This research investigates gaming as a framework for design democratization in architecture, where the end user is the key decisionmaker in the design process. ARchitect is a multisensory game that promotes and explores the educational aspects of learning game...

Autonomously shape-changing granular materials are investigated as architectural construction materials. They allow the embedding of different mechanical behaviors in the same material system through the design of their component particles. Granular materials ...

INOCULATED MATTER looks towards new possibilities for designing and making architectural elements with living organisms, upcycled waste, and 3D printing technologies. This research project, which is currently ongoing and has been developed over the past two ye...

While technology has rapidly become available to more people, there is still a lack of representation and diversity among the individuals who develop and create with it. The implication of computational design and digital fabrication scholarship is that knowle...

This pavilion project was built as an outcome of an undergraduate design studio and design practicum at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE. The research methodology for the studio included case studies of various traditional building types to unders...

The research presented in this paper proposes a bespoke digital machine-material system for architectural assembly. The research aims to contribute to the body of work in digital material systems and single-task construction and fabrication robotics. Specifica...

Parasympathy is an interactive spatial experience operating as an extension of visitors’ minds. By integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), wearable technologies, affective computing (Picard 1995; Picard 2003), and neuroscience, this project blurs the lines ...

Inkjet printing has become abundantly available to businesses, offi ces, and households ever since its commercialization in the late 1980s. Although roughly forty years have passed, the desktop printer is still limited to printing on thin fl at surfaces, mainl...

Meristem Wall is a prototype for a 3D-printed building envelope, featuring a dynamically controllable network of integrated air channels that allow a fl uid and adaptive relationship between inside and outside. The wall integrates functional lighting and elect...

This paper describes a custom robotic process for semi-autonomous survey and layout of architectural elements for a large-scale renovation project. Specifically, the research presents a custom single-task robotic device accompanied with software and workflow m...

This paper discusses recent developments on the geometric construction and fabrication techniques associated with large-scale surface disclinations. The basic concept of disclinations recognizes the role of “defects” in the composition of materials, the stra...

Recent decades have seen the development of increasingly powerful digital modeling and fabrication tools applied to the creation of molds or formwork for cast or formed materials. Many of these processes are highly customizable but resource intensive, singular...

This design research reimagines the architectural detail in a postdigital framework and proposes digital methods to work upon discrete tectonics. Drawing upon Marco Frascari's writing The Tell-the-Tale Detail, the study aims to reimagine tectonic thinking for ...

Academic papers are full of final drawings and diagrams but gloss over process work, “less glamorous” images, and the amount of time and labor behind a fi nal product. Certain skills and expertise cannot be taught but are instead collected from years of pers...

Positioned at the intersection of the computational modes of design and production, this research explains the principles and applications of a novel fabrication-informed geometric system called nesting. Applying the nesting fabrication method, the authors rei...

Arbor is a data spatialization of the urban forest of Palo Alto, California. The sculptural installation consists of 120 ribs arranged radially within King Plaza fronting Palo Alto City Hall. It uses the database of over 45,000 public trees in the city’s Open...

The circumstances of the pandemic resulted in the closure of collective maker spaces and university fab labs. This disruption to machine access had consequences for design studio curricula which shifted to online and digital formats. In response, an experiment...

MindSculpt enables users to generate a wide range of hybrid geometries in Grasshopper in real-time simply by thinking about those geometries. This design tool combines a non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) with the parametric design platform Grasshopp...

Through 3d printing, cellulose-based biopolymers undergo a two-staged hybrid fabrication process, where initial rapid forming is followed by a slower secondary stage of curing. During this curing large quantities of water are evaporated from the material which...

As the demand for technologies that mediate the environment continues to rise, day-to-day activities have been increasingly overloaded with devices that collect personal signals, such as phones, watches, jewelry, and fitness trackers. Yet, despite the sensibil...