"This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigating 'smart' approaches to design that augment the potentials of user experiences. Split into six paradigmatic focuses, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, smart design methodologies and typologies, smart design theoretical discourses, smart materials, smart design for extreme weather and a changing climate, smart mobility, and the role of digital technologies, robotics, and simulations in architectural and urban design. Often at odds with each other, this volume places emphasis on smart design and advances in technology for healthy and sustainable living environments. Written by emerging and established architects, planners, designers, scientists, and engineers from around the globe, this will be an essential reference volume for architecture and urban design students and scholars as well as those in related fields interested in the implications, various facets and futures of smart design"--
This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigating ‘smart’ approaches to design that augment the potentials of user experiences.
This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "smart" approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment.
Split into six paradigms, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, smart design methodologies and typologies, smart materials, smart design for extreme weather and climatic regions, as well as climate change issues and side effects, smart mobility, and the role of digital technologies and simulations in architectural and urban design. Often at odds with each other, this volume places emphasis on smart design for various typologies and user groups, emphasizing on advancements in form-making and implementation of technology for healthy and sustainable living environments.
Written by emerging and established architects, planners, designers, scientists, and engineers from around the globe, this will be an essential reference volume for architecture and urban design students and scholars as well as those in related fields interested in the implications, various facets and futures of smart design.
Preface: The Background of the Idea, Objectives, and the Conceptual
Framework of the Publication Meanings and Various Domains of Smart Design
Thinking; Introduction: The Design Imagination Is Smart Design Enough?;
Prologue: Architects, Smart Futures, and Climate Change; PARADIGMATIC
CATEGORY 1 Various Domains of Smartness in Design Thinking, Theoretical
Discourses, and Approaches; 1.1. Emerging Smart Design Thinking: A Utopian
Futuristic Trend, and an Enduring Theoretical Discourse, .or an Interim
Stance? 1.1.1. Understanding the Emerging Domains of Smart Design Thinking
Concepts and Intelligent Design Methodologies in Architecture: Background,
Theoretical Tenets, and Various Facets of Smart Thinking in Architectural
Design and Conceptualization 1.1.2 The Smart City Is More than Just
Technology and Data Collection: A Critical Stance 1.2. The United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals, How Smart Design Can Promote Equity among the
Underserved Inhabitants of Cities 1.3. A Smart Paradigm for Participatory
Urban Design 1.4. Smart Responsive Design Thinking in Neuroarchitecture:
Towards creating homeostasis balance, equitability, diversity, inclusivity,
interactivity, and social performativity in the built environment 1.4.1.
Neuro-Architecture for Cognitive Ecologies: Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive
Smart Design 1.4.2. Smart Design for Promoting Social Performativity and
Interactivity of All the Senses 1.4.3. Neuromorphic Architecture at a Turning
Point 1.5. AI and the Morphology of the City _AIs Dynamic Power in Shaping
the Future of Urban Design 1.6. Lived Multi-species High-Density Utopias:
Smart City Design for Healthy and Diverse Communities in the
PostAnthropocene 1.7. Smart City and the Concept of Safety: The Meaning of
Safety in Smart Citys Organizational Systems and Infrastructure 1.8.
Examining the Presence of Intelligent Design in Low-Tech and High-Tech
Designs Leading to Eco-Tech Smart Architectural Design Strategies 1.9.
Towards Performative, Environmentally Responsive Architecture 1.10. Smart
Urban Resiliency Concepts and Goals: How Can Cities Become Smart but also
Sustainable and Resilient 1.11.Designing Smart Retrofits using Natures
Patterns: Designing Sustainability into Existing Communities 1.12. From
Smart to Autonomous Cities on the Eve of AI: Some Provocations for Architects
and Designers 1.13 Smart Architecture to Reduce Whole-Life Carbon in
Buildings and Infrastructure 1.14. Blockchain Technology for Smart Thinking:
The Intangible Digital Assets for AIEnabled Monitoring and Improving Process
Performance and Reducing Building Impacts on Ecology PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 2
Smart Design Methodologies and Concepts for Intelligent Typologies and User
Needs 2.1 Smart Designs Methodology as Research-Informed-Design 2.1.1
Searching Through Smart Design Methods for Architecture 2.1.2 For(m) and
Against Architectural Intelligence: Design as Research, Again 2.2 Br(AI)n
City: The AI Enhanced City of the Future 2.3. City as Spaceship Spaceship
as City 2.3.1 City As A Spaceship (CAAS) 2.3.2 Outer Space Activities and the
Future of Smart Habitats on Earth 2.4. Smart Assistive Design Concepts for
Enhancing Independent Living in Domestic Environments 2.5. DeafSpace:
Cultural Origins, Architectural Applications and Lessons for Dwelling in a
Time of Climate Change 2.6. Smart Architecture for the Blind 2.7.
People-Centered Smart Learning Ecosystems: Frameworks of reference for
optimal design and planning to support individual well-being and learning by
being 2.8. The Body in Healing Technology 2.9. Smart Design for Human
Responsiveness and Movement 2.9.1 Proportioned and Smart Architecture 2.9.2
Smart Home Design for People with Dementia 2.9.3 Smart Design and AI for
Developmental Disabilities: Characteristics of People with Autism Spectrum
Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 3 Smart
Materiality 3.1. On Science of the Materials for the Built Environments The
Role of Biomimetics/Biomimicry and Development of Strength and Promoting
Natural Forms and Function Inspired by Nature: Bioreceptive Materials for
Future Artificial Ecologies Epizoochory: Evolution of Material and Methods
3.2. Smart Ways to Enclose Buildings: Using Super-Strong, Super-Hard, and
Flexible Biomaterials Designed with Nano- and Mesoscale Technology 3.3. Smart
Materials as Architectured Porous and Hybrid Systems to Produce Performative
Building Components 3.4. Fractal-Based Porous Concrete Components Design and
3D Printing 3.5. Advancing Tunable Acoustics through Smart Materials and
Reconfigurable Kerf Structures 3.6. Smart Tectonics for the Design of
Building Structural Systems 3.7. Smart Building Sensibilities: Future
Buildings Will Be Smarter, Greener, Cleaner, Connected, Adaptable and
Driven by Digital Rather Than Spatial Technology PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 4
Smart Design for a Changing Climate 4.1. Panarchistic Architecture: A
Paradigm in Wildlife Resilience 4.2. Connecting Architecture and Agriculture
for a Climate-Smart Future 4.3. Anti-desertification Architecture: Aeolian
Assemblies 4.4. The Stacked City as a Model for HighDensity LowCarbon
Urbanization: Comparison of the Vertical and Horizontal City Models for Urban
Development in Hot Climate Zones and their Potential to Achieve NetZero
Carbon Emissions 4.5. Sustainable Smart Cold Living Habitats Lesson from
Antarctica for Other Earth Locations in the Light of Climate Crisis 4.6.
Envisioning Ecological Planning Merged with Smart Technologies and Density
4.7. The Intelligence of Buildings: Information and Bioclimatic Design 4.8.
Smart Energy Harvesting from Natural and Artificial Aquatic Systems 4.9.
Amphibious Structures for Smart Flood Risk Reduction and Climate Change
Adaptation 4.10. Smart Ocean Living: Speculative Design of the North Atlantic
Floating Archipelago 4.11. Aquatic Structures: Designing Marine Futures 4.12.
Expansion in the Water: Growth and Design Processes to Grow Living Islands
PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 5 On Smart Design Mobility and in Defiance of Pollution
5.1. Smart Mobility and the Future of Cities 5.2. Smart Airports: Evolving
Airports for a More HumanFocused Journey 5.3. The Future of Advanced Air
Mobility and the Role of the Airports 5.4. Space Station Architecture
Precursor for a Comprehensive Smarter Architectural Design Study: The
TriangularTetrahedral (TriTet) Space Station 5.5. Mobile Architecture for,
with, and by the People: Smart Design Responses to Climate Change Challenges
PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 6Simulation and Advancements Trajectories in Digital
Technologies and Data-Driven Smart Designs 6.1. Simulation-Driven Eco-Social
Design: Towards Creating Smart Designs 6.2. Smart Prototyping: From
Data-Driven Mass-Customization to Community-Enabled Co-Production 6.3.
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry 4.0 and Beyond:
Building Construction Automation through 3D Printing and Additive
Manufacturing Toward Lower Environmental Impacts 6.4. Nesting Fabrication: An
Integrated Approach Using Existing Tools to Minimize Waste in Large-Scale
Freeform Construction 6.5. Huma-Robot Reconfigurations: Advancing Feminist
Technoscience Perspectives for Human-Robot-Collaboration in Architecture and
Construction
Mitra Kanaani is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and a fellow and Distinguished Professor of the Association Collegiate Schools of Architecture (DPACSA). Mitra holds a DArch, with a focus on Performative Architecture, and an MArch, with a minor in Structural Engineering, as well as a Master of Urban Planning and a BA in Musicology. She is the former chair of the NewSchool of Architecture and an active researcher, author, and editor. She is currently on the California Architect Board, a Global Associate faculty with BIHE, and their liaison with the UIA.
