• The Affective City: Cartography of Machinic Urban Assemblages 

      Passia, Yota; Roupas, Panagiotis ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      While the city is generally perceived -within complexity theory and dynamic systems theory as a changing field of dense interactions that occur in a range of spatial and temporal scales, we are unable to perceive it or ...
    • The Agrarian City in the age of Planetary Scale Computation: Dynamic System Model and Parametric Design Model for the introduction of Vertical Farming in High Dense Urban Environments in Singapore 

      Aiman, Tabony; Enriqueta, Llabres-Valls ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Current conditions related to food security lead to study alternative forms of food production in cities such as vertical urban farming in high dense urban environments. This paper discusses the development of the Innovate ...
    • The Body at the Center of Our Design Universe 

      Major, Mark David; Tannous, Heba Osama ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      A third factor has increasingly complicated the man-environment paradigm - the intellectual and physical framework defining the relationship between man and the environment, both built and natural - without definitive ...
    • The Extreme Structures of our Universe 

      Icke, Vincent ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      My story is a tale of extremes. Extreme artificial structures that we have built on and around planet Earth. Extreme natural structures that exist in our Universe, and extreme structures in our mind, when we try to understand ...
    • Towards an Artificial Architecture: About Superintelligent Space 

      Morel, Philip ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      In the essay The Doctors of Tomorrow Will Be Supercomputers, published online at futurism.com, Leary (2017) says doctors will be replaced by artificial intelligence-fed supercomputers. This is in line with many theorists ...
    • Urbanism Beyond Cognition: On Design and Machine Learning 

      Bottazzi, Roberto ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      It could be argued that the introduction of new technologies always shifts the 'epistemological horizon' of the different fields they impact. New instruments allow expanding the range of parameters defining a discipline's ...
    • Using the fractal dimension to generate parametric Islamic patterns 

      Abdelsalam, Mai; Abdelsalam, Hassan ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the cause for over 70% of global deaths. Various levels of healthcare delivery from home-care to tertiary care exist for patients where patients with NCDs are treated. Demand for services ...
    • Where Are We Now? 

      Oosterhuis, Kas ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      After 16 years of leading the Hyperbody research group as professor of practice at the TU Delft, I wanted to do something completely different and looked at the Gulf region for further educational and professional activities. ...