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_id	90ad
authors	Voigt, A., Walchhofer, H.P. and Linzer, H.
year	1999
title	The Historico-cultural Past as Spatial-related Cognition Archives: Computer-assisted Methods in the History of Urban Development, Archeology and History of Art
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.672
source	Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 672-677
summary	Implementation of computer-assisted visualizing methods in studying historico-cultural facts provides archeological and historico-cultural research with a tool adding to consolidation of knowledge resulting from assumptions. The visualizing methods presently available by utilizing of computers have advanced to an extent justifying their implementation in the field of archeological and historico-cultural research. The present contribution covers the above matters by means of a variety of applied examples performed at the Institute for Local Planning at the Vienna University of Technology dealing with history of urban development, archeology and history of art.
keywords	Historico-cultural Past, Reconstruction, Visualizing Methods
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	ddss9499
id	ddss9499
authors	Waerden, Peter van der and Timmermans, Harry
year	1994
title	Parking Simulation with a Geographical Information System: A Basic Framework
source	Second Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture & Urban Planning (Vaals, the Netherlands), August 15-19, 1994
summary	Nowadays, parking is one of the most important elements of urban transportation and environ-mental planning. It is important to integrate parking planning with for example urban transporta-tion and environmental planning. To do this, a tool in which all these planning activities can be brought together, is essential. A Geographical Information System (GIS) might offer opportunities to combine such activities. It offers possibilities to manipulate, analyze and present data from different kind of databases, and ties different databases directly to some spatial entities. This paper describes a framework for parking simulation, the needs to conduct such a simulation, the tools a GIS offers for this and a hypothetical case to show how a parking simulation modelling can be integrated with G1S-technology.
series	DDSS
email
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	be5c
authors	Wallace, D.R. and Jakiela, M.J.
year	1993
title	Automated product concept design: unifying aesthetics and engineering
source	IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (July 1993) 66-75
summary	An experimental computer-aided design tool that actively assists in conceptual industrial design of consumer electronics products with injection-molded housings is discussed. This concept phase design tool uses manufacturing, ergonomic, aesthetic, and styling considerations to improve the entire product development process. The model's organization level performs spatial partitioning of components. The surfacing level generates an enclosure for product design. The third level adds style-specific details, and the fourth level applies graphical elements such as color or decals. Examples are presented to show that the system can create designs both meaningful to humans and distinctive in style over a range of products.
series	journal paper
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	caadria2022_57
id	caadria2022_57
authors	Wang, Hanmo, Goel, Abhimanyu and Lin, Alexander
year	2022
title	Optimization of Partition Wall Infilled Pattern for Minimizing Carbon Footprint: A Method That Integrates Parametric Design Tool With FEA Analysis Engine
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.365
source	Jeroen van Ameijde, Nicole Gardner, Kyung Hoon Hyun, Dan Luo, Urvi Sheth (eds.), POST-CARBON - Proceedings of the 27th CAADRIA Conference, Sydney, 9-15 April 2022, pp. 365-374
summary	The term "biomimicry‚ has been discussed and studied for a long time in the research field. A triply minimal surface geometry called gyroid was found to have the potential to present lightweight but solid structures and possess good thermal insulation properties, thus possibly minimizing the carbon footprints during both building construction and operation stages. Therefore, this paper will deliver research on the physical properties of the gyroid structure at different scales and explore the feasibility of scaling microstructure onto a partition wall system, which seeks opportunities to set up an efficient connection between parametric modelling and finite element engine. The integration work allows evaluating the performance of the gyroid structure with various variables as the wall infillings, which supplies the critical information and assist the engineers in figuring out the ideal design candidates at a given condition. This workflow requires a parametric approach including Rhino and Grasshopper, a finite element analysis tool ANSYS APDL (ANSYS Parametric Design Language), and Excel to save the essential data for further use. This project studies the suitable scales of the selected gyroid structure and the technical details on the interoperability between the parametrical system and the structure analysis engine for performance-based optimization. The expected outcome is to provide a tool that assists designers in optimizing the building components at the early stage and finally enrich the methods of computer-aided design.
keywords	Low-carbon Solution, Bio-inspired Solution, Design Simulation, FEA Method, Design Optimization, SDG 12, SDG 13
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/07/22 07:34

_id	caadria2023_22
id	caadria2023_22
authors	Wang, Likai, Janssen, Patrick, Bui, Tung Do Phuong and Chen, Kian Wee
year	2023
title	Comparing Design Strategies: A System for Optimization-Based Design Exploration
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2023.1.221
source	Immanuel Koh, Dagmar Reinhardt, Mohammed Makki, Mona Khakhar, Nic Bao (eds.), HUMAN-CENTRIC - Proceedings of the 28th CAADRIA Conference, Ahmedabad, 18-24 March 2023, pp. 221–230
summary	The paper presents a system for supporting optimization-based design exploration, with a special focus on comparing design strategies for early design stages. The system is developed to facilitate designers to conduct multiple optimization runs so as to compare the strengths and weaknesses among different design strategies. The system connects Rhino-Grasshopper to a web-based evaluation server. In Rhino-Grasshopper, designers can encode different design strategies and input these parametrized strategies into the optimization workflow that connects to the evaluation server. The evaluation server records the data sent from Rhino-Grasshopper and provides various interfaces to visualize and analyze optimization results. To demonstrate its utility, a case study is presented to demonstrate the utility of the system in urban design.
keywords	Computational Design, Design Optimization, Building Performance, Design Exploration, Design Tool
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2023/06/15 23:14

_id	ijac202220104
id	ijac202220104
authors	Wang, Likai
year	2022
title	Workflow for applying optimization-based design exploration to early-stage architectural design – Case study based on EvoMass
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2022, Vol. 20 - no. 1, pp. 41–60
summary	The role of optimization-based design exploration in early-stage architectural design has been increasingly recognized and valued. It has been widely considered an effective approach to achieving performance- informed and performance-driven design. Nevertheless, there is little research into how such design ex- ploration can be adapted to various early-stage architectural design tasks. With this motivation, this paper revolves around a computer-aided design workflow for early-stage building massing design optimization and exploration while presenting three workshop case studies to demonstrate how the workflow can be in- tertwined with the design process. The design workflow is based on EvoMass, an integrated building massing design generation and optimization tool in Rhino-Grasshopper. The case study illustrates task-specific applications of the design workflow for synthesizing building design, finding design precedents, and un- derstanding the interrelationship between formal attributes and building performance. The paper concludes by discussing the relevant efficacy of the design workflow for architectural design.
keywords	Performance-based design, design workflow, design exploration, early design stage, parametric design, optimization
series	journal
last changed	2024/04/17 14:29

_id	ijac202220405
id	ijac202220405
authors	Wang, Likai
year	2022
title	Optimization-aided design: two approaches for reflective exploration of design search space
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2022, Vol. 20 - no. 4, pp. 758–776
summary	The role of using performance-based design optimization in early-stage architectural design to prevent poorly designed buildings has been increasingly recognized by researchers and designers. Recently, a large amount of research has been made focusing on technical advancement, which, however, also reflects the limited research on how this technique can be applied to the design process and how it can aid designers when confronting ill-defined design problems. In this regard, this paper centers on the design approaches assisted by using performance-based design optimization. The paper proposes two optimization-aided design approaches that were identified in the previous applications of a design tool, called EvoMass, and showcases these approaches in case-study designs. The case studies demonstrate how the use of performance-based design optimization can facilitate designers’ reflection and exploration. With the demonstration of the design approaches, we discuss the utility of performance-based design optimization in assisting architects in the early design stages
keywords	Performance-based design, design process, design exploration, early design stage, reflection, optimization
series	journal
last changed	2024/04/17 14:30

_id	ijac202321304
id	ijac202321304
authors	Wang, Likai; Ting Luo; Tong Shao; Guohua Ji
year	2023
title	Reverse passive strategy exploration for building massing design-An optimization-aided approach
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing 2023, Vol. 21 - no. 3, 445–461
summary	In building massing design, using passive design strategies is a critical approach to reducing energy consumption while offering comfortable indoor environments. However, it is often impractical for architects to systematically explore passive design strategies at the outset of the building massing design and architectural form-finding processes, which may result in inefficient or ineffective utilization of the strategies. To address this issue, this study presents a reverse passive design strategy exploration approach that leverages the capability of computational optimization and parametric modeling to help architects identify feasible passive design strategies for building massing design. The approach is achieved using a building massing design generation and optimization tool, called EvoMass, and various building performance simulation tools in RhinoGrasshopper. The optimization can produce site-specific design references that reflect rich performance implications associated with passive design strategies, such as atriums and self-shading. As such, architects can screen out promising passive design strategies corresponding to different performance factors from the optimization result. Two case studies related to daylighting, sky exposure, and solar heat utility are presented to demonstrate the approach, and the relevant utility and limitations are discussed
keywords	Passive design strategies, computational optimization, design exploration, building massing design, formfinding
series	journal
last changed	2024/04/17 14:30

_id	abf6
authors	Wang, Ming Hung and Chu, Jung Hua
year	1997
title	Spatial Delimitation and Spatial Reasoning
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1997.015
source	CAADRIA ‘97 [Proceedings of the Second Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 957-575-057-8] Taiwan 17-19 April 1997, pp. 15-27
summary	The paper attempts a notational system which can sufficiently describe any given architectural floor plan with the capacity to do spatial reasoning. By its descriptive power the system certainly is a good representational tool for constructing spatial configuration. By its reasoning power the system can have some semantical understanding of the spatial configurations under construction. That is, the system knows some spatial properties such as: whether this space can have sufficient daylight? Can that space be seen from this space?
series	CAADRIA
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	caadria2003_c5-2
id	caadria2003_c5-2
authors	Wang, Wan-Ling and Chien, Sheng-Fen
year	2003
title	Game as a Design Instructional Tool
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2003.739
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. 739-744
summary	We propose to use games as instructional supports in architectural design studios. Games used in this context, or design games, exhibit six structural factors: rules, goals, outcomes/feedback, conflict/competition/challenge/opposition, interaction, and representation. With these factors in mind, we develop a "Design Concept Trading Game." Our aim is to improve students' ability in three aspects: to articulate design concepts, to assess design alternatives, and to integrate partial designs (developed from various design concepts) into a coherent whole. The pilot study of this "Design Concept Trading Game" generated encouraging results. Continuing efforts are underway to establish a framework of using games as design instructional tools.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	caadria2012_051
id	caadria2012_051
authors	Wang, Yiping and Wei Zhang
year	2012
title	CAAD education in the panorama of architectural education system: A research on visualisation of the educational tools
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2012.579
source	Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 579–588
summary	The significance of CAAD begins with tools. However, the values of CAAD to architecture education are not only in increasing subjects associated with CAAD in the teaching but in improving comprehensive digitisation of architecture professional education. When CAAD develops into the level of BIM, the value of information emerges. And as the exchange mechanism of build information share data at the same time, BIM already has User-Facing Exchange Models and Vendor-Facing Model in NBIMS. Educators are more sensitive to the happening process of professional education and BIM should and can have Education-Facing Model and two inferences about the comprehensive digitisation of architectural education system including the visual organisation to architecture knowledge and the establishment of teaching process management digitisation system for whom a direct derived research is the application of AEIM (Architectural Education Information Model). This paper is a preliminary study of the possibility of such a model and its value as a tool of design education, and further research can be conducted to study the systematic structure of the information model and methods of its visualisation.
keywords	Architectural education; education information; BIM; information exchange; visualisation
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	6637
authors	Ward, D., Brown, A.G.P. and Horton, F.F.
year	1994
title	A Design Assistant for Environmental Optimisation of Buildings
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1994.x.u0s
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, pp. 247
summary	The dual function of the Environmental Design Assistant which we have developed is to act firstly as a teaching aid and secondly as a design aid. In terms of it's role as a design assistant it is similar in nature to the application described by Papamichael, K, in Novitski, B. J. (1993). However, the work described here forms part of an overall strategy to develop a user friendly design assistant across the spectrum of Architectural design disciplines: this is one particular strand of the project. One aim embodied in the development of the environmental design assistant has been the pragmatic one of the production and refining of a tool to perform environmental assessments of buildings in accordance with the British recommendations made in BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Energy Assessment Method). In this respect the assistant allows for the consequences of design decisions to be readily assessed and then for those decisions to be modified. The Assistant has undergone a series of refinements to make it more user-friendly, efficient and appropriate as an Architectural design aid; and this has been the second aim of the project. The project has acted as a vehicle for the application of design principles applied to the presentation, information structuring and navigation associated with Hypermedia and Multimedia products. We are applying the kind of good design principles which have been summarised well by Schulmeister, R. (1994). These principles include Ariadne's Thread (paths for navigation), Lost in Hyperspace (backward navigation), More-than-browsing (interaction) and Tutoring (providing feedback to the user). Adoption of such principles is, we believe, essential in order to realise the potential of Hypermedia tools. The principal development tool for the work has been SuperCard. This has been used in conjunction with a range of other software including ArchiCad and Intellidraw and a range of image grabbing devices.
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	c915
authors	Weber, Bendicht
year	1992
title	TOOLS RECONSIDERED: SIX AFFIRMATIONS
source	Proceedings of the 4rd European Full-Scale Modelling Conference / Lausanne (Switzerland) 9-12 September 1992, Part B, pp. 49-54
summary	This paper intends to formulate and discuss some unavoidable questions about the use of drawings, models and other tools by architects and other people concerned with architectural projects. These questions are presented as provocative affirmations: Every tool is an obstacle. Every tool is a trap. There is no complete tool. Fast tools shorten the time for reflection. Better tools don't automatically produce better architecture. Every real building betrays previous drawings, models, etc.The article shows that the choice of tools and the manner of their application are not innocent, that - independantly from the working-situation - tools must be considered from a critical standpoint and with particular attention to complementarities between several tools. We finally identify the development, discussion and valuation of concrete spatial qualities as the most difficult stake of such indirect working methods.
keywords	Full-scale Modeling, Model Simulation, Real Environments
series	other
type	normal paper
more	http://info.tuwien.ac.at/efa
last changed	2004/05/04 15:41

_id	ddss2006-hb-293
id	DDSS2006-HB-293
authors	Wei Peng and John S. Gero
year	2006
title	Concept Formation in a Design Optimization Tool
source	Van Leeuwen, J.P. and H.J.P. Timmermans (eds.) 2006, Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Dordrecht: Springer, ISBN-10: 1-4020-5059-3, ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5059-6, p. 293-308
summary	This paper presents how a situated agent model can wrap around a design optimization tool and construct concepts from interaction between the agent, the design problem and the use of the tool. The agent develops its structure and behaviour specific to what it is confronted with - its experience. As a consequence, designers can integrate their expertise with the learning results from the agent to develop design solutions. We present preliminary results.
keywords	Situated agent, Concept formation, Knowledge, Design optimization tool, Design & decision support systems
series	DDSS
last changed	2006/08/29 12:55

_id	caadria2006_569
id	caadria2006_569
authors	WEI-TSANG CHANG, TENG-WEN CHANG
year	2006
title	FOLDING SPACE WITH TIME-BASED OPERATIONS
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2006.x.j6m
source	CAADRIA 2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, 569-571
summary	Folding is not only a design operation of shaping but also a philosophy theory from Deleuze (Deleuze 1988) which was adopted by architecture. Basically, folding constitutes to forming and topology, which often delivered a mathematical and philosophical expression in generating 3D architectural form. For instance, the work of Eisenman (Eisenman 2003), Libeskind and Lynn (Lynn 1998), they use folding as inspiration to explore the textural folding and bifurcation meaning in the process of form-making. While exploring the meaning of folding, their ideas are expressed by the form using computational tools. Therefore, if a suitable or inspirable tool like our Folding Space (FoS) could be available, such action –fold can be expressed further in the form exploration process.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	ecaade2011_025
id	ecaade2011_025
authors	Weissenstein, Charline; Bignon, Jean-Claude; Humbert, Pascal
year	2011
title	Building’s environmental design: Proposal for an assessment help method
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2011.302
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.302-308
summary	This research concerns the development of an environmental quality assessment in the early design. We suggest a global, progressive and contextualized approach. The method consists of various assessment criteria, considers the context and the project progress that guide and adapt the environmental assessment. This paper deals firstly with taking into account various aspects such as the progressivity and the contextualization in the method. Secondly, we present the application of the method in a tool.
wos	WOS:000335665500034
keywords	Environment; architecture design; assessment method; qualitative criterion
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/05/01 23:21

_id	ddssup0220
id	ddssup0220
authors	Wen, Kuo-Chung and Chen, Hsiang-Leng
year	2002
title	A Study of Decision-Making Support System for Urban Renaissance
source	Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Sixth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning - Part two: Urban Planning Proceedings Avegoor, the Netherlands), 2002
summary	This study will apply GIS to build a tool to assist the process of Urban Renaissance. That is to build a Decision-Making Aided of Urban Renaissance approached by Spatial Information Systems. We will use a reality data in Kaoshiung to be the case of this study. First, we study the process of Urban Renaissance and collect the related data of city. Second, we will create the whole structure of conception model. Third, we operating the sequence of Urban Renaissance and build a database. Fourth, we integratesystem and test system by testing cases and show the results. Finally, we bring up the suggestion and conclusion.
series	DDSS
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	ecaadesigradi2019_393
id	ecaadesigradi2019_393
authors	Wendell, Augustus, Ozludil, Burcak and López-Salas, Estefanía
year	2019
title	Calculating Movement - An Agent Based Modeling System for Historical Studies
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.541
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 1, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 11-13 September 2019, pp. 541-550
summary	Simulating human movement and actions in historical spaces/landscapes is a complex task. It requires not only the recreation of spaces that no longer exist, but more challenging the recovery of actions performed in the past. These actions can provide insights into important aspects such as how people inhabited, used, perceived, lived, sensed, and shaped these spaces. This research aims to show a framework to approach studying human movement, using an Agent Based Modeling (ABM) system. Our ABM tool has methods for creating, managing, and choreographing the movement of agents through 3D models. A number of iterative tests, both agent-to-agent and agent-to-model, enable the system to produce scholarly quantitative data in historical spaces. We highlight the use of this system through two case studies, one at an architectural scale and the other at landscape scale.
keywords	Agent Based Modeling; Art and Architectural History; Simulation
series	eCAADeSIGraDi
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	c20d
authors	Wie, Zhao Ji
year	1996
title	Interactive Optimization: A Practical CAAD Model
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1996.075
source	CAADRIA ‘96 [Proceedings of The First Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 9627-75-703-9] Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 25-27 April 1996, pp. 75-80
summary	In recent years, the CAAD technique become more and more popular in most of architectural design institutions in China. Then, like in many other countries, CAAD in China is mainly used for making working drawings and perspectives, a drawing tool not a design tool, and the traditional architectural design process still remain unchanged. The decision making and layout approaching of the designs are based on the skills and experiences of architects, lacking of effective means for architects making design analysis and evaluation during designing.
series	CAADRIA
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

_id	acadia07_250
id	acadia07_250
authors	Wierzbicki-Neagu, Madalina; de Silva, Clarence W.
year	2007
title	Development of Design Workflows for Kinetic Structures Using Fuzzy Logic
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2007.250
source	Expanding Bodies: Art • Cities• Environment [Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture / ISBN 978-0-9780978-6-8] Halifax (Nova Scotia) 1-7 October 2007, 250-261
summary	Kinetic structures offer the means to significantly expand the functional and performance features of traditionally static architectural solutions. However, the added element of motion creates considerable challenges during conceptualization and introduction into existing design workflows. Rigidly foldable shells offer tremendous potential for developing kinetic architectural structures. They require few support points, eliminate sliding overlaps and are relatively easy to mock up as initial concepts. Achieving the desired motion range, however, requires a significant design effort. If performed manually, the motion optimization is tedious and unpredictable. This paper examines possible optimization algorithmic strategies with the use of fuzzy logic. Specifically the paper focuses on the application of fuzzy logic as a tool for effectively negotiating modifications of complex linked geometries while using intuitive, high level statements and directives. Highlighted is the potential of fuzzy logic-based algorithms as tools that can help the transition of existing design workflows into environments that can handle extended challenges involving kinetic geometries.
series	ACADIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:57

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