Publications

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Digital Masterplanning: Computing Urban Design - ICE paper

Christian Derix, Director of Computational Design Research has written a paper titled ‘Digital masterplanning: computing urban design’ for the Institute of Civil Engineering. _This paper was first published… | read more

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Building Performance in Working Progress

Aedas' Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research, Judit Kimpian and EngD research engineer Esfandiar Burman have written article on the progression of post-occupancy evaluation on existing educational buildings… | read more

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BIM or VIM

Judit Kimpian has written an article exploring the difference between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Information Modelling (VIM) and the impact these IT systems have on design… | read more

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‘The Shrinking World’ - RIBA Research Symposium 2011

Sophie Chisholm, researcher at Aedas has written a short review of the RIBA 2011 Research Symposium ‘The Shrinking World’. The piece, entitled ‘No Innocence Abroad,’ summarises the key… | read more

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The Virtual Building Simulator: A Post-parametric Spatial Planning Environment - CONVR paper

The Computational Design Research group have co-authored a paper with the Fraunhofer IAO: The Virtual Building Simulator: A Post-parametric Spatial Planning Environment Daniel Krause,Christian Derix, Åsmund Gamlesæter, Klaus… | read more

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Occupant Orientated Design

Dan Rigamonti, Greig Paterson and Judit Kimpian of Aedas R&D have written an article entitled “Occupant Orientated Design: Professional Research into the Pragmatic Use of Data to Inform… | read more

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Using Data to Tackle Co2

Judit Kimpian, CarbonBuzz Project Manager and Director of Sustainable Architecture and Research at Aedas has written an article titled “Using Data to Tackle Co2” which looks at the… | read more

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Lipton plan to halve cost of London skyscrapers

Aedas is featured in an article titled ‘Lipton plan to halve cost of London skyscrapers’ which talks about Sir Stuart Lipton campaign to get London to save money… | read more

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Reality Check: Sustainability

Judit Kimpian’s article on Reality Check: Sustainability has been published in the May 2011 issue of the RIBA Journal. It discusses the mismatch between expected and actual energy… | read more

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The Localism Bill

In December, the government published its much-anticipated Localism Bill. Judit Kimpian, Head of Sustainability and Advance Modelling and Dan Rigamonti, Sustainable Design specialist of international design practice and… | read more

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The Office Towers for the Future

Josh Mason's paper on the 'Future Office' study carried out in collaboration with Davis Langdon Aecom, Hilson Moran and WSP, has been published in the March issue of… | read more

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Press release: Cycle to Cannes, Energy Well Spent

Aedas, the main sponsor of the 2011 Cycle to Cannes’ ride, has been using the resources of its in-house Research and Development Group to model the data generated… | read more

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Mediating Spatial Phenomena through Computational Heuristics

ACADIA 10: LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture [Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN… | read more

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In-Between Architecture Computation - IJAC paper

This paper describes the evolution of the Computational Design approach at the Aedas R&D Computational Design and Research group founded in 2004 at Aedas Architects in London. The… | read more

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Aedas R&D: Global Practices of Computational Design - ACADIA09 paper

This paper gives an overview of the approach of working methods at the Aedas R&D Computational Design and Research [CDR] Group. It first contextualizes research in architectural practice… | read more

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Transmision of design knowledge through simulation

This publication represent the annoted introduction slides to the RIBA Research Symposium 2009: Changing Practices, where Christian Derix - Aedas Head of Computational Design and Research - presented… | read more

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CarbonBuzz booklet

CarbonBuzz emerged from a realisation that the construction industry suffers from a poor awareness of the link between CO2 emissions and the energy use of buildings. The project… | read more

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Smart Solutions for Spatial Planning - eCAADe 2008 paper

"Smart Solutions for Spatial Planning: A design support system for urban generative design" was presented at eCAADe 2008 Conference. *Abstract* SSSP is a Government funded knowledge transfer project… | read more

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Smart Solutions for Spatial Planning (SSSP) brochure

SSSP applications and workflow designed and developed by the Aedas R&D Computational Design Group. SSSP is a suite of digital masterplanning applications that align with scales and stages… | read more

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3d isovists and spatial sensations - EDRA 39th Annual Conference paper

Aedas R&D Computational Design and Research Group contribution to the 'Linking Differences—Defining Actions’ workshop, part of the EDRA 39th Annual Conference, explains the work on three-dimensional isovists developed… | read more

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Space Craft: Developments In Architectural Computing - Book chapter

Space Craft is a snapshot of the rapidly developing subject of architectural computer modelling. The chapter 'Genetically Modified Spaces' is a case study covering aspects of the work… | read more

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Aedas Green Book

Launched in April 2008, the Aedas Green Book is our reference guide to sustainable practice and a summary of our goals and strategies to achieve them. Developed by… | read more