Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method

Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.<br/>In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based...

Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.

The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a...