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Beyond the Visuals: Future Collaboration Scenarios Between Architects and Artificial Intelligence

Pugnale Alberto, Mirra Gabriele

August 2024 | Chapter

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research advancements is visible in many fields, from medicine to the visual arts. In architecture, Generative AI tools have enabled designers to generate large numbers of compelling images through simple textual prompts, triggering critics to focus the theoretical debate around issues of authorship and...

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Sketches of Thought: Inside the Black Box of AI

Mirra Gabriele, Pugnale Alberto

February 2020 | Chapter

‘Sketches of Thought’ is a human-machine collaborative design system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The first aim of ‘Sketches of Thought’ is illustrating an approach to AI-integration within the designer’s creative workflow. The system translates a hand-drawn architecture sketch into a photorealistic image that suggests a possible evolution of the...

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Parametrico (Parametric)

Pugnale, Alberto

January 2016 | Chapter

In book: La bellezza per il rospo (Beauty according to the toad) (pp.221-222), Publisher: CLEAN Edizioni, Editors: Roberta Amirante, Carmine Piscopo, Paola Scala. Born in the world of mathematics to define all those “equations that express a set of quantities as explicit functions of a number of independent variables, known...

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(Digital) Form-finding

Pugnale, Alberto

September 2014 | Chapter

In book: "AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using grasshopper", (pp.352-359). Publisher: Le Penseur. Editor: Arturo Tedeschi. In architecture and structural engineering, ‘form-finding’ identifies the process of designing optimal structural shapes by using experimental tools and strategies, i.e. physical models, to simulate a specific mechanical behaviour. The reverse hanging method is...

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Genetic algorithms for structural design

Coelho, Rajan Filomeno, Méndez Echenagucia, Tomás, Pugnale, Alberto & Richardson, James

April 2014 | Chapter

In book: "Shell Structures for Architecture - Form finding and optimization", (pp.290-294). Chapter: Appendix C. Publisher: Routledge. Editors: Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal, Chris Williams. Genetic algorithms are a subclass of evolutionary algorithms. A genetic algorithm (GA) is defined by Goldberg as a “search algorithm based on the mechanics...

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Computational Morphogenesis – Design of a free-form concrete shell

Pugnale, Alberto, Méndez Echenagucia, Tomás & Sassone, Mario

April 2014 | Chapter

In book: "Shell Structures for Architecture - Form finding and optimization", (pp.224-236). Chapter: 18. Publisher: Routledge. Editors: Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal, Chris Williams. Since the introduction of digital technologies, computational design and optimization has been gradually replacing practice based on physical models. Even if born as a set...

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