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LIFE in:formationOn Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture

Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of Association for Computer

Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA

Aaron Sprecher

Shai Yeshayahu

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Aaron Sprecher , McGill University, Montreal

Shai Yeshayahu, Southern Illinois University

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, The Cooper Union, New York

Chandler Ahrens, Founding Partner Open Source Architecture

Axel Schmitzberger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Michael Wen-Sen Su, Pratt Institute

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Sherif Abdelmohsen PhD Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology

Emily AbruzzoAssistant Professor, Parson School of Art

Henri AchtenAssociate Professor, Czech Technical University in Prague

Chandler Ahrens                  Founding Partner,Open Source Architecture     Phillip AnzaloneDirector, Building Technology Sequence, Columbia University

Phillip Beesley                  Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Torben Berns                  Visiting Professor, McGill University

Oliver Bertram              Assistant Professor University of Applied Art, Vienna

Gail BordenAssistant Professor, USC 

Meredith BostwickSenior Associate Architect, RMJM

Martin Bressani                 Associate Professor, McGill University

Anthony CaiccoVisiting Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture

Guedi CapelutoSenior Lecturer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Sheng-Fen ChienAssistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Jason Crow                       PhD Candidate, McGill University        Christian Derix                  Head of Computational Design and Research, AEDAS

Edouard DinAssociate Professor of Architecture, Tuskegee University

Marty DoscherDirector of Information Technology, Morphosis Architects

Jose Pinto Duarte                   Assistant Professor, TU Lisbon                          Jeremy Ficca                  Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University   

Pia Fricker Chair for CAAD, ETH, Zurich

Paola Giaconia                  Professor of Architectural Design, California State University in Florence

Michael D. Gibson Instructor / Researcher, Ball State University

Marcelyn Gow                  Design Faculty, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  

Yasha Grobman                  PhD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Mark D. Gross Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Gilles Halin Research Director, MAP-CRAI Laboratory, Nancy University

Michael Hensel                  Professor, AHO Oslo

Christiane M. HerrVisiting Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Alicia ImperialeAssistant Professor, Temple University    

Mehlika Inanici Assistant Professor, University of Washington                      Jason Johnson                   Assistant Professor, Calgary University            

Omar Khan                           Associate Professor, University of Buffalo 

Joachim B. Kieferle Professor, Hochschule RheinMain

Axel Kilian                           Assistant Professor, Princeton University 

Yoshihiro KobayashiResearch Associate, Arizona State University

Branko Kolarevic                  Professor, Calgary University   

Robert J. KrawczykAssociate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Peter Lang                           Associate Professor, Texas A&M University 

Tapani Launis                  PhD, Architecture Tapani Launis

Brian LilleyAssociate Professor, Dalhousie University

Mark Linder            Professor, Syracuse University  Brian LockyearPrincipal, Lockyear Design

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa         Associate Professor, Adjunct The Cooper Union    

Gregory A. LuhanAssociate Professor of Architecture, University of Kentucky

Alexis Meier                  Associate Professor, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Strasbourg

Miguel Mesa del Castillo          Technical Specialist, Politécnica Superior de Architectura del Alicante

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Mohamed Sharif                  Associate Professor, OTIS College of Art and Design

Mark Shepard                   Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Pedro Soza Assistant Professor, Univesidad de Chile

Ryan E. Smith Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Aaron SprecherAssistant Professor, McGill University

Joshua Stein                  Associate Professor, Woodbury University

Marc SwackhamerAssistant Professor, University of Minnesota         Michael Wen-Sen Su                           Visiting Professor, The Pratt Institute   

Kyle TalbottAssociate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Joshua Taron                     Assistant Professor, Calgary University

Aron Temkin                  Dean, Norwich University

Oliver TessmannBollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure

Lisa Tilder Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture              David Theodore                  PhD Candidate, Harvard University         

Graziano Mario Valenti         Professor, R.A.D.A.A.R. Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Eric Verboon            Façade Designer,Buro Happold   Shane Williamson Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Wei Yan Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Shai Yeshayahu                  Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University

So-Yeon Yoon Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia  

Rafael Gomez Moriana         Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Hoda Moustapha PhD Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Eduardo S. Nardelli          Professor Adjunto, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Eran NeumanChair, School of Architecture Tel Aviv University

Yeonjoo Oh PhD Candidate, CoDeLab, Carnegie Mellon University

Filiz Ozel Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University

Murali ParanandiAssociate Professor of Architecture, Miami University

Vera Parlac            Assistant Professor, Calgary University

Atilio Pentimalli                  Instructor, University of Buenos Aires

Santiago R. PerezAssistant Professor of Architecture, University of Arkansas

Christopher Pierce Unit Master, AA

Celine PinetDean of Instruction, West Valley College

Alessandra Ponte                  Associate Professor, Université de Montréal 

George Proctor              Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona                                              David Ruy                           Assistant Professor, The Pratt Institute        Jenny Sabin                  Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Antonino Saggio                  Professor, Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Andrew Saunders                  Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Axel Schmitzberger                  Associate Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Marc Aurel Schnabel         Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Introductions

7 Nancy Yen-wen Cheng ACADIA: an Ecosystem for Ideas8 Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa ACADIA 2010 Conference Chairs On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture10 Aaron Sprecher Informed Architecture14 Shai Yeshayahu Hack-on-Life16 Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa In:forming a Critical Digital Architecture Autonomy into Life

Keynote Essays

24 Antoine Picon Digital Culture and Architecture; Evolution or Revolution26 Georges Teyssot Th e Membrane and the Fold32 Karl Chu Th e Global Brain36 George L. Legendre Parametric Surface Redux: IJP (Finally) Explained40 Evan Douglis In Search of Synthetic Immortality

Affluence - Work In Progress

45 Antonino Saggio Information is the Raw Material of a New Architecture49 Alexis Meier Computation against design? Toward a New Logico-centrism in Architecture53 Ingeborg M. Rocker Interface: Between Analog and Digital Systems61 Christian Derix Mediating Spatial Phenomena through Computational Heuristics67 David Gersten Time Promise Land: Notes on our Current Geographies

Affluence - Peer Reviewed Essay Sessions

73 Anijo Punnen Mathew Just in Place Learning: A Novel Framework for Employing Information in “Place” for Urban Learning Environments81 Carlos L. Marcos Complexity, Digital Consciousness and Open Form: A New Design Paradigm88 Kyle Steinfeld, Pravin Bhiwapurkar, Anna Dyson, Jason Vollen Situated Bioclimatic Information Design: a new Approach to the Processing and Visualization of Climate Data97 Ming Tang, Jonathon Anderson Mathematically Driven Forms and Digital Tectonic: A Formula for Realizing the Digital103 Simon Flöry, Helmut Pottmann Ruled Surfaces for Rationalization and Design in Architecture110 Antonino Di Raimo Caregiver Architecture: Human Body - Information - Cognition117 Joanna Crotch, Robert Mantho, Martyn Horner Social Spatial Genesis: Activity Centered Space Making125 Paul Andersen, David Salomon Th e Pattern Th at Connects133 Jong Bum Kim, Mark J. Clayton Support Form-based Codes with Building Information Modeling – Th e Parametric Urban Model Case Study139 Nathan Miller [make]SHIFT: Information Exchange and Collaborative Design Workfl ows145 Danelle Briscoe Information Controlled Erosion151 Achim Menges Material Information: Integrating Material Characteristics and Behavior in Computational Design for Performative Wood Construction

Table of Contents

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271 Mohamed Sharif Notes on Abductive Experimentation276 Nader Tehrani Interview: On the Abstraction of Information and the Physical Tectonics of Materials282 Mark Linder Literal Digital286 Scott Marble Designing Design, Designing Assembly, Designing Industry 293 David Th eodore Th e Limits of Digital Architecture: Interpretation versus Data

Confluence - Peer Reviewed Essay Sessions

299 Rhett Russo Information as Material: Data Processing and Digital Fabrication Technologies305 Chris Perry Anticipatory Architecture | Extrapolative Design313 Pablo Banda Parametric Propagation of Acoustical Absorbers320 Vinu Subashini Rajus, Robert Woodbury, Halil I. Erhan, Bernhard E. Riecke, Volker Mueller Collaboration in Parametric Design: Analyzing User Interaction during Information Sharing327 Shahin Vassigh, Silvana Herrera Interactive Teaching through Simulation Environments333 Lawrence Blough Digital Tracery: Fabricating Traits340 Martin Tamke, Jacob Riiber, Hauke Jungjohann Generated Lamella348 Heinz Schmiedhofer Interactive Geometric Design of Architectural Freeform Hulls with Embedded Fabrication Information357 Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, Johannes Braumann A New Parametric Design Tool for Robot Milling364 Mark Cabrinha Parametric Sensibility: Cultivating the Material Imagination in Digital Culture372 Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges Material Computation in Architectural Aggregate Systems379 Jordan Geiger, Virginia San Fratello Hyperculture: Earth as Interface

386 Authors Biographies

410 Credits410 ACADIA 2010 Sponsors

Influence - Work In Progress

159 Martin Bressani Towards a Digital Th eory of Affect164 Alessandra Ponte Notes for an Archeology of Responsive Environments: Th e Case of Montreal 1965-1975168 Alberto T. Estévez Application of Life Information in Architecture: Biodigital Architecture and Genetics174 Jenny E. Sabin Digital Ceramics: Crafts-based Media for Novel Material Expression & Information Mediation at the Architectural Scale

Influence - Peer Reviewed Essay Sessions

183 Tim Ireland Stigmergic Planning190 Jennifer G. Wall, Erik D. Hegre Expel Binary Assumptions196 Vlad Tenu Minimal Surfaces as Self-organizing Systems203 Tomasz Jaskiewicz (In)forming Interactive Architectural Systems, Case of the xMAiA Meta-model211 Scott Crawford A Breathing Building Skin218 Kermin Chok, Mark Donofrio Structure at the Velocity of Architecture227 Flora Dilys Salim, Hugo Mulder, Przemyslaw Jaworski Demonstration of an Open Platform for Tangible and Social Interactions with Responsive Models234 Nicholas de Monchaux, Shivang Patwa, Benjamin Golder, Sara Jensen, David Lung Local Code: Th e Critical Use of Geographic Information Systems in Parametric Urban Design243 Anke Pasold, Isak Worre Foged Performative Responsive Architecture Powered by Climate250 Isak Worre Foged, Esben Skouboe Poulsen Environmental Feedback and Spatial Conditioning258 Christina Doumpioti, Evan L. Greenberg, Konstantinos Karatzas Embedded Intelligence: Material Responsiveness in Façade Systems263 Michael Leighton Beaman, Stefan Bader Responsive Shading | Intelligent Façade Systems