Architectural Cognition in Practice

This week we are hosting Jakub Krukar, Assistant Professor in Spatial Cognition at University of Münster. He will be delivering a talk on Monday, please join us in person or online: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/global-seminar-jakub-krukar-tickets-896142736047?aff=oddtdtcreator

Semantic Urban Elements: Linking Urban Analytics, Design, and Usage for Cyber-Physical Cities

A presentation submitted by Prof Filip Biljecki, Matias Quintana, and NUS collaborators has been accepted to the ISPRS TC IV Symposium 2024 “Spatial Information to Empower the Metaverse” in Perth, Australia

Circular Future Cities

• Last week Shuyan Xiong and Wanyu Pei attended the CAADRIA 2024 conference at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
• Shuyan's paper, "Uncovering the Circular Potential: Estimating Material Flows for Building Systems Components Reuse in the Swiss Built Environment", was co-authored by Guillaume Habert and Edwin Zea. It tackled the often overlooked issue of filling data gaps for building system materials and provided a parametric predictive model for predicting material stocks. By taking a bottom-up approach using local databases, data granularity on material composition can be accurately improved, which supports informed decision-making for sustainable resource recovery and allocation.
• Wanyu Pei presented a paper co-authored with Prof. Rudi, Prof. Guillaume, and Shuyan, titled ‘An Ontology-Based Reasoning Framework: Towards Multi-Level and Data-Efficient Building Material Stock Modelling.’ The paper proposed and developed an innovative ontology-based framework for modelling building material stock with multi-level detail. It effectively processes data of varying granularity from structural and other building systems and automatically reasoning the calculation rules for completing modelling.

Powering the City

• We have met with Prof Renate Schubert from FRS to receive inputs for a planned survey on BIPV dissemination. The research is led by our socioeconomics team Jidong Kang and prof Yuming Fu.
• Justin McCarty represented POW to the Indonesian delegation visiting Zurich this week
• Already 2 weeks ago, we bubble-wrapped the LED domes and the ipads of the FCL Exhibition and hope that everything has arrived in one piece In Singapore for the upcoming URA exhibition

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

• Orlando Roman has received an ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship to carry out a 6-month research visit hosted by Prof. Jan Kwakkel at TU Delft. His research project is titled “Assessing spatial dynamics in the planning of urban systems under deep uncertainty”.
• Arnór Elvarsson was invited to present at the German Spatial Planning Society’s ARL Congress in Lübeck, Germany on “An example evaluation of faster planning processes: trading off planning time and societal value”, April 18-19.
• Other research works are proceeding well: Proof-of-concept reveived feedback from internal co-authors, Adaptive planning literature review paper is revising for the final round, EV charging infrastructure planning literature review paper is under final polishering.

The Sea-​City Interface

• Rudi Stouffs were selected as the President of CAADRIA during the CAADRIA Conference 2024.
• Shuyang Li attended the workshop at the CAADRIA Conference 2024
• A co-supervised MSc student of Pengyuan from NUS submitted her Master thesis on the topic of "Advancing Local Climate Zone Characterization through Urban Data: From Grids to Functional Units"