was founded in 2001 as a partnership between practice, research and academia, formed by members of the world's leading architectural and engineering practices and educational institutions. In 2003, we kicked-off our yearly Workshops & Conference events, in the belief that active and dynamic workshops would help generate new creative solutions and opportunities in architecture, engineering and urban design. We are very pleased to welcome you this year's event entitled sg2014: Urban Compaction. On behalf of the Smartgeometry Committee, our partners, hosts and sponsors, we hope you take this opportunity to create, debate and reflect on the role of computation in design for the built environment. Smartgeometry Directors Shane Burger Woods Bagot Jane Burry SIAL / RMIT University Xavier DeKestelier Foster + Partners Lars Hesselgren PLP Architects J Parrish AECOM Brady Peters University of Toronto Hugh Whitehead Foster + Partners (retired) sg2014 Host Committee Marc Aurel Schnabel CUHK Yan Gao HKU Kristof Crolla CUHK Stefan Krakhofer CityU Ashley Scott Kelly HKU sg2014 Hong Kong is hosted by School of Architecture, Chinese University of Kong (CUHK) in partnership with University of Hong Kong (HKU) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Designed by Serdar Aydin The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014 | Hong Kong
Challenge: Urban Compaction Large cities thrive on density and diversity - an environment where opportunity and choice are always proximate. But beyond the clear energy and pollution advantages of the elevator over the automobile, there are complex issues at play in concentrating population and built infrastructure in contemporary high-rise cities.
What are the implications and opportunities of density for sustainable flows of people, food, energy and waste within building projects and at the planning scale for high rise, high density cities? Tall buildings thrive on rich infrastructure. What are the new ecological models for living, working, travel and transport, communication, production (vertical farming, innovative manufacturing) and disposal/conversion (waste to energy) in dense concentrations?
Within research there are many post digital examples of urban modelling based on biological metaphor, agents systems and other models that would be hard to pursue outside a computational environment. How can and should the most advanced and adaptive models migrate to influence and prototype the built projects and city precincts of the future? In a post digital age with some increased, albeit limited, opportunity for generative and complex modelling, how do the relevant contemporary models draw on or contradict the futuristic modernist visions that have been put forward since the early twentieth century?
Hong Kong, the world leader in ultra compact, high-rise development and challenging infrastructure provides the theatre for Smartgeometry to pursue the exploration of ways to research and prototype all aspects of design leading to innovations to support high quality Urban Compaction.
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Workshop Days AIT Building 9:00-10:00 10:00-10:30 10:30 11:00-23:00
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Conference Days Yasumoto IAP, YIA 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:15 9:15-10:45 10:45-11:15 11:15-12:55 13:00-14:00 14:00-15:20 15:50-16:20 16:20-17:10 18:00-22:00
Registration Opening Remarks Session One Coffee Session Two Lunch Session Three Tea Break Session Four Exhibition
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Registration Opening Remarks Session One Coffee Session Two Lunch Session Three Tea Break Session Four Closing Remarks Party
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Big data is for adding, not for subtracting
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KY Petersen
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Experience and enactment in adaptive environments Design implications of the shift from intrinsic to contextual semantics in Big Data / algorithmic modelling
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Panel Session
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Hong Kong T Kvan J Karakiewicz
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XS HK Dense domesticity
J Roberts J Carlow
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D Fung J Bolchover E Schuldenfrei MA Schnabel*
Digital technology then and now
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Platforms to support the changing role of the architect
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Compaction as miniturisation Presentation
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Y Ke H Mulder S Burger*
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Building in Asia Keynote
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Presentation Automation and Design of the Envelope Panel Session
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Urban practice Keynote
XG Li
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P Yuan A Gupta BK Gupta XW Guo
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Smarter geometries Structural Factors in Developing Morphogenesis Operations of Architecture
J Sato
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Presentation Density and Autonomous organisation
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D Hambleton S Krakhofer K Crolla*
Big urban data
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Big Urban Data
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AS Kelly S Edwards
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JS Carlos C Sandoval J Burry*
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Ian Keough Principal Engineer at Autodesk. At Autodesk, Ian oversees the development of Dynamo a visual programming language for architects, engineers and designers. Ian started Dynamo while working at Buro Happold in New York, with a goal of bringing computational design through visual programming to BIM. He also wrote mobile apps for the construction industry at Vela Systems. Masanori Nagashima Chair of Having studied the architectural design at University of Tokyo, he therefore went to MIT and met Prof Nicholas Negroponte and joined the Architecture Machine Group. He saw the OXSYS presentation at MIT. He returned Japan and established Informatix Inc. that started GIS nearly 20 years ago. MicroGDS, Piranesi and NavisWorks were added to the CAD product lines.
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