The field of architecture has long embraced adaptive approaches to address issues of sustainabili... more The field of architecture has long embraced adaptive approaches to address issues of sustainability and efficiency. Building energy consumption accounts for about 40% of the total energy consumption in the U.S. This energy is mainly used for lighting, heating, cooling, and ventilation. Researches show that 30% of that energy is wasted. One of the main reasons for such high energy waste in the commercial (and even private) sectors is a generic assumption about the occupants' preferences. To fill this gap, the objective of this project is to optimize building energy retrofits by creating smart environments that autonomously respond to the occupants' comfort level using affective computing and adaptive systems. This adaptive approach will help optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing occupants' comfort through passive cooling and heating strategy, responding to occupants' preferences detected from their biological and neurological data. Progress towards achieving this goal will make building energy costs more affordable to the benefit of families and businesses and reduce energy waste.
Brooklyn Says, "Move to Detroit": Project Proceedings, 2017
Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phen... more Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the “The Internet of Things(IoT).” In Architecture, IoT can be understood asa seamless combination of data-driven design, data analysis, and adaptive systems. AdaptiveSystems Studio, composed of 17 graduate architecture and 14 undergraduate interior design students led by one architecture and interior design faculty, seeks to develop new methods of architectural design by using information-based toolsets.
In a world ever-more mediated by data, many aspects of our environment are integrated through inf... more In a world ever-more mediated by data, many aspects of our environment are integrated through information systems. Much of our new understanding is the result of emergent data-generating and visualization technologies that map and make visible information that otherwise would remain dormant and ineffective. This paper examines the use of data-driven and parametric processes in designing adaptive networked ecological systems. Specifically, it will inquire into the degree to which data can prevent or at least mitigate the degradation of future crises. Two case studies will be presented and illustrated. The first will target the San Francisco bay area brownfields, the other mining sites in Latrobe, Australia, both derelict lands that have been laid to waste in the wake of earlier eras of indus-trialization. By showcasing two projects, this paper presents an overview of several areas in which landscape design can be successfully supplemented by contemporary data systems. Embedding data ...
2021 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2021
Emotion detection using machine learning and data gathered from an electroencephalogram (EEG) hol... more Emotion detection using machine learning and data gathered from an electroencephalogram (EEG) holds the potential for architecture and creating smart adaptive spaces which can respond to the user's current emotional state detected from the Neurophysiological data in real-time. This technology can help people with mental and physical disabilities to have a greater role in shaping their environment and live more independent lives. In this paper, two different machine learning approaches, the Long Short Term memory network, (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are compared in order to assess their potential to satisfy this goal of emotion detection. The LSTM network was trained on eight-channel time-series data which had undergone a Fast Fourier Transform, and the CNN was trained on the un-transformed data in the form of a unique plot-image based approach.
Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit Proceedings, 2019
Social interaction is critical to the physical and intellectual well-being of a functioning democ... more Social interaction is critical to the physical and intellectual well-being of a functioning democracy. The excessive influence of technology and lack of urban design and planning’s attention to pedestrian experience has caused our interactions to become more private, isolated, and mostly virtual. The following project presents the product of a design-build studio which uses adaptive/Kinetic systems to generate a creative solution to this social problem. Specifically, it will showcase the efforts of students working on a Parklet project, repurposing urban space to advance local business ethics and social justice issues. The Parklet replaces a parking space, fostering increases in social connections, public vibrancy, and support for local businesses. To move beyond schematic design, and offer students an experiment in real-world design issues, this studio provided a hands-on atmosphere for collaborative and consensus design experience, learning-by-doing, detailing challenges, and offs...
Current advancements in information technology and mechanical components offer incredible new pos... more Current advancements in information technology and mechanical components offer incredible new possibilities for innovation in architecture. Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the ``Internet of Things.'' The implications and applications of this technology are far-reaching, and students who are learning about design in today's environment have a bewildering array of new tools available for their exploration. This paper reviews some of the central concepts of contemporary data-driven design, and describes how these concepts can be used in a pedagogical framework to encourage student innovation. The authors provide details about their work with students in IDR Studios, and highlight some of the innovative design solutions created by students using information-based toolsets. This research provides a pedagogical framework for helping design students to engage with new technologi...
ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding o... more ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding of not just the shapes and spaces involved but the very forces that drive the lines and the turns of those shapes. Here students were asked to investigate the materials and the extent to which they were complicit in the shape of the part. Consider their impact on the tactile, phenomenological, and spatial experiences. Does the fact that the parts were
Advances in computational algorithmic design, material science, and fabrication technology have e... more Advances in computational algorithmic design, material science, and fabrication technology have exposed architects to new opportunities in design and enabled them to address contemporary needs of cities and citizens. The far-reaching applications of this technology have provided students with a bewildering array of new tools for their design exploration. Among many of the socio-economic and political challenges facing today's world, homelessness and refugee crisis are the most critical. "Shape Your Shelter" design-build studio aimed to create a portable and transformable shelter using emergent technologies. This paper reviews some of the central concepts of such an endeavor and the role of computational design, digital fabrication, and material behavior as a medium of architectural design education and social services. It describes how these concepts can be used in a pedagogical framework to encourage student Innovation and increase students' engagement in new tech...
International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2021
This research aims to develop a cyber-physical adaptive architectural space capable of real-time ... more This research aims to develop a cyber-physical adaptive architectural space capable of real-time responses to people’s emotions, based on biological and neurological data. To achieve this goal, we integrated artificial intelligence (AI), wearable technology, sensory environments, and adaptive architecture to create an emotional bond between a space and its occupants and encourage affective emotional interactions between the two. The project’s objectives were to (1) measure and analyze biological and neurological data to detect emotions, (2) map and illustrate that emotional data, and (3) link occupants’ emotions and cognition to a built environment through a real-time emotive feedback loop. Using an interactive installation as a case study, this work examines the cognition-emotion-space interaction through changes in volume, color, and light as a means of emotional expression. It contributes to the current theory and practice of cyber-physical design and the role AI plays, as well a...
ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding o... more ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding of not just the shapes and spaces involved but the very forces that drive the lines and the turns of those shapes. Here students were asked to investigate the materials and the extent to which they were complicit in the shape of the part. Consider their impact on the tactile, phenomenological, and spatial experiences. Does the fact that the parts were
The field of architecture has long embraced adaptive approaches to address issues of sustainabili... more The field of architecture has long embraced adaptive approaches to address issues of sustainability and efficiency. Building energy consumption accounts for about 40% of the total energy consumption in the U.S. This energy is mainly used for lighting, heating, cooling, and ventilation. Researches show that 30% of that energy is wasted. One of the main reasons for such high energy waste in the commercial (and even private) sectors is a generic assumption about the occupants' preferences. To fill this gap, the objective of this project is to optimize building energy retrofits by creating smart environments that autonomously respond to the occupants' comfort level using affective computing and adaptive systems. This adaptive approach will help optimizing energy consumption without sacrificing occupants' comfort through passive cooling and heating strategy, responding to occupants' preferences detected from their biological and neurological data. Progress towards achieving this goal will make building energy costs more affordable to the benefit of families and businesses and reduce energy waste.
Brooklyn Says, "Move to Detroit": Project Proceedings, 2017
Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phen... more Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the “The Internet of Things(IoT).” In Architecture, IoT can be understood asa seamless combination of data-driven design, data analysis, and adaptive systems. AdaptiveSystems Studio, composed of 17 graduate architecture and 14 undergraduate interior design students led by one architecture and interior design faculty, seeks to develop new methods of architectural design by using information-based toolsets.
In a world ever-more mediated by data, many aspects of our environment are integrated through inf... more In a world ever-more mediated by data, many aspects of our environment are integrated through information systems. Much of our new understanding is the result of emergent data-generating and visualization technologies that map and make visible information that otherwise would remain dormant and ineffective. This paper examines the use of data-driven and parametric processes in designing adaptive networked ecological systems. Specifically, it will inquire into the degree to which data can prevent or at least mitigate the degradation of future crises. Two case studies will be presented and illustrated. The first will target the San Francisco bay area brownfields, the other mining sites in Latrobe, Australia, both derelict lands that have been laid to waste in the wake of earlier eras of indus-trialization. By showcasing two projects, this paper presents an overview of several areas in which landscape design can be successfully supplemented by contemporary data systems. Embedding data ...
2021 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2021
Emotion detection using machine learning and data gathered from an electroencephalogram (EEG) hol... more Emotion detection using machine learning and data gathered from an electroencephalogram (EEG) holds the potential for architecture and creating smart adaptive spaces which can respond to the user's current emotional state detected from the Neurophysiological data in real-time. This technology can help people with mental and physical disabilities to have a greater role in shaping their environment and live more independent lives. In this paper, two different machine learning approaches, the Long Short Term memory network, (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are compared in order to assess their potential to satisfy this goal of emotion detection. The LSTM network was trained on eight-channel time-series data which had undergone a Fast Fourier Transform, and the CNN was trained on the un-transformed data in the form of a unique plot-image based approach.
Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit Proceedings, 2019
Social interaction is critical to the physical and intellectual well-being of a functioning democ... more Social interaction is critical to the physical and intellectual well-being of a functioning democracy. The excessive influence of technology and lack of urban design and planning’s attention to pedestrian experience has caused our interactions to become more private, isolated, and mostly virtual. The following project presents the product of a design-build studio which uses adaptive/Kinetic systems to generate a creative solution to this social problem. Specifically, it will showcase the efforts of students working on a Parklet project, repurposing urban space to advance local business ethics and social justice issues. The Parklet replaces a parking space, fostering increases in social connections, public vibrancy, and support for local businesses. To move beyond schematic design, and offer students an experiment in real-world design issues, this studio provided a hands-on atmosphere for collaborative and consensus design experience, learning-by-doing, detailing challenges, and offs...
Current advancements in information technology and mechanical components offer incredible new pos... more Current advancements in information technology and mechanical components offer incredible new possibilities for innovation in architecture. Many aspects of our physical environment are becoming integrated with information systems, a phenomenon that has been referred to as the ``Internet of Things.'' The implications and applications of this technology are far-reaching, and students who are learning about design in today's environment have a bewildering array of new tools available for their exploration. This paper reviews some of the central concepts of contemporary data-driven design, and describes how these concepts can be used in a pedagogical framework to encourage student innovation. The authors provide details about their work with students in IDR Studios, and highlight some of the innovative design solutions created by students using information-based toolsets. This research provides a pedagogical framework for helping design students to engage with new technologi...
ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding o... more ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding of not just the shapes and spaces involved but the very forces that drive the lines and the turns of those shapes. Here students were asked to investigate the materials and the extent to which they were complicit in the shape of the part. Consider their impact on the tactile, phenomenological, and spatial experiences. Does the fact that the parts were
Advances in computational algorithmic design, material science, and fabrication technology have e... more Advances in computational algorithmic design, material science, and fabrication technology have exposed architects to new opportunities in design and enabled them to address contemporary needs of cities and citizens. The far-reaching applications of this technology have provided students with a bewildering array of new tools for their design exploration. Among many of the socio-economic and political challenges facing today's world, homelessness and refugee crisis are the most critical. "Shape Your Shelter" design-build studio aimed to create a portable and transformable shelter using emergent technologies. This paper reviews some of the central concepts of such an endeavor and the role of computational design, digital fabrication, and material behavior as a medium of architectural design education and social services. It describes how these concepts can be used in a pedagogical framework to encourage student Innovation and increase students' engagement in new tech...
International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2021
This research aims to develop a cyber-physical adaptive architectural space capable of real-time ... more This research aims to develop a cyber-physical adaptive architectural space capable of real-time responses to people’s emotions, based on biological and neurological data. To achieve this goal, we integrated artificial intelligence (AI), wearable technology, sensory environments, and adaptive architecture to create an emotional bond between a space and its occupants and encourage affective emotional interactions between the two. The project’s objectives were to (1) measure and analyze biological and neurological data to detect emotions, (2) map and illustrate that emotional data, and (3) link occupants’ emotions and cognition to a built environment through a real-time emotive feedback loop. Using an interactive installation as a case study, this work examines the cognition-emotion-space interaction through changes in volume, color, and light as a means of emotional expression. It contributes to the current theory and practice of cyber-physical design and the role AI plays, as well a...
ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding o... more ions generated so far and build an image of your own that demonstrates a thorough understanding of not just the shapes and spaces involved but the very forces that drive the lines and the turns of those shapes. Here students were asked to investigate the materials and the extent to which they were complicit in the shape of the part. Consider their impact on the tactile, phenomenological, and spatial experiences. Does the fact that the parts were
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