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_id	sigradi2023_449
id	sigradi2023_449
authors	NETA, ANTINESCA, BATISTELLA, LARISSA and MUSSI, ANDRÉA
year	2023
title	Co-design of toys for children with atypical development: digital fabrication as a tool in the school environment.
source	García Amen, F, Goni Fitipaldo, A L and Armagno Gentile, Á (eds.), Accelerated Landscapes - Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2023), Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay, 29 November - 1 December 2023, pp. 681–692
summary	Starting from the need for assistive technologies and resources for children with atypical development, this article aimed to evaluate the application of a set of teaching materials, co-created for elementary school children, made through digital fabrication by architects, presenting the application in the school environment of the first workshops with teachers who work with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. To this end, a literature review was carried out on Codesign, Autism Spectrum Disorder, assistive technologies and educational toys. It also presented the relationships between the design process and the children's learning process. The research was divided into stages of bibliographic review, field research through interviews, and action research with teachers. At the end of this work, we hope to understand the concepts and teaching approaches for children with ASD, and with this, evaluate whether it is possible to create an equitable and effective school environment, stimulating the maker culture.
keywords	Co-design, Elementary Education, Digital Fabrication, Creativity, Technology
series	SIGraDi
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_id	0b0e
authors	Neto de Faria, J., Pellegrin, L., Senna, N. and Cardoso, V.
year	2001
title	REVISTA PROTÓTIPO DESIGN: DIVULGAÇÃO E PUBLICAÇÃO DE NOVO MODELO DE REVISTA (Magazine Protótipo Design: Promotion and Publication of a New Magazine Model)
source	SIGraDi biobio2001 - [Proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics / ISBN 956-7813-12-4] Concepcion (Chile) 21-23 november 2001, pp. 257-259
summary	The magazine “Protótipo Design” proposes the exploration of cyberspace in the construction of a virtual design magazine capable of using coherently the resources offered by the new media and employing adequately the existing languages. The magazine works its interface with the intention of always offering new possibilities in the navigation analogies in order to edify the cyberspace with a unique form, not delimited by wore down analogies with the impressed magazines. Another preoccupation that moves the magazine is the investigation of the use of the Internet as a more economic form of publishing the theoretical and practical researches in design.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:56

_id	78f6
authors	Neto de Faria, José
year	2001
title	BICICLETA IDA: DESENVOLVIMENTO VIRTUAL DE BICICLETA URBANA (Bicycle "Ida":Development of an Urban Bicycle)
source	SIGraDi biobio2001 - [Proceedings of the 5th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics / ISBN 956-7813-12-4] Concepcion (Chile) 21-23 november 2001, pp. 260-261
summary	The project “IDA Bicycle” proposes the virtual study and exploration of the use of digital technologies in the virtual development of an urban bike without the construction of three-dimensional physical models. With the use of graphic platforms and adequate software for each stage of the project it was possible to study new configurations for the object. The new systems of design and simulation of reality makes possible the careful study of aesthetic forms and aerodynamics of the bike. It was also possible to carryout tests that analyzed the structural quality of the object.
series	SIGRADI
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last changed	2016/03/10 09:56

_id	sigradi2013_100
id	sigradi2013_100
authors	Neto de Faria, José; Karine Itao Palos; Katia Akemi Omine
year	2013
title	Projeto Design Condensado: A Promoção do Conhecimento Sobre a História do Design com Sistemas de Visualização Dinâmica de Dados Baseados em Tecnologia JavaScript, PHP e HTML5 [Condensed Design Project: Promote Knowledge in Design History with Dynamic Data Visualization Systems Based on the Javascript, PHP and HTML5 Technologies]
source	SIGraDi 2013 [Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Chile - Valparaíso 20 - 22 November 2013, pp. 139 - 142
summary	The ‘Condensed Design Project’ aims to discuss and reflect on how dynamic data visualization systems can be used to promote knowledge building in design history. The goal is to understand how the languages can be used to intensify the interaction of data visualization systems with the ‘activity inducer’ and understand how they impact data interpretation. Thus, we conceived, planned and implemented a system which aims to promote the selection, organization, visualization, analysis and interpretation of ‘historical facts’, as well as understand the potential for use of JavaScript, PHP and HTML5 technologies.
keywords	Data visualization; Design history; Design graphic; JavaScript; HTML5
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2013_289
id	sigradi2013_289
authors	Neto de Faria, José; Karine Itao Palos; Katia Akemi Omine
year	2013
title	Projeto Design Condensado: O Design da Experiência Histórica, Produção de Ensaios d Simulações das Relações entre ‘Fatos Históricos’ d ‘Metodologias de Pesquisa dm História’, dom Sistemas de Visualização Dinâmica de Dados [Condensed Design Project: The Design of Historical Experience, Essay Production and Simulation of Relations between ‘Historical Facts’ and ‘Research Methodologies in History’, with a Dynamic Data Visualization System]
source	SIGraDi 2013 [Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Chile - Valparaíso 20 - 22 November 2013, pp. 148 - 152
summary	The ‘Condensed Design Project’ aims to discuss and reflect on how the historical experience can be produced, by analyzing and interpreting essays and simulations of the relations between ‘historical events’ and ‘research methodologies in history’, with a dynamic data visualization system. The goal is to understand how the visualization systems can be prepared to support researchers, professor and students to live the historical experience, in order to promote knowledge building processes in design history. It emphasizes history’s concern about bringing back, using the ‘historical sources’ approach, the necessary ‘historical facts’ to describe a certain ‘historical event’.
keywords	Data visualization; Design history; Research methodology; Experience; Knowledge
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2017_008
id	sigradi2017_008
authors	Neto de Faria, José; Mirtes Marins Oliveira
year	2017
title	Sistemas Dinâmicos de Informação: Modos de promover a resiliência e combater a supremacia do indivíduo produtor sob o indivíduo interpretador. [Dynamic Information Systems: Ways to promote resilience and combat predominance of producer subject about interpreter subject.]
source	SIGraDi 2017 [Proceedings of the 21th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-227-439-5] Chile, Concepción 22 - 24 November 2017, pp.60-66
summary	This article discusses existing resilience level of “dynamic Information Systems” related to “relation models” adopted by main theoretical authors at Design Information field. The main work objective was to recognize and to relate “relation models” with resilience levels. These models has exhibited, on development of “dynamic information systems”, emphasis in producer subject principles over interpreter subject requests. However, factors resulting of “relation models” help to arise a set of resilience attributes that may be used to develop systems with higher resilience level.
keywords	Information Systems; Resilience; Relation Models; Information Production; Information Interpretation.
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2017_076
id	sigradi2017_076
authors	Neto de Faria, José; Mirtes Marins Oliveira
year	2017
title	Design da Informação e Resiliência: Estudo dos níveis de correlação entre o indivíduo, o sistema de informação e o fenômeno representado. [Information Design and Resilience: A study of correlation levels between subject, “information system” and represented phenomena.]
source	SIGraDi 2017 [Proceedings of the 21th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-227-439-5] Chile, Concepción 22 - 24 November 2017, pp.519-527
summary	This article search to describe how correlation levels between subject, information system and represented phenomena define representational models which may be used to enhance phenomena understanding, with aid of resilience representational models. The main work aim is to identify how representational models can be used to enhance resilience behaviour of information systems. Only dynamic information systems seems to show fair resilient behaviour, especially when they approach cognitive process reproduction realized by subject. Resilience in “information systems” emulate thinking object and thinking process.
keywords	Information Design; Resilience; Subject; Information System; Phenomena.
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2011_371
id	sigradi2011_371
authors	Neto de Faria, José; Omine Kátia; Sakai Raul
year	2011
title	Projeto Design Condensado: o uso da tecnologia HTML5 na implantação do sistema colaborativo dinâmico de visualização de dados sobre a história do design [Condensed Design Project: the use of HTML5 technology in the implementation of the dynamic collaborative system of visualization of data on the history of design]
source	SIGraDi 2011 [Proceedings of the 15th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Argentina - Santa Fe 16-18 November 2011, pp. 386-390
summary	The 'Condensed Design Project' presents the experience and the partial results of the use of HTML5 technology in the implementation of a 'Dynamic collaborative system of visualization of data' on the history of design. At the moment, the main purpose of the project is to understand how the HTML5 technology can be applied in the construction of intuitive, accessible, and interactive interfaces and tools, with the purpose of promoting the effective interpretation and understanding of the existing relations or possible relations between data and facts of the history of design by the juxtaposition, interconnection and simplicity in the handling of the system. The technology properties allowed to test and use the system in multiple platforms.
keywords	Design History; Collaborative System; Data Visualization; HTML5; Canvas API
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2010_252
id	sigradi2010_252
authors	Neto, de Faria José; Akemi Omine Kátia; Carvalho Costa Paulo Antonio
year	2010
title	Projeto Design Condensado: níveis de inteligência associados ao sistema colaborativo dinâmico de visualização de dados [Design project condensed: levels of intelligence associated with the dynamic collaborative system of data visualization]
source	SIGraDi 2010_Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, pp. Bogotá, Colombia, November 17-19, 2010, pp. 252-255
summary	The “Condensed Design Project” aims to discuss and reflect on how the levels of auxiliary intelligence associated with dynamic collaborative systems of data visualization can help research, organize, manage, analyze and compare dense data amounts of historical facts and events. The main objective is to understand how systems endowed with “auxiliary intelligence” help to assimilate and emulate methods and knowledge of different researchers, and at the same time are able to promote cooperation and research, as well as the study and teaching of design history. And finally, it describes the experience of the use of “specialist system” and “reasoning system based on cases” concepts.
keywords	design history; collaborative system; auxiliary intelligence; data visualization
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2013r_006
id	ecaade2013r_006
authors	Neto, Pedro L.; Vieira, Andrea P.; Moreira, Bruno; Ribeiro, Lígia
year	2013
title	A blended-learning approach in CAAD. Enhancing an architectural design studio experience by using collaborative web applications.
source	FUTURE TRADITIONS [1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop Proceedings / ISBN 978-989-8527-03-5], University of Porto, Faculty of Architecture (Portugal), 4-5 April 2013, pp. 83-94
summary	This paper is the result of a research project started in 2007 in our architecture school which aimed to adopt a Blended-Learning approach in teaching CAAD to 3rd year architecture students, while integrating the knowledge produced by our R&D Unit on architectural representation and communication techniques and web applications. We present our main conclusions regarding this strategy’s results and the web applications involved to understand if they acted like catalysts for engaging students with their learning process and for promoting a better communication between them and their teachers. The article shows how this strategy created new forms of interaction making communication between teachers and students easier and giving the latter an active role in the learning process. We start with an introduction to CAAD’s pedagogical strategy; we then describe the strategy and model applied to several case studies and the materials and learning tools used. Finally, we’ll discuss the most significant results and draw the main conclusions. The results highlight how the learning process coming from the Blended-Learning strategy and the use of complementary web applications strengthens the student’s and teacher’s capacity to work in a close relationship while maintaining the student’s active role in the learning process.
keywords	Blended-learning; education in architecture; communication and representation; collaborative teaching and learning; design studio environment
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last changed	2013/10/07 19:08

_id	2539
authors	Neuckermans, H., De Ridder, T. and Geebelen, B.
year	1998
title	Speech-Driven Computer-Aided Design - Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction
source	CAADRIA ‘98 [Proceedings of The Third Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 4-907662-009] Osaka (Japan) 22-24 April 1998, pp. 309-316
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1998.309
summary	The use of computers in architectural design has shifted from what initially was a very numerical approach into a graphical way and thus into a designerly way of working. Through the extensive use of WIMPs CAAD packages today are more or less user-friendly. In the meantime the ever increasing functionality of those packages inflate the number of commands, actions, options and choices which have to be activated with the mouse in order to generate a structured drawing. As a result packages become rather cumbersome to handle. In this research we have explored a new medium, namely speech, to tell the machine what to do. With software for speech recognition and making use of a head-mounted microphone we have built a far more user-friendly way of handling a CAD package. Grids, snap, ortho, layers, settings and other commands that can be used in combination with mouse actions are activated and deactivated by voice command. We are convinced that this is a step further towards a more easy and natural way of using computers while designing and certainly a way for speeding up the modeling of real architecture. The experiment has been conducted for AutoCAD with the software for speech recognition by Lernout & Hauspie. This new way of working is not limited to architecture and the principle can be used right now for any other package, provided it has a programming interface.
keywords	Electronic Design Media, Human-Computer Interaction, Design
series	CAADRIA
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more	http://www.caadria.org
last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	9e16
authors	Neuckermans, H., Heylighen, A. and Morisse, P.
year	2002
title	Visual Keys to Architectural Design
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. 175-182
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2002.175
summary	This paper presents a new mechanism to access and interact with DYNAMO, a collective case base for architectural design developed as a Web-based tool. The system is fully operational since a few years in the context of architectural design education as well as for seminars on architectural theory. We have now developed a set of visual keys structured at the one hand according to the Vitruvian tripartition of architecture: Firmitas (structure, materials,…), Utilitas (building programme,…), Venustas (formal qualities/articulation, spatial configuration,…) to which we added Context (topography, site, budget, climate,...) as a supplementary dimension, and at the other hand including three levels of detail: single spaces, building blocks or master plan entities. Visual keys match the architect’s designerly way of thinking. The visual keys are in fact nothing else than a graphical codification of architecture within the realm of architectural composition. The software, that has been developed so far, does not only allow users to access cases via the keys we have implemented, but it also provides a tool to sketch and submit their own keys.
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	ba6b
authors	Neuckermans, Herman
year	1986
title	The Intelligent Pencil: A framework for CAAD in Education
source	ACADIA Workshop ‘86 Proceedings - Houston (Texas - USA) 24-26 October 1986, pp. 113-128
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1986.113
summary	Computer Aided Architectural Design in Education (CAADE) can only be meaningful if it brings meaningful answers to meaningful questions about architecture and architectural education. In the discourse about CAAD and CAADE these questions are completely absent; this can be concluded from: (1.) an absolute lack of architectural-theoretical and historical reflection, without which no architecture can exist; (2.) a frequent confusion between designing and drawing : the latter being a non neutral tool for the former; (3.) the absence of a clear understanding of the way in which architecture comes about: what are the concepts and entities an architect is working with and how does he manipulate them? (4.) no clear insights about the way architectural "design by hand" should be taught and a fortiori about the way a computer could help.
series	ACADIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:58

_id	60fe
authors	Neuckermans, Herman and Geebelen, Ben (Eds.)
year	1998
title	Computers in Design Studio Teaching [International Workshop Proceedings] 180 p.
source	EAAE/eCAADe International Workshop Proceedings / Leuven (Belgium) / ISBN 09523687-7-313-14 / November 1998, 180 p.
summary	Studio Teaching and CAAD are often perceived as separate worlds within academia: different topics, different locations, different teachers, weak interaction, if any at all. The workshop aimed at bringing two parties together: those who really have experience in teaching the use of computers while students are designing, and those who have no experience but have ideas about what to do, what not, and why. The key issues were: how and for what purpose are computers used in the design studio, why and for what purpose are computers not used in the design studio, when and how to start with CAAD in the curriculum, and what is the relationship between CAAD teaching and architectural and/or design theory? In bringing together the EAAE and the eCAADe community, an interesting and fruitful exchange of ideas amongst teachers in architecture took place.
keywords	Design Studio, Teaching
series	eCAADe
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more	http://www.eaae.be/
last changed	2000/11/21 09:17

_id	caadria2007_489
id	caadria2007_489
authors	Neuckermans, Herman; Martin Wolpers, Mathias Casaer and Ann Heylighen
year	2007
title	Data and Metadata in Architectural Repositories
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.c0s
summary	In many schools all over the world, teachers as well as researchers have been developing digital learning contents. These contents exist mostly in isolation; that means in and within a school or in the personal files, although it would be much more profitable to the community of teachers in architecture to share the results of all these efforts. In this paper we present and discuss two different strategies regarding this ambition: The first develops digital pedagogical material and tries to invite others to contribute in order to create a big repository. As an example we will present DYNAMO, a dynamic architectural memory on-line built over the last 8 years, with to date more than 600 architectural projects fully documented with plans, pictures, texts and a fairly developed category search engine. In the second approach every owner of a repository keeps his/her data and shares its content with others through a central search engine. As an example we will present and discuss a recently launched EU-programme called MACE – Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe – which aims at enhancing the metadata of as many as possible different repositories in order to allow searches by distant partners. Real access conditions to the data still will remain those specific for each repository. The purpose of this paper is to share information and (similar?) experiences in Asia or outside Europe in general.
series	CAADRIA
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	ecaade2012_238
id	ecaade2012_238
authors	Neuenschwander, Noemi ; Hayek, Ulrike Wissen ; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
year	2012
title	Integrated Multi-Criteria Modeling and 3D Visualization for Informed Trade-Off Decision Making on Urban Development Options
source	Achten, Henri; Pavlicek, Jiri; Hulin, Jaroslav; Matejovska, Dana (eds.), Digital Physicality - Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1 / ISBN 978-9-4912070-2-0, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture (Czech Republic) 12-14 September 2012, pp. .203-211
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2012.1.x.j7k
wos	WOS:000330322400020
summary	Cities all over the world are faced with growing population pressure and are challenged by decreasing environmental quality. Development strategies and planning processes often fail to involve local environment knowledge. We present an approach to integrate environmental aspects into a two-step urban modeling framework, generating 3D visualizations from GIS-based and procedural modeling. The dynamic nature of this approach provides considerable support for transdisciplinary communication processes in urban planning.
keywords	Procedural modeling; generic urban pattern design; understanding ecosystem services; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); GIS-based modeling
series	eCAADe
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_id	ijac201412205
id	ijac201412205
authors	Neumann, Oliver
year	2014
title	Technology, Context and Science in Architecture
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 12 - no. 2, 179-198
summary	Digitally enhanced design processes and digital fabrication technologies have significantly expanded spatial and structural possibilities in architecture. Design and fabrication based on measurable input allow the digital processing of designs that are powerful in comparison to previously imagined spatial and material applications. However, this focus on data also limits designs by excluding social, economic, and ecological values that are related to cultural concerns central to architecture discourse and its built manifestations. Significantly, a sole focus on data that can be translated and processed results in the exclusion of information related to context from design considerations. Architectural discourse and practices must consider broad sets of references as guiding parameters; scientific developments that affect building methods and strategies therefore have to be associated to context-specific influences.While much is gained from engaging with contemporary design and fabrication technologies, architecture has to be conscious of references that exist outside of the numerical.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	ijac20075302
id	ijac20075302
authors	Neumann, Oliver; Schmidt, Daniel
year	2007
title	Innovative CNC Timber Framing - Technology and Cultural Expression
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 5 - no. 3, pp. 469-486
summary	he design-build project for the outdoor theater roof structure at the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest at Maple Ridge, British Columbia, explores technical, spatial, and cultural aspects of CNC wood fabrication. References for the project are technological innovation and formal expression of contemporary wood structures. The roof project illustrates how spatial concepts are informed by the logic of fabrication and methods of assembly. A reciprocal relationship between technology, space, and locale suggests that the introduction of new technology coincides with new spatial concepts. Innovative design in this project is defined as work that resonates at the intersection of the fields of technology, material science, manufacturing processes, and techniques of assembly that constitute the expanded context that projects need to engage. It is through collaborative design research on CNC wood fabrication technologies that common design and building practice is put into question, and boundaries are explored and expanded.
series	journal
last changed	2007/11/20 18:06

_id	ecaade2022_402
id	ecaade2022_402
authors	Neumayr, Robert
year	2022
title	Agent-Based Semiology - Simulating office occupation patterns with conversation-based social models
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 2, Ghent, 13-16 September 2022, pp. 141–150
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.2.141
summary	The importance of fostering formal and informal conversation to optimize office space performance has been well researched since the introduction of the 1970s cybernetic office layout strategies and recent research suggests, that formal and informal conversations at work can no longer be meaningfully separated, making efficient conversation patterns even more central to a successful office layout in the age of knowledge economy. In such a setup, social factors, like hierarchy, group membership, or expertise, contribute more to the formation of an office’s spatial occupation patterns than the space’s morphology itself. Consequently, standard tools of space evaluation, such as Space Syntax, that rely on the analysis of a space's topological description, yield inconclusive results, as the quantitative description of the space can no longer be matched to the changing patterns of interactions observed in that space. The research methodology described in this paper, therefore, aims to optimize contemporary office environments in a different way. Embedded in the conceptual framework of agent-based simulation, this research does not foreground the configuration of space itself but focuses on developing a population of agents sophisticated enough to allow for the emergence of an a simplified, yet plausibly life-like collective office scenario. Here, special occupation patterns evolve over time based on series of subsequent communication events between all agents in a space, where participants, locations, total numbers of various types of conversations, and durations depend on previous events as well as on a simplified social model. Different office scenarios are then analyzed against a set of selected criteria to identify successful office configurations. This paper describes the methodology’s underlying concepts and setup, introduces the agent-based simulations that were developed and presents and speculate about the preliminary research results and findings.
keywords	Design Methodology, Agent-Based Modelling, Office Space Simulation
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2013r_002
id	ecaade2013r_002
authors	Neves, Isabel C.; Rocha, J.
year	2013
title	The contribution of Tomas Maldonado to the scientific approach to design at the beginning of computational era. The case of the HfG of Ulm.
source	FUTURE TRADITIONS [1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop Proceedings / ISBN 978-989-8527-03-5], University of Porto, Faculty of Architecture (Portugal), 4-5 April 2013, pp. 39-50
summary	Nowadays the use of computational design processes in architecture is a common practice which is currently recovering a set of theories connected to computer science developed in the 60`s and 70`s. Back then, such pioneering experiences were carried out by an interest in employing scientific principles and methodologies in architectural design, which, with the help of computers, were developed in Research Centres mainly located in the USA and the UK. Looking into this period, this paper investigates the relevance of the German design school of the Hochschule für Gestaltung of Ulm to the birth of computation in architecture. Even though there were no computers in the school, this paper argues that the innovative pedagogies introduced by a group of distinct professors built clear foundations that can be understood as being at the basis of further computational approaches in architecture.This paper focuses on the remarkable work done by Tomas Maldonado. His contribution was paramount in the emergence of analogical ways of computer design thinking. This analysis ultimately wants to emphasize how the HfG Ulm’s role and its scientific approach have paved the way for the onset of the computational era in architecture.
keywords	HfG - Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm; Educational Project; Semiotics; Operational Research; Computational Design; Architecture
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