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experiment   02:   Urban   farming

The research deals with the problem of food production and transportation within big metropolitan areas. The main goal of the research driven design investigation is to develop a new model of urban agriculture capable of working both at a global and local scale. The idea is to integrate a model for the intensive production of food, such as the vertical farm, with a series of functions and devices that work at the local scale in a way in which it would be possible to involve the population into the project. In order to integrate the project proposal with the existing dynamic metropolitan system it is necessary to develop a strategy capable of adapting and reacting to the continuous changes. The strategy aims to investigate some concepts directly derived from the field of NS&IA such as self-organization processes based on the swarm behaviour logic. Urban farming, also connotes an environmental sciences approach and thus apart from food production also caters to performative design development based form finding solutions. Understanding morphological complexity as a derivative of multi-relational parameters within the urban, thus became a focus point of the studio. 

Keywords >> Urban farming, Environmental analysis, Form finding, Multi-agent systems, Self-organization, Emergence, Adaptive systems, Complexity sciences

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Experiment 01:   CLIMATIC    ECOLOGIES

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The research investigations focus on generating self-sustaining Climatic Ecologies. Issues pertaining to the manner in which we situate and generate built architectural forms with regards to the urban settings within which dynamic energy exchanges are established amongst them are of critical importance. The manner in which local and global climatic associations are hence established between a building and its context will be of primary concern in this studio. The design studio, in its quest to envision a sustainable ecology as regards the establishment of a synergistic relation between the environment, architectural space and its urban context aims at developing a relational understanding between physical & climatic principles, computational tools and performance driven form finding processes. The definition and refinement of this central agenda of Climatic Ecologies shall be developed iteratively via individual students and could encompass variable solutions ranging from local micro-climate generation, user centric climate adaptation, energy neutral buildings, adaptive spatial systems, biomimetic designs, green buildings etc. to name a few. In conclusion, the generic design problem centers around the generation of multi-performative architectural formations and their synergistic relationship as regards social sustainability and cyclic energy exchange with a critical urban context. 

Keywords >> Generative systems, Multi-Optimization, Non-Standard Architecture, Environmental Analysis, Multi-agent systems, Performance driven design

experiment   03:   performance   driven   design

The research focused on various facets of Performance driven design: sociological, environmental, technological. In doing so, the students develop a critical understanding of the urban through relational data sets of multiple parameters constituting the built environment. Specific focus is provided towards devising abstract computational machines for deriving computational environments within which multi-agent systems operate to generate performative urban patterns while keeping in mind governmental regulations and quantified urban growth strategies. It is within these patterns that a suitable site for architectural intervention is defined and studied intensively. Principles of aggregation, swarm behaviour and complex parametric modelling further drive the bottom-up generation of performative form. 

Keywords >> Performative design, Simulation driven design, Adaptive robotics, Adaptive building skin systems, Multi-agent simulation, Swarm behaviour, Generative growth algorithms

experiment   04:   info-matter

The Info-Matter series of research explorations focuses on understanding the urban context and its impact on the chosen site for architectural intervention via both quantifiable and qualitative means. Multi-agent simulations, wherein agents acquire different properties, ranging from structural, human, functional, infrastructural etc operate on complex interrelationships within themselves and the parameters constituting the urban. This dynamic quality results in the identifying self-organizing agent clusters as a result of multi-optimization amongst the various parameters. The clusters thus embody multiple meanings as regards environmental performance, social inclusion, differential geometric porosity, Material densities etc and serve as a computational footprint for generating architectural formations. A componential approach, which further embodies the logic of speedy fabrication while respecting variation of skin and structural counterparts is subsequently deployed in order to reach a fully performative architectural construct. Generative morphologies, fully equipped with construction solutions as an embedded part and parcel of the design process are thus materialised.  

Keywords >> Performance driven design, Information and material system, Component systems, Variation, Form finding, Multi-agent simulations, Behavioural modelling, Bottom-up formations 

selected   publications

• Biloria, N.; Co-Editor, Book: Hyperbody, First Decade of Interactive Architecture, Jap Sam Publishers, Netherlands, ISBN-10: 9490322091, ISBN-13: 978-9490322090, August, 2012

• Biloria, N.; Next Generation Building journal, Balthazer Science Publishers, Article: Performance

  driven generative design systems (approved for publication), 2013

• Biloria N.; InfoMatters, a multi-agent systems approach for generating performative architectural

  formations; International Journal of Architectural Computing, Issue 03, Volume 09:

  September 2011 (205 - 222)

• Biloria N.; Interdisciplinary Process Driven Performative Morphologies: A Morphogenomic

  approach towards developing context aware spatial formations; V!RUS, No.6, Nomads.usp

  journal, Creation in Processess, ISSN: 2175-974.

• Biloria, N.; Introduction article: Evolutionary computation, ACAADIA 2008, Silicone+Skin,

  ISBN: 978-0-9789463-2-6, Minneapolis, USA

   

   

iNTERESTING   LINKS

Hyperbody >> Plethora >> Echoechonoisenoise >> Robotecture >> FutureCNC >> Code.algorithmicdesign >> CreativeApplication.Net >> Responsive Architecture  >> FORM+CODE >> Amnon Owed >> RhinoFabLab >> ThinkerLog >> p5p >> Toxiclibs >> OpenProcessing >> subblue >> SJET >> suckerPunch >> Michael Hansmeyer >> Daniel Widrig >> TheCreatorsProject >> CYMATICA >> MAKE: Online >> n_e_r_v_o_u_s system.com >> THEVERYMANY >> Fluid Interface >> lustlab >> ONL >> inhabitat >> rat{LAB} >> biayna bogosian >> FORMAKERS >> Tangible media group >> kokkugia >> Asif Khan >> minimaforms >> SENSEable City Lab >> Citizen Sense >> METABODY

NEWS

>> 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.