Cyber-Physical Architecture #5 Interdisciplinary Data-integrated Approaches

Rapid urbanization with the associated land cover and land use change, as well as resource depletion, contribute to the degradation of ecosystems and biodiversity and have a negative impact on human health and well-being. Societal calls for responses and results pose a significant challenge for research and education in the various fields concerned with the environment. Alongside the current environmental crisis there is a pressing need for developing ‘green solutions’ for the built environment with the help of data-driven methods, workflows and tools.ISBN 978-94-6366-570-4History & Complexit

Robotic environments

Technological and conceptual advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and material science have enabled robotic architectural environments to be implemented and tested in the last decade in virtual and physical prototypes. These prototypes are incorporating sensing-actuating mechanisms that enable interaction with their users and surroundings in real-time. While these prototypes obviously point towards a paradigm shift from inanimate towards animate architecture, they do not operate at building but at building component scale and do not address socio-economical or environmental aspects that affect architecture and society at large. This paper, on the one hand, critically discusses robotic prototypes built in the last decade at Delft University of Technology, on the other hand, it proposes a framework for future research envisioning robotic environments, as resizable, able to spatially expand or contract as well as move or be moved as needed. Such reconfigurable environments aim to validate the assumption that robotics incorporated in architecture improve efficiency of use due to multiple use of built space in condensed timeframes, while at the same time they advance technology for distributed autonomous robotic systems exhibiting collective behavior as well as test their application to sustainable architecture.ArchitectureArchitectur

Robotically Driven Architectural Production

Robotically driven architectural production advances seamless, computer-numerically controlled (CNC) and robotically supported design to production and operation processes enabling im-plementation of robotically driven buildings from conceptualisation to use. It enables production of free-formed, heterogeneous, optimized structures in order to address specific requirements in terms of properties (density, consistency, rigidity, etc.) and behaviours (re-configurability, responsiveness, etc.) in accordance to formal, functional, structural, climatic, environmental, and economic needs. This may require multi-robot collaboration implying that several robots collaborate with each other and humans in the process of production and assembly of multi-material, free-formed, diverse, and optimized building components and buildings.Architectural Engineering +TechnologyArchitecture and The Built Environmen

Interactive Building

Distributed, networked, electronically tagged, interactive devices are increasingly incorporated into the physical envi-ronment blurring progressively the boundary between physical and virtual space. This changing relationship between physical and virtual implies not only a change in the operation and use of buildings but also a change in their physical configuration, and therefore, their design and production. Interactive building addresses, therefore both the building defined as physically built environment and the building process implying on the one hand the changing role of archi-tecture with respect to incorporation of interactivity and the resulting multiple and varied use of built environments in reduced timeframes; On the other hand, it is implying the changing role of the architect with respect to the use of net-works connecting digital databases and parametric models with customizable design and production tools allowing for linking design to production and use. This paper discusses both by presenting two case studies within the larger frame-work of interactive building.Architectur

Design-to-Robotic-Production and Operation

The development of physical and computational mechanisms aimed at augmenting architectural environments has been one of the foci of research implemented at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TUD) for more than a decade. This paper presents the integration of distributed responsive climate control into the built environment based on Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) principles. These connect computational design with robotic production and operation of buildings. In the presented case study structural elements meet load-bearing as well as functional requirements. Their spatial arrangement creates variable densities for accommodating sensor-actuators that are operating heating and cooling. This mechatronic operation relies on activity recognition for achieving responsive climate control in the built-environment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Architectural Engineerin

Web-based applications for virtual laboratories

Web-based applications for academic education facilitate, usually, exchange of multimedia files, while design-oriented domains such as architectural and urban design require additional support in collaborative real-time drafting and modeling. In this context, multi-user interactive interfaces employing game engines as well as Virtual Reality (VR) environments offer a framework within which web-based applications for virtual laboratories have been in the last decade successfully developed and tested within Hyperbody at Delft University of Technology (DUT).Architectural Engineering +TechnologyArchitecture and The Built Environmen

Deveoping Interactive Architecture Prototypes by Means of Design-to-Robotic-Operation

Concepts for Interactive Architecture have been developed since the 1970s and more recently with advancements in Cyber-physical Systems and the Internet of Things these concepts have increasingly been developed towards practical applications. This chapter presents Interactive Architecture applications developed at Technical University Delft using Design-to-Robotic-Operation methods. They are proof of concepts for the potential of interactive systems to seemingly disrupt the linearity of time and improve spatial experience.History & Complexit

Robotic Building as Integration of Design-to-Robotic-Production & Operation

Robotic Building (RB) implies both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable, adaptive systems incorporating sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time. These require design-to-production and operation chains that may be (partially or completely) robotically driven.Digital Architectur

Parametric design strategies: Robotic building in academic architectural research and education

Parametric design strategies employing design-to-robotic-production (D2RP) approaches are relative new in architecture. They require trans-disciplinary research that at Hyperbody, TUD is experimentally tested in academic education and research. This paper presents and discusses trans-disciplinary approaches employing strategies that cross several disciplinary boundaries such as architectural design, structural engineering, material sciences, and robotics in order to create a holistic approach.Architectural Engineering and TechnologyArchitecture and The Built Environmen

System-embedded Intelligence in Architecture

Founded on the imperative to understand, evaluate and consciously decide about the use of digital media in architecture this research not only aims to analyze and critically assess computer-based systems in architecture, but also proposes evaluation and classification of digitally driven architecture through procedural- and object-oriented studies. It, furthermore, introduces methodologies of digital design, which in-corporate intelligent computer-based systems proposing development of prototypical tools to support the design process. Bijlagen op DVD in TU Delft Trésor collectie, TR diss 5272ArchitectureArchitectur