Prototyping is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts.
A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design …

Designing building structures presents various challenges, including inefficient design
processes, limited data reuse, and the underutilization of previous design experience …

The envelope shape, the most salient design characteristic in a building, has significant
influence on its energy performance. However, in the early design stages, when the …

To address the need for a shift from a linear to a circular economy in the built environment,
this paper develops a semi-automated assistive process for planning building material …

Biomimetic, or biologically inspired, design uses analogous biological phenomena to
develop solutions for engineering problems. Several instances of biomimetic design result …

Shape grammars are a powerful and appealing formalism for automatic shape generation in
computer-based design systems. This paper presents a proposal complementing the …

Tensegrities consist of disjoint struts connected by tensile strings which maintain shape due
to pre-stress stability. Because of their rigidity, foldability and deployability, tensegrities are …

This dissertation focuses on computational strategies for incorporating structural
considerations into the earliest stages of the architectural design process. Because …

Shape grammars allow a designer to explore a diverse and broad design space. Especially
among architects and engineers, the opportunity to evaluate numerous alternatives in the …

The concept of emergence has its roots in 19th-century philosophy. Today it is central to
many computational systems which retain the hallmarks of emergence laid out much earlier …