The Digital Twin Tackling Urban Challenges with Models, Spatial Analysis and Numerical Simulations in Immersive Virtual Environments.

Dembski, Fabian; Wössner, Uwe; Letzgus, Mike

doi:10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_334

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“…Bespoke tools such as the ones found in the case studies increase the architect’s agency by “placing the act of design within the highest order of system hierarchy, being simultaneously purposed and reflexive.” 32 Techniques, not trends, such as BIM are in fact affording designers a new level of intelligence 33 ; they must therefore be integral to the act of design. When Philip Bernstein urged his audience of practitioners at a BILT conference (Seattle, 2019) to move away from drawings and move towards delivery of information models (essentially the “digital twin” 34 ), he was calling on architects to acquire the skills needed to gain control of such a model containing the entirety of design intents—the essence of an architect’s services.…”

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Real design practice, real design computation

Wang¹

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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The business model of architecture has been accused of being technologically deficient. Through case studies, this paper investigates alternatives to the status quo of computation in architecture, with a focus on design-oriented service providers. It first examines the discourse on computation within the field, then describes the experiments of a relevant design firm before discussing implications for the wider industry. In the process, the paper articulates the gap between theoretical computing applications and the realities of the architecture business. It addresses difficult technological adaptations within the industry with concrete use cases of integrated computing expertise, highlighting opportunities, benefits, and, more importantly, the need for a computational workforce.

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Real design practice, real design computation

Wang¹

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…It is acknowledged as a powerful tool for modeling and data visualization, and there is a growing demand for such a cutting-edge technology in architecture for various goals; as a tool for representation, design development, evaluation and analysis, [46][47][48] education, 49,50 and data visualization at urban scale. [51][52][53] Upon receiving a human ethics certification, and with no recruiting criteria in terms of gender, demographic breakdown, prerequisite skills, etc., we invited the first 20 volunteers for the study.…”

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Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Hosseini

Alim

Oehlberg

et al. 2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Architects and designers communicate their ideas within a range of representational methods. No single instance of these methods, either in the form of orthographic projections or perspectival representation, can address all questions regarding the design, but as a whole, they demonstrate a comprehensive range of information about the building or object they intend to represent. This explicates an inevitable degree of deficiency in representation, regardless of its type. In addition, perspective-based optical illusions manipulate our spatial perception by deliberately misrepresenting the reality. In this regard, they are not new concepts to architectural representation. As a consequence, Optically Illusive Architecture (OIA) is proposed, not as a solution to fill the gap between the representing and represented spaces, but as a design paradigm whose concept derives from and accounts for this gap. By OIA we aim to cast light to an undeniable role of viewpoints in designing architectural spaces. The idea is to establish a methodology in a way that the deficiency of current representational techniques—manifested as specific thread of optical illusions—flourishes into thoughtful results embodied as actual architectural spaces. Within our design paradigm, we define a framework to be able to effectively analyze its precedents, generate new space, and evaluate their efficiencies. Moreover, the framework raises a hierarchical set of questions to differentiate OIA from a visual gimmick. Furthermore, we study two OIA-driven environments, by conducting empirical studies using Virtual Reality (VR). These studies bear essential information, in terms of design performance, and the public’s ability to engage and interact with an OIA space, prior to the actual fabrication of the structures.

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“…The concept of digital twin has been transferred to urban studies for its potential in creating collaborative planning processes, and in enabling participants with diverse backgrounds to achieve an agreement [27,25]. As set by Dembski [28], DTs can be used for analysing potential impacts of urban changes, giving the possibility to citizens to learn and contribute both to the transformation of spaces and to the understanding of impacts, since the earliest stages of the process.…”

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Cultural Heritage and Digital Tools: the Rock Interoperable Platform

Turillazzi¹,

Leoni²,

Gaspari³

et al. 2021

Int. J. EI

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The digitisation of urban cultural heritage (CH) is recognised within EU (European Union) policies as an opportunity to make CH a driver for urban transformation towards a sustainable and inclusive future. Various digital platforms are emerging as tools not only to store, retrieve, compare and process different kind of data related to CH for the use of urban planners and administrators, but also as participative tools for distributed decision-making.The increasing integration between the physical and digital realm through various digital instruments such as the Internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, machine learning and natural language processing, has led designers to conceptualise the necessity of merging different smart city dashboards and platforms into an integrated system known as the urban digital twin (DW). This task can be made possible only through the construction of a shared ontology of the city, which allows the interoperability of different data systems.The DWs, originally developed in mechanical and process engineering, allow to construct a digital model of a physical object or process, to monitor its real-time performance, to perform maintenance tasks and to test the effects of planned changes. However, when extending the notion of the DW to complex cultural and social entities such as cities, it is important to consider also issues of inclusivity and citizen participation. How can the DW be conceptualised not only as a tool of technological control or narrative, but as an instrument to empower not only institutions but also citizens? The experience gathered in the construction of the ROCK platform and its participatory ontology, developed within the Horizon 2020 (H2020) funded project ROCK (GA 730280), becomes an important precedent in this task.

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The Digital Twin Tackling Urban Challenges with Models, Spatial Analysis and Numerical Simulations in Immersive Virtual Environments.

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Real design practice, real design computation

Real design practice, real design computation

Optically illusive architecture (OIA): Introduction and evaluation using virtual reality

Cultural Heritage and Digital Tools: the Rock Interoperable Platform

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