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{"title":"Integrating 3D-printed clay formwork into thin-vaulted green roof","authors":"Chenxi Jin,&nbsp;Chenhan Xu,&nbsp;Weishun Xu","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00088-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00088-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Green roofs (GRs) play an important role in urban sustainability initiatives, offering reduced building energy consumption and enhanced ecological performance through additional growing medium and vegetation layers. Nevertheless, these functional components introduce challenges such as extra structural load, greater slab thickness, and increased construction complexity. This research proposes a design-fabrication method for a thin-vaulted green roof prototype, featuring a compression-only surface and upstand ribs along unevenly distributed stress lines to achieve both lightweight properties and material efficiency compared to a conventional flat roof with GR systems. To realize such a non-standard and multifunctional structure, a hybrid formwork system combining 3D clay printed (3DCP) molds and a reusable, doubly curved foam base is proposed to handle geometric complexity and functional integration by incorporating stay-in-place formwork as the growing medium. An empirical construction experiment, conducted at a 1:5 scale, validates the proposed method with optimized fabrication procedures for a proposed application scenario in a community renovation project.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00088-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144073651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimized and cost-effective behavior studies via VR: a serious game of wayfinding at PVG","authors":"Mingyan Zou,&nbsp;Shuyang Li,&nbsp;Chengyu Sun","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00086-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00086-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two-dimensional spatial analysis and trajectory-based environmental behavior research are widely used methods for investigating pedestrian wayfinding behavior. However, they often struggle to balance efficiency and granularity. This study draws inspiration from serious games to develop an online VR-based wayfinding platform for behavioral research, aiming to enhance data collection and improve resolution. A virtual replica of Satellite Terminal 1 (S1) of Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) was created, providing participants with an immersive and intuitive environment. Accessible via any compatible web browser, the platform utilizes a browser/server (B/S) framework, significantly reducing the cost and complexity of behavioral data acquisition. Wayfinding tasks were designed with competitive mechanisms and reward-based elements to encourage public participation and exploration. Within three days of the platform's launch, 370 participants completed wayfinding tasks, generating a rich dataset of 2,746 trajectories and observed behaviors with spatial accuracy at the decimeter level and temporal accuracy at the second level. This study demonstrates that a gamified VR-based platform is a viable approach for researching navigation behavior, offering notable advantages in cost-effectiveness, participant engagement, and data acquisition efficiency.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00086-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143865504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhanced interactive AR bricklaying: elevating human–robot collaboration in augmented reality assisted masonry design and construction","authors":"Weichen Zhang,&nbsp;Pierpaolo Ruttico","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00085-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00085-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enhanced interactive AR bricklaying aims to combine human intelligence with robotic precision, enhancing creativity while addressing the inherent situation that the conventional robotic construction process are not well adapted to uncertainty. In conventional interactive brick-laying workflows, the design and construction phases are separate. Augmented Reality (AR) assists humans in completing parametric form designs, after which robots precisely execute the bricklaying process. However, this method demonstrates a low level of human–robot interaction, failing to fully harness the potential of AR in enhancing interactivity. This study first conducts a comparative experiment to evaluate a more interactive workflow, where design and construction phases alternate, against the conventional workflow. It examines the impact, limitations, and potential of human involvement in a linear robotic construction process. Based on this analysis, a construction case uses an AR system with a higher degree of interactivity. The system redistributes tasks between humans and robots, informed by the findings of the comparative experiment. The new workflow facilitates the construction of a brick wall, composed of large engineering bricks without mortar, measuring 7 m by 1.8 m, and featuring an inclined pattern. AR-guided interaction enables humans to guide robotic construction of a simple structure without relying on simulations or obstacle avoidance path planning. The discrepancies observed between design and final construction outcomes highlight the role of human intelligence, further validating the significance of enhanced interactive construction as a promising approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00085-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of campus crowd behaviour based on location data and physical environment data: a case study of Southeast University Wuxi Campus","authors":"Ye Tang,&nbsp;Junqiang Sun,&nbsp;Guangjin Wang,&nbsp;Wenjin Hong,&nbsp;Li Li","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00084-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00084-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Modern campuses integrate various urban infrastructures such as residential, transportation, commercial, and service facilities. Research on personnel behavior within campuses provides valuable reference for campus management, resource allocation, and spatial planning. The integration of multi-source data enables a more comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the interplay between human behavior and spatial distribution, offering deeper and more objective insights into these phenomena. This study focuses on the Wuxi campus of Southeast University, combining Wi-Fi probe localization technology with a custom-developed physical environment sensor system. Based on the pre-experiment monitoring of pedestrian flows, high-traffic public spaces were selected for analysis. Over a period of 14 days, 28.87 million raw localization data points and 340,000 raw environmental data points were collected. To ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data, rigorous data cleaning procedures were employed, including the time restrictions, anomalous data, drift, redundant and ping-pong effects. Both the localization data and the physical environment data were subsequently visualized, allowing for the detailed examination of temporal and spatial behavioral characteristics of campus occupants and the corresponding environmental attributes of public spaces. By fitting the two heterogeneous datasets, the study revealed a correlation between the spatial distribution of pedestrian stopping behavior and physical environmental factors. Additionally, a convolutional autoencoder neural network was used to extract both 2D and 3D features of pedestrian trajectories, yielding four typical spatiotemporal patterns of pedestrian movement. These findings provide a robust foundation for improving the physical environment of the campus and informing crowd management strategies, while also offering critical insights for future campus planning and the optimization of spatial resources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00084-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143706958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Design and development of natural fiber-timber hybrid beam elements for sustainable construction","authors":"C. Zechmeister,&nbsp;H. Hildebrandt,&nbsp;R. Duque Estrada,&nbsp;T.-Y. Chen,&nbsp;M. Gil Pérez,&nbsp;F. Kannenberg,&nbsp;C. Schlopschnat,&nbsp;M. Göbel,&nbsp;J. Knippers,&nbsp;A. Menges","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00083-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00083-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The growing demand for inhabitable spaces drives increased reliance on energy-intensive construction materials such as concrete and steel, which significantly contribute to global carbon emissions and resource depletion, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Renewable, bio-based materials like timber provide viable solutions, offering carbon sequestration and reduced environmental impact but lead to challenges related to biodiversity conservation, land use, and sustainable forest management. Natural fibers such as flax are increasingly used in sustainable composite materials and exhibit short growth cycles, minimal environmental impact, and favorable mechanical properties. When combined with timber, natural fiber-timber hybrids offer a large potential for high-performance, resource-efficient structural building parts. By leveraging the complementary strengths of both materials, such hybrids reduce reliance on valuable timber resources, replacing them with fast-growing flax fibers. To realize this potential for natural fiber-timber hybrid beam elements, existing design, evaluation, and fabrication methods for fibrous building parts are expanded and adapted. Suitable material candidates for fiber-timber hybrids are classified and characterized, and morphological parameters are defined to design and evaluate novel beam typologies. To allow for the manufacturing of large-scale natural fiber bodies for use in hybrid beam elements, new robotic fabrication methods are introduced, and existing manufacturing equipment is expanded. These innovations are exemplified by the Hybrid Flax Pavilion, the first permanent building to incorporate load-bearing natural fiber-timber hybrid components.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00083-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143496906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The design and construction of an efficient modular zero-energy solar house—a case study of solar decathlon China project “24+35 Housing Home”","authors":"Guopeng Li,&nbsp;Feipeng Jiao,&nbsp;Jiyuan Liu,&nbsp;Xiangyu Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s44223-025-00082-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-025-00082-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper, taking Solar Decathlon China competition project “24 + 35 Housing Home” designed and constructed by Dalian University of Technology as an example, systematically summarizes the design concepts implemented throughout the entire process of the project’s design, production, transportation, and construction, focusing on human habitability, efficient prefabrication, sustainability in energy, and intelligent connectivity. The project is closely aligned with practical situations, with an emphasis on issues of human habitation health in the design of architectural spaces and the configuration of residential equipment. It explores an efficient modular system that merges long-distance transportation with rapid assembly, while also optimizing the design of sustainable energy systems in conjunction with climates and environments. Simultaneously, it integrates smart connectivity technologies, aiming to explore the possibilities of future human habitats. This paper intends to consolidate the strengths and advantages of the competition project and offers insights for expediting the construction of zero-energy solar houses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-025-00082-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143396712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AI Tectonics, or the culture wars of building technology","authors":"Mario Carpo","doi":"10.1007/s44223-024-00081-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-024-00081-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-024-00081-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143109151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intergenerational cooperation and co-creation in public space design assisted by Virtual Reality (VR) environments","authors":"Provides Ng,&nbsp;Shutong Zhu,&nbsp;Yuechun Li,&nbsp;Jeroen van Ameijde","doi":"10.1007/s44223-024-00080-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-024-00080-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The world's ageing population presents both challenges and new opportunities for urban design, particularly in high-density cities like Hong Kong. This study investigates intergenerational cooperation in the co-design of urban public spaces, assisted by Virtual Reality (VR) environments. Through a series of workshops inviting youth, university students, middle-aged adults, and older residents to work in small teams, we documented their interactive behaviours and observed how the involvement of different age groups may influence the cooperative process and design outcomes, especially when VR tools were involved. Our findings shed light on several key aspects. First, how work engagement levels differ based on highly-, moderately-, and non- intergenerational groups. Second, observable patterns of common task-role distribution between age groups within a self-organised collaborative process. Thirdly, the various types of social participation, from cooperative, associative to solitary, emerged as a consequence of such interactions. Finally, from the co-created public space designs, any transformational and transactional values that arise were discussed. The study contributes to ways in facilitating more age-friendly approaches in urban design, especially in face of digital transition, and highlights the importance of intergenerational cooperation in design processes so as to create more inclusive environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-024-00080-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research on the design of prefabricated curved structure production capacity residential energy system: a case study of an entry of 2022 China International Solar Decathlon Competition- 'Solar Ark 3.0'","authors":"Chao Zhou,&nbsp;Hong Zhang,&nbsp;Xini Chai,&nbsp;Hongyu Ye,&nbsp;Shanggang Hei,&nbsp;Junjun Zhang,&nbsp;Shen Luo,&nbsp;Haochen Xu","doi":"10.1007/s44223-024-00079-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-024-00079-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Under the severe situation of global warming, the problem of high energy consumption and carbon emissions in the construction industry need to be addressed urgently, and the method to promote the development of the construction industry in the direction of low-carbon sustainability has become a problem to be solved. Taking ‘Solar Ark 3.0’, the entry of Southeast University United Team in the Third China International Solar Decathlon Competition (SDC2022), as an example. This study proposes the wind and solar complementary capacity design, multi-mode energy storage design, intelligent energy use design and production, storage and use of multi-energy complementary intelligent energy management methods through the exploration of the integrated design and construction of curved structure housing and energy system. These designs of ‘Solar Ark 3.0’ improve the utilization efficiency of renewable energy in buildings and also provide methods for the integrated design of curved structural housing and energy systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-024-00079-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142757945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beauty - the indispensable category explained, justified and critically employed","authors":"Patrik Schumacher","doi":"10.1007/s44223-024-00078-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44223-024-00078-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Beauty as the manifestation of aesthetic responses and valuations is a human universal. All societies operate with (a version of) the category of beauty. We all navigate the world aesthetically. Architecture and the design disciplines together shape the outward appearance of the social world. Therefore, beauty as the engaged response to appearances should be an indispensable category of all design discourses, including architectural discourse. However, beauty is an increasingly embattled and by now nearly extinct category within a conscientious architectural discourse that is rightly aspiring to rational accountability and evidence-based propositions. Beauty has been eliminated from the discipline’s discourse because it is seen as subjective and irrational, as an irresponsible diversion or distraction from architecture’s societal tasks. However, beauty is clearly <i>not</i> being abandoned by the end-users of design. <i>Nor</i> are aesthetic choices absent from actual contemporary design practice. Beauty is just no longer being explicitly referred to.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72270,"journal":{"name":"Architectural intelligence","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44223-024-00078-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142587792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}