Return to the Third Places.

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Resilient Price Hill. UC Forward C19 co-LAB awards. PI: Conrad kickert. Co-PI: Ming Tang, Yexuan Gu. $17,986. 08.2020-01.2021 ARCH 4001. ​Return to the Third Places: Architectural intervention at the Price Hill, Cincinnati during the COVID-19​ Publication:  “Social distancing and behavior modeling with Agent-based simulation”,  CAAD Future 2021 conference Proceeding. 16 – 18 JULY 2021. ​Student: Sarah […]

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bus stops in Metaverse

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This is a collective project with 35 students from the VIZ-III course to create a metaverse collectively. Bus stops were designed in Rhino, 3dsmax, Revit, or Sketch-up and brought into Unreal. Please download the demo zip file ( 800MB) here.

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Rural Public Restrooms Design + Build, China

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A group of UC DAAP students, led by Whitney Hamaker and Ming Tang, participated in the  “Yuzhang Construction*” workshop to design and build two public restrooms at the Pengyuan village, Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province of China in summer 2020. This workshop is a collaboration with Nanchang University (NCU),  Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), and cooperates with […]

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VR for Police Training

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Active Shooter Simulation Develop several fully immersive 3D VR active shooter scenarios that can run on cost-effective commercially available VR hardware. Final Report for OCJS Project Develop and Assess Active Shooter Virtual Reality Training for Ohio Law Enforcement.  PI: J.C Barnes. Co-PI: Tang Office of Criminal Justice Services. $50,000. 09. 2020-09.2021 ( $29,608) Development of […]

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Rural Mobile Living

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Image credit: Student award. 2020 DAAPworks Director’s DAAPcares award. Portable Disaster Relief. Students: Noah Nicolette, Jamie Waugaman, Travis Rebsch. 2020 ARCH 4002. Spring 2020 SAID DAAP, University of Cincinnati Using the 10 miles rural area along I-90 at Lorain County, Ohio as the site, this Rural Mobile Living studio presents a study investigating the rural mobility […]

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Open source shading device design tool

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Developed by Mark Landis as a part of M. Arch thesis work. 2019. The University of Cincinnati. Thesis Chair: Ming Tang, RA, LEED AP Committee Member: Pravin Bhiwapurkar, Amanda Webb. This open-source free tool is to introduce you to building simulations and some of their applications in architecture through plugins for Rhino. It will help […]

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article in IJSW journal

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Ming Tang’s paper. Analysis of Signage using Eye-Tracking Technology is published at the  Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding. 02. 2020. Abstract Signs, in all their forms and manifestations, provide visual communication for wayfinding, commerce, and public dialogue and expression. Yet, how effectively a sign communicates and ultimately elicits a desired reaction begins with how […]

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Project featured by Gooood

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“The Tiniest Cottage” design + build project by UC + Beijing Jiaotong University is featured by Gooood (谷德设计网), the most popular architecture online magazine and community in Asia. Project name: The Tiniest Cottage Design: Beijing Jiaotong University, University of Cincinnati Design year & Completion Year: 2019 & 2019 Leader designer & Team: Yingdong Hu(BJTU), Yunan […]

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Ihsan Community Center Design and Renovation

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Grant. Ihsan Community Center Design. Sponsored studio. $5,000. PI: Tang The “Ihsan Community Center Design and Renovation” is a sponsored studio by Ihsan community. The studio explored design possibilities and engaged the Ihsan community in developing future visions. The redesign and renovation of the current Ihsan community center emphasized logical architectural space, including prayer area, […]

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Paper at Artificial Realities Conference

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  Cyber-Physical Experiences: Architecture as Interface Turan Akman and Ming Tang’s Paper Cyber-Physical Experiences: Architecture as Interface was presented at the Artificial Realities: Virtual as an Aesthetic Medium for Architectural Ideation Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. 2019. Abstract: Conventionally, architects have relied on qualities of elements such as materiality, light, solids and voids, etc. to break out […]

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Collaborative teaching to study the social impact of A.I, Automation, and Robots

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Funded by UC Forward Course Development grant. The Future of (no) Work and Artificial Intelligence. (Award fund rescind due to COV-19 budget freeze). 2020 Amount: $15,000.  The courses will be offered in the Fall semester. 2020. Ming Tang, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design, DAAP Cory Haberman, Assistant Professor and Director of the […]

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An interdisciplinary approach to using eye-tracking technology for design and behavioral analysis

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Eye-tracking Tobii workshop offered at CGC, DAAP, UC. 2019. Eye-tracking devices measure eye position and eye movement, allowing documentation of how environmental elements draw the attention of viewers. In recent years, there have been a number of significant breakthroughs in eye-tracking technology, with a focus on new hardware and software applications. Wearable eye-tracking glasses together […]

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