• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...