2008. Teaching Files >>> Performative building skin
systems
PROJECT 01: stomata membrane
STUDENTs: adi fajar utama, Dangho Nam, Benjamin D. Vincent, Oladayo Oladunjoye, Andreia Penaloza Caicedo
The Stomata membrane is a real-time responsive building skin system built upon the nature of stomata system found in plants. The idea of regulating internal environmental conditions via active exchange of gas and water vapour using the stomata became a driver for developing this self-sustaining skin system. The skin experiments depart from understanding material properties (in this case plastic) of flexible componential assemblages. This experimentation lead to the selection of a candidate (3d component), which can possess variable states of opening and closing based upon external impulses, which, subsequently lead to the development of an algorithm for understanding the operational logistics of the component. Based on this algorithm, a strategic division of the component family was initiated. This implied categorising the kinetic operations of the component as being suitable for wind, water and solar energy harvesting. Subsequently parametric logic for defining a truss system for hosting these specialised components was developed. This ensured any change in surface condition to be immediately recognised and translated into a regenerated truss system, which will host the ecology of wind, water and solar components. A self sustaining logic, wherein, the energy generated from the wind component powers the actuator systems of the solar and water harvesting components is deployed. Internal comfort factors and the manner in which the stomata skin controls its energy harvesting and regulates wind, sun and water within the building is further set into place as an information layer for the system.
Keywords >> Stomata, Self-sustaining, Component, Kinetics, Sensing, actuation and control, Energy harvesting, Parametric design, Generative geometry
2008. Teaching Files >>> performative building skin systems
PROJECT 02: Hyper human heart
STUDENts: Daniele Brossa , Valentina Summini, Bart de Leeuw
The origin, or heart, is located at the main intersection of the site's paths, where a new Faculty of Architecture Building needs to be established. The heart is the generator, not only of form, but also of future knowledge and ideas in architecture. The building grows from this point. Light shafts are parametrically defined based upon activity patterns within the new faculty. However the main feature of the building is its extensively designed skin system. The Hyper Human Heart (HHH) skin research group further specialised in developing a real-time light response and climate control based interactive prototype by means of professionally collaborating with an Ethylenetetrafluoroethulene cushion (ETFE) manufacturing company; Buitink, The Netherlands. An ETFE cushion is primarily composed of two thin sheets of a very strong and clear polymer, welded at their perimeters such that the space between the two sheets can be filled with air. The developed component, takes the form of a flap based shading system made out of PET foil in the form of two triangular movable membranes (the movement of which is controlled by an integrated electro-active actuator connected to a motor) which are fixed internally along the ETFE cushion perimeter (housed within) an ETFE cushion. The movement patterns for the PET flaps were attained via a parametric design based simulation using Generative Components©, in which simulations of the three dimensional model of the flaps responding to the sun position were developed. The PET flaps are layered with an electro-chromic film,
which can change its opacity levels relative to small amounts of electrical current induction. The sandwiched component also hosts a light sensor (for sensing external light conditions) attached to the external frame and an ultra sonic range sensor (for sensing the proximity of people from the skin) and a touch sensor on the internal surface of the frame. The readings from the external light sensor and the touch sensors are relayed to a micro-controller embedded inside each component which is scripted using Max MSP & Jitter
for activating the embedded motors. The motors are in-turn connected with a kinetic mechanism which controls the movement of the internal PET foil membranes as a direct response to external light conditions as well as user touch. The actuations of the two motors per component are carefully regulated such that the internal flaps are completely open when the sun angle is horizontal and is closed when the sun angle is perpendicular (in order to allow diffused lighting instead of harsh sunlight).
Keywords >>ETFE, PET Foil, Sensing, actuation and control systems, Real-time response, Prototyping, Environmental analysis
2008. Teaching Files >>> performative building skin systems
PROJECT 03: H(EYE) LIGHT
STUDENTS: Tomasz Puczsz, Wan-Yu Liu, Giacomo Destefanis
The H[EYE]LIGH is real-time interactive building skin system, addressing lighting, heating, ventilation and atmospheric condition regulation within different portions of a building. The skin is envisioned as a multi-layered system working according to a principle similar to the one of a double skin facade, circulating fresh air in a cavity in which the air is warmed up to be introduced into the building during winter and expelled during summer.
The indoor lighting requirements are regulated by means of actuated glass fibre components (strips). These strips are affected by a system of mechanical cogs, which transmit the spinning movement of a motor to the stripes, which bend, while applying force from the sides, therefore creating controlled opening patterns. The size and position of these openings vary according to real-time tracked solar exposure values, which the skin's surface witnesses throughout the day.
Keywords >> Sensing, actuation and control systems, Double skin, Glass Fibre strips, Motors, Distributed computing
2008. Teaching Files >>> performative building skin systems
PROJECT 04: habitual inversion
STUDENTs: Marcus Chaidez , Tim Do, Anahita Tabrizi , Maria Vasiloglou
Habitual Inversion describes the process through which an adaptable building skin system performs in a way that facilities habitual programmatic routines while at the same time allows for the subversion of such routines through user interaction. As a responsive system, the skin mechanically mediates the diffusion of light by responding to specific environmental and solar conditions, depending on the time of day. Understanding that the environment and the program are never static, the purpose of our design is to develop an intelligent building system that learns from the daily fluctuations in the environment at well as provide a clement environment for its daily users.
Technically, the guiding system that facilitates the responsive system is a associative parametric component system that populates the façade. Each individual component can be manipulated at the micro and macro level – at the level of the individual user that allows particular light control to an overall façade that responds to changing climatic conditions throughout areas of the building.
Keywords >> Componential system, Sensing, actuation and control system, Parametric design, Kinetics
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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.