• Adaptive architecture, an implementation with game theory. Emotional input and pneumatically driven actuator 

      Blanchi, Yann; Touati, Corinne; Mortamais, Elizabeth ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      In the active context of adaptive architecture, this proposal tackles the field of Human Building Interaction. Indeed, material would no longer be inert but activated by the users, programmable and equipped with memory. ...
    • Al Thumama Stadium: Local and Global Architectural Reach 

      Hawamdeh, Hani Awni ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The world cup stadia have been a constant concern for the hosting countries. Many of them have become a burden on the economies of their countries, only to become white elephants after the tournaments end. Therefore, the ...
    • BLOOM: materialising computational workflows 

      Georgiou, Michail; Georgiou, Odysseas ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The paper presents ongoing research, aiming towards affordability of complex forms in architecture. The research supports that the above objective can be approached by re-examining and integrating materiality and form-finding ...
    • Crossbreed - (Re) producing the Future 

      Brosilovski, Yael ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The subject of technological intervention has been largely debated among the world’s greatest minds. Political, theological, psychological, biological and ethical implications have all been argued for and against the ...
    • Crossing the Rubicon: Tevere Cavo, an Urban Project for Rome 

      Saggio, Antonino ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We believe that the new frontiers of Information Technology have to deal with the central role of Infrastructures in the existing city. Indeed, this new generation of infrastructures will allow the 'redirection' of the ...
    • Cumulative, Collaborative, Disruptive ; Architectural geometry in research, practice, and its imminent mainstream future 

      Bhooshan, Vishu; Bhooshan, Shajay ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Solutions to the significant social, ecological and economic opportunities and problems of 21st century architecture and urbanism involve a vast number of variables. These solutions will require the use of data-driven ...
    • Design as semiosis: A design mechanism for place branding 

      Krasaki, Eirini ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The described design methodology combines parametric design, data analysis, algorithmic design and semiotics theory to systematically analyze urban reality. The analysis leads to a creation of a nebula of data which ...
    • Digital Master Builders: Disruptive construction technologies 

      Block, Philippe ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs estimates that by 2050 the world's population will have increased by over 2.1 billion people (UN DESA, 2019). Providing housing and infrastructure for them would ...
    • [E]motive Architecture: strategies for a behaviour-driven Space configuration 

      Cambié, Viola; Zanoli, Carlotta ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      As Architect and Engineer, we used to work with the concept of Space. Struggling to find an exhaustive definition, we risk thinking about it as a framework with the same properties of the object we are going to design. ...
    • Fundamentals of Robotic Fabrication in Architecture: Multi Materiality, Multiscale Resolution and Multimode Production 

      Mostafavi, Sina; Moharram, Mohammad Saad; Khaeez, Adeeb ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      This paper discusses the recent advancement in architectural materialization processes. The focus is on design to robotic production systems through which the realization of more efficient building processes and building ...
    • Increasing Value of Architecture in the Platform Society 

      Pool, M. N. ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The author has developed several methods for democratizing the architectural design process resulting in a more user specific and open architecture. Our cities need Open Systems in order to grow and become resilient and ...
    • LIQUID CITIES, a city designed by citizens 

      Boxmeer, Rolf van; Peters, Tessa ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Rezone wants to make the concept of the city more liquid.. A city where things can change, a flexible city that adapts to the desires of its inhabitants. A city designed by professionals, but also by its citizens. A city ...
    • Medinas: From Vernacular to Smart Sustainable Cities and Buildings 

      Fadli, Fodil ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Cities are the most prominent agile and resilient complex systems that evolved over time and space. Many of them survived for centuries, some for more than two millennia, like the Medinas of the MENA region, and they are ...
    • Non-Cooperative and Repetitive Games for Urban Conflicts in Tirana: A Playful Collaborative System to Lower Social Tension 

      Dhamo, Sotir; Perna, Valerio; Bregasi, Ledian ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Game Theory (GT) offers a critical lens to understand and analyze the capacity of different actors to make rational decisions linked to complex and emergent situations. Even though developed as a theory to tackle economic ...
    • Participator, A Participatory Urban Design Instrument 

      Oosterhuis, Kas; Hidding, Arwin ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      A point cloud of reference points forms the programmable basis of a new method of urban and architectural modeling. Points in space from the smallest identifiable units that are informed to communicate with each other to ...
    • ' Pay-as-you-go City ': New Forms of Domesticity in a Technological Society 

      Ameijde, Jeroen van; Sentissi, Zineb ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Ongoing urbanization, combined with market fundamentalism as the prevailing mode of political management, is leading to the spatial and social segregation of economic classes in cities. The housing market, being driven by ...
    • Re-defining the Role of Interactive Architecture in Social Relationships 

      Boychenko, Kristina ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      With rapid advance of new technologies and mediated built space has shifted from a static context of functions serving users to a new participant of social relationships. Interactive abilities and computational power allow ...
    • Reconstructing identities and the idea of Global Regionalism 

      Mangera, Ali ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We live in a time of great anxiety and change; a time of shifting allegiances where the certainties upon which we have relied have simply vanished. Our once familiar political landscape is in flux; pandemics, civil rights, ...
    • Robotic Fabrication as Catalysts for Emergent Topologies and Traditions: Nomadic Small Pavilions and Permanent Mega Structures in Kuwait 

      Dashti, Hussain ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      This paper reviews tendencies and drives for future parametric computational design and robotic fabrication/construction automation. It sheds light on the local current impact of the computational paradigm and mass-customized ...
    • Shared Models and Open Infrastructures for the smart City Internet of Things based on the Semantic Web 

      Banane, Mouad; Belangour, Abdessalam ( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Contemporary cities face many challenges: energy, ecological, demographic or economic. To answer this, technological means are implemented in cities through the use of sensors and actuators. These cities are said to be ...