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An automated system for 3D printing functionally graded concrete-based materials

In recent years, the interest in developing additive manufacturing (AM) technologies in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry has increased, motivated by the potential to support greater formal complexity. In this context, AM has been largely used to design and fabricate physical parts with homogeneous materials. This paper proposes a new strategy, aimed at the design and fabrication of ...

Additive manufacturing as an enabling technology for digital construction: A pe...

The construction sector plays a key role in any country's economy.According to a report published by the World Economic Forum, the construction industry currently accounts for about 6% of the world GDP [1] and is expected to reach around 14.7% in 2030 [2]. Construction is a strategically important sector for the European economy involving a wide range of stakeholders and companies, providing 18 million jobs[209...

Customizing insulation material properties for building retrofitting : from inf...

The European Commission proposed a recast to the Energy Efficiency Directive with a target of 30% energy efficiency for 2030. Buildings are the largest energy consumers sector in EU. To reduce the energy consumption of existing buildings and promote energy efficiency retrofit, it is important to improve the thermal performance of the building envelope, acting on thermal bridges to enhance the optimal thermal co...

Na génese das racionalidades modernas II: em torno de Alberti e do Humanismo

Descodificando o De re aedificatoria: usar as novas tecnologias para caracteriz...

A investigação descrita neste artigo é parte de um projeto que visou a descodificação do tratado de Alberti através da inferência da gramática da forma correspondente, usando depois a estrutura computacional oferecida pelas gramáticas de descrição e da forma para determinar a extensão da tal influência no período da Contra‑Reforma em Portugal. O presente artigo concentra‑se sobre os fundamentos teóricos que per...

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Interactive tabletops for architectural visualization: combining stereoscopy an...

This paper presents an interactive apparatus to didactically explore Alberti's treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria, as generative design systems, namely shape grammars. This apparatus allows users to interactively explore such architectonical knowledge in both appealing and informal ways, by enabling them to visualize and manipulate in real-time different design solutions. The authors identify the dif...

Digital temples: a shape grammar to generate sacred buildings according to Albe...

The research presented further is part of the Digital Alberti research project, which aims to determine the influence of Alberti’s treatise on Architecture, De re aedificatoria, on the Portuguese Renaissance architecture, through the use of a computational framework. One of the project tasks entailed the translation of the treatise’s textual descriptions concerning the morphological, proportional and algorithmi...

Albertian grammatical transformations: from the treatise to the built work in t...

This paper presents a research on the use of shape grammars as an analytical tool in the history of architecture. It evolves within a broader project called Digital Alberti, whose goal is to determine the influence of De re aedificatoria treatise on Portuguese Renaissance architecture, making use of a computational framework (Krüger et al., 2011). Previous work was concerned with the development of a shape gram...

Transformation Grammar for Housing Rehabilitation: from a specific to a general...

This article focuses on the use of both shape grammar and space syntax as tools to identify and encode the principles and rules behind the adaptation of existing houses to new requirements. The idea is to use such rules as part of a transformation grammar-based methodology for the rehabilitation of existing dwellings. The developed grammar is a specific grammar to inform the rehabilitation of a particular type ...