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_id	ecaadesigradi2019_126
id	ecaadesigradi2019_126
authors	Szabo, Anna, Lloret-Fritschi, Ena, Reiter, Lex, Gramazio, Fabio, Kohler, Matthias and J. Flatt, Robert
year	2019
title	Revisiting Folded Forms with Digital Fabrication
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.2.191
source	Sousa, JP, Xavier, JP and Castro Henriques, G (eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Volume 2, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 191-200
summary	This paper discusses the potential of emerging digital fabrication techniques to produce material-efficient thin folded concrete structures. Although in the 50s and 60s folded structures provided a common optimal solution for spanning large distances without additional vertical supports, today, the number of these projects decreased significantly due to their complicated formworks and labour-intensive realization. Digital fabrication methods for concrete hold the promise to efficiently produce intricate folded mass-customized shapes with enhanced load-bearing capacity. This paper focuses on a robotic slip-forming process, Smart Dynamic Casting (SDC), to produce various thin-walled folded concrete elements with the same formwork providing smooth surface finish and gradual variations along the height. An empirical research methodology was applied to evaluate the fabrication feasibility of digitally designed thin folded geometries with one-to-one scale prototypes. Despite the discovered design limitations due to fabrication and material constraints, the exploration led to a new promising research direction, termed 'Digital Casting'.
keywords	folded structures; digital concrete; Smart Dynamic Casting; set on demand; Digital Casting
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	ddssar9633
id	ddssar9633
authors	Szalapaj, Peter and Kane, Andrew
year	1996
title	Techniques of Superimposition
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 addresses the issues of 2-D and 3-D image manipulation in the context of a Computational Design Formulation System. The central feature of such a system is the ability to bring together two or more design objects in the same reference space for the purpose of analysis. Studies of traditional design methods has revealed the effectiveness of this technique of superimposition. This paper describes ways in which superimposition can be achieved, and, in particular, focuses on a range of domain-independent knowledge-based graphical operators that enable the decomposition of complex design forms into simpler aspects (secondary models) that can then be superimposed and/or analysed from a design-theoretic point of view. Examples of domain-independent knowledge-base graphical operators include object selection, planar bisection, 2-D closure (the grouping of lines into regions), aggregation (the decomposition of 2-D regions into aggregations of lines), spatial bisection, 3-D closure (the grouping of 2-D regions into volumes), 3-D aggregation (the decomposition of volumes into aggregations of 2-D regions). The representation of these operators is dependent upon the notion of a parameterisable volume, thus avoiding the need for translations between multiple representations of graphical objects by providing a common representation form for all objects. Secondary models can therefore subsequently be manipulated either through subtractive procedures (e.g. carving voids from solids), or by additive ones (e.g. assembling given design elements), or by other means such as transformation or distortion. The same techniques of superimposition can also be used to support the visualisation of design forms in two ways: by the juxtaposition of plans and sections with the 3-D form; by the multiple superimposition of alternative design representations e.g. structural schematic, parti schematic, volumetric schematic and architectural model.
keywords	Design Formulation, Superimposition, Primary Model, Secondary Model, Parameterisable Volume
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	ddss9491
id	ddss9491
authors	Szalapaj, Peter and Kane, Andy
year	1994
title	Putting Cad in Perspective
source	Second Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture & Urban Planning (Vaals, the Netherlands), August 15-19, 1994
summary	New developments in CAD software technology should allow users more freedom in the kinds of visual metaphors they choose to work with. CAD systems currently exploit only a small subset of both 2-D and 3-D graphical options. The options that are used are predominantly targeted at supporting the general trend towards a very narrow understanding of realism. Perceptual and artistic evidence points to a much wider range of possible images than that currently represented within CAD software. This extended range of graphical knowledge includes both perceptually "real" images, as well as constructed, "artificial" images. It is our contention that in order for CAD software to support analysis of design proposals, a much wider range of both 2-D and 3-D transformations should be supported, such as explosion, distortion, post-hoc decomposition, superimposition, etc. The consequences of such transformations frequently result in the formation of co-existing, multiple images, each of which may then be manipulated further in distinct ways. Support for user-interaction with such graphic objects, therefore, requires computational representations of multiple conceptual objects. Issues related to multiple representations and multiple viewpoints, therefore, are of paramount importance. Typically, designers use many representations and move rapidly between them. They tend to tolerate and even exploit inconsist-ency between different representations as they develop a design. Consistency is only relevant at certain stages and cannot therefore be enforced as a matter of course. The paper describes in detail each type of transformation that we consider to be of benefit for use in design analysis, together with a description of how each transformation can be integrated into a multiple viewpoint knowledge-based framework.
series	DDSS
email
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	ecaade03_319_147_szalapaj
id	ecaade03_319_147_szalapaj
authors	Szalapaj, Peter J.
year	2003
title	Architectural GIS: Interoperable and Integrated Information Environments
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2003.319
source	Digital Design [21th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-1-6] Graz (Austria) 17-20 September 2003, pp. 319-325
summary	This paper investigates ways of bringing together the existing GIS techniques of spatial analysis with emerging object-based computer modelling and presentation methods. The end product is Architectural GIS: computer systems that can be applied to the analysis and evaluation of both rural and urban environments. The paper will focus on the various ways in which information is represented, and the spatial analysis techniques that form the basis of mainstream GIS.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	2005_751
id	2005_751
authors	Szalapaj, Peter
year	2005
title	The Digital Design Process in Contemporary Architectural Practice
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2005.751
source	Digital Design: The Quest for New Paradigms [23nd eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-3-2] Lisbon (Portugal) 21-24 September 2005, pp. 751-759
summary	There is an increasing trend in contemporary architectural projects towards dependence upon digital processes for their organisation and technical evaluation of a range of design criteria. Digital representations are central not only to form generation and structural analysis, but also to the integration of fabrication and construction directly with the earlier design stages. It is important to bear in mind, however, that digital technology is only a means to an end which is the design process itself. Each technique of digital representation and analysis brings advantages and disadvantages to this process, and should therefore be described in these terms. It is becoming increasingly feasible to develop a rapid succession of distinct digital models, both geometric and dynamic, in early design stages. These can be tested and evaluated with respect to a range of analytical criteria, and the results of these analyses can affect further model development thus forming a cyclical process of 3-D digital model generation.
keywords	Dynamic Modelling, Geometric Modelling, Surface Modelling, Parametric Representation, Digital Fabrication
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	ecaade2022_248
id	ecaade2022_248
authors	Szentesi-Nejur, Szende, de Luca, Francesco and Flamand, Krystel
year	2022
title	Simulation Based Daylight Uniformity Optimizations for Elementary School Projects in Quebec Province
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.639
source	Pak, B, Wurzer, G and Stouffs, R (eds.), Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design - Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2022) - Volume 1, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 639–648
summary	Adequate quantity of daylight provision and its uniform distribution is a key factor in the design of educational buildings. Methods exists to assess through simulations the adequacy of daylight quantity and its uniformity in buildings during the design phase. Building regulations and public procurement procedures set the daylight requirements for school buildings. Daylight regulations were recently introduced in Quebec, Canada, which have an impact also on the economic feasibility of projects. This study presents an investigation about optimal daylight design solutions for a classroom in the Quebec climate. A parametric model and a generative process was developed to optimize a skylight and a light shelf to improve uniformity while providing adequate daylight in classrooms with different orientations. The methods and outcomes which includes economic considerations represent a useful insight for designers and researchers.
keywords	Daylight Optimization, Iterative Design, Cost-Effective Design, School Buildings, Climate-based Daylight Modelling
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2024/04/22 07:10

_id	ecaade2021_197
id	ecaade2021_197
authors	Szentesi-Nejur, Szende, De Luca, Francesco and Nejur, Andrei
year	2021
title	Integrated Architectural and Environmental Performance-Driven Form-Finding - A teaching case study in Montreal
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2021.2.105
source	Stojakovic, V and Tepavcevic, B (eds.), Towards a new, configurable architecture - Proceedings of the 39th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 8-10 September 2021, pp. 105-114
summary	The proposed paper presents the methodology and the outcomes of an intensive conception studio taught by the authors at the School of architecture of the University of Montreal having as objective the introduction of 3rd year architecture students to environmental evaluation and optimization techniques linked by the parametric design and the generative creation of architectural object. As opposed to mostly analysis-based approaches, an integration with architectural and urban design concepts was considered to be a more efficient method to initiate architecture students in environmental performance-driven design. The novelty of the course lays in the development of an integrative teaching method having as educational goals the development of environmental analysis skills, the creative use of digital tools, the conception of a coherent optimization process and the ability to represent a performance-driven design process.
keywords	integrative teaching method, environmental design, performance-based design, parametric design, solar architecture, optimization
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	988c
authors	Szewczyk, Jaroslaw and Jakimowicz, Adam
year	2001
title	Multi User Interface Problems in Current CAD Systems
source	Stellingwerff, Martijn and Verbeke, Johan (Eds.), ACCOLADE - Architecture, Collaboration, Design. Delft University Press (DUP Science) / ISBN 90-407-2216-1 / The Netherlands, pp. 183-194 [Book ordering info: m.c.stellingwerff@bk.tudelft.nl]
summary	The general problem of software and hardware interface has been discussed since the first personal computers had appeared on the market. Interface solutions, proposed by the CAD software producers themselves, have been deeply criticised. In fact, learning how to use the software means how to operate its interface. In the process of software developments, interfaces became 'second languages', which are to be learnt by the user. This is a real problem especially for the beginner. The problem is even more complicated in case of interfaces for many users. They should help in the processes of computer networks based cooperative design. In this paper we try to juxtapose the main features of user interfaces in CAD, especially ones for collaborative work. The most important problems were detected, and conclusions were made with an aim to research interfaces adequate for architect's work in the future.
series	other
email
last changed	2001/09/14 21:30

_id	5f0f
authors	Szewczyk, Jaroslaw
year	2001
title	Engineering Portals - Networked Collaborative Architectural Information Management
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2001.150
source	Architectural Information Management [19th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-8-1] Helsinki (Finland) 29-31 August 2001, pp. 150-155
summary	Engineering projects contain high volume of complex, structural data. The data is used in many contexts; and it is also related to communication processes. An analysis of data management tools is essential for dealing with large engineering project. The paper deals with classifications of data management services as well as communication ones offered by collaborative engineering portals. Existing taxonomies of communication tools, and data management tools, are presented. Author’s working typology is discussed.
keywords	Portals, EDM, EIM, Extranets, Groupware, CSCW
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	e80d
authors	Szewczyk, Jaroslaw
year	2002
title	Architectural Meaning in the Existing Architectural Notations - The Technologies for Interoperable Architectural Data Management
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2002.230
source	Connecting the Real and the Virtual - design e-ducation [20th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-0-8] Warsaw (Poland) 18-20 September 2002, pp. 230-237
summary	The paper presents results of investigations upon possible representations of architectural objects containing ‘architectural meaning’. Five groups of such existing representations are analyzed briefly: (1) structural EXPRESS–based definitions, (2) object EXPRESS- and IFC- based notations, (3) XML-based notations, (4) experimental ones, and (5) binary notations. The working taxonomy of the notations is presented and their shortcomings are mentioned. The potential of XML notations for CAD data has been recognized by software vendors and standard organizations all over the world. Many corporations and standardization bodies are developing XML-based notations of CAD data, focusing on interoperability problems. Some of these notations are becoming standards (aecXML, i-drop), influencing the development of all CAAD industry. There are some main groups of problems with the existing commercial standards: Lack of ‘open’ data in its ‘open’ context, lack of architectural meaning in commercial notations, problems with simpler intuitive standards for notation of conceptual design data in early design stages, too complex data semantics, too atomized data, and richness of the data structures. The problems are taken under consideration in order to discuss the present state of architectural standards. Nowadays architects are forced to work with semi-architectural notations, lacking their essence, i.e. lacking methods to describe elements of cultural heritage connected to geometry forms. Instead of language of architecture they deal with virtual cyber-slang.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	e16c
authors	Szewczyk, Jaroslaw
year	2002
title	The Limitations of Architectural XML-Powered Databases: Open Standards Versus XML Glue
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2002.065
source	CAADRIA 2002 [Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 983-2473-42-X] Cyberjaya (Malaysia) 18–20 April 2002, pp. 065-72
summary	The paper deals with the limitations of architectural XMLpowered databases, focusing on flexibility of data notations. Standard commercial notations are taken under consideration, to recognize XML potential in processing open, scientific architectural data.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:56

_id	c218
authors	Szovenyi-Lux, Miklos
year	1997
title	Archicad for Teamwork - A New Concept in CAD Teamworking
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.k0s
source	Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
summary	Architects are often obliged to use CAD and even to show a 3D CAD model of their design (that most CAD programs are capable of doing now) and most people are mislead by such slogans as the 3D is the most important part of a design although its just like drafting from other tricky viewpoints. We all know that a building is far more complex than the a bundle of sections, elevations and perspective views. It's a model of space where all building construction parts and other effects (even time, sunshine), that create and help to communicate this space have very complex cross references with each other. If we want to describe it with a program we have to create a digital building, and architects have to communicate this digital building towards each other in the design phase, if more than one architect or engineer is working on the building simultaneously.
keywords	Teamwork
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/szovenyi/szovenyi.htm
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	6861
authors	Szymski, A., Dawidowsi, R. and Karpisz, H.
year	1996
title	CAD System in Architectural Creativity: Limits and Possibilities
source	Approaches to Computer Aided Architectural Composition [ISBN 83-905377-1-0] 1996, pp. 203-214
summary	A computer has become a "demon" of the end of the XX century. CAD system -an architectural computer game with more refined and complex (in the workshop) problem. An architect together with the others has become a computer slave - as a tool of work and communication: he has become a slave of all this which designates the essence of the development of post-industrial civilization. Unaware of the effects accompanying this danger, he underwent the fascination of the astonishing development of the computer technology - he limited his creative status, reducing the role of a user of the ready made projecting supporting systems: making himself a slave of a tool which was supposed to serve him.
series	other
last changed	1999/04/08 17:16

_id	0465
authors	Szövényi-Lux, Miklós
year	1994
title	Virtual Future!?
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1994.x.o0h
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. 215
summary	Architecture was born long, long ago with the help of those people who first realised that they are not only building houses but, what is more important, thrilling and has been the focus of many debates, creating space. In the beginning man created space by adding and combining different volumes of masses. They thought that space can be perceived as determined by different points of orientation placed around us. Later people started to realise that perception of space is a little bit more sophisticated. Perhaps everybody has smiled at a baby who standing up for the first time in his life in his playpen, extending his hands towards objects on the nearby table physically unreachable for him. If he was an adult, people would think perhaps something is wrong with him, when he extends his hands towards things we surely know are impossible to reach from his actual position. So how come we can judge with exactitude the place of different objects in space? Maybe by the time needed for the movement to get there. Let us not forget that the baby's first real movement is when he starts to walk and then he starts to get the feeling of this three dimensional world, around which can be only realised simultaneously in space and time. Anyone can say that this is an interesting theory, but who cares? It is said that most of the architects, who are real designers have a keen sense of creating and perceiving space. They are far more interested in the perfection of the created space with all its details than anything else. And here is where a CAD program can come into the picture. Talking about a real CAD program that means from the point of view of a designer, a silent friend who never cheats or boasts, who takes him in SPACE wherever he wants to go and shows him his CREATION as an extending arm between his imagination and the reality.
series	eCAADe
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	sigradi2011_346
id	sigradi2011_346
authors	Sáez, Nicolás
year	2011
title	Ejercicios de arte fotográfico, desde una perspectiva arquitectónica: una ecología de la imagen digital [Photographic exercises from an architectonic perspective: an ecology of the digital image]
source	SIGraDi 2011 [Proceedings of the 15th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Argentina - Santa Fe 16-18 November 2011, pp. 277-280
summary	This work deals with three artistic works of authorial photography where- through an unusual photographic record- the attempt was made to see what was already seen (or not seen) through experience. Captured through a photoscanning process, each one of these works takes into an exhibition space a 1:1 printed image. This transformation of the phenomenological experience of seeing (observer´s perspective) into a planimetric kind of image (frontal view) entails the confection of a picture "infografically". A process by means of which, it is argued, the picture can aspire to remain in the retina of society.
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	sigradi2005_257
id	sigradi2005_257
authors	Sánchez Cavazos, Ma. Estela; Adolfo Benito Narváez Tijerina
year	2005
title	The digital visualization of the future architecture and the intellectual operations
source	SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 1, pp. 257-263
summary	It is sustained here that the designer before carrying out any trace (digital or similar) on the architectural design to solve, the person carries out a series of intellectual operations that allow him/her to carry out this traces with more precision, delimitation, knowing the space that will be realized in future. This work explains how the digital visualization of the architecture will be carried out in a future, based on the construction of the knowledge that Piaget proposes about the cognitive structures and the significant learning, as well as the metacognición that Vygotsky and Ausubel; the topic of the language is also approached, because it is thought that the language is very related with the figuration element that is presented in the document as one of the intellectual operations and the pattern that Wittgenstein exposes in its book “Tractatus, logical-philosophicus”, where he explains how the figuration is given by means of the interrelation among the elements of the figure and how it comes from the linguistic question. This helps to understand the design process in its initial stage (mayeutic) and has a pedagogic application. [Full paper in Spanish]
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	sigradi2009_806
id	sigradi2009_806
authors	Sánchez Cavazos, Maria Estela
year	2009
title	Modernismo, fundamento del Diseño Digital [Modernism, fundament of the Digital Design]
source	SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16-18, 2009
summary	In this paper, the results of various investigations realized in the UAA and UANL have been gathered, since the year 2000, where the practice of architectonic design has been studied with and without computer, with the purpose of preparing students and teachers about the way of learning to do architectonic design with the new digital technologies. To explain the transformations that the architectonic Design has suffered with the use of the computer, a summarized table has been realized to show the roll that Modernism plays in the transition period between traditional and digital design.
keywords	Modernism; Digital Design; Architectonic design; Computer Assisted Design; International Style
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	sigradi2003_082
id	sigradi2003_082
authors	Sánchez Cavazos, María Estela
year	2003
title	El proceso de Diseño y la representación digital de la arquitectura (The design process and the digital representation of architecture)
source	SIGraDi 2003 - [Proceedings of the 7th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Rosario Argentina 5-7 november 2003
summary	The following is a paper about a pseudoexperiment realized by the profesor in architectonic design, Ma. Estela Sánchez Cavazos with the tutory of the doctor in architecture, Adolfo Benito Narváez Tijerina in the Autonomy University of Nuevo León México, applied to students in architecture masters, with the finality of finding elements that permit to describe and interpret the transformations in the architectonic design process with the intoduction of digital representation. All of this is inside the studies that the professor is actually realizing in the Central University of Venezuela with the guidance of Dr. Isaac Abadí Abbo. Pseudoexperiment, action research in this case with a descriptive and interpretative approach (Maritza Barrios Yaselli, 2001, p.6). architectonic design process, Secuential whole of phases and activities of creating work to solve a design problem speeking in cronological form bat interactive in conceptual form.
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	sigradi2006_c093b
id	sigradi2006_c093b
authors	Sánchez Cavazos, María Estela
year	2006
title	El Aprendizaje del Diseño Arquitectónico en el mundo digital [Architectural design learning in a digital world]
source	SIGraDi 2006 - [Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Santiago de Chile - Chile 21-23 November 2006, pp. 210-214
summary	The background of this paper goes back to the yer 2000 when its autor realizad an investigation in the architecture workshops. In that same year she finished her master's thesis about the design process and continued with investigations observing the influence of the computer use in the process. The main goal of the paper is to determine if the digital mediums take an important role between the connection of knowledges, actitudes and habilites for the architectonic design. The methodology used for the data collection was trough participant observations, interviews and cuasiexperiments. The paper shows how the student takes elements from the knowledges, actitudes and habilities, and connects them to realize constructions of new schemes of knowledge in the architectonic design process; the use of old and new tools to design and how it influences the outcome is observed.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

_id	sigradi2005_499
id	sigradi2005_499
authors	Sánchez-del-Valle, Carmina
year	2005
title	Robot toys, complexity, and computation: for a transformable architecture
source	SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 1, pp. 499-504
summary	In this paper we describe and discuss a course aimed towards developing 3D digital modeling skills focused on the exploration of an architecture that behaves like a dynamic complex integrated system. It crosses knowledge domains to consider the mechanisms that transform energy, adaptive systems, kinetics, and cybernetics. It uses the metaphor of transformable robot toys not only for their correspondence with the ideas explored, but because of their immediacy and physicality. It argues architecture must urgently break with the processes of destruction. [Full paper in Spanish]
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 10:01

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