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16 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Buildings
Utilizing Design Objectives and Key Performance Indicators as a Means for Multi-Species Building Envelopes
AbstractPopulation growth, urbanization, and climate change have significantly contributed to environmental degradation, posing severe consequences for humans and other species. By integrating ecological objectives with human-centric goals, a path towards a sustainable, multi-species future is possible. Current sustainable design principles have shown positive environmental
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31 Oct 2023 • Journal Article • Sustainability
Architectural Multispecies Building Design: Concepts, Challenges, and Design Process
AbstractThis perspective paper explores the concept of multispecies design in architecture, focusing on the building scale. Historically, architects have prioritized human needs, neglecting nature’s integration in urban settings, leading to environmental and social challenges. To address these issues, a new multispecies approach that promotes the integration of ecological
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17 Oct 2023 • Journal Article • Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
Sustainable urban landscapes: a computation framework for enhancing sustainability in early-stage design
AbstractThis study uses computer-aided design to improve the ecological and environmental sustainability of early-stage landscape designs. Urban expansion on open land and natural habitats has led to a decline in biodiversity and increased climate change impacts, affecting urban inhabitants' quality of life and well-being. While sustainability indicators have been employed to
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1 Mar 2023 • Journal Article • Building and Environment
Toward multi-species building envelopes: A critical literature review of multi-criteria decision-making for design support
AbstractRapid urbanization negatively affects the built and biotic environment, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies. Current nature-based solutions that are integrated into building envelope design have proved to be beneficial. These solutions, however, are primarily anthropocentric and often overlook the potential to support other living organisms, such as
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Mar 2023 • Conference Paper • Proceedings of the 28th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia
Multi-Species Building Envelopes: Developing a Multi-criteria Design Decision-making Methodology for Cohabitation
AbstractAnthropic activities negatively impact natural and artificial ecosystems, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies such as multi-species building envelope designs. This paper introduces a computational multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology to support these envelope designs. We also propose a nested set strategy for key performance indicators
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Feb 2023 • Journal Article • People and Nature
Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design
AbstractResearch is revealing an increasing number of positive effects of nature for humans. At the same time, biodiversity in cities, where most humans live, is often low or in decline. Tangible solutions are needed to increase urban biodiversity. Architecture is a key discipline that has considerable influence on the built-up area of cities, thereby influencing urban biodiversity
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22 Jan 2023 • Journal Article • Social Science Research Network
Urban Landscape Sustainability: A Computational Approach for Measuring Ecological-Environmental Criteria in Early Design Phases
AbstractThe ability to measure socio-ecological indicators in early design models is essential for advancing goal-oriented sustainability designs and a stepping-stone towards the broad integration of high-performance urban development solutions. However, less attention has been given to measuring urban landscape development, specifically for ecological-environmental attributes
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12 Dec 2022 • Journal Article • Architectural Science Review
Earth-based additive manufacturing: A field-oriented methodology for evaluating material printability
AbstractThe recent convergence of earth construction with technology focuses on additive manufacturing using extrudable earth-based materials. The printability of these materials can be defined by their pumpability, extrudability, and buildability. We present a field-oriented methodology for the design of printable local mixtures suitable for various printers. Three tests were
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6 Aug 2022 • Journal Article • Architectural Science Review
Real-time fabrication analysis: a method for evaluating fabrication constraints of complex concrete shapes
AbstractThis paper presents a framework for an analysis method and computational tool, which evaluates the fabrication parameters of complex geometries. The suggested method predicts the feasibility, material use, and machining time required for fabricating the moulds for these geometries. It achieves this by interrogating geometric properties instead of the traditional machining
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1 Jun 2022 • Journal Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology
The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination
AbstractIn this paper, a multidisciplinary approach to examining the connection between visual perception, human emotions and architectural space is presented. It details a study in which emotional reactions to architectural space geometry are empirically measured and quantified. Using various sensors, including EEG (Electroencephalography), GSR (Galvanic Skin Response), and
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