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Smart Cities: A Socio-Technical Perspective
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
This research paper elaborates upon the concept of Smart Cities and the evolution of the term itself throughout history in order to outline the emergence of two distinct schools of thought: technocentric and humancentric, ...
' Pay-as-you-go City ': New Forms of Domesticity in a Technological Society
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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 ...
The Body at the Center of Our Design Universe
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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 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
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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 ...
Smart Interactive Buildings [SIBs]: The use of Ambient Intelligent Systems [AMIS] to enable Smart Interactive Settlements [SISs]
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Qatar Univesrity Press
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
The 21st Century is witnessing the dawn of Industry [I4.0], or the fourth Industrial Revolution. With burgeoning technological inventions linked to smart interactive cities and intelligent buildings, where humans-machines-spaces ...
Crossbreed - (Re) producing the Future
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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 ...
Re-defining the Role of Interactive Architecture in Social Relationships
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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 ...
Increasing Value of Architecture in the Platform Society
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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 ...
Robotic Fabrication as Catalysts for Emergent Topologies and Traditions: Nomadic Small Pavilions and Permanent Mega Structures in Kuwait
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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 ...
[E]motive Architecture: strategies for a behaviour-driven Space configuration
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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. ...