scholarly journals Study on Contact between Construction and Vision in New Digital Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05092
Author(s):  
Shicun Sun ◽  
Zesong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Language ◽  
Form Generation ◽  
Form Design ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Form Evaluation ◽  
Digital Research

In the form language of architectural design, the process of form generation and the source of form are completely different from the perspective of construction and vision. The two traceability for form are opposite. This paper attempts to quantify and analyze the process in a creative way of digital, by summarizing the relevant digital research of forms, a feasible modular sequence is proposed, which can correspond the form evaluation based on construction and vision in architectural design, and provide an actionable way by digital for the form design language.

Digital methods I

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Leszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Data Analytic ◽  
Digital Research

In this first of three reports, I engage with ‘digital methods’ as methodologies or approaches to knowing and making sense of the world. Triangulation and representativeness are two sites of tension at which new opportunities for research opened up by digital mediums, mediations and data sources come up against epistemological limitations of methodologies for accessing and making sense of digital presences, practices, and spatialities. Triangulation signals the challenges of maximizing meaning in qualitative and mixed-methods digital research, whereas representativeness captures the challenges of using data-analytic approaches to say something meaningful about socio-spatial relations rather than about digital entities per se.

scholarly journals Subtractive Building Massing for Performance-Based Architectural Design Exploration: A Case Study of Daylighting Optimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6965
Author(s):  
Likai Wang ◽  
Patrick Janssen ◽  
Kian Wee Chen ◽  
Ziyu Tong ◽  
Guohua Ji
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Parametric Models ◽  
Parametric Modelling ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Form Generation ◽  
Overall Design

For sustainable building design, performance-based optimization incorporating parametric modelling and evolutionary optimization can allow architects to leverage building massing design to improve energy performance. However, two key challenges make such applications of performance-based optimization difficult in practice. First, due to the parametric modelling approaches, the topological variability in the building massing variants is often very limited. This, in turn, limits the scope for the optimization process to discover high-performing solutions. Second, for architects, the process of creating parametric models capable of generating the necessary topological variability is complex and time-consuming, thereby significantly disrupting the design processes. To address these two challenges, this paper presents a parametric massing algorithm based on the subtractive form generation principle. The algorithm can generate diverse building massings with significant topological variability by removing different parts from a predefined volume. Additionally, the algorithm can be applied to different building massing design scenarios without additional parametric modelling being required. Hence, using the algorithm can help architects achieve an explorative performance-based optimization for building massing design while streamlining the overall design process. Two case studies of daylighting performance optimizations are presented, which demonstrate that the algorithm can enhance the exploration of the potential in building massing design for energy performance improvements.

Digital methods III: The digital mundane

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1194-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Leszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Research

This report considers a burgeoning strand of scholarship that foregrounds the mundane in engagements with the digital. Research concerned with the digital mundane attends to the ordinary and often taken-for-granted digital objects, practices, productions, and sites that significantly both mediate and are mediated by everyday lives and spatialities. Methodological innovations are advancing new techniques for researching mundane digital objects that participate in the internet of things, everyday spaces of the smart home, banal landscapes of data and digital infrastructures, and quotidian quantifications/datafications of the self. The proliferation of these methods also informs feminist scholarly praxes of digital iteration.

Architectural Design with Autocad

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 1692-1695
Author(s):  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Architectural Drawings ◽  
Application Technology ◽  
Design Language ◽  
Design Construction

Architectural design is a creative work, the final results of it is image and visually expressed in the form of drawings. AutoCad technology and architecture design are the combination of computer application technology, especially the inevitable outcome of the development of computer graphics technology. Usage this software is not only able to design construction drawing with specification, beautiful buildings, and can effectively help designers improving the design level and work efficiently, this is the manual drawing. Mastering the AutoCad architectural drawings in other words is to have the advanced and standard of architectural design language tools.

scholarly journals The Memetic Evolution of Latin American Architectural Design Culture

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
İlknur Akıner ◽  
İbrahim Yitmen ◽  
Muhammed Ernur Akıner ◽  
Nurdan Akıner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Design Language ◽  
Cultural Theorist

Architecture is an evolutionary field. Through time, it changes and adapts itself according to two things: the environment and the user, which are the touchstones of the concept of culture. Culture changes in long time intervals because of its cumulative structure, so its effects can be observed on a large scale. A nation displays itself with its culture and uses architecture as a tool to convey its cultural identity. This dual relationship between architecture and culture can be observed at various times and in various lands, most notably in Latin American designers. The geographical positions of Latin American nations and their political situations in the twentieth century leads to the occurrence of a recognizable cultural identity, and it influenced the architectural design language of that region. The nonlinear forms in architecture were once experienced commonly around Latin America, and this design expression shows itself in the designers’ other works through time and around the world. The cultural background of Latin American architecture investigated within this study, in terms of their design approach based upon the form and effect of Latin American culture on this architectural design language, is examined with the explanation of the concept of culture by two leading scholars: Geert Hofstede and Richard Dawkins. This paper nevertheless puts together architecture and semiology by considering key twentieth century philosophers and cultural theorist methodologies. Cultural theorist and analyst Roland Barthes was the first person to ask architects to examine the possibility of bringing semiology and architectural theory together. Following an overview of existing semiological conditions, this paper analyzed Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco’s hypothesis of the semiological language of architectural designs of Latin American designers by examining their cultural origin. The work’s findings express the historical conditions that enabled the contemporary architecture and culture study of Latin America between 1945 and 1975 to address the “Latin American model” of architectural modernism.

scholarly journals Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094069
Author(s):  
Janna Joceli Omena ◽  
Elaine Teixeira Rabello ◽  
André Goes Mintz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Corpus Selection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Digital Research

This article seeks to contribute to the field of digital research by critically accounting for the relationship between hashtags and their forms of grammatization—the platform techno-materialization process of online activity. We approach hashtags as sociotechnical formations that serve social media research not only as criteria in corpus selection but also displaying the complexity of the online engagement and its entanglement with the technicity of web platforms. Therefore, the study of hashtag engagement requires a grasping of the functioning of the platform itself (technicity) along with the platform grammatization. In this respect, we propose the three-layered (3L) perspective for addressing hashtag engagement. The first contemplates potential differences between high-visibility and ordinary hashtag usage culture, its related actors, and content. The second focuses on hashtagging activity and the repurposing of how hashtags can be differently embedded into social media databases. The last layer looks particularly into the images and texts to which hashtags are brought to relation. To operationalize the 3L framework, we draw on the case of the “impeachment-cum-coup” of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. When cross-read, the three layers add value to one another, providing also difference visions of the high-visibility and ordinary groups.

scholarly journals All the Work that Makes It Work: Digital Methods and Manual Labour

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Johan Jarlbrink
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Manual Work ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Digital Research

The chapter explores how digital graphs, maps and trees can reveal things never seen before, but how they may also hide all the manual work that lies behind them. The most basic rationale behind digital humanities is the idea that machines should do most of the dull tasks for us. If all the extracting, counting, matching, and plotting is left to computers, researchers can focus on the intellectual parts of the process, interpreting and presenting the results. In many cases, however, digital tools need assistance to work properly. This kind of manual or semi-automatic work may involve compiling, cleaning and filtering datasets, tagging images, transcribing texts, correcting bad matches, adjusting graphs, and so on. Yet, it is rare to see it mentioned when results are presented. The aim of this chapter is to describe and discuss the role of this invisible (semi-)manual work within digital research.

scholarly journals New directions in agent-based generative architectural design

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Yasha J. Grobman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Form Generation ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Design Case ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Computer Agents

The paper discusses the potential of computer agents in form generation in the early stages of the architectural design process. First it discusses the possibility to simulate human behavior by computer agents and reviews the various directions in which computer agents were employed in architectural design. Then, it discusses the difference between form simulation and generation in architectural  design and suggests ways in which computer agents could be employed in architectural design in a generative manner. The suggested ways are examined by several design case studies. The paper concludes with the advantages and limitations of employing agents for form generation in architectural design.

Architectural Design Using AutoCad and Sketchup

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 6379-6382
Author(s):  
Yun Ma ◽  
Shan Hong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Architectural Drawings ◽  
Application Technology ◽  
Design Language ◽  
Design Construction

Architectural design is a creative work, the final results of it is image and visually expressed in the form of drawings. AutoCad technology and Sketchup software combined with architecture design are the combination of computer application technology, especially the inevitable outcome of the development of computer graphics technology. Usage of the two softwares is not only able to design construction drawing with specification, beautiful buildings, and can effectively help designers improving the design level and work efficiently, this is the manual drawing. Mastering the AutoCad and SketchUp architectural drawings in other words is to have the advanced and standard of architectural design language tools.

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