7th International Symposium

Formal Methods in Architecture 2024

PROGRAMME

Day 1 – December 3

Workshops will take place at the Order of Architects – North Regional Section’s headquarters, between 9:00 and 18:00. Coffee Breaks and Lunch will be served to registered participants.

9:00 – 13:00

Transforming Existing Buildings: A Collaborative Scan2BIM Workflow for Enhanced Design

“Reabilitação 4.0”: a fase de caracterização prévia na era da transição digital

14:00 – 18:00

Motion Mapping: Introductory Workshop on Architecture & Urban Simulation with AnyLogic application

9:00 – 18:00

Immersive Architectural Perception: Real-Time VR and 3D Modeling Workflow
Building the Future – Robotic Construction Simulation with VR/AR

Understanding Algorithmic Design: learning algorithms through illustrations

Biomimicry Meets Computation: Generative Design and AI for Human-Nature Symbiosis

Introductory Course on GIS in Architecture and Urban Planning Practice (QGIS)

Day 2 – December 4

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & Registration

9:30 – 10:00 Opening Session

10:00 – 11:30 Paper Session 1

Plot systems and adaptation: a method for analysing space and time Lais Bertolino, Vitor Oliveira

Deciphering Urban Morphogenesis: A Morphospace Perspective Caio Cacholas, Dries Daems, Fabiano Lemes Ribeiro, Howard Davis, Vinicius de Moraes Netto

Co-learning between research and practice in planning: adressing the physical form of cities Ana Mélice Dias, Vitor Oliveira

Can topography favour the competitiveness of pedestrian over car?Álvaro Costa, Miguel Lopes, Nuno Miguel de Sousa Gomes, Vitor Oliveira

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:30 Paper Session 2

Visualizing Urban Experience: AI and Computer Vision Framework for Historic Commercial Streets in EgyptNabil Mohareb

Space Syntax as an agent based system. NEtlogo framework proposal Ana Cocho Bermejo, Dave De Jonge

Analyzing the Network Effects of Vertically Layered Urban Structures on Pedestrian Movement: A Case Study of the Mostar Interchange in BelgradeAleksandra Djukic, Nikola Mitrovic

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Keynote Session1

José Pinto Duarte

Additive Construction on Earth and beyond: from research to practical applications

15:30 – 17:00 Paper Session 3

The Effect Of Potential Urban Elements On Finding Direction In Urban Space Exampling Of Kadiköy- YeldegirmeniBuse Erkan, Mehmet Emin Salgamcioglu

Formalization and Education in Architectural and Urban Design: Their Hermeneutic Dimensions Carmen Escoda, Josep Muntanola, Magda Saura, Margaret Krawecka, Regina Garcia

Reimagining Human-Nature Coexistence: An Integrative Approach to Architectural Design with Biomimicry, Generative Modeling, and AICarina Oliveira, Mauro Costa Couceiro

Reimagining Digitalized Space: Integrating Meaning and Technology in Building SystemsKaiko Kivi

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:30 Paper Session 4

Alberti’s Computation: Implementing Perspectival Transformation in Shape MachineJames Park, Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong

Architecting the Metaverse: A Paradigm Shift in Architecture Co-DesignMicaela Raposo, Nuno Pereira da Silva, Sara Eloy

AI-Driven Visual Generation: Generative Adversarial Neural Network (Gan) And Diffusion Models Pedro Meira-Rodríguez, Vicente López-Chao

Advancing Architectural Visualization: Boosting Scale and Reality with Augmented Reality Chul Min Yeum, Jason Su

18:30 Welcoming Ceremony

Day 3 – December 5

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & Registration

9:30 – 11:00 Paper Session 5

In-formation: shaping tools, composition rules, visual thinking and the creative processes Gonçalo Castro Henriques, Marcio Nisenbaum, Tatiana Teixeira

On the experience of architectural spaces: A pedagogical experiment using game enginesEfrosini Charalambous

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Architecture and Urbanism Education Joaquim Flores

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30 Keynote Session 2

Wassim Jabi

Syntopy: An integrated approach to geometry, topology, and semantics

Tasos Varoudis

Shapes of Intelligible Space, or, Spaces of Intelligible Shapes?

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Paper Session 6

A category-theoretic formalism for architectural design generation: a parametric modelling demonstrationAnders Ang, Aries Yang, Jielin Chen, Rudi Stouffs

Leveraging graph-based machine learning to represent and generate architectural layoutsAnders Ang, Aries Yang, Jielin Chen, Rudi Stouffs

Assembler – a tool for computational decision at scale in combinatorial generation of architectural spaces Alessio Erioli

Automated Two-Story Floor Plan Generation using Generative Adversarial NetworksBerfin Yildiz, Gulen Cagdas, Ibrahim Zincir

From text to 3D models: Utilizing Large Language Models in Grasshopper for automating scripting and algorithmic design workflowsMiltiadis Katsaros, Stella Salta

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 Paper Session 7

Connecting Spaces and People: Point Cloud Segmentation in the Context of Design Anthropology Amina Rezoug

Integrating Additive Manufacturing with BIM: A Case Study in Sustainable Architecture and ConstructionJaime Cunha

Nature’s Integration In Architectural Ornament Through Photogrammetry Pedro de Azambuja Varela, Francisco Scotti

18:30 – 19:00 Book Presentation

19:00 Symposium Dinner

Day 4 – December 6

9:00 – 11:30 Paper Sessions 8 & 9

Comparing Anthropogenic Water Risks from Climate Change in London and KolkataTazyeen Alam

Towards a Unified Informatic Model for Cognitive Buildings: Integrating BIM, Actor Models, and Dynamic Fault Trees using Bigraphical Reactive SystemsP Govind Raj, Subrat Kar

Formal methods in flood disaster response: the case of Porto Alegre, Brazil Ana Paula Dalcin, Camilla Pezzica, Clarice Bleil de Souza, Diego Altafini, Guilherme Marques

ReLighting Spaces -Training daylight access cognition in combinatorial spatial assemblages using Reinforcement Learning Alessio Erioli, Giuseppe Massafra

Reassembling Waste: Towards a Carbon Zero Built Environment Inês Caetano, Luis Santos

Optimizing Sustainability through digital tools: Energy and Carbon Comparative Analysis of Brick, Concrete and Wood Frame Constructions in Coimbra ResidencesLeonor Domingos

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Keynote Session 4

Meta Berghauser Pont

Urban morphometrics and Evidence-Based Design

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Session 5

Franklim Morais

The role of AI in the future of society, the city, construction and architecture

15:00 – 16:30 Paper Session 10

Computational Proportional Analysis of Inner Residential Spaces in Seventeenth-Century Bastion CastlesOlha Tikhonova

Exploring Variability Within 3D Shape Collections of Facade Panels of Modernist Multifamily Buildings in New Belgrade: A Methodological FrameworkDjordje Djordjevic, Djordje Mitrovic, Mirjana Devetakovic

Neuroaesthetic Measures of High-Rise Housing Facades Audrey Xu, Immanuel Koh

Kahn’s Two Houses: From Formal Analysis to Animated Synthesis – Heather Ligler

Understanding Çikma: A Formal Study on the Authenticity of the Façades along Sogukçesme Street in Istanbul Ezgi Balkanay, James Park

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 Paper Session 11

Parametric Software and the Architectural DesignBruno Marques, Darlene Julio

From Brush to AI: How Tools Have Transformed Architectural Paradigms Ashik Vaskor Mannan, M. Arefeen Ibrahim

Combining space syntax and kernel methods in the delimitation of the Matosinhos Urban Pressure ZoneDavid Leite Viana, João Quintão, Rui Fernandes

18:30 – 19:00 Closing Session