeling requirements.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:53

_id	ijac20064308
id	ijac20064308
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2006
title	Physical Modeling: the Convergence of Cutting-edge Technologies and Miniature Tooling
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 4 - no. 3, 119-134
summary	When Rapid Prototyping and CAD/CAM technologies (including CNC and Laser Cutting) became affordable, ten years ago or so, their reception within model-making circles turned from positive to disappointing because of their incomplete adaptability to the making of architectural objects. Then it was discovered, just few years later, that many modeling details can only be worked out through the use of specific materials, accessories and miniature tools which neither fall under the CNC, Laser or Rapid Prototyping headings. This new situation has implied, among other things, that the status of the model is to be defined in terms of a convergence of particular technological possibilities. Using two specific models as examples, the present article will debate this convergence, which is now allowing a smooth and fluid interaction between several model-making techniques. The tendency of model-making to move closer to the real act of building will also be highlighted.
series	journal
last changed	2007/03/04 07:08

_id	caadria2007_321
id	caadria2007_321
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2007
title	From the Advanced Model-Making Lab to the Construction Site
source	CAADRIA 2007 [Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Nanjing (China) 19-21 April 2007
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2007.x.i3c
summary	If the building industry wishes to take advantage of the extensive capabilities of CAD-CAM that have been exploited in the aeronautics/aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industries, then it has to look at what’s happening in the advanced model-making lab. The current exploitation of cutting-edge technologies by modelmakers points to potential applications on the construction site, both at the constructional and organizational levels.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2008_7_session1b_061
id	caadria2008_7_session1b_061
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2008
title	Digital Design and Fabrication
source	CAADRIA 2008 [Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Chiang Mai (Thailand) 9-12 April 2008, pp. 61-67
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2008.061
summary	The universe of digital fabrication does not only allow buildings to be produced as quick, precise, multiply-generated objects (prototypes) but also reduces, in a very specific way, their presence as original entities. This implies a radical disjunction between the past and the future of the building industry, with all the intrinsic changes and transformations that might affect both the architectural product and the maker. Drawing mainly on Walter Benjamin’s work on technical reproducibility and information, but also on Barthes’ theory of fashion, the present paper will try to analyze the theoretical and practical implications of these transformations.
keywords	Design, fabrication, prototypes, flexibility, Benjamin
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2010_097
id	ascaad2010_097
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2010
title	Generative Design and the Reduction of Presence
source	CAAD - Cities - Sustainability [5th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2010 / ISBN 978-1-907349-02-7], Fez (Morocco), 19-21 October 2010, pp. 97-106
summary	Digital design/fabrication is slowly emancipating architectural design from its traditional static/representational role and endowing it instead with a new, generative function. In opposition to the classical isomorphism between drawings and buildings, wherein the second stand as translations of the first, the digital design/fabrication scenario does not strictly fall within a semiotic frame as much as within a quasi biological context, reminiscent of the Aristotelian notion of entelechy. For the digital data does not represent the building as much it actively works to become the building itself. Only upon sending a given file to a machine does the building begin to materialize as an empirical reality, And eventually a habitable space as we empirically know it. And until the digital data actualizes itself, the building qua building is no more than one single, potential possibility among many others. This new universe of digital design/fabrication does not only cause buildings to be produced as quick, precise, multiply-generated objects but also reduces their presence as original entities. Like cars and fashion items, built structures will soon be manufactured as routinely-consumed items that would look original only through the subtle mechanisms of flexibility: frequent alteration of prototype design (Style 2010, Style 2015..) and “perpetual profiling” (mine, yours, hers,..). The generic will necessarily take over the circumstantial. But this truth will be veiled since “customized prototypes” will be produced or altered to individual or personal specifications. This implies that certain “myths” have to be generated to speed up consumption, to stimulate excessive use and to lock people into a continuous system which can generate consumption through a vocabulary of interchangeable, layered and repeatable functions. Samples of “next season’s buildings” will be displayed and disseminated to enforce this strategy of stimulating and channeling desire. A degree of manipulation is involved, and the consumer is flattered into believing that his or her own free assessment of and choice between the options on offer will lead him or her to select the product the advertiser is seeking to sell. From the standpoint of the architect as a maker, the rising upsurge of digital design and fabrication could leave us mourning the loss of what has been a personal stomping ground, namely the intensity of the directly lived experiences of design and building. The direct, sensuous contact with drawings, models and materials is now being lost to a (digital) realm whose attributes refer to physical reality only remotely. Unlike (analogue) drawings and buildings, digital manipulations and prototypes do not exercise themselves in a real space, and are not subjected in the most rigorous way to spatial information. They denote in this sense a loss of immediacy and a withering of corporal thought. This flexible production of space and the consequent loss of immediate experience from the part of the designer will be analyzed within a theoretical framework underpinned mainly by the works of Walter Benjamin. Samples of digitally-produced objects will be used to illustrate this argument.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2011/03/01 07:36

_id	caadria2010_023
id	caadria2010_023
authors	Kenzari, Bechir
year	2010
title	Fabricating twisted towers
source	Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Hong Kong 7-10 April 2010, pp. 239-247
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2010.239
summary	The miniature replicas of multi-billion dollar property development projects provide every year a spectacle of the vast imagination of architects and master developers at Cityscape Dubai exhibition. The technical aspect of the model-making industry component is a complex one in that it often engages the modelling of very subtle structures such as twisted towers. One illustration of these is the Infinity Tower in Dubai Marina (designed by SOM). To be completed in 2011, this 330-metre high-rise is composed of 80 floors and is intended to be the world’s tallest high-rise featuring a 90_ twist. Each floor rotates by 1.2 degrees to attain the full 90_ spiral, creating the shape of a helix. The paper discusses the physical modelling of this tower, with a description of both the digital and the constructive parts.
keywords	Fabrication; models; Rhinoceros; twisted towers; Dubai
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia09_273
id	acadia09_273
authors	Keough, Ian
year	2009
title	goBIM: BIM Review for the iPhone
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. 273-277
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2009.273
summary	This paper summarizes the development of goBIM, a model viewer, markup, and data-querying environment that utilizes Apple’s iPhone and Autodesk’s Revit software. Geometric and database information are written to a user defined server location via a custom Revit plugin. Model geometry and database information are loaded at run-time from the web server to the goBIM iPhone application, using a cellular network connection or WiFi. The user can then navigate the 3D environment, selecting objects to view their associated database information. The user has the ability to tag elements in the model with additional data, which can then be pushed back to the server and reloaded in the local version of the Revit model. BIM data can now be accessed anywhere there is a WiFi or cellular network connection available.
series	ACADIA
type	Short paper
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_id	cf2005_1_23_170
id	cf2005_1_23_170
authors	KEPCZYNSKA-WALCZAK Anetta
year	2005
title	A Method Proposed for Adoption of Digital Technology in Architectural Heritage Documentation
source	Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures / ISBN 1-4020-3460-1] Vienna (Austria) 20–22 June 2005, pp. 73-82
summary	This paper aims to present results of a research focused on defining guidelines for creation of a comprehensive digital archive and improvement of the procedures of filing, documentation, popularisation, management and protection of architectural heritage. The research presents a clear vision of the potential use of ICT in this field. The study focuses on the employment of the latest technologies in cultivating the architectural past, bringing this past to life and thus making the connection to the present and future.
keywords	ICT, architectural heritage, database systems
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2006/11/07 07:27

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