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Agent Based Semiology: Simulating Contemporary Office Occupation Patterns with Simplified Social Models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Knowledge economy has become an increasingly important factor in recent years. Office environments have changed accordingly, and contemporary office space layouts have become more complex, as their qualities rely on their ... -
Architectural Mutations of Individual Houses in the Sahara Desert: Case of Algerian Sahara
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)The residential architecture in the Algerian Sahara passed through several phases from the precolonial period to the current period. The precolonial period was characterized by traditional (vernacular) architecture with a ... -
Bending Parabolas: Formwork for Compression-only Structures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)The “elastic” curves formed by a uniform buckled strut are not optimal shapes as guidework and formwork for compression-only structures. In this paper, we adapt the family of elastic curves to vaults and arches, by changing ... -
The Birth of the Orthogonal City Plan: Visual to Surveyed Representations of Rome from the 14th to 18th Century
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Early representations of cities are shown as a staggering of selected icons, figures on a passive ground. Later in the seventeenth century, shifts in political governance lead to an increase of land value. At this point, ... -
A Campus Biography
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)The university, as an institution and as a space, is complex. A middle scale outside the comfort zone of architects, the campus bridges between the architectural and the urban. In response to professional pressures on ... -
Changing Waterscapes: The Dichotomy of Development and Water Management Surrounding the East Calcutta Wetlands Since the British-colonial Era
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)The deltaic region of Bengal is known for its riverine networks and fertile soil. The capital of former British- India, Calcutta, was a swampy region with small canals connecting the land with the river Hooghly in the west ... -
A Critical Inquiry into the ‘Problem’ of Stopping in Architecture
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)“Self-driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam,” reads a New York Times article of March 19th, 2018, one day after the accident. The fundamental problem of artificial intelligence has always been how ... -
Designing ‘Safe’ Schools: Identifying Areas of Research in Achieving School Safety and Security
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Multiple stakeholders have an interest in making our schools ‘safe’ places to learn and work. Among these are students and parents, law enforcement officials, school administrators and teachers, code officials, and architects. ... -
Developing ‘Urban Jungle’ as an Integrated Model of Survival: Learning from Nature in War Zones
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)This paper explores the relationship between conflict in the urban environment and natural systems of resiliency found in forests and jungles. Studying the different accounts of inhabitants of cities under siege during the ... -
Dressmaking Techniques for Pneumatic Forms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)This paper explores a process for digitally designing doubly curved geometry out of flat textiles. The development of computational modeling techniques, such as NURBS and sub-division modeling, has made it easier to create ... -
The Feasibility of Natural Ventilation in Chicago’s Tall Office Buildings Using Double-skin Façades
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Thirty-one tall buildings (i.e., buildings of or taller than 200 m) have been erected to date in Chicago; 51% accounting for office function, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Their ... -
From Segregated to Integrated: The Evolution of Shading Designs in Marcel Breuer’s Works
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)External sunshades, or brise-soleil in French, have played a significant role in the development of 20th century modern architecture history. An early promoter was Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer, who believed ... -
The Future of Energy and Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st ... -
The Future of Housing Affordability and Access to the City
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-11)Every year, the world’s population increases by 65 million people, and over the next 13 years, 600 cities will account for nearly 65 percent of global GDP growth. This afternoon symposium will explore ideas related to 21st ... -
Graphs, Sets and Covers; Seeing What Has Always Been There: Finding Common Ground Between BIM Applications and their Users
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Building Information Models and Process Diagrams rely on data modeling types that can vary. By definition, information contained in the very common Relational Model Databases (RMDB) can be contained in the GDBs; by expressing ... -
How Energy Makes a Difference on the Morphology of Space
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)In today’s sciences we pay a great deal of attention to the complexity of biological form and ecological formation. Analogies in urban research refer to cities as living (eco)systems, organisms or technological artifacts, ... -
Institutionalizing Co-production in the Conservation and Renewal of Residential Urban Heritages in Shanghai: The Obstacles and Solutions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)In Shanghai, the spatial division inside residential heritages is intricate. Even the smallest top-down renewal projects involve several households’ interests. Without an “empowered participatory governance” (Fung and ... -
Interactive Introduction to Shape Machine
(2019-04-11)The talk presents the current state-of-the-art of the Shape Machine, a new computational, visual and disruptive technology, to leading experts in various fields including AI, engineering, computer science, mathematics and ... -
Machine Learning for Architects and Designers: Implementing Machine Learning into the Digital Design Process
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)In 1962, engineer Douglas Engelbart proposed overlapping the creative mind with artificial intelligence to create designs which could not be created by either entity alone (Engelbart 1962). Today Machine Learning (ML) has ... -
Measuring the Unseen: a Symposium About Building a Cultural Framework for Design and Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)Sophisticated knowledge and skills in the right hands and minds can empower designers to make smarter design choices, but these instruments are not prescriptive. The balance lies between the space of the qualitative and ...