• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• Smart Cities: A Socio-Technical Perspective 

  Biloria, Nimish ( 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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