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Using interactive evolution to design behaviors for non-deterministic self-organized construction (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Heinrich, M. K., Zahadat, P., Harding, J., & Brandt, M. N. (2018, June). Using interactive evolution to design behaviors for non-deterministic self-organized construction. Paper presented at Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) 2018, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

Self-organizing construction is an emerging subdomain for on-site construction robots. This not only presents new challenges for robotics, but due to the stochasticity involved in such systems, impacts the modeling and prediction of resulting built s... Read More about Using interactive evolution to design behaviors for non-deterministic self-organized construction.

Biomorpher: Interactive evolution for parametric design (2018)
Journal Article
Harding, J., & Brandt-Olsen, C. (2018). Biomorpher: Interactive evolution for parametric design. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 16(2), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478077118778579

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Combining graph-based parametric design with metaheuristic solvers has to date focused solely on performance-based criteria and solving clearly defined objectives. In this article, we outline a new method for combining a p... Read More about Biomorpher: Interactive evolution for parametric design.

Full hydrodynamic reversibility of the weak dimerization of vancomycin and elucidation of its interaction with VanS monomers at clinical concentration (2017)
Journal Article
Harding, S. E., Adams, G. G., Gillis, R. B., Phillips-Jones, M. K., Lithgo, R., DInu, V., …Harding, S. E. (2017). Full hydrodynamic reversibility of the weak dimerization of vancomycin and elucidation of its interaction with VanS monomers at clinical concentration. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 12697. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12620-z

© 2017 The Author(s). The reversibility and strength of the previously established dimerization of the important glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin in four different aqueous solvents (including a medically-used formulation) have been studied using sh... Read More about Full hydrodynamic reversibility of the weak dimerization of vancomycin and elucidation of its interaction with VanS monomers at clinical concentration.

The UWE research pavilion 2016 (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Harding, J., Hills, S., Brandt-Olsen, C., & Melville, S. (2017, September). The UWE research pavilion 2016. Paper presented at The IASS Annual Symposium 2017 “Interfaces: architecture.engineering.science”, Hamburg, Germany

This paper describes the design, fabrication and assembly of an elastic gridshell by staff and students at The University of The West of England (UWE) in collaboration with Format Engineers. Whilst timber lath gridshells are traditionally formed from... Read More about The UWE research pavilion 2016.

Evolving parametric models using genetic programming with artificial selection (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Harding, J. (2016, August). Evolving parametric models using genetic programming with artificial selection. Paper presented at 34th eCAADe Conference, 2016, Oulu, Finland

Evolutionary methods with artificial selection have been shown to be a useful computer-human technique for exploring wide design spaces with unknown goals. This paper investigates a similar approach in the evolution of visual programs currently used... Read More about Evolving parametric models using genetic programming with artificial selection.

Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration (2016)
Book Chapter
Harding, J. (2016). Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration. In S. Adriaenssens, F. Gramazio, M. Kohler, A. Menges, & M. Pauly (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016 (274-287). Zurich, Switzerland: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zurich

In architectural design, parametric models often include numeric parameters that can be adjusted to explore different design options. The resulting design space can be easily displayed to the user if the number of parameters is low, for example using... Read More about Dimensionality reduction for parametric design exploration.

Engineering Archilace (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Harding, J., Nielsen, K., Pearson, W., & Gmachl, M. (2015, August). Engineering Archilace. Paper presented at The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Archilace is the name of a new construction technique for generating spatial structures originally developed by the artists Loop.pH. This paper introduces the original method and subsequent collaborative work between Loop.pH and Ramboll Computational... Read More about Engineering Archilace.

The Ongreening Pavilion (2015)
Book Chapter
Harding, J., Pearson, W., Lewis, H., & Melville, S. (2015). The Ongreening Pavilion. In P. Block, J. Knippers, N. Mitra, & W. Wang (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014 (295-308). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11418-7_19

This paper describes the work of Ramboll Computational Design during the design and construction of the Ongreening Pavilion timber gridshell. The structural approach involved form-finding bending-active timber laths, connected at intersections to form... Read More about The Ongreening Pavilion.

Thinking Topologically at Early Stage Parametric Design (2013)
Book Chapter
Harding, J., Joyce, S., Shepherd, P., & Williams, C. (2013). Thinking Topologically at Early Stage Parametric Design. In L. Hesselgren, S. Sharma, J. Wallner, N. Baldassini, P. Bompas, & J. Raynaud (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012 (67-76). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1251-9_5

Parametric modelling tools have allowed architects and engineers to explore complex geometries with relative ease at the early stage of the design process. Building designs are commonly created by authoring an abstract graph representation that gener... Read More about Thinking Topologically at Early Stage Parametric Design.