Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Computation and Formation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Serlio and Artificial Intelligence: Problematizing the Image-to-Object Workflow

      • Jean Jaminet, Gabriel Esquivel, Shane Bugni

      Pages 3-12Open Access

   3. A Generative Approach to Social Ecologies in Project [Symbios]City

      • Hao Wen, Pengcheng Gu, Yuchao Zhang, Shuai Zou, Patrik Schumacher

      Pages 13-25Open Access

   4. Using CycleGAN to Achieve the Sketch Recognition Process of Sketch-Based Modeling

      • Yuqian Li, Weiguo Xu

      Pages 26-34Open Access

   5. Exploration on Machine Learning Layout Generation of Chinese Private Garden in Southern Yangtze

      • Yubo Liu, Chenrong Fang, Zhe Yang, Xuexin Wang, Zhuohong Zhou, Qiaoming Deng et al.

      Pages 35-44Open Access

   6. Command2Vec: Feature Learning of 3D Modeling Behavior Sequence—A Case Study on “Spiral-stair”

      • Wen Gao, Xuanming Zhang, Weixin Huang, Shaohang Shi

      Pages 45-54Open Access

   7. Exploring in the Latent Space of Design: A Method of Plausible Building Facades Images Generation, Properties Control and Model Explanation Base on StyleGAN2

      • Shengyu Meng

      Pages 55-68Open Access

   8. Punch Card Patterns Designed with GAN

      • Virginia Ellyn Melnyk

      Pages 69-79Open Access

   9. Bio-Tile: An Intelligent Hybrid-Infrastructure

      • Sara Pezeshk

      Pages 80-91Open Access

   10. Bio-Design Intelligence

       • Ana Zimbarg

       Pages 92-101Open Access

   11. A Study of Bio-Computational Design in Terms of Enhancing Water Absorption by Method of Bionics Within the Architectural Fields

       • Gang Mao

       Pages 102-113Open Access

3. Simulation, Prediction and Optimization

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      Pages 115-115

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   2. Environmental Data-Driven Performance-Based Topological Optimisation for Morphology Evolution of Artificial Taihu Stone

      • Z. Feng, P. Gu, M. Zheng, X Yan, D. W. Bao

      Pages 117-128Open Access

   3. Custom-Fit and Lightweight Optimization Design of Exoskeletons Using Parametric Conformal Lattice

      • Fuyuan Liu, Min Chen, Lizhe Wang, Xiang Wang, Cheng-Hung Lo

      Pages 129-138Open Access

   4. A POI-Based Machine Learning Method for Predicting Residents’ Health Status

      • Shicong Cao, Hao Zheng

      Pages 139-147Open Access

   5. Research on Epidemic Prevention and Management Measures in University Based on GIS and ABM – Taking South China University of Technology (Wushan Campus) as an Example

      • Mingxi Chen

      Pages 148-157Open Access

   6. Environmentally Driven Aggregate Façade Systems

      • Pablo Cabrera Jauregui

      Pages 158-167Open Access

   7. Optimization of Daylight and Thermal Performance of Building Façade: A Case Study of Office Buildings in Nanjing

      • Hainan Yan, Yiting Zhang, Sheng Liu, Ka Ming Cheung, Guohua Ji

      Pages 168-178Open Access

   8. Integration of Algorithm-Based Optimization into the Design Process of Industrial Buildings: A Case Study

      • Mirjam Konrad, Dana Saez, Martin Trautz

      Pages 179-188Open Access

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES—The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers encounter new ideas about understanding material intelligence in architecture.

• History, Theory and Critics of Building Technology
• Performance-based Design
• Fabrication and Construction
• Data Mining and Visualizing
• Immersive and Interactive Environment
• Architectural Intelligence
• Open Access

• College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  Philip F. Yuan, Hua Chai, Chao Yan, Neil Leach

Philip F. Yuan is currently the Associate Dean, tenured professor of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University, Council Member of Architects Sector, Virtual and Automated Construction Sector as well as Academic Committee of Computational Design Sector at Architectural Society of China; Director of Academic Committee of Shanghai Digital Fabrication Engineering Technology Center; Co-Chair of DigitalFUTURES Association. His research mainly focuses on the field of performance-based architectural tectonics, the application of robotic fabrication equipment, and developments of robotic fabrication technologies.


Hua Chai is a PhD candidate at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University. His research mainly focuses on developing robotic fabrication platforms and computational design strategies for advanced timber structures. He holds a Master degree of Architecture from Tongji University. In 2020, he visited the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), University of Stuttgart as a guest researcher, where he mainly focused on the development of mobile platform-based robotic timber architecture together with colleagues from ICD and Fab-Union. He has been involved in leading several international workshops on robotic timber construction DigitalFUTURES and ACADIA 2020.


Chao Yan is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tongji University where he conducts researches on the history of construction technology and digital design theory. He was Visiting Lecturer at China Academy of Art, where he has taught design studio and theory courses from 2014 to 2018, and Visiting Scholar at University of Virginia in 2019. His work focuses on the intersection between architectural theory and philosophy, and he has published extensively on the history and theory of body, neurophilosophy in architecture, post-68 architectural history, etc. His recent work is to construct a body perspective to review the history of digital design and fabrication.


Neil Leach is Architect and Theorist. He is currently Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California, and NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has also taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Architectural Association, Cornell University, Columbia University, the Dessau Institute of Architecture, the Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, the International University of Catalonia, the University of Bath, the University of Brighton, the University of Nottingham, and London Consortium.