QU Conference Proceedings: المرسلات الحديثة
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Environmental Sustainability Comparative Assessment of Low-Rise and High-Rise Neighbourhoods based on People’s Lifestyle Preferences: The Case of Doha, Qatar
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference)The urban form of Doha city has undergone numerous changes owing to rapid economic growth during the past few decades. The Qatar National Vision 2030 highlights Environmental Sustainability as one of the key sectors of ... -
Investigation of Indoor Thermal Perceptions and Comfort Temperature in Educational Spaces in Qatar
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference)We conducted thermal comfort field surveys in female educational spaces in Qatar in the autumn and winter of 2018 and 2020 – 21 and collected 324 datasets. They contained all the four environmental measurements and ... -
Adapting Smart Street Strategy for Post-Covid Built Environment
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference)The street networks occupy 25% of land use and are the veins of cities. By 2050, more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. The urban street infrastructures and systems are expected to serve ... -
Exploring Crowd Management and Evacuation Strategies using Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation: A Case Study of Souq Waqif
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference)Safe egress plans are critical for crowd evacuation at touristic attractions, particularly during special events, as visitors are often unaware of their options. Identification of bottlenecks in the walking spaces are vital ... -
Application of PERS to Evaluate Walkability in State of Qatar
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference)Well-designed pedestrian facilities are essential to promote walking among residents. These facilities also act as safe space for use of cycling and other personal mobility vehicles. In 2018, Ministry of Transport developed ... -
Non-Cooperative and Repetitive Games for Urban Conflicts in Tirana: A Playful Collaborative System to Lower Social Tension
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Towards an Artificial Architecture: About Superintelligent Space
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Crossing the Rubicon: Tevere Cavo, an Urban Project for Rome
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Reconstructing identities and the idea of Global Regionalism
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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, ... -
Where Are We Now?
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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. ... -
Medinas: From Vernacular to Smart Sustainable Cities and Buildings
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Al Thumama Stadium: Local and Global Architectural Reach
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Digital Master Builders: Disruptive construction technologies
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
LIQUID CITIES, a city designed by citizens
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Cumulative, Collaborative, Disruptive ; Architectural geometry in research, practice, and its imminent mainstream future
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
The Extreme Structures of our Universe
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Adaptive architecture, an implementation with game theory. Emotional input and pneumatically driven actuator
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference)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 ...
