Burning Man project

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Burning Man project from the ARCH 7014. Fall 2021. digital twin prototype.

Tools: Stage, Unreal, 3dsMax, Rhino.

Videos by students

Research on Digital Design, Computation and ARCH VIZ

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Here are four groups of presentations by students at DAAP, UC on various topics related to Digital Design, Computation, ARCH VIZ.

Ming Tang. ARCH 7014 Fall 2021. University of Cincinnati

Group A.

  1. Impact of BIM on architecture and construction management
  2. Generative Design and multi-variable optimization Using Octopus Plugin In Rhino
  3. Using Grasshopper to apply brick patterns on polysurfaces
  4. Utilizing V-Ray for Rhino to create photorealistic renders
  5. The impact of Metaverse on social life. How can be advantageous and disadvantageous
  6. VR and Architecture, how its used and how it benefits to Architecture
  7. Voronoi Patterning + Parametric Modeling; research
    demo
  8. GIS Demo- how it can help your architecture
  9. Rhino inside Revit Plug in – General uses

 

Group B

  1. Demo using EvoMass Grasshopper Plug-in for Optimization-Based Design Exploration
  2. Using Animation to visualize Futurism in Architecture (Reference to Greg Lynn: Animate Form)
  3. Rhino Animation using Grasshopper
  4. Ladybug analysis of shading solutions for home in Eden Park – Generative Shade Design and Shade benefit analysis
  5. Revit + Dynamo (Generative Design)
  6. exploring lighting technology and rtx capabilities
  7. Environmental Analysis Plug-ins for Grasshopper
  8. Additive Digital Fabrication: Creating Controlled Chaos in 3D Printing
  9. site design plugin for rhino

Group C

  1. Generative design of buildings in Revit
    Demo
  2. Maya Animation – Kinetic Architecture
  3. Demo of Pufferfish Plugin for Grasshopper
  4. Origami and parametric modeling
    demo
  5. LB for bldg evaluation. Environment performance
  6. Generative design of buildings in Revit
    demo
  7. How drones and aerial surveys can make construction and architecture more efficient and save costs
  8. Adobe After Effects Projection-Mapping -Placemaking/Wayfinding
  9. Demo using Fusion 360 for parametric design, animation, rendering

Group D

  1. using rhino to create models and forms using Sub D and surface modeling
    part2
    Part 3
  2. Visualization Techniques to Document Existing Buildings or Products Exploring AutoDesk ReCap – Photo
  3. Revit + Rhino inside Revit + GH + Dynamo for parametric solar-based facade and building design around existing structures
  4. Theory-based video essay on growing up with 3d software and games & its effects on a new generation of designers
  5. demo on basics of kangaroo grasshopper plugin to create interesting forms
  6. Use lumion to create a phasing animation of a building, 
    final result
  7. Using Vray to render a scene with caustics.
  8. Creating Digital Environments with Unreal + Quixel

 

Exhibition in Expo4Seniors

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Our VR app EvR Talk is presented at two Senior Health & Wellness Expo, organized by the Expo4seniors.

  • Fairfield Community Arts Center, 411 Wessel Dr. Cincinnati, OH. 11.03.2021
  • Gray Road Church of Christ. Cincinnati, OH. 11.20.2021

Expo4Seniors provides Senior Citizens access to services and products through education, collaboration, advocacy, and accessibility in order to make Aging In Place and Lifestyle, Health & Wellness available.

Team member Karly Hasselfeld demonstrated to the audience how to interact with virtual characters through hand tracking. Photo by Karly Hasselfeld and Lauren Southwood.

Ming Tang lead a design team at the LiveWell Collaborative developed this Care Giver Training for the Council of Ageing.  More information on the VR for Caregiver training and UC Urban Health Pathway grant support can be found here.

Ever talk project ( password protected) Please reach out to COA to get access permission.

 

 

 

 

 

Building Safety Analysis with AI

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Grant received: 

  1. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase I. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. PI. Tang. Co-PI: Jiaqi Ma. $59,000. Period: 02.2020- 12.2021. Completed.
  2. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase II. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. P.I. Tang. $79,980. Period: 10.2021- 08.2022. Grant: G402236. 2021. Ongoing.
  3. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase III. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. PI. Tang. $15,709. Period: 6.2022- 06.2023.
  4. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase-4. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. PI. Tang. $48,646. Period: 1.2023- 10.2023.
  5. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase-5. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. PI. Tang. $72,350. Period: 10.2023- 11.2024.
  6. Geospatial Imagery Analytics Research. Phase-6. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Insurance Companies. PI. Tang. $125,665. Period: 9.01.2024- 12.30.2025.

 

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project featured at the UC News

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Our book “Architectural Interventions. Design-build collaboration on the global scale” project is featured at the UC News, an article titled “New Book: UC architecture students collaborate, compete internationally, Global design-build competition inspires book about UC-Beijing collaboration” By Joan Luebering.

Check out the full interview at UC News at

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2021/09/new-book–uc-architecture-students-collaborate-compete-internationally.html

An international experiential learning project from the pre-pandemic spring and summer semesters of 2019 is still bearing fruit with the publication this summer of “Architectural Interventions: Design-Build Collaboration on the Global Scale.”