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0000-0002-2062-9055
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.1260/1478-0771.9.4.397
Abstract: This paper discusses the issues of designing architectural skins that can be physically morphed to adapt to changing needs. To achieve this architectural vision, designers have focused on developing mechanical joints, components, and systems for actuation and kinetic transformation. However, the unexplored approach of using lightweight elastic form-changing materials provides an opportunity for designing responsive architectural skins and skeletons with fewer mechanical operations. This research aims to develop elastic modular systems that can be applied as a second skin or brise-soleil to existing buildings. The use of the second skin has the potential to allow existing buildings to perform better in various climatic conditions and to provide a visually compelling skin. This approach is evaluated through three design experiments with prototypes, namely Tent, Curtain and Blind, to serve two fundamental purposes: Comfort and Communication. These experimental prototypes explore the use of digital and physical computation embedded in form-changing materials to design architectural morphing skins that manipulate sunlight and act as responsive shading devices.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2005
Abstract: This study is based on a generative performative modeling approach that engages architects and structural engineers in close dialogue. We focus on knowledge shared between engineers and architects to apply the Finite Element Analysis based structural design technique Evolutionary Structural Optimization [ESO] as a way to understand or corroborate the performance factors that are significant in determining architectural form. ESO is very close conceptually to the dynamical system of matter and forces of growth itself. It has parallels both mathematical and metaphorical with natural evolution and morphogenesis so it has been poignant to apply the approach to a formal architectural case study in which the generative influence of these processes is inherent.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2012
DOI: 10.1260/1478-0771.10.2.275
Abstract: Designers have long been concerned with new and visionary types of public space. With the advent of ubiquitous computing, architects and designers have become increasingly aware of the opportunities and challenges in designing spaces and everyday objects to support socially-oriented human interactions whether through spatial or technological means. This paper presents a novel transdiscplinary method for designing new interactive architectural prototypes that promote connectivity and social interactions in the public space in order to address specific agendas of urban interventions. The proposed method was evaluated in a pilot studio, in which students across various design and technical disciplines were invited to propose utopian socio-technological visions for a particular site and to develop their ideas into working architectural prototypes that could be installed at the chosen site and tested by the public. The open brief generated various responses and outcomes in eight projects, of which two are discussed in this paper.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 16-09-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.1260/1478-0771.9.4.361
Abstract: Modularisation is a well-known method of reducing code complexity, yet architects are unlikely to modularise their visual scripts. In this paper the impact that modules used in visual scripts have on the architectural design process is investigated with regard to legibility, collaboration, reuse and design modification. Through a series of thinking-aloud interviews, and through the collaborative design and construction of the parametric Dermoid pavilion, modules are found to impact the culture of collaborative design in architecture through relatively minor alterations to how architects organise visual scripts.
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
Date: 12-2012
DOI: 10.4028/WWW.SCIENTIFIC.NET/AMR.622-623.182
Abstract: This research explores the potential for developing responsive composite materials with sensing, kinetic and luminous capacity for application in the design of responsive architectural morphing skins. We integrate sensing devices and building skin as one 'integrated' entity, eliminating the need to embed discrete components in a vulnerable system. This investigation develops and explores the properties and performance of a new material, Lumina for application as a lightweight, flexible and economical luminous architectural skin that responds to proximity and lighting stimuli. The design exploration uses silicone rubber, glow pigments, embedded physical computational and shape change material. It is controlled using parametric design processes.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 16-09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2007
DOI: 10.1260/147807707783600799
Abstract: Combinatorial computational geometry, while dealing with geometric objects as discrete entities, provides the means both to analyse and to construct relationships between these objects and relate them to other non-geometrical entities. This paper explores some ways in which this may be used in design through a review of six, one-semester-long design explorations by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Flexible Modeling for Design and Prototyping course between 2004 and 2007. The course focuses on using computational geometry firstly to construct topologically defined design models based on graphs of relationships between objects (parametric design,) and concurrently to output physical prototypes from these “flexible models” (an application of numerical computational geometry). It supports students to make early design explorations. Many have built flexible models to explore design iterations for a static spatial outcome. Some have built models of real time responsive dynamic systems. In this educational context, computational geometry has enabled a range of design iterations that would have been challenging to uncover through physical analogue means alone. It has, perhaps more significantly, extended the students' own concept of the space in which they design.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.1260/1478-0771.9.4.339
Abstract: Emerging from the challenge to reduce energy consumption in buildings is the need for energy simulation to be used more effectively to support integrated decision making in early design. As a critical response to a Green Star case study, we present DEEPA, a parametric modeling framework that enables architects and engineers to work at the same semantic level to generate shared models for energy simulation. A cloud-based toolkit provides web and data services for parametric design software that automate the process of simulating and tracking design alternatives, by linking building geometry more directly to analysis inputs. Data, semantics, models and simulation results can be shared on the fly. This allows the complex relationships between architecture, building services and energy consumption to be explored in an integrated manner, and decisions to be made collaboratively.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2017
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2013
End Date: 2016
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2008
End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2009
End Date: 2011
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
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