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topoGenesis

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:49:47 +0000

Team: Ir. S. Azadi, Dr.ir. P. Nourian

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

topoGenesis is an open-source python package that provides topological structures and functions for Generative Systems and Sciences for various application areas such as:

generative design in architecture and built environment
generative spatial simulations
3D image processing
topological data analysis
machine learning

topoGenesis

aims to utilize the vast functionalities of fields (mathematical objects) in generative systems and sciences. Therefore it seeks to:

offer basic mathematical functionalities on field data models
offer functionalities of computational topology on top of the field structures
facilitate the conversion between mesh-based data models and field data models.
facilitate field simulations, whether governed by differential equations, spectral models or based on computational models (ABM)
construct a bridge between spatial data models and tensor data structures to facilitate the utilization of the latest artificial intelligence models

Contents:

Mesh to Field: Rasterization
- Point Cloud Regularization
- Line Network Voxelation
- Mesh Surface Voxelation
- Signed Distance Field
Field to Mesh: Isosurface
- Boolean Marching Cubes
- Marching Cubes
- Surface Nets
Local Computation
- Stencil / Kernels
  - von Neumann neighbourhood
  - Moore neighbourhood
  - Cube neighbourhood
  - Custom neighbourhoods
- Universal Functions & Mathematical Operators (Numerical)
Field Simulations (Vectorized)
- Dynamic Systems (based on Differential Equations)
- Agent-Based Modeling
- Cellular Automata

topoGenesis is compatible with COMPAS - A framework for computational research in architecture and structures

Image Credit: Utilization of topoGenesis in Earthy 4.0: Carethy Project

Utilization of topoGenesis in the course Spatial Computing in Architectural Design!

COLLAGE

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Ir. Charis Theodorou, Dr. Johannes Flacke, Dr. Cheryl de Boer, Dr. Pirouz Nourian

The project, COLLAGE PSS 2.0, aims to develop an Augmented Planning Support System designed for effective regional planning. The primary goal is to achieve a balance between economic growth and environmental sustainability, addressing complex issues like facility location planning, optimized location-allocation, and renewable energy portfolio management. Key objectives include ensuring supply sufficiency, maximizing budget efficiency, and minimizing disturbances to local environments, promoting a holistic approach to sustainable regional development.

BIOZEN PSS

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Ir. Wen-Yu Chen, Dr. Pirouz Nourian, Dr. Johannes Flacke

The aim of this project is to develop an Augmented Planning Support System tailored for regional planning. This system focuses on balancing economic and environmental sustainability, addressing critical issues such as facility location planning, location intelligence, and transportation challenges. The core objectives are to enhance transport efficiency, considering both planetary and societal impacts, support multi-criteria decision-making to satisfy various stakeholders, and promote collaborative mapping to ensure inclusive and informed regional development. Through these goals, the project aspires to contribute towards sustainable and efficient regional planning solutions.

Cheetah, the CONFIGURBANIST

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr.ir. P. Nourian, ir. S. Rezvani

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

Cheetah_the ONFIGURBANIST is a plugin for configurational analysis in urban design projects, made as an add on for grasshopper©. Cheetah is to be a proof of concept for a larger package named as CONFIGURBANIST. Cheetah_the ONFIGURBANIST is a plugin for configurational analysis in urban design projects, made as an add on for grasshopper©; Cheetah is to be a proof of concept for a larger package named as CONFIGURBANIST. This package (Cheetah) is provided “as is” at the moment, without any responsibility for the developers in case of any (potential) damages to the work or materials of users. We hereby acknowledge that we have learnt a lot from the extremely useful plugin SpiderWeb in the course of developing Cheetah, and we are thankful for that. I have enjoyed working with my friend Dr. José Nuno Beirão on a related project in 2010 and 2011, thanks to him for all the good ideas he inspired me. Between 2011 and 2013, I benefited from comments and ideas of Dr. Meta Berghauser Pont on the preliminary versions of this work. I hereby thank Meta for her support and inspiration. I would like to thank my friend and colleague Ahu Sokmenoglu for the fruitful workshop we had together in Istanbul and for kindly letting me use and experiment with the GIS data of the Tarlabasi neighborhood in Istanbul provided in the example file.

Dissemination

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Educational Textbook

From Configurational Analysis Towards Configurational Evaluation

Workshops:

Cityscape Configuration, workshop with Philip Belesky (RMIT, AU), @ TU Wien in eCAADe 2015 - Cityscape Configuration
URBAN DATASCOPE, workshop with Dr. Jose Nuno Beirao (TU Lisbon, PT) and Dr. Ahu Sokmenoglu (Istanbul Technical University, TK) eCAADe 2013, @TU Delft Sep 2013
Tarlabasi DATASCOPE with, workshop with Dr. Jose Nuno Beirao (TU Lisbon, PT) and Dr. Ahu Sokmenoglu (Istanbul Technical University, TK) @ Istanbul Technical University, May 2013

R-MAP

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Vidit Kundu, PhD Candidate, Dr. Pirouz Nourian, Dr. Jiong Wang, Dr. Johannes Flacke, Dr. Anna Grigolon, Prof. Karin Pfeffer

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

The project bases its research on the premise that understanding and shaping the trends related to the emergence of RWAs provides an opportunity to bridge the urban-rural divide affecting its multiple facets. To achieve its goals, R-Map will produce an Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (powered by the R-Map model) that will allow the assessment of individual, social, economic, environmental and spatial impacts of RWAs.

TWINEXUS

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr. Pirouz Nourian, PhD Candidate Ivan Cardenas

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

TWIN-NEXUS is an open source geospatial digital twinning workbench consisting of Python libraries for mapping, spatial analysis, simulation modelling, and decision analysis, to be used among other purposes for developing [raster-based] Spatial Decision Support Systems for Operational Planning, and Planning Support Systems for Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis.

Emergentium

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:49:47 +0000

Emergentium Team: Ir. S. Azadi, Ir. N Abuzaid

Follow the utilization and further development of Emergentium in the project EquiCity

Note: The platform is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

Emergentium is an open and accessible simulation platform for urban and spatial simulations. It aims to facilitate research on multi-dimensional, multi-criteria, and multi-actor aspects of the built environment by providing a dynamic and interactive simulation platform that focuses on decentralized spatial simulations. Emergentium primarily focuses on differentiated discrete simulation space embedded in geo-spatial platforms, customizable computational agents and rule-sets, and online participatory capabilities of interacting with the simulations.

RASTERWORKS

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: RasterWorks tools were developed in the context of the project Big Data Analytics in the Geospatial Domain by Pirouz Nourian under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova. Contributions of Dr. Anh -Vu Vo (University College Dublin), Dr. Romulo Goncalves (Netherlands eScience Center), Dr. Ken Arroyo Ohori (3D Geoinformation) in this project are herewith acknowledged.

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

This is a repository for our legacy code on topological rasterization and vectorization (polygonization) of scalar fields. Most legacy codes are in C#; while the new codes are in Python.

Dissemination

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

SOLARIS

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr.ir. P. Nourian, ir. S. Rezvani, Shervin Azadi, Anastasia Florou

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

This is a model to estimate (not calculate in any physical unit) how much a configuration of buildings is lit throughout a year or shadowed by its neighbours. Due to the fact that it does not calculate the amount of radiation in terms of a physical unit it can only be used for comparing design alternatives. In other words, it cannot be used as a simulation model. This work uses the Sun Vector model by Andrew Heumann.

Dissemination

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

A Computational Approach for Checking Compliance with European View and Sunlight Exposure Criteria

Ground breaking results and updates will be publish soon here!

Other Publications:

SYNTACTIC

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr.ir. P. Nourian, ir. S. Rezvani

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

SYNTACTIC (Designing with Space Syntax) is a plugin for Grasshopper©. This toolkit is also known as SpaceSyntax_for_GenerativeDesign is compatible with SpiderWeb, invented by Richard Schaffranek. We hereby thank Richard, for all we have learned from his very interesting tool kit. This package (SYNTACTIC) is provided “as is” at the moment, without any responsibility for the developers in case of any (potential) damages to the work or materials of users.

Dissemination

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Presentations in Professional Media:

Space Syntax Symposium 9 - Presentation

Educational Textbook

From Configurational Analysis Towards Configurational Evaluation

Workshops:

Generative Syntax in Architecture and Urban Design in AAG 2014 @ UCL in together with Richard Schaffranek (TU Wien, AT)

TOIDAR

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr.ir. P. Nourian With contributions from (in alphabetic order) Tom Broersen, Jiale (Carl) Chen, Martin Dennemark, Florian Fichtner, Martijn Koopman, Ivo de Liefde, Marco Lam, Maarten Pronk, Stella Psomadaki, Rusne Sileryte, Dimitris Zervakis, Kaixuan Zhou.

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

TOIDAR was initially developed by Pirouz Nourian in February 2014, PhD researcher and instrcutor of Design Informatics at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Technisch Ontwerp en Informatica), as a didactic tool for the course Geo1004, 3D Modelling of the Built Environment, directed by Dr. Sisi Zlatanova. The name TOIDAR stands for educational Toys for LIDAR point cloud processing. The toolkit provides methods for processing LIDAR and possibly other types of point clouds for 3D modelling.

VectoRelax

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:02:47 +0000

Team: Dr.ir. P. Nourian, ir. S. Azadi with with contributions from Kotryna Valeckaite and Puck Flickweert

Note: The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind.

This repository has been created as an educational resource for the course EARTHY: Computational Design for Earth Architecture
The code is mainly inspired by and largely based on the code samples generously shared by the Block Research Group in ETH Zurich, Prof. Philippe Block, Dr. Tom van Mele et al..

Dissemination

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Earthy Honeycombs: Construction Design of Adobe Shell Structures by Topological Polyhedralization

Educational Textbook

EARTHY: Computational Generative Design for Earth and Masonry Architecture

References:

Barnes, M. R. (1999). Form finding and analysis of tension structures by dynamic relaxation. International journal of space structures, 14(2), 89-104.

Tools | Genesis Lab

topoGenesis

Utilization of topoGenesis in the course Spatial Computing in Architectural Design!

COLLAGE

BIOZEN PSS

Cheetah, the CONFIGURBANIST

Dissemination

R-MAP

TWINEXUS

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Emergentium

RASTERWORKS

Dissemination

SOLARIS

Dissemination

SYNTACTIC

Dissemination

TOIDAR

VectoRelax

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