Global Design and Local Materialization

1. Front Matter

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2. Digital Aids to Design Creativity, Concepts, and Strategies

   1. Tools as Design Instruments: Computers and Cognition?

      • Raid Hanna

      Pages 1-12

   2. Impact of Using Rule Algorithms on Designers’ Behavior in a Parametric Design Environment: Preliminary Result from a Pilot Study

      • Rongrong Yu, John Gero, Ning Gu

      Pages 13-22

   3. An Analysis of Backbone of Outer Spatial Morphology of Campus

      • Wu Yun, Miyamoto Funito

      Pages 23-37

   4. Understanding Cognitive Activities in Parametric Design

      • Ju Hyun Lee, Ning Gu, Michael J. Ostwald, Julie Jupp

      Pages 38-49

   5. Toward a Computational Approach of Creativity Assessment in Product Design

      • Xiaofang Yuan, Ji-hyun Lee

      Pages 50-62

   6. A New Extended Perspective System for Architectural Drawings

      • José Vitor Correia, Luís Romão, Susana Rosado Ganhão, Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Ana Santos Guerreiro, Diogo Pereira Henriques et al.

      Pages 63-75

   7. Real-Time Assessment for Architectural CAD/CAM: Knowledge-Based-Methodology Approach

      • Vasco Portugal

      Pages 76-83

   8. Generative Column and Beam Layout for Reinforced Concrete Structures in China

      • Christiane M. Herr, Thomas Fischer

      Pages 84-95

   9. Research Engine: A Tool to Simulate and Study Spatial-Structural Design Processes

      • Juan Manuel Dávila Delgado, Hèrm Hofmeyer

      Pages 96-108

3. Digital Fabrication and Local Materialization

   1. Industrial Robots for Design Education: Robots as Open Interfaces beyond Fabrication

      • Sigrid Brell- Çokcan, Johannes Braumann

      Pages 109-117

   2. An Automated Robotic Manufacturing Process: For the Thermoplastic Panel Building Technology

      • Stylianos Dritsas, Mark Goulthorpe

      Pages 118-129

   3. Modular Digital Tectonics: Algorithmic Optimization of a Glass Component Wall for a Customized Fabrication Method

      • Philip F. Yuan, Eleni Sotiriou, Mei Zhang

      Pages 130-138

   4. Low-Tech Digital Fabrication: Traditional Brick as Material in Digital Practice

      • Philip F. Yuan, Mei Zhang, Li Han

      Pages 139-148

   5. Fabricate It, Paint It – And Don’t Wait up: Separating Fact from Fiction in Digitally Sponsored Fabrication

      • Dermott McMeel, Robert Amor

      Pages 149-158

   6. “Seeing” with the Hands: Teaching Architecture for the Visually-Impaired with Digitally-Fabricated Scale Models

      • Gabriela Celani, Vilson Zattera, Marcelo Fernandes de Oliveira, Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva

      Pages 159-166

   7. Shipping Complexity: Parametric Design for Remote Communities

      • Jason F. Carlow, Kristof Crolla

      Pages 167-175

   8. Fabpod: Universal Digital Workflow, Local Prototype Materialization

      • Jane Burry, Nicholas Williams, John Cherrey, Brady Peters

      Pages 176-186

4. Human-Computer Interaction, User Participation, and Collaborative Design

   1. Bi-tonal Architectural Narratives: Design Expressions in Manga

      • Marc Aurel Schnabel

      Pages 187-197

   2. An Emergent Smart House

      • Sheng-Fen Chien

      Pages 198-209

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2013, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital aids to design creativity, concepts, and strategies; digital fabrication and local materialization; human-computer interaction, user participation, and collaborative design; modeling and simulation; shape and form studies.

• architectural modeling
• architecture simulation
• computer aided design
• design software
• interaction interface

• Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  Jianlong Zhang, Chengyu Sun

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