In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.45
M. Jefferson
{"title":"Fake Attention","authors":"M. Jefferson","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.45","url":null,"abstract":"Rather than taking a techno-positivist position on the digital, computation might be approached critically as a medium with the capacity to affect, manage, and disrupt. Within this context, architectural applications of machine learning might productively agitate the stability of our defined disciplinary conventions (particularly in relationship to methods of production motivated by typology). These moments of friction where conventions come into contact with external systems of AI technology are explored. This paper proposes to fold these tendencies back into the way we think about making architecture; back into our processes and pedagogies to develop a reciprocal and discursive relationship with technology. By leaving space to foster attention, the paper’s mission is to develop skills that allow us to see the world anew and to become aware of the coded ways in which both technologies and the physical stuff of the world are motivated by hidden systems and to open up new frameworks for reconstructing our existing practices and conventions.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127197282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.1
Ming Hu
{"title":"A New Building Life-Cycle Embodied Performance Index","authors":"Ming Hu","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.1","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge and research tying the environmental impact and embodied energy together is a largely unexplored area in the building industry. The aim of this study is to investigate the practicality of using the ratio between embodied energy and embodied carbon to measure the building’s impact. This study is based on life-cycle assessment and proposes a new measure: life-cycle embodied performance (LCEP), in order to evaluate building performance. In this study, eight buildings located in the same climate zone with similar construction types are studied to test the proposed method. For each case, the embodied energy intensities and embodied carbon coefficients are calculated, and four environmental impact categories are quantified. The following observations can be drawn from the findings: (a) the ozone depletion potential could be used as an indicator to predict the value of LCEP; (b) the use of embodied energy and embodied carbon independently from each other could lead to incomplete assessments; and (c) the exterior wall system is a common significant factor influencing embodied energy and embodied carbon. The results lead to several conclusions: firstly, the proposed LCEP ratio, between embodied energy and embodied carbon, can serve as a genuine indicator of embodied performance. Secondly, environmental impact categories are not dependent on embodied energy, nor embodied carbon. Rather, they are proportional to LCEP. Lastly, among the different building materials studied, metal and concrete express the highest contribution towards embodied energy and embodied carbon.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123449838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.43
Chris Taylor
{"title":"FIELD SUPPORT VEHICLE: model for embodied architecture pedagogy","authors":"Chris Taylor","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.43","url":null,"abstract":"For over a decade the Land Arts Support Vehicle was hunch and dream. An exponential possibility for field-based pedagogy. The creation of an adaptable all-terrain backcountry truck outfitted with essential infrastructure of mobile kitchen and field lab to propel the ongoing research of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University Huckabee College of Architecture. In 2020 the embodied potential became active with a significant donation enabling the purchase of an F-350 4×4 Chassis Cab. This launched an active design-build process that continues beyond initial fabrication through perpetual testing and iterative refinement emanating from sustained immersive field exposure into the collective commons of the American West. Design-build process of the vehicle’s custom service body allows it to carry essential gear and provisions. Pushing beyond paradigms of recreational vehicles, this project’s ambition is aligned with scientific, and artistic, production vested in remote design-build field work. Think of a cross between inside-out food-truck and mobile construction workshop. Students and faculty worked collaboratively to design, fabricate, and evaluate the Support Vehicle to honor the ethos, aspirations, and complexities of the Land Arts program that is dedicated to expanding awareness of the intersection of human construction and the evolving nature of our planet.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114490235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.51
H. James, Isabella Wilhelm, Matthew Johnson
{"title":"The Pipeline to Better Placemaking: Using Digital Realities to Observe, Teach, & Engage in the creation of Place","authors":"H. James, Isabella Wilhelm, Matthew Johnson","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.51","url":null,"abstract":"Quality “Places or Commons” are evaluated by their number of occupants, who is coming there, how long they are staying, and, most importantly, how often they return. Whether the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, or Mainstreet USA, our places represent who we are as a community. While one could evaluate success by gathering financial numbers from surrounding businesses, they would fall short of the “why” people are there. Immersing your investigation around the “why” a person returns to a place and stays beyond a single reason will start to tell the story of the Place. Place = People + Built Environment. The Community will come, only if you create with “them” at the start of conceptualization. Using the community as a collective owner in the design process, both directly and through human behavior observations, leads to a design for a regenerative and redistributive commons-based economy or a Community’s Place. We have created the Pipeline to Better Placemaking. A six-stage platform using digital realities to Observe, Teach, & Engage in the creation of Place. The innovation or uniqueness of this pipeline is in the interactive collection of local knowledge. We are measuring both the built environment and human behavior. Our team has been collaborating with the university psychology department on how to observe human behavior, the computer science department to program multiple prototypes from the ground up, the planning department to better understand zoning laws, and finally, the architecture department to observe the built environment and conceptualize community focused places.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122131125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Literature Review of WAAM and Future Application in Buildings","authors":"Amanda Ridings, Annika Pan, Haixin Yin, Hongxi Yin, Kaden Chaudhary, Sebastián Bernal, Wenqi Lai","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.8","url":null,"abstract":"With rising needs for sustainable and innovative designs, the traditional process of manufacturing steel within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry must find new ways to adapt to changing demands. This literature review aims to evaluate one emerging technology – Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) – on its potential to bring the AEC industry to the forefront of sustainable growth through its ability to manufacture standardized metal components with improved sustainability, scalability, production time, and material efficiency compared to the traditional manufacturing process. This review observes first the historical and technological background of WAAM, before examining three case studies which assist in understanding the feasibility of integrating additive manufacturing methods into architectural design. Each case study positively indicates that WAAM has potential to become a primary metal manufacturer in the AEC industry, while acknowledging existing uses and constraints. Acknowledgment: The article is partially sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) 2022 Undergraduate Research Fellowship.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130412627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.47
C. Crosson
{"title":"Addressing Food Deserts Through Re-localized Agriculture: Four Design Typologies with Community Engagement for Urban Food System Expansion on Available Municipal Land","authors":"C. Crosson","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.47","url":null,"abstract":"Tucson, Arizona has been a historic passageway and home to a rich overlay of settlement patterns for over 4,000 years. Currently, 13.6% of current Tucson residents live in food deserts, areas that are low-income and have restricted access to healthy and affordable foods. Despite its agricultural history, recent efforts to relocalize urban food production to meet these local nutritional needs face stern criticism that the city is already water-stressed and cannot afford the irrigation required for food growth. This project investigated the capacity for Tucson to expand its urban food system to meet food desert nutritional demands using only sustainable water supplies on vacant municipal land. Four typologies on identified land owned by community partners were tested through design inquiry and corresponding water and food production calculations. The paper concludes that if these design typologies were implemented across the 711 acres of available municipal land in current food desert areas, over 100% of the nutritional needs of these food desert areas would be met (Tong et al. 2020).","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123915138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.23
Jiyoon Bae, Leslie Lok
{"title":"HoloWall: A Windbreak Wall Using Salvaged Timber with Mixed Reality Aided Construction","authors":"Jiyoon Bae, Leslie Lok","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.23","url":null,"abstract":"HoloWall is a wall assembly installation that integrates mixed reality (MR) protocols with nonuniformly sized lumber to develop a customized hollow-core cross-laminated timber (HCCLT). Referencing traditional windbreak shelters in agricultural landscapes, the HoloWall is a repository of cultural traces for the emblematic and utilitarian windbreak walls that protect livestock and buildings. Constructed from locally sourced salvaged wood, the prototype sat loosely between trees in the Arts Quad at Cornell University to provide shelter from prevailing wind across the valley. The prototype develops a material language of lamination that peels away in calibrated gradients to generate structural and visual porosity.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"386 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133431599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.46
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
{"title":"Product Design in the Desert Common: Methods and Practice","authors":"Elpitha Tsoutsounakis","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.46","url":null,"abstract":"Approximately 13% of the land area of the United States is protected in some way by formal designations through state or federal government. Each designation implicates specific forms of management and interaction with ecological systems and community members. Current strategies rely on a complex network of NGO’s, government bodies, and Sovereign Tribes, often with disparate or contrasting needs, values, and desires. This paper will discuss a platform in design education that finds common ground for these groups to collaborate through design research and practices. Design methodologies organize and mediate this complexity and foster free exchange of ideas, knowledge, and values. The platform is unique in that it moves beyond traditional science partnerships, and seeks to mediate the divide between academic and community scholarship. This paper will discuss methods of the studio for commoning design in public lands.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115420527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.4
Jonathan A. Scelsa
{"title":"Additive Envelopes: Robotic Volumetric Porous Bricks for Habitat Reformation","authors":"Jonathan A. Scelsa","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.4","url":null,"abstract":"The story goes that Lou Kahn, gathered his students into a room and began pontificating over personified bricks in what has now become a canonic conversation: “You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel.’ And then you say: ‘What do you think of that, brick?’ and the Brick says: ‘I like an arch .’ While this rhetoric pronounced the brick’s structural potentials due to the intrinsic disciplinary problems of stacking volumes, it undermined the Brick’s other potential capacities inherent to its volumetric nature. As such, with the arrival of post-modern construction that transformed the architectural envelope into a series of monofunctional layers within a rainscreen, it is not surprising that brick became flattened into a ‘sticker’ as an image-oriented scenographic pursuit neutered of its structural capacity. A two-dimensional graphic element easily commodified by neoliberal corporate culture, as evident from the thinly applied arches in recent facadist developer minded gentrification practices.In lieu of complicity in this culture of thinning, the research pedagogy showcased in this studio championed a resistance to the thinning of the brick based on its volumetric capacity to perform other roles such as thermodynamics or playing host to ecology towards habitat restoration. The promise of this new constructive principle suggests a volumetric wall construction that rebalances the flora and fauna within the urban ecology, while simultaneously lowering the albedo of our buildings’ contribution to the Urban Heat Island. This advanced option studio worked closely with a brick heritage museum sited within a village historically associated with the manufacturing of brick for the 20th century. The studio worked closely with the docents and curators of the existing museum in the processes of site selection, immersive brick production history, and community engagement.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130020576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In CommonsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.58
Christopher A. Roach, Julia Grinkrug
{"title":"[Un]Common Ground: Co-Creating the Vision for the City’s Ground Floor","authors":"Christopher A. Roach, Julia Grinkrug","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.58","url":null,"abstract":"What do we share in common among each other and what are the [un]common experiences and identities that must be considered and preserved? Can a common ground be established in pursuit of uncommon needs that mark the divergent missions of various interest groups? Is there even a possibility for the “commons” in our radicalized, alienated, co-opted, gentrified, and post-truth world? These are some of the questions that occupied a group of academic practitioners from Urban Works Agency at California College of the Arts through a series of courses and research projects that revolved around the enigmatic topic of the commons. In this paper, we will unpack the most recent investigations and discoveries that emerged from three consecutive urban design studios focusing on the ground floor of the city as the datum upon which the urban commons can emerge or be reclaimed. At the conception of this three-year project, we were searching for overarching principles or codes for commoning, learning from worldwide precedents, where public space was generated as a common good. As the research evolved in close dialogue with community partners, it became more and more clear that the notion of “common good” as a homogeneous abstraction was a fiction, just like the notion of a generic “public”. Instead, the commons should be seen as an emergent amalgamation of agonistic desires, practices and capacities that is meaningful only as long as it maintains its heterogeneity.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125548351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}