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Title: Parametric form making with modular units
Author: Lutes, Rachel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Modular units are a bedrock of modern construction. Finding ways to design new forms and be creative with modular units is a challenge for architects and designers. Parametric design allows designers to create a wide range of configurations, but t...

Title: Parametric BIM Automation
Author: Lakshmanan, Jashwanth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Like Vitruvius who was loosely termed as the first architect, always believed that every good design had to be based off of geometric patterns and set constraints. And Bill Mitchell’s - Logic Of Architecture has some good views on computational de...

Title: Pinned Incremental Metal Forming
Author: Stockhoff, Paul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Building
Description: Advanced design software allows designers to rapidly create huge numbers of design variations. However, these variations do not incorporate material and manufacturing limits, which are typically considered much later during the process of design d...

Title: Bidirectional Scripting and Geometric Manipulation
Author: Rodgers, James
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Architecture, Design
Description: Working within the bounds of two-dimensional drawing programs and algorithmic design software, this project seeks to improve the accessibility to hidden information that is often obscured in conventional CAD software. Building off of visual progra...

Title: Communities of Learning: Towards a Collaborative Model of Teaching and Learning in Architectural Education
Author: Jernigan, Julie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Architecture
Description: At the forefront of the architectural world today is the discussion on the disconnect that exists between architectural education and professional practice. There have been recent calls to make architectural education more closely mirror architect...

Title: Generative Machine Learning Models for Airflow Prediction of Architectural Spaces
Author: Claudio Rodriguez, Fernando
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Architecture
Description: Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) airflow simulations are not used as often in architectural settings primarily due to time constraints. The proper use of CFD airflow simulations involves a complex setup and run-time process that requires a large amou...

Title: Hybrid elevations using GAN networks
Author: Mohammad, Ali
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Architecture, Design
Description: This project attempts to develop and test a method for generating one-sided hybrid exterior building elevations using two designer’s base criteria and design ruleset as an input. Architects are using computational design to expedite the iteration ...

Title: MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR DIRECTED CURATION OF DESIGN SOLUTION SPACE
Author: Sjoberg, Christian
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Architecture, Design
Description: The expanding role of computational models in the process of design is producing exponentially growing parameter spaces. As designers, we must create and implement new methods for searching these parameter spaces considering not only quantitative ...

Title: In Celebration of Being Human
Author: Radnia, Noushin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Design
Description: Over time, the relationship between human and technology has been evolving. As a result of this evolution, as Donna Haraway explains in her basic thesis, it is no longer possible to tell where we end and machines begin. On the other hand, this enh...

Title: LIBRARY OF THINGS (LoT) - AN URBAN SYSTEM MODEL FOR RECONCEPTUALIZING THE ROLE AND SPATIALIZATION OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Author: Nelson, Alexandra
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Information technology, Architecture
Description: As the public library system struggles to find support in the age Google and Amazon, their impact through crucial resources and personalized support from library staff prove their undeniable value in cities -- especially for those without internet...

Title: Developing A Plugin In Qgis For Selecting The Location Of A New Manufacturing Plant
Author: Ahmadzadeh Siyahrood, Sanaz
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Information technology, Geographic information systems, Geodesy
Description: With the growth of the technology-driven world, today many designs and analyzes depend on smart software to address different computational concepts. In the meantime, locating and finding a suitable place for establishing a facility is one of them...

Title: Exploring an Intelligent Responsive Architecture through Gesture-based Interaction
Author: An, Yijing
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture, Building
Description: Architects are increasingly adopting gesture-based interaction to create responsive, engaging and inspiring spaces. However, there is no established theories providing guidelines to link gestures and spatial movement. This thesis critiques the pre...

Title: Interactive Topic Guided Thematic Analysis for Social Media Data
Author: Sah, Subham
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Information technology
Description: Social media plays a significant role in modern-day information dissemination, owing to its ubiquity and ease of sharing. There has been an increased focus on analyzing topics frequently occurring in social media.We refer to social media as a plat...

Title: A Photocatalytic Air Cleaning System Breaking Down Volatile Organic Compounds to Improve Health and Productivity of Occupants
Author: Bapat, Ketki Prashant
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Architecture
Description: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are one of the pollutants that impact indoor air quality, leading to many adverse health effects such as Asthma, and other breathing issues. Most of the VOCs are harmful and carcinogenic, usually emitted by indoor...

Title: Toward optimistic version control in architecture: diffing, patching, and three-way merging for openNURBS 3D models
Author: Rawlings, Nicholas
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Information technology
Description: The ability of architects to collaborate and work in parallel on digital assets is limited by pessimistic strategies for managing shared files. The software engineering community has worked around this problem by adopting optimistic version contro...

Title: Anatomy of a protest: Activism, people, social media and urban space
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences--Research, Architecture
Description: The black lives matter movement has risen in response to social injustices in the African-American community in the United States, specifically concerned with police shootings and brutality. Similar to many modern movements in the age of informati...

Title: Under One Umbrella: Historic Preservation in Havana, Cuba as the Link between Social Services and Economics
Author: Dallmeyer, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Cultural property--Protection
Description: Traditionally, historic preservation focuses on the past, but a major challenge of historic preservation is working with buildings that are still in use. If a building continues to be used, it will continue to evolve. Thus, current daily life and ...

Title: TOWARDS CO-BUILD: AN ARCHITECTURE MACHINE FOR CO-CREATIVE FORM-MAKING
Author: Deshpande, Manoj
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Based on Negroponte's idea of man-machine symbiosis, this thesis proposes: Co-Build - A real time web based collaborative 3D modelling platform. The aim of the study is to understand the symbiosis by extracting different circumstances under which ...

Title: STORY OF ”STORRS”, MEMORY OF AN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE, MEMORIALIZING HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE SPACE
Author: Taheri, Lina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: In the contemporary age of social media and ubiquitous smart devices, what is the perception of people of spatial experience? How does this affect people’s memories of space? Is the memory of space traceable? Would people want to follow other peop...

Title: The Learning Facade
Author: MacKnight, Paul
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Architecture
Description: Despite the rising popularity and utilization of intelligent systems, much of thebuilt environment, especially architecture, remains prescriptive or responsive in nature.Kinetic facades, especially, still rely on the analysis of historic or approx...