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_id	9ae9
authors	Will, B.F., Bradford, J.W., Matchy J.M. and Sullivan, B.D.
year	1995
title	An Analysis of the Hong Kong Building Regulations Utilizing an Interactive Format
source	Sixth International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures [ISBN 9971-62-423-0] Singapore, 24-26 September 1995, pp. 369-375
summary	This paper is intended as a supplement to a live demonstration of an interactive matrix built to accommodate the Hong Kong Building Ordinances and Regulations.The matrix employs a multimedia system developed by the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong and allows a multivariable approach to comprehending and analysing the laws that influence the design and construction of buildings in Hong Kong.
keywords	Interactive Matrix, Multimedia, Building Regulations, 3D Models, Components
series	CAAD Futures
last changed	1999/08/03 17:16

_id	ddssar9636
id	ddssar9636
authors	Will, B.F., Wong, W.C.H. and Chu, C.H.
year	1996
title	A Case Study of Hypermedia Applications in the Building Industry: Curtain Wall Design, Fabrication and Erection
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Third Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part one: Architecture Proceedings (Spa, Belgium), August 18-21, 1996
summary	This paper is based on the development of a Hypermedia Information Delivery System called ArchiSpace, by the Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong to produce a comprehensive knowledge of a Curtain Wall system. A set of construction drawings of the building were analysed and converted to the 3D hypermedia system format. The focus of this study is the use of the hyper-model environment in information organization and once the 3D hypermedia system is formed the information on the curtain wall system is accessed by the use of hyper-text environments hyper-image environments, and hyper-model environments. The paper analysed that the hyper-model access method seems to be more appropriate than the hyper-text and hyper-image access methods for users who do not have any knowledge pre-requisites. The results obtained by this research are being applied to improve the user friendliness for information access within a hyper-model environment.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	0286
authors	Will, Barry F. and Siu-Pan Li , Thomas
year	1997
title	Computers for Windows: Interactive Optimization Tools for Architects designing openings in walls (IOTA)
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.d4u
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
summary	Size, shape and disposition of windows in walls has long been an integral expression of style in architecture. As buildings have grown taller the relationships of the windows to the ground plane and to the surrounding environments have become more complex and difficult to predict. Traditionally architects have had to use their own knowledge, experience and feelings in the design of windows. There may be few, if any, scientific bases for their decisions. The difficulty in making good design decisions is compounded because many criteria for window design, such as daylight, sunlight, ventilation, sound, view and privacy have to be considered simultaneously. It is here that computers can help, on the one hand, by providing ‘expert knowledge’ so that architects can consult the cumulative knowledge database before making a decision, whilst on the other hand, evaluations of the decisions taken can be compared with a given standard or with alternative solutions. ‘Expert knowledge’ provision has been made possible by the introduction of hypertext, the advancement of the world wide web and the development of large scale data-storage media. Much of the computer’s value to the architects lies in its ability to assist in the evaluation of a range of performance criteria. Without the help of a computer, architects are faced with impossibly complex arrays of solutions. This paper illustrates an evaluation tool for two factors which are important to the window design. The two factors to be investigated in this paper are sunlighting and views out of windows. Sunlight is a quantitative factor that can theoretically be assessed by some mathematical formulae provided there is sufficient information for calculation but when total cumulative effects of insolation through the different seasons is required, in addition to yearly figures, a design in real-time evolution requires substantial computing power. Views out of windows are qualitative and subjective. They present difficulties in measurement by the use of conventional mathematical tools. These two fields of impact in window design are explored to demonstrate how computers can be used in assessing various options to produce optimal design solutions. This paper explains the methodologies, theories and principles underlying these evaluation tools. It also illustrates how an evaluation tool can be used as a design tool during the design process.
keywords	Sunlight, View, Window Design, Performance Evaluation, Expert Systems, Simulation, Fuzzy LogicExpert Systems, Simulation, Fuzzy Logic
series	eCAADe
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/li/li.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	caadria2019_638
id	caadria2019_638
authors	Willemse, Elias Jakobus, Tuncer, Bige and Bouffanais, Roland
year	2019
title	Identifying Highly Dense Areas from Raw Location Data
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.805
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 805-814
summary	In this paper we show how very high-volumes of raw WiFi-based location data of individuals can be used to identify dense activity locations within a neighbourhood. Key to our methods is the inference of the size of the area directly from the data, without having to use additional geographical information. To extract the density information, data-mining and machine learning techniques form activity-based transportation modelling are applied. These techniques are demonstrated on data from a large-scale experiment conducted in Singapore in which tens of thousands of school children carried a multi-sensor device for five consecutive days. By applying the techniques we were able to identify expected high-density areas of school pupils, specifically their school locations, using only the raw data, demonstrating the general applicability of the methods.
keywords	; Machine Learning, Big-data, Location-analysis
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	c522
authors	Willey, David S. and Bedford, P.
year	1983
title	Teaching CAAD at Plymouth Polytechnic
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1983.x.n5u
source	Proceedings of the International Conference eCAADe [European Computer Aided Architectural Design Education] Brussels (Belgium) 1983, pp. I.30-I.40
summary	This paper will describe the policy and objectives for teaching CAAD in the Plymouth School of Architecture and outline the relationship between taught lecture courses in CAAD and the use of CADD in studio projects. It will also indicate the nature the problems raised by this approach with respect to timetable assessment, staff and machine resources, training and program documentation.
keywords	CAAD
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	caadria2006_001
id	caadria2006_001
authors	WILLIAM J. MITCHELL
year	2006
title	FROM SKETCHPAD TO CITY OF BITS: A Story of Shifting Intentions
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.o2h
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 1-5
summary	By my count this year marks the fiftieth birthday of the field of computer-aided design. It is, therefore, an appropriate moment to look back on how the field has developed in its first half century and then to consider what we might expect in the coming decades – the decades that will see the continued development of what I have called the City of Bits. The story is, as we shall see, one of shifting intentions; at each stage in the evolution of computer-aided design, the technology has found niches in practice determined both by its capabilities at that particular historical moment and by prevailing economic and cultural imperatives.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	acadia14_671
id	acadia14_671
authors	Williams, Mani; Burry, Jane; Rao, Asha
year	2014
title	Understanding Social Behaviors in the Indoor Environment: A complex network approach
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.671
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 671-680
summary	A novel complex network interpretation of a set of indoor human-spatial interaction data recorded from an intensive design workshop to reveal the dynamics of social behaviors exhibited by designers in a shared studio environment.
keywords	Socio-spatial interaction, indoor tracking, interactions in collaborative design, complex networks, data visualization
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

_id	sigradi2007_af65
id	sigradi2007_af65
authors	Williams, Yauger
year	2007
title	Aesthetic intelligence, Navigating High Dimensional Spaces [Estética de inteligencia, la navegación de altos espacios dimensionales]
source	SIGraDi 2007 - [Proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] México D.F. - México 23-25 October 2007, pp. 83-86
summary	Are some forms and spaces more significant than others? Can qualities of a space transcend ordinary recognition and resonate as extraordinary sensations and perceptions? Experiencing and creating objects, and images of places with iconic characteristics this is an attempt to extend dialogue into the vast dimensions of space by examining models for mapping spaces, contexts for use, and functions of elements. Finally, examples integrating these themes are presented in a pluralistic strategy for reflecting new spaces.
series	SIGRADI
last changed	2016/03/10 10:03

_id	acadia06_546
id	acadia06_546
authors	Williamson, Shane
year	2006
title	Stock Space
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2006.546
source	Synthetic Landscapes [Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture] pp. 546-547
summary	Modest in budget and ephemeral in nature, STOCK SPACE was installed, exhibited, and dismantled over a five-day period at the Toronto National Trade Center as part of an invited exhibition of concept spaces at the 2005 Toronto Interior Design Show. Occupying 450 square feet within an 110,000-square-foot convention center, STOCK SPACE was small, vertical, warm, and quiet, in contrast to the immense horizontality of the mechanically cooled trade floor of nearly 40,000 exhibitors and attendees. STOCK SPACE was an investigation of limits. Material had to fit through doors and on our CNC milling bed. It had to clear staircases, be carried by hand, and be stored compactly within the confines of our fabrication area. STOCK SPACE was an exercise in subtraction. The space was created through the removal of stock material from a conceptually full volume that measured 24’ long x 18’ wide x 12’ tall. High density EPS foam in 4’x 8’ x 16” modules provided a light and machinable medium capable of recording the vestigial marks of fabrication as well as providing adequate dampening and insulation. The resulting assemblage of stacked modules embodied traits of the orthographic grid associated with the length and width of the stock, the topographic contours associated with the depth of the stock and the isoparametric grooves of the resulting surface. The collective composition of these elements was the analytical result of maximum machining curvature.
series	ACADIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

_id	ijac201210307
id	ijac201210307
authors	Willmann, Jan; Federico Augugliaro, Thomas Cadalbert, et al.
year	2012
title	Aerial Robotic Construction Towards a New Field of Architectural Research
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 10 - no. 3, 439-459
summary	This paper takes a first step in characterizing a novel field of architectural research - aerial robotic construction (ARC) - where aerial robotics is used not only for construction, but as a guiding principle in the design and fabrication process. Featuring autonomous flying vehicles that lift small building elements and position them according to a precise digital blueprint, ARC offers a comprehensive new approach to architecture research and technology. Developed by the research groups of Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D'Andrea at ETH Zurich, ARC offers unique advantages over traditional approaches to building: it does not require scaffolding, it is easily scalable, and it offers digital integration and informational oversight across the entire design and building process. This paper considers 1) research parameters for the individual components of ARC (such as module design, connection methodologies, vehicle cooperation, and construction sequencing/synchronization), and 2) the architectural implications of integrating these discrete components into a systemic, unifying process at the earliest stages of design. Fidelity between the design concept and the full-scale construction is of particular concern.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	ddssar0030
id	ddssar0030
authors	Wilsing, Markus and Sonkan, Tijen
year	2000
title	Rediscovering communication through representation
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Fifth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part one: Architecture Proceedings (Nijkerk, the Netherlands)
summary	Design is created or taught in the first step by the “internal” world of human beings, which is afterwards visualised or represented in the “external” one. The “external” world is a representation of the “internal” world, and the “internal world” is a representation of the “external” world. They both depend on each other and influence each other, and can be seen as an instrument of visual communication within and between domains. Man throughout the time stored information in his “inside” which can give us probably an answer to how the representation of our environment came out, and how it guides our lives, our behaviour and health. Many sciences have tried and are still trying to explore the “inside” of man to provide him with health, better satisfaction for his needs and desires. But although all sciences have the well being of human beings as a common aim they have also isolated themselves from each other. Due to this, it can be said that there is a lack of exchange of knowledge and it only shows that an interdisciplinary movement is necessary. In this paper, a research that was conducted at Bilkent University in the year 2000 will be utilised to clarify these statements about the perception and representation of space by the help of colours and forms.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	728c
authors	Wilson, John E.
year	1999
title	3D Modeling in AutoCAD: Creating and Using 3D Models in AutoCAD 2000
source	Miller Freeman Publishing
summary	From drawing plans for the latest car to a dream house, AutoCAD is the drafting and drawing program of choice. If you have a working knowledge of AutoCAD, this book with CD-ROM will help you advance to the program's next level -- its remarkably powerful capabilities in 3D. Leading you step by step toward mastering 3D design and drafting with AutoCAD 2000, John E. Wilson fully explains the concepts and principles of the program's 3D features, and provides useful illustrations, examples, and hands-on exercises. The book describes every 3D command in detail, reaching beyond AutoCAD's on-screen help and program manuals to guide you through working with 3D wireframe models in 3D space; building surface models; solid modeling; 2D output and paper space; and renderings from 3D models.
series	other
last changed	2003/02/26 18:58

_id	ddss9503
id	ddss9503
authors	Wineman, Jean and Serrato, Margaret
year	1994
title	Visual and Spatial Analysis in Office Design
source	Second Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture & Urban Planning (Vaals, the Netherlands), August 15-19, 1994
summary	The demands for rapid response to complex problems, flexibility, and other characteristics of today's workplace, such as a highly trained work force, have led many organizations to move from strict hierarchical structures to a more flexible project team organization. The organizational structure is broader and flatter, with greater independence given to organizational units, in this case the project teams. To understand the relationship between project team communication patterns and the design and layout of team space, a study was conducted of an architectural office before and after a move to new space. The study involved three project teams. Information was collected on individual communication patterns; perceptions of the ease of communication; and the effectiveness of the design and layout of physical space to support these communications. In order to provide guidance for critical decision-making in design, these communication data were correlated with a series of measures for the specification of team space enclosure and layout. These group/team space measures were adaptations of existing measures of individual work space, and included an enclosure measure, based on an enclosure measure developed by Stokols (1990); a measure of visual field, based on the "isovist" fields of Benedikt (1979); and an "integration" measure, based on the work of Hillier and Hanson (1984). Results indicate both linear and non-linear relationships between interaction patterns and physical space measures. This work is the initial stage of a research program to define a set of specific physical measures to guide the design of supportive work space for project teams and work groups within various types of organizations.
series	DDSS
email
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	caadria2006_487
id	caadria2006_487
authors	WINGLY SHIH, HUA-LUN LIANG, JUNE-HAO HO, YU-TUNG LIU
year	2006
title	AN AUTO-COMPOSING VIRTUAL HERITAGE SYSTEM
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.s2e
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 487-493
summary	This paper proposed an auto-composing virtual heritage system. By means of GIS data, media could be composed without time-consuming authoring process and easily integrated into an interactive virtual environment.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:49

_id	caadria2005_a_8b_b
id	caadria2005_a_8b_b
authors	Wingly Shih
year	2005
title	VR-CAVE as a multimodal interaction environment
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2005.413
source	CAADRIA 2005 [Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 89-7141-648-3] New Delhi (India) 28-30 April 2005, vol. 1, pp. 413-420
summary	This research focused on building a software system on VR-CAVE for multiple users’ interaction with various media, alongside simultaneous communication amongst users. While all users interact with virtual objects in VR-CAVE concurrently, by means of several kinds of input device, including conventional mouse and keyboard, PDAs, mobile phones and laptops, users can communicate with each other through the most natural way at the same time. The system prototype was implemented and still in development for extension on the strength of supporting more input device and media formats. Further research would make VR-CAVE not only a representing tool, but a platform for design communication and evaluation, or a collaborative design environment.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

_id	acadia12_251
id	acadia12_251
authors	Winn, Kelly ; Vollen, Jason ; Dyson, Anna
year	2012
title	Re-Framing Architecture for Emerging Ecological and Computational Design Trends for the Built Ecology
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.251
source	ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies [Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-62407-267-3] San Francisco 18-21 October, 2012), pp. 251-258
summary	The dualities of ‘Humanity and Nature’, ‘Organic and Inorganic’, Artificial and Synthetic’ are themes that have permeated architectural discourse since the beginning of the 20th c. The interplay between nature and machine can be directly related to the 19th c. discussion of nature and industrialism that was exemplified in the works of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright that spawned the organic architect movement. Echoes of these dichotomous themes have been resuscitated with the introduction of computational and information processing as a fundamental part of contemporary theory and critical praxis. The ability to go beyond simplistic dualities is promised by the introduction of data informed multi-variable processes that allow for complex parametric processes that introduce a range of criteria within evaluative design frameworks. The investigations detailed herein focuses on surface morphology development that are explored and evaluated for their capacity to reintegrate the ideas from genetic and developmental biology into an architectural discourse that has historically been dominated by the mechanistic metaphor perpetuated throughout the modern era. Biological analogues in nature suggest that the zone of decoration plays an important role in the environmental response and climate adaptability of architecture. The building envelope represents the greatest potential energetic gain or loss, as much as 50 %, therefore the architectural envelope plays the most significant role in energy performance of the building. Indeed, from an environmental performance standpoint, the formal response of the envelope should tend toward complexity, as biology suggests, rather than the reduced modernist aesthetic. Information architecture coupled with environment and contextual data has the potential to return the focus of design to the rhizome, as the functional expressions of climatic performance and thermal comfort interplay within other cultural, social and economic frameworks informing the architectural artifact. Increasing the resolution that ornament requires in terms of geometric surface articulation has a reciprocal affect on the topological relationship between surface and space: the architectural envelope can respond through geometry on the surface scale in order to more responsively interface with the natural environment. This paper responds to increasing computational opportunities in architectural design and manufacturing; first by exploring the historical trajectory of discourse on nature vs. machine in architecture, then exploring the implications for utilizing environmental data to increase the energy performance of architecture at the building periphery, where building meets environment creating the synthetic Built Ecology.
keywords	ecology , biomimicry , biophilia , natural , synthetic , artificial , parametric , digital , function , production , performance , modernism , form , ornament , decoration
series	ACADIA
type	normal paper
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

_id	e4a8
authors	Winograd, Terry ed. (et al.)
year	1996
title	Bringing Design to Software
source	New York, NY:ACM Press and Reading, MA:Addison-Welsley
summary	In this landmark book, Terry Winograd shows how to improve the practice of software design, by applying lessons from other areas of design to the creation of software. The goal is to create software that works---really works---in being appropriate and effective for people who live in the world that the software creates. The book contains essays contributed by prominent software and design professionals, interviews with experts, and profiles of successful projects and products. These elements are woven together to illuminate what design is, to identify the common core of practices in every design field, and to show how software builders can apply these common practices to produce software that is more effective, more appropriate, and more satisfying for users. The initial chapters view software from the user's perspective, featuring the insights of a experienced software designers and developers, including Mitch Kapor, David Liddle, John Rheinfrank, Peter Denning, and John Seely Brown. Subsequent chapters turn to the designer and the design process, with contributions from designers and design experts, including David Kelley, Donald Schön, and Donald Norman. Profiles discussing Mosaic, Quicken, Macintosh Interface Guidelines, Microsoft Bob, and other successful applications and projects are included to highlight key points in the chapters. This book is for the broad community of people who conceive, develop, market, evaluate, and use software. It is foremost, of course, for the software designer, and particularly for the reflective designer---someone who is driven by practical concerns, but who is also able to step back for a moment and reflect on what works, what doesn't work, and why. At the same time, it reveals new directions and new possibilities for programmers who build software, and for product managers who bring software to market. Software users will also find the book valuable in expanding their understanding of what good software design encompasses, which will help them in evaluating, integrating, and productively using computer applications.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	4240
authors	Winograd, Terry
year	1979
title	Beyond Programming Languages
source	Communications of the ACM. July 1979. Vol. 22: pp. 391-401. includes bibliography
summary	As computer technology matures, our growing ability to create large systems is leading to basic changes in the nature of programming. Current programming language concepts will not be adequate for building and maintaining systems of the complexity called for by the tasks we attempt. Just as high level languages enabled the programmer to escape from the intricacies of a machine's order code, higher level programming systems can provide the means to understand and manipulate complex systems and components. In order to develop such systems, attention needs to be shifted away from the detailed specification of algorithms, towards the description of the properties of the package and objects with which we build. This paper analyzes some of the shortcomings of programming languages as they now exist, and lays out some possible directions for future research
keywords	programming, languages, systems,
series	CADline
last changed	1999/02/12 15:10

_id	9203
authors	Winston, P. and Horn
year	1989
title	LISP
source	Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (3rd. edition)
summary	The new edition retains the broad coverage of previous editions that has made this book popular both with beginners and with more advanced readers---coverage ranging from the basics of the language to detailed examples showing Lisp in practice. Based on the CommonLisp standard, this book also introduces CommonLisp's object system, CLOS, and the productivity-promoting techniques enabled by object-oriented programming. Application examples drawn from expert systems, natural language interfaces, and symbolic mathematics are featured, and new applications dealing with probability bounds, project simulation, and visual object recognition are introduced.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	413f
authors	Wirth, Niklaus
year	1983
title	Programming in Modula-2
source	176 p. : ill. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983. 2nd ed.: includes bibliography and index.--- Text and Monographs in Computer Science Series edited by Gries, David
summary	An introduction to programming in general and a manual for programming in Modula-2. It covers all facilities of that language. Part 1 covers basic notions of the variable, expression, assignment, conditional and repetitive statement, and array data structures. Part 2 introduces the important concept of the procedure or subroutine. Part 3 is concerned with data types and structures, and Part 4 introduces the notion of the module
keywords	programming, languages, MODULA-2, education
series	CADline
last changed	1999/02/12 15:10

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