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Interdisciplinary parametric design: The XXL experience

Turrin, M. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Paul, J.C. (author)

Focusing on large span structures for sport buildings, the paper tackles the role of parametric modelling and performance simulations, to enhance the integration between architectural and engineering design. The general approach contrasts post-engineering processes. In post-engineering, technical performances are considered in late stages of...

conference paper 2015

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Easiest paths for walking and cycling: Combining syntactic and geographic analyses in studying walking and cycling mobility

Nourian Ghadikolaee, P. (author), Van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), Rezvani, S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

We discuss fundamentals of a new computational approach to configurative analysis and synthesis and present a number of advancements we have made in the direction of computational analysis of walking and cycling mobility. We have scrutinized the notion of distance and addressed it in correspondence with the notion of geodesic or optimum path. We...

conference paper 2015

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Assessment of building performance using computational intelligence: Focus on the disabled and elderly

Zubairu, T.O. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Ciftcioglu, O. (author)

The care for the elderly and people with disability increasingly demand more ingenuity to undertake, especially as it relates to the built environment. The impact of the physical environment on health has been widely documented. The knowledge of the special needs/preferences of this vulnerable group of users (people suffering from Alzheimer,...

conference paper 2014

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A syntactic design methodology: Integrating real-time space syntax analysis in a configurative architectural design process

Nourian Ghadikolaee, P. (author), Rezvani, S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

conference paper 2013

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A synthetic architectural design methodology: Integrating real-time space syntax analysis in a configurative architectural design process

Nourian, P. (author), Rezvani, S. (author), Sariyildiz, S. (author)

conference paper 2013

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Designing with Space Syntax: A configurative approach to architectural layout, proposing a computational methodology

Nourian, P. (author), Rezvani, S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

This paper introduces a design methodology and a toolkit developed as a parametric CAD program for configurative design of architectural plan layouts. Using this toolkit, designers can start plan layout process with sketching the way functional spaces need to connect to each other. A tool draws an interactive bubble diagram and a set of tools...

conference paper 2013

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Engineering Performance Simulations in Architectural Design Conception: Atrium in Shenyang: a case study on thermal mass

Turrin, M. (author), Chatzikonstantinou, I. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

The paper tackles the integration of engineering performance simulations in the conceptual phase of architectural design, with specific focus on parametric design processes. A general framework is exemplified, in which the use of performance simulations and the learning process of the designer are discussed in relation to the parameterization...

conference paper 2013

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Performance-based parameterization strategies: A theoretic framework and case studies

Turrin, M. (author), Stouffs, R.M.F. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

In this paper, alternative approaches to structure the parametric geometry in relation to information on various performances are described and exemplified. They relate to different levels of knowledge that concern the performances considered in the process and which are available to the designer while the parametric model is being set....

conference paper 2013

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Designing for Pedestrians: A configurative approach to neighborhood planning and design, promoting pedestrian mobility, using an interactive computational design method for 'polycentric distribution of built space' according to walkability, attractions and topographic features

Nourian Ghadikolaee, P. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

conference paper 2012

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A cognitive system based on fuzzy information processing and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm

Bittermann, M.S. (author), Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

A cognitive system is presented, which is based on coupling a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with a fuzzy information processing system. The aim of the system is to identify optimal solutions for multiple criteria that involve linguistic concepts, and to systematically identify a most suitable solution among the alternatives. The...

conference paper 2009

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Multi-objective optimization in the construction industry

Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Bittermann, M.S. (author), Ciftcioglu, O. (author)

Multi-objective-optimization-based positioning of houses in a residential neighborhood is described. The task is the placement of the buildings in a favorable configuration constrained by two objectives, which are garden performance and visual privacy performance requirements. The method used is evolutionary computation with the Pareto front...

conference paper 2008

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Performance-based Pareto optimal design

Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Bittermann, M.S. (author), Ciftcioglu, O. (author)

A novel approach for performance-based design is presented, where Pareto optimality is pursued. Design requirements may contain linguistic information, which is difficult to bring into computation or make consistent their impartial estimations from case to case. Fuzzy logic and soft computing are the essential means to deal with this matter. In...

conference paper 2008

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Knowledge modeling for performance measurement of built environment

Durmisevic, S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Ciftcioglu, O. (author)

conference paper 2007

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Towards computer-based perception by modeling visual perception: A probalistic theory

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Bittermann, M. (author), Sariyildiz, S. (author)

Studies on computer-based perception by vision modelling are described. The visual perception is mathematically modelled where the model receives and interprets visual data from the environment. The perception is defined in probabilistic terms so that it is in the same way quantified. Human visual perception mimicked by means of a computer is an...

conference paper 2006

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Fusion of perceptions for perceptual robotics

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Bittermann, M.S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

Fusion of perception information for perceptual robotics is described. The visual perception is mathematically modelled as a probabilistic process obtaining and interpreting visual data from an environment. The visual data is processed in a multiresolutional form via wavelet transform and optimally estimated via extended Kalman filtering in each...

conference paper 2006

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The analytical hierarchy process applied for design analysis

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

Being an intelligent activity, design is a complex process to accomplish. The complexity stems from the elusive character of this activity, which cannot be explained in precise terms, in general. In a design process, the determined relationships among the design elements provide important information to understand the role of each element with...

conference paper 2005

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The analytical hierarchy process applied for design analysis

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

Being an intelligent activity, design is a complex process to accomplish. The complexity stems from the elusive character of this activity, which cannot be explained in precise terms, in general. In a design process, the determined relationships among the design elements provide important information to understand the role of each element with...

conference paper 2005

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On the classification enhancement of radial basis function networks

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Durmisevic, S. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

Artificial neural networks are powerfultools for analysing information expressed as data sets, which contain complex nonlinear relationships to be identified and classified. In particular radial basis function (RBF) neural networks have outstanding features for this. However, due to far reaching implications of the basis functions in the...

conference paper 2001

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Soft Computing in Construction Information Technology

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Durmisevic, S. (author), Sariyildiz, S. (author)

The last decade, civil engineering has exercised a rapidly growing interest in the application of neurally inspired computing techniques. The motive for this interest was the promises of certain information processing characteristics, which are similar to some extend, to those of human brain. The immediate examples of these include an ability to...

conference paper 2001

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RBF networks with mixed radial basis functions

Ciftcioglu, O. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)

After the introduction to neural network technology as multivariable function approximation, radial basis function (RBF) networks have been studied in many different aspects in recent years. From the theoretical viewpoint, approximation and uniqueness of the interpolation is studied and it has been established that RBF network can approximate...

conference paper 2000