Temporary use morphologies in England's core cities 2000-20 (655 cases)

This dataset is used to add to our understanding of intra-city patterning of temporary development as a complement to intensive historical and narrative-based approaches to temporary use (Martin et al., 2020). As emphasised by Martin et al. (2020: 17) "further research is needed to identify locations where temporary uses are more or less likely to occur based on certain underlying characteristics". The novel data set of 422 temporary use interventions recorded between 2000-15 examines the morphology of temporary development in eight British cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield. Reference: Martin, M., Hincks, S. and Deas, I. (2020) Temporary use in England's core cities: Looking beyond the exceptional, Urban Studies, Online First, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098019898076

Auxillary_materials_Dec_2019_ – Supplemental material for Post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa region: A bidirectional parametric urban design approach

Supplemental material, Auxillary_materials_Dec_2019_ for Post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa region: A bidirectional parametric urban design approach by Nicolai Steinø, Marwa Dabaieh and Karima Ben Bih in International Journal of Architectural Computin

Post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa region: A bidirectional parametric urban design approach

Post-conflict reconstruction is a major topic in war-torn cities in the Middle East and North Africa region. Rather than being limited to re-establishing pre-conflict conditions, new formats of urban settings may be adopted, both for the design and quality of urban space, as well as for the design and building process. This article proposes a combined top-down and bottom-up design approach, supported by parametric urban design modelling. As sustainable (re-)development of the urban-scape requires coordination across different scales, a top-down approach is partly needed for reasons of coordination. As participatory design processes involving local stakeholders work from the partial to the whole, a bottom-up approach is partly needed for reasons of inclusion. By means of a parametric urban model combining both overview and detail, the two approaches can be combined. This article shows the theoretical framework and, by way of example, applies the model to Fallujah in Iraq as a case study

Post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa region: A bidirectional parametric urban design approach

Post-conflict reconstruction is a major topic in war-torn cities in the Middle East and North Africa region. Rather than being limited to re-establishing pre-conflict conditions, new formats of urban settings may be adopted, both for the design and quality of urban space, as well as for the design and building process. This article proposes a combined top-down and bottom-up design approach, supported by parametric urban design modelling. As sustainable (re-)development of the urban-scape requires coordination across different scales, a top-down approach is partly needed for reasons of coordination. As participatory design processes involving local stakeholders work from the partial to the whole, a bottom-up approach is partly needed for reasons of inclusion. By means of a parametric urban model combining both overview and detail, the two approaches can be combined. This article shows the theoretical framework and, by way of example, applies the model to Fallujah in Iraq as a case study

Designing Atmospheres: Theory and Science Symposium

This dataset is an output of the ‘Designing Atmospheres: Theory and Science’ Symposium (ATS), an Interfaces event of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), sponsored by the EU’s Horizon 2020 MSCA Program — RESONANCES Project, the Perkins Eastman Studio, and the KSTATE APDesign. The symposium was hosted in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (APDesign), Kansas State University, Manhattan (Kansas, USA), on March 28, 2023. Speakers: Kory Beighle (Kansas State University), Elisabetta Canepa (University of Genoa | Kansas State University), Bob Condia (Kansas State University), Zakaria Djebbara (Aalborg University | TU Berlin), and Harry Francis Mallgrave (Illinois Institute of Technology). Recent advances in science confirm many of the architects’ deep-rooted intuitions, improving knowledge about the perception of space and the meaning of architectural and urban design. The symposium ‘Designing Atmospheres: Theory and Science‘ presented to an audience of students, educators, architects, and scientists a conversation about the experience of design and building, specifically speaking to the significance of atmospheres, affordances, and emotions. This dataset is made of seven files: no. 1 dataset summary (.pdf) no. 1 symposium poster (.pdf) no. 5 videos containing speakers’ presentations (.mp4) Recorded videos of each lecture are also available on the RESONANCES project website (www.resonances-project.com/harvest) and its YouTube channel (@resonancesproject5777)

Report_Questionnaire_for_Architectural_Studio – Supplemental material for A framework for interactive human–robot design exploration

Supplemental material, Report_Questionnaire_for_Architectural_Studio for A framework for interactive human–robot design exploration by Mads Brath Jensen, Isak Worre Foged and Hans Jørgen Andersen in International Journal of Architectural Computin

A framework for interactive human–robot design exploration

This study seeks to identify key aspects for increased integration of interactive robotics within the creative design process. Through its character as foundational research, the study aims to contribute to the advancement of new explorative design methods to support architects in their exploration of fabrication and assembly of an integrated performance-driven architecture. The article describes and investigates a proposed design framework for supporting an interactive human–robot design process. The proposed framework is examined through a 3-week architectural studio, with university master students exploring the design of a brick construction with the support of an interactive robotic platform. Evaluation of the proposed framework was done by triangulation of the authors’ qualitative user observations, quantitative logging of the students’ individual design processes, and through questionnaires completed after finishing the studies. The result suggests that interactive human–robot fabrication is a relevant mode of design with positive effect on the process of creative design exploration

A framework for interactive human–robot design exploration

This study seeks to identify key aspects for increased integration of interactive robotics within the creative design process. Through its character as foundational research, the study aims to contribute to the advancement of new explorative design methods to support architects in their exploration of fabrication and assembly of an integrated performance-driven architecture. The article describes and investigates a proposed design framework for supporting an interactive human–robot design process. The proposed framework is examined through a 3-week architectural studio, with university master students exploring the design of a brick construction with the support of an interactive robotic platform. Evaluation of the proposed framework was done by triangulation of the authors’ qualitative user observations, quantitative logging of the students’ individual design processes, and through questionnaires completed after finishing the studies. The result suggests that interactive human–robot fabrication is a relevant mode of design with positive effect on the process of creative design exploration

RELLISUR: A Real Low-Light Image Super-Resolution Dataset

The RELLISUR dataset contains real low-light low-resolution images paired with normal-light high-resolution reference image counterparts. This dataset aims to fill the gap between low-light image enhancement and low-resolution image enhancement (Super-Resolution (SR)) which is currently only being addressed separately in the literature, even though the visibility of real-world images is often limited by both low-light and low-resolution. The dataset contains 12750 paired images of different resolutions and degrees of low-light illumination, to facilitate learning of deep-learning based models that can perform a direct mapping from degraded images with low visibility to high-quality detail rich images of high resolution

Spatially Variant Super-Resolution (SVSR) benchmarking dataset

The Spatially Variant Super-Resolution (SVSR) benchmarking dataset contains 1119 low-resolution images that are degraded by complex noise of varying intensity and type and their corresponding noise free X2 and X4 high-resolution counterparts, for evaluation of the robustness of real-world super-resolution methods. Additionally, the dataset is also suitable for evaluation of denoisers