1.5. Integrar y evaluar las competencias en los laboratorios de simulación de
1.5.1. Laboratorio de simulación de enfermería de la UIC
GBI aims at viable and suitable project proposals, in cooperation with partners from the academic world, consulting companies and other commercial and industrial bodies, each in their respective role.
There is still a world to be won out there. Active involvement in 3TU.BOUW (the 3TU Federation Centre of Competence for the Built Environment) will support this.
With the Valorisation Task Force (VTF), the TU Delft Valorisation Centre and 3TU.BOUW, a structural approach to major scientific funding organisations, such as the EU and NWO/STW, will enable us to learn about the qualities of a good proposal from other faculties and through reviewing processes.
Our intention is to keep the number of PhD candidates constant or growing. This can only be realised with external money, and is therefore related to larger research projects. Where PhD funding through externally funding is not possible, we admit self-funded PhD candidates for topics that are relevant to the programme. Together with the Graduate School, PhD candidates will receive proper supervision and encouragement. This will be made possible by an additional tier between the (as-sociate) professors and PhD candidates, formed by young doctors who can take responsibility for daily doctoral supervision and research project
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objectives: Through a multi-disciplinary approach, we aim to meet four challenges:
• To define building performance and quality, and to develop the computational means to assess in design the many various aspects that constitute them.
• To apply the understanding of performance and quality to the computational design process, so as to plan, construct and operate buildings where the reality meets or exceeds the aspira-tions that motivated their production.
• To develop design, communication and decision-making practices, and their computa-tional support, which enable stakeholders to effectively apply the understanding of building performance and quality in an informed and balanced way so as to achieve mutually acceptable outcomes.
• To continually re-examine the relations between performance/quality, function, materials, systems, society, and architectural form within an investigation of computationally enhanced holistic design strategies.
1.2 societal concerns and issues
In recent years there has been a clear change in perspective on the efficiency of the built environ-ment, driven by the appreciation that resources of materials and energy are not endless and that the environmental performance of the built environ-ment should be improved drastically. This has strengthened the observation that many facilities comprising the built environment, particularly offices, residences and various public-building types, underperform. “Performance” in this context denotes the ability of buildings to meet technical and non-technical requirements (e.g., physical as well as psychological) placed upon them by their owners, users and society at large.
1.3 Position
The Computation & Performance (C&P) research group plays a prominent role internationally in the area of computational design research and its application to performative architecture in 1.1 vision, mission and objectives
vision: The developments of architecture and building design are driven by attempts to achieve step changes in performance; the most important way to attain this is to use innovative computa-tional tools, techniques and methods in the design, manufacturing and construction process. Consider-ing performance as a driver in the buildConsider-ing design and planning process is a prerequisite to achieve buildings that better perform, function and oper-ate, consume fewer resources in construction and operation, and offer a healthier and more comfort-able environment to its occupants, while still being economically viable.
Mission: The mission of the Computation &
Performance research programme is to improve the performance of buildings and the built environ-ment through scientific inquiry into novel ways of evaluating and influencing building performance using computational methods for measurement, prediction and simulation of buildings’ perform-ances, form finding, design generation and analysis, information modelling, decision-making and design communication. Performance in this context refers to technical performance as well as qualitative performance —physical and psychological.
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practice. The Hyperbody research group, specifically, plays a dominant role in the area of interactive architecture, real-time collaborative design and non-standard architecture. Through collaborations with other prominent researchers and research groups, the C&P research group actively participates in a strong, international research network. The group’s contribution to the international SmartGeometry Group emphasises its prominence in both research and practice. Group members also collaborate closely through commis-sioned design and research with industry partners and public and semi-public organisations.
1.4 research area
The performance and computation driven design of buildings and the built environment: Structural de-sign and analysis; Performative morphologies; Glass and transparency; Decision support systems for sustainable buildings; Adaptive material systems;
Interactive architecture; Building information modelling, File-to-factory and digital manufactur-ing; Urban prediction, generation and simulation models; Collaborative design and engineering;
Non-standard architecture and generative geometry; Parametric and algorithmic design.
Performance driven geometry:
a parametric model for investigating alternative configurations of the cladding for reducing direct solar exposure (by Michela Turrin et al.).
table a. research staff at institutional and programme level
2 0 0 3 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 9
n r f t e n r f t e n r f t e n r f t e n r f t e n r f t e n r f t e
Tenured staff 15 3,7 15 3,7 12 3,9 13 4,0 16 4,3 19 5,2 19 5,3
Non-tenured staff 9 3,8 9 3,8 12 3,8 14 4,3 14 6,1 13 5,1 10 4,2
PhD-students 6 4,4 6 4,4 9 6,6 12 7,6 21 8,9 21 10,5 22 7,8
Guests 0 2 6 9 7 9 12
totAl reseArch stAff 30 11,9 32 11,9 39 14,3 48 15,9 58 19,3 62 20,8 63 17,3
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table b. research staff with position in practice
W h o r o l e f i r m / o r G A n i s At i o n W h e r e
Prof. Kas oosterhuis Principal ONL Rotterdam NL
Prof. Joop Paul PhD Managing director Arup Netherlands Amsterdam NL
rob nijsse Managing partner ABT bv Velp NL
Prof. Patrick teuffel PhD Managing partner Teuffel Engineering Consultants Stuttgart DE
andre chaszar Owner 0 Design Consulting and Research New York US
florian heinzelmann Partner SHAU Rotterdam NL
Jeroen coenders Senior engineer Arup Netherlands Amsterdam NL
Michael Bittermann PhD Design executive Bittermann & Weiss Holzhaus GmBH Gerchsheim DE
Michela turrin Partner Novarc*Studio London UK
Jelle feringa Partner EZCT Architecture & Design Research Paris FR
Designer as tool builder: integration of custom-made computational tools in the design process (Graduation project by Sander Mulders).
3.1 embedding
The Computation & Performance research programme joins chairs and groups from the Department of Building Technology (Design Informatics [DI], Structures [S] and Adaptive Building Systems [ABS]), the Department of Architecture (Hyperbody [HY}) and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (Structural Design Lab [SDL]). The resulting interdisciplinary research group is nationally and internationally embedded in Architecture (e.g., BNA – Royal Institute of Dutch Architects) and Building and Civil Engineering (e.g., Research School Integral Design of Structures), in Computational Design (e.g., SmartGeometry Group, eCAADe – European CAAD association), Non- standard and Interactive Architecture, and Structural Design and
Engineering (e.g., IASS – International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, IASBE – Inter-national Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering).
3.2 number and affiliation of guest researchers
Forty guest researchers joined the Computation
& Performance research group during the period 2003-2009, including both visiting fellows and guest PhDs. Their affiliations are spread across the globe and include both knowledge institutes and companies.
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In the Netherlands• Utrecht University (Faculty of Social Sciences)
• The Hague University of Applied Sciences
• University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
• TNO
• EGM Architects
• Nilofar Architects
• Crux Consultants
• Witteveen & Bos
• Berenbak Structural Design
In Europe and the Middle East
• Ghent University
• Salford University
• TU Lisbon (UTL)
• TU Wien
• University Iuav of Venice
• University of Torino (UNITO)
• University of Parma (UNIPR)
• Istanbul Technical University (ITU)
• Middle East Technical University (METU)
• Bilkent University
• Bill Harvey Associates
In North and South America
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Princeton University
• University of Tennessee
• Universidade Federal da Bahia
In South-East Asia
• Kyoto University (Japan)
• Hanyang University (South Korea)
• Southeast University (SEU) (China)
3.3 international and national positioning