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Trento, A. (author), Fioravanti, A. (author)
Quality, according to Pirsig’s universal statements, does not belong to the object itself, nor to the subject itself, but to both and to their interactions. In architecture it is terribly true as we have a Building Object and Users that interact with it.The problem we approach here, renouncing at the impossible task of modelling the actor’s ...
conference paper 2013
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A so-called “Design Process Investigation toolbox” (DPI toolbox), has been developed. It is a set of computational tools that simulate spatial-structural design processes. Its objectives are to study spatial-structural design processes and to support the involved actors. Two case-studies are presented which demonstrate how to: (1) study the...
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El Ahmar, S. (author), Fioravanti, A. (author), Hanafi, M. (author)
Biomimicry, where nature is emulated as a basis for design, is a growing area of research in the fields of architecture and engineering. The widespread and practical application of biomimicry as a design approach remains however largely unrealized. A growing body of international research identifies various obstacles to the employment of...
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Coimbra, E. (author), Romao, L. (author)
This study was accomplished in the context of a broader research to be developed in an ongoing PhD program in architecture. The purpose of this study is to give a perspective of the research progress and to present a shape grammar simplification that will be improved to assist the rehabilitation design process of the bourgeois house of Oporto...
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Ianni, M. (author), Sanchez de Leon, M. (author)
In current architectural practice some important changes are taking place because of the development of numerous Building Performance Simulations (BPS) tools to support design decisions during early phases of the design process. Many difficulties still persist, however, not necessarily due to the limitations of the available technology, but to...
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Pedraza, E.T. (author), Kunze, A. (author), Roccasalva, G. (author), Schmitt, G. (author)
This paper presents an approach for microclimate aware densification of urban areas by creating best practices for an in situ application for block-size urban developments. The discussed procedure generates and evaluates urban block types according to microclimate criteria by integrating climate and comfort parameters in the design process of...
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Ergin, F.G. (author), Watz, B.B. (author), Erglis, K. (author), Cebers, A. (author)
Mixing is often a challenge in small scales and substantial research effort is focused on designing high performance micromixers. Active micromixers use various forces to enhance mixing efficiency. Among these, magnetic forces are often preferred as they are non-contact and do not require manufacturing of small moving parts in the microchannel....
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Hilloulin, B. (author), Van Tittelboom, K. (author), Gruyaert, E. (author), Loukili, A. (author), De Belie, N. (author)
Now, most of the capsules used to contain polymeric healing agents in self-healing concrete, are made of glass. However, glass capsules cannot be mixed in concrete and are therefore placed manually into the moulds during concrete casting in laboratory tests. This represents a major drawback for an eventual industrialisation. In this study,...
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Sordo, F. (author), Michaud, V. (author)
Supramolecular polymers gained a great success in the last years as self-healing materials and many different systems have been developed. These polymers combine the advantages of intrinsic and autonomic self-healing systems. In 2010, Montarnal et al. developed a class of epoxy-based hybrid networks that combine both chemical and supramolecular...
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Specht, S. (author), Bluhm, J. (author), Schröder, J. (author)
Self healing materials are becoming more and more important for the construction of mechanical components due to their ability to detect and heal failures as well as cracks autonomously. Especially in polymers and polymer-composites, where the component can loose a high rate of strength and durability due to micro cracks, those damages are...
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Divall, S. (author), Goodey, R.J. (author), Taylor, R.N. (author)
The expansion of urban populations comes with an associated demand for increased public transport. An often utilised solution is to construct a rapid transit system within tunnels. Generally, a pair of tunnels are constructed within relative close proximity. The construction of these tunnels will generate ground movements which have the...
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Wammes, Han (author)
From the inception of the Oracle Spatial Engine over ten years ago, Oracle has been striving to make spatial information an integral part of its information management architecture. The Oracle information management architecture includes such areas as GIS, Document Management and Archiving and Business Intelligence. Built initially as disparate...
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Aditya, Trias (author), Iswanto, Febri (author), Wirawan, Ade (author), Laksono, Dany P. (author)
Although 3D cadastre web map offer benefits to, among others, planning and disaster management application domains, they pose some technical constraints to be implemented using current web technologies. Some technical constraints may include field data processing, data compatibility and browser limitations. One of technical solutions in support...
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Volker, L. (author)
Sustainability remains an important issue for the construction industry. Yet, sustainable real estate developments are still considered as highly ambitious projects. To find out how and why sustainable renovation projects actually became sustainable we systematically evaluated 21 leading Dutch real estate renovation projects. In each project we...
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Harputlugil, T. (author), Prins, M. (author), Gültekin, A.T. (author), Topçu, Y.I. (author)
Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process. Considering architectural...
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Boon, J. (author), Prigg, C. (author)
When setting out to teach a group of construction students the lecturer is faced with a class who have a variety of learning style preferences and have brains with a variable ability to process information and that ability varies further with the type of processing required. They also come to the class with varying previous experience and...
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Oviedo Haito, R.J.J. (author), Ferreira Cardoso, F. (author)
Brazilian Trade Contractors (TC), or Subcontractors and Specialty Contractors, are main players in the Brazilian Building Industry competitiveness. They are part of a highly fragmentized and informal chain, with a great diversity in their value propositions and in their organizational forms. Nonetheless, despite their heterogeneity, most of them...
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Pestana, A.C.V.M.F. (author), Da Alves, T.C.L. (author)
In the Architecture, Construction and Engineering (AEC) industry office activities link the information flows from project teams and the production processes on the field. Despite their importance to the overall project, office activities have been overlooked and several authors point out that they are often mismanaged, lack planning, or are...
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Gluch, P. (author)
Many organizations within the construction industry are currently developing standardized practices. Increased standardization involves new ways of organizing construction projects, changing interrelations between professional groups, setting a new culture, i.e. challenging the institutionalized way of being. It, for instance, leads to a...
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Cucuzzella, C. (author)
Sustainable design is an approach that seeks to adopt an ethic of the future, where the vision of the solutions is based on a temporal and spatial perspective that is predominantly long-term and global. Design is characterized by its projective and ambivalent nature, and therefore a conscious effort to anticipate the outcomes of design...
conference paper 2011
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