Pattern Kerfing for Responsive Wooden Surfaces: A formal approach to produce flexible panels with acoustic performance

The aim of this thesis is to present the outputs of a project in which pattern kerfing techniques are explored for producing responsive freeform panels out of wooden plates. Relevant research such as the ones presented by Ivanišević (2014), Zarrinmehr et al. (2017) and Ohshima et al. (2013) have shown that it is possible to bend a wooden plate...

AFDR | Architecture For Disaster Relief: Design to robotic production system for disaster management

Explores the possibility of developing robotic building system and long-duration architecture solutions with the aim to re-settle post disaster environments, through digital driven design parameters, material and numeric controlled technology research and experimentation through scale models and prototypes

A Conceptual Integrated Parametric Design Tool for Excavation Sites

Building Information Modelling (BIM) technologies are changing the conventional structural design process. BIM level-1 and level-2 are providing guidelines and frameworks for standardization with the standard Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and collaborative design respectively. However, the predicted full potential of BIM, BIM level-3, which...

Symbiosis in Urban Village

Facing to the conflict situation in Urban Village, I was trying to use the computational and parametric design method to establish the symbiotic system and to improve the quality and possibilities of the life in urban village.

Knowledge Model for the Parametric Design of Concrete Viaducts

The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry has been traditionally fragmented, with a lot of disciplines specialising in different aspects of a project and encapsulating different knowledge areas. This research project, entitled “Knowledge Model for the Parametric Design of Concrete Viaducts”, investigates the development of...

Sustainable structural design of high-rise: Life-cycle assessment of main load bearing structures of high-rise buildings in the Netherlands

High-rise buildings are a potential solution to the environmental impact caused by the built environment and the increasing demand for space in urban areas. As recent developments focus on reducing the impact by operational energy (OE) (heating, cooling, hot water and ventilation during use phase), impact by the embodied energy (EE) (production,...

Towards the Automation of Preliminary Bridge Designs with Parametric Design Software: Assessment and optimization of multiple steel-concrete bridge typologies

This thesis concerns research into the parametric modelling and optimization of steel-concrete bridge typologies typically found in the Netherlands, in order to further the automation of preliminary bridge designs. The research question posed is: "How can a parametric bridge design model be composed to fit into the <br/>overall road design...

Additive manufacturing by daylight: Towards a customized shading device [designyourshutters.com]

The demand of customized solutions to product design and to the building sector, has become more and more evident during the last years. Researchers and architects are experimenting the potential of new technologies of digital fabrication, like Additive Manufacturing in order to facilitate the process of customized products. This project is...

Reinforcement Toolbox: A Parametric Reinforcement Modelling Tool for Curved Surface Structures

Recent years have witnessed the realization of multiple concrete curved surface structures. The often complex geometry of these structures led to new challenges in the final design and production phase: design of the reinforcement is one of these challenges. Current reinforcement modelling software is not capable of properly dealing with NURBS...