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Moving Forward to 3D/4D Printed Building Facades

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings will require high-performance building envelopes, though the building sector is currently a major contributor to the world’s energy consumption and related CO2 emissions. Innovative advanced materials, such as smart or functionally graded materials are being developed to better adapt buildings to environmental needs. This paper presents a brief overview of novel advanced materials f...

Computational modelling and digital materialization of Alberti’s column system:...

In this paper we present some of the results of the Digital Alberti research project, whose main objective is to assess the influence of the Renaissance on Portuguese architecture in the Counter-reform period. In this project, Renaissance architect Leon Batista Alberti’s treatise on architecture, De re aedifcatoria — actually its Portuguese translation, “Da arte edifcatória” (Alberti, 2011) — is analyzed, decode...

De re aedificatoria column systematization shape grammar

An underlying influence of Alberti’s theory is felt in classical architecture in Portugal, but no one was able to determine the extent of such an influence. The idea is to contribute for further methodology and data by translating the treatise into a description grammar (Stiny, 1981) and a shape grammar (Stiny and Gips, 1972) and tracing the influence of Alberti’s work by determining to which extent this grammar c...

Alberti Digital on Portuguese Architecture: shape grammar transformations as a ...

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