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PROJECT 01:   interwoven   systems,   DELFT,   netherlands

 

STUDENT: agata   kycia,   krzysztof   gornicki 

 

This project aims at investigating continuity within computational design processes, starting from behavioural analysis systems, through generative procedures up to the final construction. Proposed building is a result of a real-time programming based on a series of environmental and contextual parameters. Noise, pedestrian circulation, commercial activities and traffic fluxes are organised into a large scale responsive construction (using Processing). Resulting point clouds configuration became a base for component distribution. Each point in space is interpret as one of the vertices of the tetrahedron modules. Components vary in character depending on the location in space, proportions and programmatic requirement of a module. The new train station proposal creates a cross connection between the parts of the city disjoined by the railway tracks, performing in the same time as a sound barrier, activating the nearby neighbourhoods and providing a wide range of mixed-use facilities such as office, retail, leisure and cultural functions. Part of the building was chosen for the prototype in scale 1:20, aiming to test structural and formal aspects of the project, as well as accuracy of the computational procedures and digital fabrication techniques.

 

Keywords >> Generative geometry, CNC milling, Digital fabrication, Lasercutting, Parametric modelling, Processing, Rhinoscript, Vacuum forming

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PROJECT 02:   POROSCITEE,   BEIJING,     CHINA

 

STUDENT:  AURELIE   HSAIO,   KWOK  TUNG   CHUNG,   jUNJIE   YAN,   shi   yang

 

The project is an urban regeneration proposal responding to new local demands within the old Chinese urban fabric. The proposal utilises multi-agent systems in an attempt to decipher self organisation patterns of programatic agents. The agents not only organise themselves via negotiating functional relations amongst themselves, but, do so, while satisfying each agent's preferences for environmental conditions such as noise levels, visibility levels, solar exposure and infrastructural connectivity. The generative geometry acquires a faceted nature, while, creating novel spatial typologies, suitable for contemporary living within the otherwise dense fabric of the urban setting. 

 

Keywords >> Generative geometry, Multi-agent system, Processing, Environmental analysis, Self organisation, emergence

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PROJECT 03:   VOXO,  ALMERE,    netherlands

 

STUDENT:  GUSTAVO   NASCIMENTO,   JONAS   SIN,   HARIKRISHNAN    SASIDHARAN,   ELIOT    ROSENBERG

 

Contemporary developments in software, and the availability of inexpensive and powerful processors have enabled us to quantify and analyse multiple design parameters. The ability to simulate the extreme possibilities, or to understand the effects of an individual factor or in combination is another advantage over conventional means of design. A multi-agent system strategy involving pursuit agents was realised. The pursuit agents released on to site look for locations, which are suited for their functioning. The primary interaction is with the site factors. The particles also analyse their relationship within its own group and also with its neighbours outside of the group. These factors determine the positioning on the pursuit agents in the xy plane. Each group of pursuits is assigned a level of energy based on their activities. Commuters, carry the least energy and attains a position below the ground plane. Residents, having the highest energy level occupy a higher altitude position. This energy definition is simulated via point clouds in 3d space. The spatial definition of the interstitial spaces in the point cloud defines the integral architectural character.  A parametric model developed in grasshopper was used for defining the space. The spaces are developed along the bisectors of any four adjacent points. The geometric components show variation in sizes according to functions.

 

Keywords >> Generative geometry, Agent based modelling, Point Clouds, Componential assembly, Energy

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PROJECT 04:   B_MOTION,   GRONINGEN,   NETHERLANDS

 

STUDENT:  ROXANA   PALFI,   URVI   SHETH,   MARK   ANTONI   FREIDHOFF

 

The project proposes an urban extension for the city of Groningen, in an area of intersection between its two most important canals. The site is completely empty at this moment, facing an acute accessibility problem – it is more than 2 km long, bordered by the canals and with no connectivity with the city in its proximity except one bus stop, offering no possibilities for pedestrian or bike traffic. The project proposes a series of analysis, related to traffic, activities and environmental factors. All of them were performed in virtools, following a swarm behaviour model, in order to determine the connections needed with the city and the proper distribution of functions in the area. The first stage was developed over the entire site area, proposing a master plan that determines the distribution of functions as well as the building methodology for its composing parts. For this, a final set of particles responding to all previous simulations running simultaneously on a single model was created.  Their behaviour was determined by the overlapping of the previous particles, allowing for bigger heights when noise/activities/visuals would be related, creating a landscape by moving down when only activity and visual particles would be in their proximity, being rejected by the presence of visual particles alone (in the purpose of leaving the area free for contemplation), increasing density in the proximity of noise, etc. The second part was concentrated over a selected area – the corner and the connection with the city, detailing the construction method and the final proposal – living bridge. Different setups were required for the function selected, a bridge requiring a more regular and coherent structure. This was accomplished by reducing the number of final particles and replicating on an algorithmic base the resulted points in order to achieve the necessary density, without the problems generated by a chaotic system. 

For the final proposal, starting from the idea of mobility triggered in the beginning of the analysis, as well as the possibility of needing mobile parts in the bridge and the script developed in virtools which exported for each point the lines between itself and the three closest elements, the invertible cube (kaleidocyclus) component was chosen – 6 tetrahedrons revolving around their axes on two opposite directions. A final cell was a combination between two frames and two connecting elements, creating a vertebrae tubular system, with structural integrity and responding to the environment through its openings (visuals and light) and its thickness (noise). The functions appeared in the places where one cell would exceed 15 m wide, determined by the agglomeration of particles in the simulation system.

The same component was used to create the towers, gradually changing the functions between walls, floors, ceilings. The vertical system is comprised of four separate towers, each of them supported by an inner central core and structurally connected in their inner spaces.  

   

 

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>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at the University of Boras, Sweden, Smart Textiles  Association >> Lecture: Inter-performing Environments >> 2015

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria co-tutoring a Bachelors Thesis course at the Delft Robotics Institute, TU Delft, The Netherlands >> 2015

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria edits the Next Generation Building Journal together with Matias del Campo >> 2015

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria invited to become a member of the OCEAN Research and Design Network >> 2015

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria delivers key note lecture at the ICON Arch conference, Konya, Turkey >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria appointed as Scientific Reviewer

Elsevier, Journal: Automation in Construction >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria appointed Technical Program Committee Member Smart Electronics and Communication conference >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria delivers key note lecture at the ArcInTex Conference, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria interviewed by CNN International: 

Future cities and smart home applications >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria interviewed by Fast Company Daily: Real-time interactive home environments >> 2014

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at the Smart Cities and Big Data convention, Aarhus University, Denmark >> 2014

 

>> Journal Publication >> Biloria. N.(2014); Architecture Institute of Korea, ISSN 1225-1666, Article: Inter-performing morphologies

 

>> Journal Publication >> Biloria, N.(2014); Next Generation Building journal, Balthazer Science Publishers, Article: Performance driven generative design systems, Volume 1, No. 1, 2014, ISSN 2213-4425, e-ISSN 2213-4433

 

>> Journal Publication >> Psyllidis, A & Biloria, NM (2014). OntoPolis: A semantic participatory platform for perfor- mance assessment and augmentation of urban environments. In s.n. (Ed.), 10th IEEE international conference on intelligent environments (pp. 140-147). Piscataway: IEEE.

 

>> Publication >> Achilleas Psyllidis, Nimish Biloria (2014); Intelligent environments 2014 Conference, Article accepted: Ontopolis, A semantic participatory platform for performance assessment and augmentation of urban environments, Shanghai, 2nd – 4th July 2014, China

 

>> Publication >> Xia X, Biloria N, Hommel B. (2014); Aesthetics and the embodied mind, Conference, Article: From film studies to interaction design

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at South East University of China, Guangzhou, China >> 2013

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria appointed Scientific Reviewer

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) >> 2013

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria appointed Scientific Reviewer & Editor: Next Generation Building Journal (NGB) >> 2013

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria appointed Scientific Reviewer

47th International Architectural Science Association Conference 2013 “Cutting Edge In Architectural Science", Hong Kong >> 2013

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Organizing Committee Member ECAADE 2013, TU Delft, Netherlands >> 2013

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N. (2013) Performance driven generative design pedagogy: Interfacing multi-agent simulation driven design techniques with environmental modelling methodologies in architectural education, ENHSA Conference: Computation, environment and architectural innovation, Napoli, Italy.

 

>> Publication >> Achilleas Psyllidis and Nimish Biloria (2013), The Adaptive City: A socio-technical interaction driven approach towards urban systems, Proceedings of the 2nd international Hybrid City Conference, Athens, Greece, ISBN: 978-960-99791-1-5, pp. 371-378.

 

>> Publication >> Achilleas Psyllidis and Nimish Biloria (2013), Urban Media Geographies: Interfacing Ubiqui- tous Computing with the Physicality of Urban Space, Media Cities 4 conference, May 2013, University at Buffalo, The state university of New York, USA, pp. 302-309.

 

>> Publication >> Mostafavi, S, Morales Beltran, MG & Biloria, NM (2013). Performance driven design and design information exchange. In R Stouffs & S Sariyildiz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) 2013 conference (pp. 117-126). Delft, The Netherlands

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, NM & Chang, JR (2013). Hyper-Morphology: Experimentations with bio-inspired de- sign processes for adaptive spatial re-use. In R Stouffs (Ed.), Proceedings of the 31st Inter- national Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (pp. 529-538)

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria interviewed by RAI, Lighthouse, Italy: Documentary series on Robotics in Europe >> 2013

 

>> Journal publication >> Alireza Mahdizadeh Hakak (Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Netherlands), Nimish Biloria (Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands) and Mozhgan Raouf Rahimi (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran) (2012), Journal article: Implementing Unconventional Virtual Environments for Enhancing Creativity in Architecture Pedagogy, International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE), Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages: 41-52.

 

>> Journal Publication >> Biloria, N. (2012); Co-Editor, Book: Hyperbody, First Decade of Interactive Architecture, JapSam Publishers, Netherlands, ISBN-10: 9490322091, ISBN-13: 978-9490322090

 

>> Journal Publication >> Biloria N. (2012); Interactive morphologies: An investigation into integrated nodal networks and embedded computation processes for developing real-time responsive spatial systems, Frontiers of Architectural Research Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 259–271

 

>> Journal Publication >> Xin Xia and Biloria Nimish (2012); A 4EA Cognitive approach for rethinking the human in Interactive Architecture, Conference Proceedings: Rethinking the Human in Techology-Driv- en Architecture, Editors: Maria Voyatzaki; Constantin Spiridonidis, ISBN: 978-2-930301-53-2

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, Nimish and Chang, Jia-Rey (2012), 'Digital physicality, physical Digitally,' Proceedings of the 30th eCAADe Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, HyperCell: A Bio-inspired informa- tion design framework for real-time adaptive spatial components, Volume.2, pp.573-581.

 

>> Publication >> Alireza M. Hakak, Biloria N (2011), New perception of virtual environments, enhancement of creativity, Proceedings of the eCAADe conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ISBN 978-9-4912070-

1-3, pp. 967 - 975

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at National art gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania >> 2011

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Delft lectures on Sustainability, TU Delft, Netherlands >> 2011

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw, Poland >> 2011

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Harbin University, Faculty of Architecture, China >> 2011

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Nanjing University, Faculty of Architecture, China >> 2011

 

>> Book >> Biloria, N.(2011); Author, Book: Interactive Corporate Environments: Developing real-time interactive corporate environments incorporating computational techniques [Paperback], VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Publishers

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria N. (2011); InfoMatters, a multi-agent systems approach for generating performative architectural formations; International Journal of Architectural Computing, Issue 03, Volume 09: September 2011 (205 - 222)

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria N. (2011); Interdisciplinary Process Driven Performative Morphologies: A Morphog- enomic approach towards developing context aware spatial formations; V!RUS, No.6, No- mads.usp journal, Creation in Process+es, ISSN: 2175-974.

 

>> Publication >> Alireza M. Hakak, Biloria N (2011), New perception of virtual environments, enhancement of creativity, Proceedings of the eCAADe conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ISBN 978-9-4912070-1-3, pp. 967 - 975

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Empowering Infrastructure globally conference, New Delhi, India sponsored by ESSAR Steel and organized by Indian Architect and Builder >> 2010

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands >> Interactive Architecture >> 2010

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Design-Code, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands >> 2010

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2010); Interactive Environments: A Multi-disciplinary Approach towards Devel- oping Real-Time Performative Spaces, Entertainment computing – ICEC 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6243/2010, 254-261, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0_25, pp. 254-261

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2010); Interactive Bodies, Forward, Volume 110, ISSN 2153-7526, American Institute of Architects Publishers, USA, 2010, pp. 69-76

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Bucharest School of Architecture, Romania >> 2009

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Session Chair

ENHSA 2013 Conference on Computation, Environment and Architectural Innovation, Napoli, Italy >> 2009

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Panelist: CHI 2009, Organic User Interfaces - From Tangible and Transitive Materials to programming reality, Boston, USA >> 2009

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Panelist: Syn_athr(0)isis event: Technopolis, Athens, Greece >> 2009

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N, Sumini, V. (2009); Performative Building Skin Systems: A Morphogenomic Ap- proach Towards Developing Real-Time Adaptive Building Skin Systems, International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 7 - no. 4, pp. 643-676.

Biloria, N. (2009); Performative building skin systems, IEEE Explore, Computation World 2009 conference, Athens, ISBN 978-1-4244-5166-1, pp. 119-125

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2009); Developing an interactive architectural meta-system for contemporary corporate environments, SCROOPE 19, Cambridge architecture journal, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 70-80

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2009); Inter-active spaces Indian architect and builder magazine, Special issue on Digital Architecture, Jasubhai Media, Mumbai, India

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria gives Key note lecture at Key Note lecture at the IxDA, Interaction Design Association, Inter- national South America conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil >> 2008

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria's lecture is at the AEC World Expo, 361 Design conference >> 2008

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Technologies and Construction Lecture series, Building Technology, Bouwkunde, TU Delft, The Netherlands >> 2008

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria is interviewed by the Discovery Channel >> Discovery Science Program, Documentary >> 2008

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Conference Session Chair ACADIA 08, Evolutionary computation, Minneapolis, USA >> 2008

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2008); Introduction article: Evolutionary computation, ACAADIA 2008, Sili- cone+Skin, ISBN: 978-0-9789463-2-6, Minneapolis, USA

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2008); Hyperbody, (Im) material Processes, New Digital techniques for architecture, Edited by Neil Leach and Xu Weiguo, ISBN: 9787-112-10396-6, China Architecture and Building Press, China

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2008); Non-standard performative architecture, Indian architect and builder magazine, Special issue on Innovate, Jasubhai Media publishers, Mumbai, India

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2008) Morphogenomic Urban and Architectural Systems: An Investigation into In- formatics Oriented Evolution of Form: The Case of the A2 Highway, Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, [Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) / ISBN 978-0-9789463-4-0] Minneapo- lis 16-19 October 2008, pp.152-157

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2008) Real-time interactive corporate environments, Proceedings of 2nd Sympo- sium on Systems Research in the Arts and Humanities (SSRAH): "On Interaction/Interactivity in Music, Design, Visual and Performing Arts", Baden Baden, Germany, pp. 121-125

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2008) Morphogenomic architecture, An investigation into informatics oriented evolution of form, Proceedings of AEC 08 Conference, Antalya, Turkey, pp. 49-58, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/cice/conferences/AEC2008/

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at University Innsbruck, Austria >> 2007

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at ITD Lecture series, Industrial Design, TU Delft, The Netherlands >> 2007

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria lectures at Goldsmith University, London, UK >> 2007

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2007); Envisioning the responsive milieu, An investigation into aspects of ambient intelligence, human machine symbiosis and ubiquitous computing for developing a generic real time interactive spatial prototype, iA#1, ISBN 978-9059730588, Episode publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 22-33

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2007) Developing an Interactive Architectural Meta-System for Contemporary Corporate Environments: An investigation into aspects of creating responsive spatial systems for corporate offices incorporating rule based computation techniques, Em‘body’ing Virtual Architecture: The Third International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2007), 28-30 November 2007, Alexandria, Egypt, pp.

199-212

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2007) Adaptive Corporate Environments, CAADRIA 2007 [Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Nanjing (China) 19-21 April 2007, ISBN: 978-7-5641-0925-7, pp. 391-400

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2007) Adaptive corporate environments, Proceedings of Sources of Architectural Form: Theory and Practice, International conference of Architecture 07, Kuwait City, Kuwait, pp. 371-391

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2007) Spatializing real-time interactive environments, Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 07) conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, ISBN: 978-1-59593-619-6, pp. 215-222.

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2006); Design Informatics, Architecture Annual 05-06 TU Delft, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

>> Book publication >> Biloria, N. (2006); Inter-active spaces, A multi-disciplinary approach towards developing re- al-time performative spaces, GSM 2, TU Delft, The Netherlands, Episode Publishers, Rotter- dam, The Netherlands, ISBN: 9059730364, pp. 330-339

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2006) Spatializing corporate dynamics, an investigation into aspects of creating responsive spatial systems for corporate offices incorporating rule based computation techniques, Proceedings of Adaptables 06 Conference, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ISBN 10:90-72152-03-4, pp. 74-78

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N, Oosterhus, K and Aalbers, C (2006) Design Informatics: a case based investigation into parametric design scripting and CNC based manufacturing techniques, Proceedings of Computing in Architecture / Re-Thinking the Discourse: The Second International Confer- ence of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2006), 25-27, April 2006, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N, Oosterhus, K and Aalbers, C (2006) DESIGN INFORMATICS: (A case based investigation into parametric design, scripting and CNC based manufacturing techniques), CAADRIA

2006 [Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Kumamoto (Japan) March 30th - April 2nd 2006, pp. 237-244

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Conference Session Chair CAADRIA 05, New Delhi, India >> 2005

 

>> Dr. Nimish Biloria serves as Conference Session Chair: Hawaii International conference for arts and humanities 05, USA

 

>> Journal publication >> Biloria, N. (2005); Developing concept prototypes for electronic media augmented spatial skins, Architecture Annual 04-05 TU Delft, The Netherlands, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2005) Emergent Technologies and Design, Digital Design: The Quest for New Paradigms [23rd eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-2-4] Lisbon (Portugal) 21-24 September 2005, pp. 441-447

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N., Oosterhuis, K. and Aalbers, C. (2005) Design Informatics, Smart Architecture: Integration of Digital and Building Technologies [Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture / ISBN 0-9772832-0-8] Savannah (Georgia) 13-16 October 2005, pp. 226-235

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2005) Envisioning the responsive milieu, an investigation into aspects of ambient intelligence, machine symbiosis and ubiquitous computing for developing generic real-time spatial prototype, Proceedings of AEC 05, Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN:90-8559-057-4, pp. 741-751

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N, Oosterhuis, K (2005) Envisioning the RESPONSIVE milieu: An investigation into aspects of ambient intelligence, human machine symbiosis and ubiquitous computing for developing a generic real-time interactive spatial prototype, CAADRIA 2005 [Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia/ ISBN 89-7141-648-3] New Delhi (India) 28-30 April 2005, vol. 1, pp. 421-432

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2005) Responsive environments, Proceedings of Hawaii International conference for arts and humanities 05, USA http://www.allconferences.com/conferences/20040223191228/

 

>> Publication >> Biloria, N (2004) Developing Concept Prototypes for Electronic Media Augmented Spatial Skins - An Investigation Into Biotic Processes, Material Technologies and Embedded Computation for Developing Intelligent Systemic Networks, CAADRIA 2004 [Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN89-7141-648-3] Seoul Korea 28-30 April 2004, pp. 159-172.

 

>> Book publication >> Biloria, N. (2002); Design research work - TKTS 2000, AA (Architectural Association) Year Book 01 – 02, London, UK.