{"title":"Smart Contracts for Decentralised Building Information Modelling","authors":"T. Dounas, W. Jabi, D. Lombardi","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.565","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a model for decentralizing building information modelling, through implementing its infrastructure using the decentralized web. We discuss the shortcomings of BIM in terms of its infrastructure, with a focus on tracing identities of design authorship in this collective design tool. In parallel we examine the issues with BIM in the cloud and propose a decentralized infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain and the Interplanetary filesystem (IPFS). A series of computing nodes, that act as nodes on the Ethereum Blockchain, host disk storage with which they participate in a larger storage pool on the Interplanetary Filesystem. This storage is made available through an API is used by architects and designers creating and editing a building information model that resides on the IPFS decentralised storage. Through this infrastructure central servers are eliminated, and BIM libraries and models can be shared with others in an immutable and transparent manner. As such Architecture practices are able to exploit their intellectual property in novel ways, by making it public on the internet. The infrastructure also allows the decentralised creation of a resilient global pool of data that allows the participation of computation agents in the creation and simulation of BIM models.","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132354410","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":"Designing with a Robot - Interactive methods for brick wall design using computer vision","authors":"Avishek Das, I. Foged, Mads Brath Jensen","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.605","url":null,"abstract":"The deterministic and linear nature of robotic processes in architectural construction often allows no or very little adjustments during the fabrication process. If any need for modification arise the process is usually interrupted, changes are accommodated, and the process is resumed or restarted. The rigidity in this fabrication process leaves little room for creative intervention and human activities and robotic process are often considered as two segregated processes.The paper will present and discuss the methodological and design challenges of interactive robotic fabrication of brickwork with an industrial robotic arm, a webcam and bricks with varying color tones. Emphasis will be on the integration of external computer vision libraries within Rhino Grasshopper to augment the interactive robotic process. The paper will describe and demonstrate a framework comprising (1) robotic pick and place, material selection and evaluation using computer vision, (2) interactive robotic actuation and (3) the role of human input during a probabilistic fabrication-based design process.","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117226511","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}
Daniel Schulz, Till Degkwitz, Jonas Luft, Yuxiang Zhang, Nicola Stradtmann, J. Noennig
{"title":"Cockpit Social Infrastructure - Developing a planning support system in Hamburg","authors":"Daniel Schulz, Till Degkwitz, Jonas Luft, Yuxiang Zhang, Nicola Stradtmann, J. Noennig","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.341","url":null,"abstract":"In a complex urban scenario with a growing number of stakeholders and high dynamic developments, decision makers rely heavily on public data to make informed decisions. Often though, the available data is heterogeneous and stems from incomplete or inconsistent sources. The planning process, especially the definition of planning goals/needs, is often delayed due to time-consuming data procurement and assessment. This paper describes the development of the Cockpit Social Infrastructure (CoSI), a GIS-based planning support system that serves as an easy-access interface between Hamburgs Urban Data Platform GIS data infrastructure and the municipal planners for social infrastructure, bridging the gap between disciplines and facilitating communication and decision-making between stakeholders. CoSI takes full advantage of the UDP infrastructure and aims to introduce a city-wide tool for planners to conduct holistic, evidence-based planning, grounded in the latest and regularly updated statistical data. The paper outlines the project genesis and underlying technical and administrative structures.","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","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":"123088408","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":"Decision-Making as a Social Choice Game - Gamifying an urban redevelopment process in search for consensus","authors":"N. Bai, S. Azadi, Pirouz Nourian, A. Roders","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.555","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports the formulation, the design, and the results of a serious game developed for structuring negotiations concerning the redevelopment of a university campus with various stakeholders. The main aim of this research was to formulate the redevelopment planning problem as an abstract and discrete decision-making problem involving multiple actions, multiple actors with preconceived gains and losses with respect to the comprising actions, and decisions as combinations of actions. Using fictitious and yet realistic scenarios and stakeholders as simulation, the results evidence how different levels of democratic participation and different modes of moderation can affect reaching a consensus and present in a mathematical characterisation of a consensus as a state of equilibrium. The small set of actions and actors enabled a chance to compute a theoretically optimal state of consensus, where the efficiency and the effectiveness of different modes of moderation and participatory rights could be observed and analysed.","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"12 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":"129541446","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":"How to Explore the Architectural Qualities of Interactive Architecture - Virtual or physical or both?","authors":"Binh Duc Nguyen, A. Vande Moere, H. Achten","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","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":"124368630","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":"From the Cognitive to the Sentient Building - Machine Learning for the preservation of museum collections in historical architecture","authors":"F. M. La Russa, C. Santagati","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"125 4 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":"126279610","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}
A. Ibrahim, Sherif Abdelmohsen, Walid F. Omar, A. Zayan
{"title":"Extending the Passive Actuation of Low-tech Architectural Adaptive Systems by Integrating Hygroscopic and Thermal Properties of Wood","authors":"A. Ibrahim, Sherif Abdelmohsen, Walid F. Omar, A. Zayan","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.641","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"5 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":"133955484","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}
T. Spiegelhalter, A. Andia, J. Levente, Srikanth Namuduri
{"title":"Part 1: The Integrated Decision Support System - Generative and synthetic biological design imaginations for the Miami bay area","authors":"T. Spiegelhalter, A. Andia, J. Levente, Srikanth Namuduri","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"1 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":"128862877","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":"Teaching Digital Design Principles to First Year Design Students - A methodology based on direct experimentation with physical construction assemblages","authors":"S. Vergopoulos","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.127","url":null,"abstract":"An educational methodology is presented that introduces basic digital design concepts to first year design students. The methodology differentiates between four fields in design thinking namely Form, Function, Context, and Structure/Materiality and focuses on Structure/Materiality that is approached as an assemblage of components. Components are categorised in respect to their geometric and structural qualities with reference to the elements of `point', `line', `surface' and `volume'. Components are interconnected to corresponding design techniques that are used in order to compose complex forms and are outlined by a rule of composition. The primary technique of `point' structures is based on the notion of multiplicity and repetition. `Line' assemblages introduce to the concept of load bearing structures and they can effectively describe hierarchical associations. `Surface' elements are used to explain the results of transformational processes upon structural behaviour. `Volume' techniques refer to the notion of integration and directly affect the overall performance of the structure. For each one of these elements, the students are asked to work directly on physical assemblages with ready-made components which are chosen in respect to their structural characteristics and to describe explicitly the whole process in drawings and diagrams.","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"232 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":"116187931","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":"Integrating biophotovoltaic and cyber-physical technologies into a 3D printed wall","authors":"C. Farinea, Lana Awad, A. Dubor, Mohamad El Atab","doi":"10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.2.463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269362,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 2]","volume":"33 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":"130078772","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}