Outputs (17)

Towards a computational approach for integrating photovoltaics and street art (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building facades play an essential social role in cities by serving as media for communication and providing a canvas for cultural expression and debate. This is particularly evident in street art which uses architectural surfaces to display large im... Read More about Towards a computational approach for integrating photovoltaics and street art.

Structural analysis of concrete shells using deep learning methods (2024)
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The structural behaviour of concrete shells is complex, which typically makes their design and production more difficult than prismatic structures. The Finite Element (FE) method is often used for the structural analysis of shells, but obtaining accu... Read More about Structural analysis of concrete shells using deep learning methods.

Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete is the world’s most widely used man-made material, accounting for around 7% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, up to half of the concrete used in buildings is unnecessary, as it is there because it is shaped using prismatic formworks, which... Read More about Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams.

Embedded intelligent empathy: A systematic review towards a conceptual framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is part of a feasibility project aiming to expand computational design processes to include design empathy. The project is in response to recent valid criticism of computational design overlooking the empathy of the designer. Computational... Read More about Embedded intelligent empathy: A systematic review towards a conceptual framework.

A path towards the off-site automated fabrication of segmented concrete shells for building floors (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete shells are a more sustainable alternative than plates as building fl oors, thanks to their eff ective use of concrete in compression. Although the construction of these geometrically complex structures becomes more challenging, off -site aut... Read More about A path towards the off-site automated fabrication of segmented concrete shells for building floors.

Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells (2021)
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Research is underway to explore the potential of using structurally efficient non-prismatic geometries to substantially reduce the amount of concrete in building elements, thus reducing their carbon footprint. In particular, the benefits of using thi... Read More about Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells.

Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the scope of Industry 4.0, a framework is proposed to leverage the potential of articulating Augmented Reality and Robotic Manufacturing in the construction industry. The objective of such framework is to enable robots to learn how to perform task... Read More about Robotic apprentices: Leveraging augmented reality for robot training in manufacturing automation.

Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The construction industry is a major source of carbon, and the main culprit is concrete. In addition, productivity for the construction sector is poor, and concrete construction in particular is labour intensive, slow, and costly. This paper introduc... Read More about Automating concrete construction: Sustainable social housing in Colombia.

Automated framework for the optimisation of spatial layouts for concrete structures reinforced with robotic filament winding (2020)
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Concrete is a major contributor to the environmental impact of the construction industry, due to its cement content but also its reinforcement. Reinforcement has a significant contribution because of construction rationalisation, resorting to regular... Read More about Automated framework for the optimisation of spatial layouts for concrete structures reinforced with robotic filament winding.

Simulating Personal Rapid Transportation: A game to determine the advantages of a Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) system over the current Taxi system (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - A pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a tool intended to enable non-expert users to apply and manipulate a shape grammar, SMUG, which encodes the urban design of informal settlements such as favelas. Such tool, the Interpreter, was developed considering that students would be... Read More about Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - A pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture.

Graphical representation of sonic urban morphologies simulation interface for the design process (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Although the interdisciplinary field of Soundscape was originally intended as a paradigm-shift for urban design, the process of designing the aural spatial signature of urban open spaces has not yet been made readily accessible to the designer in mod... Read More about Graphical representation of sonic urban morphologies simulation interface for the design process.

Aural spatial mapping tool: Constraining the signal sphere of influence validation (WIP) (2016)
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This paper is part of an on-going investigation with the
primary objective of developing a computational modeling
tool for urban design that generates qualitative aural spatial patterns. The architect is the target user of this computational tool.... Read More about Aural spatial mapping tool: Constraining the signal sphere of influence validation (WIP).

An architectural approach to the Soundwalk method (2016)
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A series of on-site surveys are conducted to observe possible qualitative aural pattern formations by using spatial measurements as fundamental parameters. The method assimilates the Soundwalk technique and the Relative Approach from the fields of so... Read More about An architectural approach to the Soundwalk method.

Tableware shape grammar (2013)
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Mass customization is pointed as a means of improving a company’s competitiveness, which is an essential trait in Europe’s economic situation of today. This paper reports a mockup implementation of the mass customization paradigm to ceramic tableware... Read More about Tableware shape grammar.

Modelling Alberti's column system: Generative modelling and digital fabrication of classical architectural elements (2012)
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The research presented further is part of the Digital Alberti research project, which aims to assess the influence of Leon Batista Alberti's theory on Portuguese architecture, through the use of digital technologies. One of the project tasks implied... Read More about Modelling Alberti's column system: Generative modelling and digital fabrication of classical architectural elements.

Urban acoustic simulation: Analysis of urban public spaces through auditory senses (2012)
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This paper explores the sonic characteristics of urban spaces, with the application of apprehending acoustic space and form theory. The theory defines auditory spaces as acoustical arenas, which are spaces defined and delineated by sonic events. Hist... Read More about Urban acoustic simulation: Analysis of urban public spaces through auditory senses.