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4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication, 2022

This article presents the design process for generating a shell-like structure from an activated ... more This article presents the design process for generating a shell-like structure from an activated bent auxetic surface through an inductive process based on applying deep learning algorithms to predict a numeric value of geometrical features. The process developed under the Material Intelligence Workflow applied to the development of (1) a computational simulation of the mechanical and physical behaviour of an activated auxetic surface, (2) the generation of a geometrical dataset composed of six geometric features with 3,000 values each, (3) the construction and training of a regression Deep Neuronal Network (DNN) model, (4) the prediction of the geometric feature of the auxetic surface's pattern distance, and (5) the reconstruction of a new shell based on the predicted value. This process consistently reduces the computational power and simulation time to produce digital prototypes by integrating AI-based algorithms into material computation design processes.

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From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and... more From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and produce optimized material systems with minimum use of external energy to achieve its maximum three-dimensional capacity within their mechanical constraints. This research studies the process of 3D printing bidimensional layers over a tensioned fabric to generate three-dimensional shapes. After the tension of the fabric is released, the printed pattern generates tension and compression over the textile, which conduce and distribute the internal forces generating a controlled deformation with a final form. Digital simulation of finite anticlastic shapes and parametric design undermechanical constraints of thematerial used to predict and compare both physical and digital forms. These allow us to evaluate and optimize the printed pattern in order to decrease the amount of used energy and material to produce a performative shape.

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La pandemia provocada por el COVID19 aceleró una serie de procesos para el desarrollo de solucion... more La pandemia provocada por el COVID19 aceleró una serie de procesos para el desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas orientadas al área de la salud que fortalecieron el ecosistema de innovación de forma distribuida en todas las regiones de Chile. En este contexto, el proyecto de investigación “Hacia una Estrategia Nacional para el fomento de redes de colaboración y desarrolladores tecnológicos en Chile: estudio y plataforma para el diseño y producción distribuida en contextos de emergencia"(ID COVID0339), financiado por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación (ANID), realizó un estudio con los distintos grupos makers y desarrolladores tecnológicos, articuladores y beneficiados del área de la salud, que trabajaron de forma colaborativa para la ideación, desarrollo y distribución de soluciones para abordar la crisis sanitaria.

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The integration of Artificial Intelligence algorithms into computational design processes promote... more The integration of Artificial Intelligence algorithms into computational design processes promote a human-machine collaboration, transforming the role of conventional designers into meta-designer as a product of this collaboration. Specifically, StyleGAN's algorithms offer a novel approach to experimenting with shapes from previously designed images of products or objects. This article presents the application of a methodology for image experimentation to designers without previous knowledge of computation and programming. Each of the steps was developed through different cases for different speculative object production, using artificial intelligence algorithms, and reflecting-in an applied way-the designer's role as curator and cocreator of the creative process in conjunction with computing.

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Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, 2021

The use of StyleGAN algorithms supposes a novel approach for the experimentation of architectural... more The use of StyleGAN algorithms supposes a novel approach for the experimentation of architectural images. Even though the graphical outcomes are distant to become architectural spaces, they might become a potential starting point for the exploration of an architectural project, limited within the input variation. By creating a database of specific categories of architectural images located in certain contexts, significant findings might emerge defining the 'style of a culture'. This research analyzes the spatial findings of the outcomes of a SyleGAN algorithm-generated with a database of Chilean houses built between the years 2010 and 2020, where the results of the synthetic images suggest the integration of vegetation and a significant relationship between the proportion of voids in the architectural-like generative volume.

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SIGRADI 2020 Conference: Transformative Design, 2020

This article presents a Biomaterial Design Methodology based on the idea that common people can p... more This article presents a Biomaterial Design Methodology based on the idea that common people can produce objects using bio-based ingredients to create biomaterials and digital fabrication technologies as tools to drive the design processes. The emergence of biomaterials open-source recipes in maker communities and digital fabrication laboratories open new approaches for design, raising the idea that designers can become cookers, controlling all design process and its potential outcomes. The methodology presents four steps to develop recipes and biomaterials to achieve a final product design without requiring any previous knowledge. Also combines different digital fabrication techniques to produce new material expressions, systems, functionalities and products.

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CAADRIA 2020: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans, 2020

From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and... more From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and produce optimized material systems with minimum use of external energy to achieve its maximum three-dimensional capacity within their mechanical constraints. This research studies the process of 3D printing bidimensional layers over a tensioned fabric to generate three-dimensional shapes. After the tension of the fabric is released, the printed pattern generates tension and compression over the textile, which conduce and distribute the internal forces generating a controlled deformation with a final form. Digital simulation of finite anticlastic shapes and parametric design under mechanical constraints of the material used to predict and compare both physical and digital forms. These allow us to evaluate and optimize the printed pattern in order to decrease the amount of used energy and material to produce a performative shape.

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CDRF 2019: International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication. Tongji Univeristy, Shanghai., 2019

Originally, algorithms where defined procedures that sequentially makes calculations based on fin... more Originally, algorithms where defined procedures that sequentially makes calculations based on finite set of rules and instructions to accomplish specific tasks That sequence is not dependent on computers and the results can be previously determined. The power of computation allows the transition from algorithms performing rules to algorithms as performing entities that can select, evaluate, transform and produce data. Algorithms through its capacity of computing objects and materials that are not considered as common computers has now reached an openness that can give intelligence to almost every element of our build environment. Smart things require a minimum human intervention to generate, exchange and transform data creating unexpected and un-deterministic outcomes. Materials embedded information defines what the material, as a system, can be. In a as conscious algorithm, information can be managed pursuing a desired performativity, where the variation of information is conditioned to environmental, structural and mechanical constrains. This article reviews the idea of consciousness by programming materials and objects, that can be transformative and adaptive.

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Revista Diseña número 10, 2016

The article summarizes the elaboration of a theoretical and projective body of work developed by ... more The article summarizes the elaboration of a theoretical and projective body of work developed by the author through design studios VII and VII of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s Design School, as well as from work done at the Digital Fabrication Lab Santiago (Fab Lab Santiago). Diverse systems of personal digital fabrication are described, highlighting Sandbot. These systems seek to propose a new language around technologies oriented to digital fabrication of objects, gathering local contexts through materials, stimuli from the surroundings and interaction with users.

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ntegration of concepts about lean construction, sustainability and life cycle of buildings: a literature review, 2017

The purpose of this study was the development of a theoretical framework integrating concepts of ... more The purpose of this study was the development of a theoretical framework integrating concepts of lean construction, sustainability and the life cycle of buildings. It was prepared using a systematic review of the literature through the Prisma method. Findings show that there is scarce scientific literature about lean construction contributions to activities related to the consumption phase of the life cycle of a building. Project and construction activities presented the highest number of lean construction contributions in the production phase. Research limitations are terms used in the search sentences and the choice of surveyed databases. The study contributes with knowledge that can be used by companies to adopt lean construction. It is also useful for researchers who can explore several research lines. The originality of this research is to view in a same table the interrelationship of concepts about lean construction, sustainability and the life cycle of buildings.

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SIGRADI Conference: Transfomative Design, 2020

Global digital infrastructures enable rural settlements to link their communities, local and natu... more Global digital infrastructures enable rural settlements to link their communities, local and natural resources with digital production capacities, generating digital urbanization processes. This article develops the concept of Digital Rurbanization presenting the coupling process of Fab Lab Austral, the southernmost Fab Lab in the world, with its community, ecosystem and global infrastructures. Producing a decolonized process of distributed design and making of meaningful prototypes with digital fabrication tools and methods, contributing to its sustainable development and autonomy based on technological education for the production of local solutions and social capital.

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Responsive Cities Simposium, Barcelona., 2017

The association of technological development with cities leads to the construction of new urban h... more The association of technological development with cities leads to the construction of new urban habitats imaginaries. This paper raises the idea of using qualitative and quantitative citizen data to build recursive and distributed cities.

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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020

This article presents the firsts phases of interlocking between community, city and digital manuf... more This article presents the firsts phases of interlocking between community, city and digital manufacturing infrastructures, focused on the case study of Puerto Williams, Chile, the southernmost city of the world. Its process of digital urbanization for sustainable development based on technological education for the local school and community, by combining digital fabrication for the design and production of local solutions. Located in Navarino Island, Puerto Williams has no high-speed internet connection, and it does not produce any energy and goods, being utterly dependent on ships that bring liquid gas, products and raw materials. In January of 2019, a fully-equipped Digital Fabrication Laboratory opened, and fibber optic internet expected to arrive by the end of 2020. These conditions establish the basis of digital urbanization process for rural, pre-digital and isolated communities.

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the configuration of objects on the basis of information When the architect Luis Kahn was present... more the configuration of objects on the basis of information When the architect Luis Kahn was presented with the project of how an airplane would be designed fifty years hence, he categorically replied: “It won’t be like that”1. He knew that the way we, today, may envision a future creation
is rooted in what we are capable of today, at which time we possess neither the instruments nor techniques to understand how things in the future will look and function. To design them today is to bring them into the present moment, thus stripping them of any quality of improbability or uncertainty.

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Books by Tomas Vivanco

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Thanks to technology, culture and society are becoming more integrated to the rest of the world, ... more Thanks to technology, culture and society are becoming more integrated to the rest of the world, generating an alternative way to develop countries, society and communities. Based on the potential idea of being all connected.

The 13th International Fab Lab meeting offers us a chance to understand the embedded implications of these ideas and question the systemic approach that fab labs propose.

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The Counterculture Room, 2016

Chilean Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 2016, based on the Cybersyn project developed un... more Chilean Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 2016, based on the Cybersyn project developed under Salvador Allende`s Government in Chile between 1971 and 1973.

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4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication, 2022

This article presents the design process for generating a shell-like structure from an activated ... more This article presents the design process for generating a shell-like structure from an activated bent auxetic surface through an inductive process based on applying deep learning algorithms to predict a numeric value of geometrical features. The process developed under the Material Intelligence Workflow applied to the development of (1) a computational simulation of the mechanical and physical behaviour of an activated auxetic surface, (2) the generation of a geometrical dataset composed of six geometric features with 3,000 values each, (3) the construction and training of a regression Deep Neuronal Network (DNN) model, (4) the prediction of the geometric feature of the auxetic surface's pattern distance, and (5) the reconstruction of a new shell based on the predicted value. This process consistently reduces the computational power and simulation time to produce digital prototypes by integrating AI-based algorithms into material computation design processes.

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From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and... more From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and produce optimized material systems with minimum use of external energy to achieve its maximum three-dimensional capacity within their mechanical constraints. This research studies the process of 3D printing bidimensional layers over a tensioned fabric to generate three-dimensional shapes. After the tension of the fabric is released, the printed pattern generates tension and compression over the textile, which conduce and distribute the internal forces generating a controlled deformation with a final form. Digital simulation of finite anticlastic shapes and parametric design undermechanical constraints of thematerial used to predict and compare both physical and digital forms. These allow us to evaluate and optimize the printed pattern in order to decrease the amount of used energy and material to produce a performative shape.

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La pandemia provocada por el COVID19 aceleró una serie de procesos para el desarrollo de solucion... more La pandemia provocada por el COVID19 aceleró una serie de procesos para el desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas orientadas al área de la salud que fortalecieron el ecosistema de innovación de forma distribuida en todas las regiones de Chile. En este contexto, el proyecto de investigación “Hacia una Estrategia Nacional para el fomento de redes de colaboración y desarrolladores tecnológicos en Chile: estudio y plataforma para el diseño y producción distribuida en contextos de emergencia"(ID COVID0339), financiado por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación (ANID), realizó un estudio con los distintos grupos makers y desarrolladores tecnológicos, articuladores y beneficiados del área de la salud, que trabajaron de forma colaborativa para la ideación, desarrollo y distribución de soluciones para abordar la crisis sanitaria.

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The integration of Artificial Intelligence algorithms into computational design processes promote... more The integration of Artificial Intelligence algorithms into computational design processes promote a human-machine collaboration, transforming the role of conventional designers into meta-designer as a product of this collaboration. Specifically, StyleGAN's algorithms offer a novel approach to experimenting with shapes from previously designed images of products or objects. This article presents the application of a methodology for image experimentation to designers without previous knowledge of computation and programming. Each of the steps was developed through different cases for different speculative object production, using artificial intelligence algorithms, and reflecting-in an applied way-the designer's role as curator and cocreator of the creative process in conjunction with computing.

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Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, 2021

The use of StyleGAN algorithms supposes a novel approach for the experimentation of architectural... more The use of StyleGAN algorithms supposes a novel approach for the experimentation of architectural images. Even though the graphical outcomes are distant to become architectural spaces, they might become a potential starting point for the exploration of an architectural project, limited within the input variation. By creating a database of specific categories of architectural images located in certain contexts, significant findings might emerge defining the 'style of a culture'. This research analyzes the spatial findings of the outcomes of a SyleGAN algorithm-generated with a database of Chilean houses built between the years 2010 and 2020, where the results of the synthetic images suggest the integration of vegetation and a significant relationship between the proportion of voids in the architectural-like generative volume.

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SIGRADI 2020 Conference: Transformative Design, 2020

This article presents a Biomaterial Design Methodology based on the idea that common people can p... more This article presents a Biomaterial Design Methodology based on the idea that common people can produce objects using bio-based ingredients to create biomaterials and digital fabrication technologies as tools to drive the design processes. The emergence of biomaterials open-source recipes in maker communities and digital fabrication laboratories open new approaches for design, raising the idea that designers can become cookers, controlling all design process and its potential outcomes. The methodology presents four steps to develop recipes and biomaterials to achieve a final product design without requiring any previous knowledge. Also combines different digital fabrication techniques to produce new material expressions, systems, functionalities and products.

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CAADRIA 2020: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans, 2020

From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and... more From the distribution of the embedded energy in materials, can be operated in order to design and produce optimized material systems with minimum use of external energy to achieve its maximum three-dimensional capacity within their mechanical constraints. This research studies the process of 3D printing bidimensional layers over a tensioned fabric to generate three-dimensional shapes. After the tension of the fabric is released, the printed pattern generates tension and compression over the textile, which conduce and distribute the internal forces generating a controlled deformation with a final form. Digital simulation of finite anticlastic shapes and parametric design under mechanical constraints of the material used to predict and compare both physical and digital forms. These allow us to evaluate and optimize the printed pattern in order to decrease the amount of used energy and material to produce a performative shape.

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CDRF 2019: International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication. Tongji Univeristy, Shanghai., 2019

Originally, algorithms where defined procedures that sequentially makes calculations based on fin... more Originally, algorithms where defined procedures that sequentially makes calculations based on finite set of rules and instructions to accomplish specific tasks That sequence is not dependent on computers and the results can be previously determined. The power of computation allows the transition from algorithms performing rules to algorithms as performing entities that can select, evaluate, transform and produce data. Algorithms through its capacity of computing objects and materials that are not considered as common computers has now reached an openness that can give intelligence to almost every element of our build environment. Smart things require a minimum human intervention to generate, exchange and transform data creating unexpected and un-deterministic outcomes. Materials embedded information defines what the material, as a system, can be. In a as conscious algorithm, information can be managed pursuing a desired performativity, where the variation of information is conditioned to environmental, structural and mechanical constrains. This article reviews the idea of consciousness by programming materials and objects, that can be transformative and adaptive.

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Revista Diseña número 10, 2016

The article summarizes the elaboration of a theoretical and projective body of work developed by ... more The article summarizes the elaboration of a theoretical and projective body of work developed by the author through design studios VII and VII of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s Design School, as well as from work done at the Digital Fabrication Lab Santiago (Fab Lab Santiago). Diverse systems of personal digital fabrication are described, highlighting Sandbot. These systems seek to propose a new language around technologies oriented to digital fabrication of objects, gathering local contexts through materials, stimuli from the surroundings and interaction with users.

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ntegration of concepts about lean construction, sustainability and life cycle of buildings: a literature review, 2017

The purpose of this study was the development of a theoretical framework integrating concepts of ... more The purpose of this study was the development of a theoretical framework integrating concepts of lean construction, sustainability and the life cycle of buildings. It was prepared using a systematic review of the literature through the Prisma method. Findings show that there is scarce scientific literature about lean construction contributions to activities related to the consumption phase of the life cycle of a building. Project and construction activities presented the highest number of lean construction contributions in the production phase. Research limitations are terms used in the search sentences and the choice of surveyed databases. The study contributes with knowledge that can be used by companies to adopt lean construction. It is also useful for researchers who can explore several research lines. The originality of this research is to view in a same table the interrelationship of concepts about lean construction, sustainability and the life cycle of buildings.

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SIGRADI Conference: Transfomative Design, 2020

Global digital infrastructures enable rural settlements to link their communities, local and natu... more Global digital infrastructures enable rural settlements to link their communities, local and natural resources with digital production capacities, generating digital urbanization processes. This article develops the concept of Digital Rurbanization presenting the coupling process of Fab Lab Austral, the southernmost Fab Lab in the world, with its community, ecosystem and global infrastructures. Producing a decolonized process of distributed design and making of meaningful prototypes with digital fabrication tools and methods, contributing to its sustainable development and autonomy based on technological education for the production of local solutions and social capital.

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Responsive Cities Simposium, Barcelona., 2017

The association of technological development with cities leads to the construction of new urban h... more The association of technological development with cities leads to the construction of new urban habitats imaginaries. This paper raises the idea of using qualitative and quantitative citizen data to build recursive and distributed cities.

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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020

This article presents the firsts phases of interlocking between community, city and digital manuf... more This article presents the firsts phases of interlocking between community, city and digital manufacturing infrastructures, focused on the case study of Puerto Williams, Chile, the southernmost city of the world. Its process of digital urbanization for sustainable development based on technological education for the local school and community, by combining digital fabrication for the design and production of local solutions. Located in Navarino Island, Puerto Williams has no high-speed internet connection, and it does not produce any energy and goods, being utterly dependent on ships that bring liquid gas, products and raw materials. In January of 2019, a fully-equipped Digital Fabrication Laboratory opened, and fibber optic internet expected to arrive by the end of 2020. These conditions establish the basis of digital urbanization process for rural, pre-digital and isolated communities.

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the configuration of objects on the basis of information When the architect Luis Kahn was present... more the configuration of objects on the basis of information When the architect Luis Kahn was presented with the project of how an airplane would be designed fifty years hence, he categorically replied: “It won’t be like that”1. He knew that the way we, today, may envision a future creation
is rooted in what we are capable of today, at which time we possess neither the instruments nor techniques to understand how things in the future will look and function. To design them today is to bring them into the present moment, thus stripping them of any quality of improbability or uncertainty.

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Thanks to technology, culture and society are becoming more integrated to the rest of the world, ... more Thanks to technology, culture and society are becoming more integrated to the rest of the world, generating an alternative way to develop countries, society and communities. Based on the potential idea of being all connected.

The 13th International Fab Lab meeting offers us a chance to understand the embedded implications of these ideas and question the systemic approach that fab labs propose.

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The Counterculture Room, 2016

Chilean Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 2016, based on the Cybersyn project developed un... more Chilean Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 2016, based on the Cybersyn project developed under Salvador Allende`s Government in Chile between 1971 and 1973.

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