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Papers by Jane Burry

Architectural Design

It is clear that we must redesign our domestic and urban environment to mitigate our present clim... more It is clear that we must redesign our domestic and urban environment to mitigate our present climate problems. To that end, it is necessary to look at historic tactics of shelter and climate mitigation but equally plan for the deeper future. This might entail spending more time under ground. Mehrnoush Latifi is a lecturer, researcher and the course director of the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. She and Guest‐Editor Jane Burry here explore the potential of life below the earth's surface.

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

Construction simplicity is crucial to cost control, but design complexity is often necessary in o... more Construction simplicity is crucial to cost control, but design complexity is often necessary in order to meet particular spatial performance criteria. This paper presents a case study of a semi-enclosed meeting pod with a brief that must contend with the seemingly contradictory conditions of the necessary geometric complexities imperative to improved acoustic performance and cost control in construction. A series of deep oculi are introduced as architectural elements to link the pod interior to the outside environment. Their reveals also introduce sound reflection and scattering, which contribute to the main acoustic goal of improved speech privacy. Represented as a three-dimensional funnel-like shape, the reveal to each opening is unique in size, depth, and angle. Traditionally, the manufacturing of such bespoke architectural elements in many cases resulted in lengthy and costly manufacturing processes. This paper investigates how the complex oculi shape variations can be manufactured using one universal mold. A workflow using mathematical and computational operations, a standardized fabrication approach, and customization through tooling results in a high-precision digital process to create particular calculated geometries, recalibrated at each stage to account for the paradoxical inexactitudes and inevitable tolerances.

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

In education and research at this time there is arguably no longer a need to build a strong case ... more In education and research at this time there is arguably no longer a need to build a strong case for the power of CAAD to support designers-the evidence is there. The major challenges no longer centre on hardware, software and graphics potential or on skills acquisition and adoption. The research that we will report here reveals that computational complexity and geometrical complexity are emerging as the sharp issues that demand a major review of how we model the large hybrid spaces that we seek to construct in design. Computational relational modeling and scripting may have opened a trove of creative possibilities. But it may delude us into painting ourselves into a corner: infinite variety within a much reduced palette of opportunities.

Annual Simulation Symposium, Apr 12, 2015

This paper investigates the development of a digital form finding model that combines the generat... more This paper investigates the development of a digital form finding model that combines the generation of funicular geometry with a material inventory constraint. The model provides a flexible design tool that facilitates exploration of structural form whilst simultaneously satisfying two rationalizing criteria. It maintains an equilibrated structure derived from funicular geometry; and optimally assigns an inventory of parts with natural dimensional variation to this funicular geometry. The combined goal for the design outcome is to achieve material efficiency through both structurally rational form, and minimization of material waste. The material chosen for the inventory is below-grade sawn timber1, being lightweight but with high levels of naturally occurring structural variability. Sawn timber boards that are rejected for structural application due to their frequent structural defects (knots, checks, splits etc.) can readily yield usable short length structural members, once the defects are removed. In doing so, this provides a unique inventory of random short members. These short members are well suited to articulated structures, which, by employing an inverted funicular geometry, only incur axial stresses and can employ simple non-moment timber connections. This research has been undertaken for the design of the pavilion for the “Working Group 21 – Advanced Manufacturing and Materials” exhibition at the IASS Symposium 2019

Humanizing Digital Reality, 2017

By contrast with science and unraveling the mysteries of the natural world, architecture seems in... more By contrast with science and unraveling the mysteries of the natural world, architecture seems in many ways inherently focused on end points and the production of a solid and enduring presence in the world rather than mechanisms and dynamism per se. Yet architecture and design have been continually invoked in relation to order-in-the-universe, sometimes for their intentionality in producing an ideal outcome, sometimes as the schema of a system.

Architectural Design, 2021

International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2011

This CAADRIA special edition of IJAC features a selection of papers expanding on topics published... more This CAADRIA special edition of IJAC features a selection of papers expanding on topics published earlier in the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA): New Frontiers.They have been selected in accordance with the IJAC blind review system. It spans a range of sub-topics examined at the conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010, in particular: modelling and process, urban modelling, collaboration and community, and education and learning.The New Frontiers that are being confronted have a resonance of John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech: ‘the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils’ beyond which there are uncharted areas of science and space. In the case of the research featured in this edition of IJAC, the uncharted areas refer to the novel application of existing technologies and processes to pressing real world problems in architecture.We realise that in many ways, after five decades and...

Impact: Design With All Senses, 2019

Air-conditioning is a major factor in energy consumption worldwide. Populous developing countries... more Air-conditioning is a major factor in energy consumption worldwide. Populous developing countries located in the tropics are projected to soon experience a staggering increase in the use of such systems, suggesting a future need for architects to design buildings that exploit natural means of temperature regulation. In this paper, we present a novel workflow to enable the simulation of natural ventilation in early stage architectural design. We draw on two recent advances in research: a stochastic model of occupants’ window opening behavior, coupled with the Airflow Network module in EnergyPlus to simulate inter-zone airflow. As a case study, we model several spatial configurations, identify metrics to analyze these and observe how design changes impact the building performance. Though the Airflow Network is a simplified model, it saves valuable computation time in comparison to CFD modelling, while the use of data-driven occupant behavior models can be expected to increase the accu...

This dissertation investigates the relationship between the shift in the focus of architectural m... more This dissertation investigates the relationship between the shift in the focus of architectural modelling from object to system and philosophical shifts in the history of mathematics that are relevant to that change. Particularly in the wake of the adopti

Architectural Science Review, 2020

This paper examines human auditory interaction with an architectural design hypothesized to decre... more This paper examines human auditory interaction with an architectural design hypothesized to decrease users' vocal effort and thus enhance their speech privacy. This detailed design increased sound scattering in semi-enclosed meeting rooms within open plan offices. To achieve desirable speech intelligibility, a live sound environment is strongly recommended for meeting rooms. The research explores the hypothesis that by adding early reflections to the direct sound energy with an integrated design, the speaker as a self-listener might benefit from perceiving their own voice with more clarity. This can cause adaptive changes to subconscious vocal effort and increase the corresponding speech privacy of the space. An architecture-driven talker-quality experiment in a natural situation has been conducted in two rounds and in two different acoustic environments with 20 participants. The results implied the importance of human visual and spatial perception of privacy over auditory interaction with the environment on decreasing vocal effort. Such factors could thus be considered within the architectural design process.

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010, 2010

... With the flexibility of parametric modeling, the creative thinking process of the de-signer c... more ... With the flexibility of parametric modeling, the creative thinking process of the de-signer can now inform scripts to drive the process of parametric changes. ... Architectural Design 75(2), 3443 (2005) 4. Hernandez, CRB: Thinking parametric design: introducing parametric Gaudi. ...

2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2015

ABSTRACT With the advancement in wireless sensor networks (WSN) researchers in social network ana... more ABSTRACT With the advancement in wireless sensor networks (WSN) researchers in social network analysis (SNA) now have access to larger and more complex datasets that describe human interactions in the physical space. Studies in WSN thrive on accuracy and robustness whereas SNA operates on a higher level of data abstraction. Graph mining is a bridge between these two fields. This paper investigates two approaches to graph mining and compares their efficiency and appropriateness as the input systems for a social interaction analysis process.

Applied Acoustics, 2015

ABSTRACT This note is intended to understand relative importance of room shape and fine structure... more ABSTRACT This note is intended to understand relative importance of room shape and fine structures on the sound quality inside small meeting rooms in terms of the reverberation time, the sound field distribution and the speech transmission index with similar room volume, surface area and the absorption coefficients. First, different shaped rooms with smooth walls are modeled and simulated to investigate the effects of room shape on the sound quality, and then hyperboloid cells are made on the walls to examine the influence of fine structural surface on sound quality with both regular and random arrangements. It is found that the reverberation time is affected significantly by the room shape while is not sensitive to the hyperboloid cells. The sound field distribution is affected little by the room shape and the hyperboloid cells and the difference is smaller than the Just-Noticeable-Difference in most cases. The impact of the room shape and fine structural surface on the speech transmission index mainly lies in the transition area between the direct sound and the reverberant sound. The reliability of the simulation remarks is confirmed by the experiments carried out in two different meeting rooms. The main conclusion of the note is that when the room volume, the surface area and the absorption coefficients are kept constant, the room shape and fine structural surface have little impact on the sound field distribution and speech intelligibility inside small rooms with ordinary surface absorption, while the reverberation time is affected significantly by room shape but slightly by the fine structural surface.

This paper reports on research that seeks to integrate acoustic simulation into an architectural ... more This paper reports on research that seeks to integrate acoustic simulation into an architectural design workflow. The goal of this research is to develop rapid and accessible workflows for architects that allow them not only to tune the acoustic performance of designs at the scale of the room, but also at the level of the geometry and materiality of the surface. The project that serves as the test case is the HubPod, a semi-enclosed meeting room situated within an open working environment. As this study builds on previous research which investigates the acoustic properties of hyperboloid surface geometry, the main drivers for design were both the acoustic performance as well as the complex geometric and fabrication constraints involved with setting out and constructing the hyperboloid geometry. This paper focusses specifically on the integration of the acoustic simulation. Four design workflows were developed: two of these allowed for the investigation of the acoustic performance of the room using acoustic simulation software; the other two allowed for the measurement and visualisation of the acoustic performance of the surface using custom-written scripts to calculate and visualise sound scattering. This paper will present some of the data produced by these simulations, and reflect on the value of the different workflows and simulation methods to this architecture project.

Jane Burry, Guillermo Aranda-Mena, Suleiman Alhadidi, Alex Pefia de Leon and Mani Williams descri... more Jane Burry, Guillermo Aranda-Mena, Suleiman Alhadidi, Alex Pefia de Leon and Mani Williams describe and review the outcomes of the four-day Design Trade-off between Speed and Pointing in Tactical Ocean Racing workshop group at the Designing the Dynamic event. Hugh Whitehead introduced the theme and led the investigation with mathematician Kristoffer Josefsson ('A Fluid Analogy for Optimisation in Design'). The group included Nick Flutter, who has experience of sailing and building foiling moths ('Designing on the Boundary of Air and Water'), and Wojtek Goscinski.