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Space Administration and 3D cadastre

Cadastral parcels registered and visualised in 3D answer the need for clearer, accessible and both historic and up-to-date information. How can these advanced models be realized within an extended spatial Database Management System environment and be used for efficiently disseminating data to users? How to re-use building (construction) designs to more efficiently create/derive 3D legal spaces? Contact: Peter van Oosterom.

Urban Digital Twins

Digital Twins are virtual representations that describe, analyse, and simulate processes. They can represent urban environments using data, machine learning and data analytics, allowing simulating and optimising scenarios that synchronise on the real twin’s changes. Scalable simulations use physics-based and data-driven modelling, taking advantage also of geospatial data from different sensing techniques (such as thermal satellite imagery).

Various Scale Models

How can we realize a paradigm shift towards dynamic vario-scale (geo)information with minimal redundancy, supporting delivery of representations at arbitrary scale for different user contexts and progressive transfer for the delivery of refinements? This spans from raw data to data-structure, to usability and web-visualization. Contact: Martijn Meijers

Indoor Location-based Services

Indoor LBS is a fast-developing research subject, to facilitate location specific processes (for logistics, daily use, emergencies, etc.). A proper localization process requires positioning into a semantically rich model of the physical environment, or the simultaneous generation of both. Contact: Edward Verbree

Design Computing & VR

Spatial Computational Form Finding methods and Virtual Reality intersects. VR as evaluation tool for spatial design supports simulations in urban context and generative workflows urban to buildings. This interrelates with VR environments for gamified approaches and remote collaboration. Contact: Hans Hoogenboom.

Generative Design for Reuse

Artificial Intelligence opens new avenues for the reuse of the waste from building demolition. Part of the waste consists of fully functional structural components, which can be repurposed. How can AI-supported computational methods assist designers in developing more sustainable design solutions? Contact: Gabriele Mirra

Computational Design & Engineering

In design, an analytical understanding of quantitative building performances is paramount but insufficient. Buildings’ materiality and its engineering are also expression of spatial qualities challenging to compute. Emerging AI techniques enable to incorporate the human factor into computational methods for architectural engineering. We are shifting from tools that predict solely engineering performance, towards computational methods that inform designers also on soft aspects, such as user experience predictions. Contact: Michela Turrin

Robotics & Human Machine Interaction

Human machine interaction refers to how people and automated systems communicate and collaborate. Focused on human machine interaction in architectural engineering design, it includes inputs cognitive science and real-time collaboration in fabrication and provides inputs to design. Contact: Serdar Asut

Large Scale Additive Manufacturing

Contact: Ir. Arch. Paul de Ruiter