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Reconstructing identities and the idea of Global Regionalism
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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
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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 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Towards an Artificial Architecture: About Superintelligent Space
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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 ...
LIQUID CITIES, a city designed by citizens
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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 ...
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 ...
[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. ...
The Affective City: Cartography of Machinic Urban Assemblages
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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 ...