The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet

Preface                                                                                                 

Mitra Kanaani, Editor & Author

Introduction

Harrison Fraker

Prologue

Jim Dator

Paradigmatic Category One: Various Domains of Smartness in Design Thinking, Theoretical Discourses, Approaches

1.1. Emerging Smart Concepts: History and Background of  Intelligent Designs as evolving Utopian and Futurist Concepts symbolizing Progress and Advancement

1.1.1. Background, Objectives, Concepts, and Dominions of Smart Design Thinking of Smart Design Thinking

Mitra Kanaani

1.1.2

The Smart City is more than just technology and data collection— A Critical Stance

Michael Stepner

1.2. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, How Smart Design Can Promote Equity among the Underserved Inhabitants of Cities

Thomas Fisher

1.3. A Smart Paradigm for Participatory Urban Design

Patrik Schumacher & Shajay Bhooshan

1.4. Smart Responsive Design Thinking in Neuroarchitecture: Towards creating homeostasis balance, equitability, diversity, inclusivity, interactivity, and social performativity in the built environment.

1.4.1. Neuro-Architecture for Cognitive Ecologies: Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Design                    

Fiona Zisch

1.4.2. Smart Design for Promoting Social Performativity and Interactivity of All the Senses

Luis Othón Villegas-Solís

1.4.3. Neuromorphic Architecture at a Turning Point: Neuromorphic Architecture is Cybernetic, Responsive, and Interactive

Michael A. Arbib

1.5. AI and the morphology of the city: AI's Dynamic Power in Shaping the Future of Urban Design

Matias Del Campo

1.6. Lived Multispecies High-Density Utopias: Smart city design for healthy and diverse communities in the Post-Anthropocene

Christiane Margerita Herr            

1.7. Smart City and the Concept of Safety: The meaning of safety in smart city’s organizational systems and Infrastructure

Ying Huang, Xinyi Yang, and Hafiz Usman Ahmed

1.8. Examining the presence of Intelligent Design in Low-Tech and High-Tech designs leading to Eco-Tech Smart Architectural Design Strategies

Shari G. Grant

1.9. Towards Performative, Environmentally Responsive Architecture

Branko Kolarevic

1.10. Smart Urban Resiliency Concepts and Goals: How can cities become smart but also sustainable and resilient

Shabtai Isaac, Miquel Casals, Silvio carta & Blanca Tejedor Herrán

1.11.“Designing smart retrofits using nature’s patterns”: Designing sustainability into existing communities

Victor Olgyay

1.12. The Smart Cities Trend of the Future

Tim Williams, Andy Watts, Andrew Whalley

 1.13_Smart Architecture to Reduce Whole Life Carbon in Buildings and Infrastructures

Paul Toyne

1.14. Blockchain technology for smart thinking: The intangible digital assets for AI-enabled monitoring and improvement process performance, and reducing building impacts on ecology

Eric Farr & Poorang Piroozfar

Paradigmatic Category Two: Smart Design Methodologies and Typologies

Chapter 2.1: Smart Design’s Methodology as Research-Informed-Designs

2.1.1 Searching Through Smart Design Methods for Architecture

Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle

2.1.2 For(m) and against architectural intelligence: Design as research, again

Brett Steele

2.2_ Br(AI)n City: The AI Enhanced City of the Future

Neil Leach

2.3. City as Spaceship-Spaceship as City

2.3.1 City as a Spaceship (CAAS)

Sue Fairburn, Susmita Mohanty & Anna Barbara Imhof

2.3.2 Outer Space Activities and the Future of Smart Habitats on Earth

Madhu Thangavelu

2.4. Smart Assistive Design Concepts for Enhancing Independent Living in Domestic Environments

Mengni Zhang & Keith Evan Green

2.5. The Concept of Deaf Architecture in Smart Design Thinking

Hansel Bauman

2.6. Smart Architecture for the Blind

Chris Downey & Michael Arbib

2.7. People-Centered Smart Learning Ecosystems: frameworks of reference for optimal design and planning to support individual well-being and learning by being a model

Carlo Giovannella & Giuseppe Roccasalva

2.8. Smart Spaces for Healing: Extended Reality (XR) and the Body In Healthcare Technology

Anna Stroe, & Nick Ward, Fiona Zisch

2.9. Smart Design Thinking focused on Human Responsiveness and Movement for Homeostasis Stability

2.9.1 Proportioned and Smart Architecture

Tiziana Proietti and Sergei Gepshtein

2.9.2 Smart Home Design for Dementia

Julia del Río and Eduardo Macagno     

2.9.3 Smart Design and AI for Developmental Disabilities

Kristi Gaines, and Raquel Rodrigues

Paradigmatic Category Three: Smart Materiality

3.1. On Science of the Materials for the Built Environment: The Role of Biomimetics/ biomimicry and development of strength and promoting natural forms and function inspired by nature: Bioreceptive Materials for Future Artificial Ecologies - Epizoochory: Evolution of Material and Methods

Mark Tholen                                                                     

3.2. Smart Ways to Enclose Buildings: Using Super-Strong, Super-Hard, and Flexible Biomaterials Designed with Nano- and Mesoscale Technology

Negar Kalantar, Evan Jones, Margaret Ikeda, and Dyche Mullins 

3.3. Smart Materials as Architectured Porous and Hybrid Systems to Produce Performative Building Components                                                                       

Sina Mostafavi & Nic Bao & Edgar Montejano

3.4. Fractal-Based Porous Concrete Components Design and 3D Printing

Iasef Md Rian

3.5. Advancing Tunable Acoustics through Smart Materials and Reconfigurable Kerf Structures

Alireza Borhani, Negar Kalantar, Anastasia Muliana, Maryam Mansoori, and Ali Farajmandi

3.6. Smart tectonics for the design of building structural systems                                                         

Olga Popovic Larsen, and Sander Løkkegaard Benner

3.7. Smart Building Sensibilities: Future Buildings will be smarter, cleaner, connected, adaptable, and driven by digital rather than spatial technology

Pierce Reynoldson, and Ibrahim Odeh

Paradigmatic Category Four: Smart Design for a Changing Climate

4.1. Tenets of the Panarchistic Architecture Paradigm

Melissa Sterry

4.2. Connecting Architecture & Agriculture for a Climate-Smart Future

Henry Gordon-Smith

4.3. Anti-Desertification Architecture: Aeolian Assemblies

Stephen Mueller

4.4. The stacked city as a model for high-density low-carbon urbanization: Comparison of the vertical and horizontal city models for urban development in hot climate zones and their potential to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.

Brian Cody

4.5. Sustainable Smart Cold Living Habitats – Lesson from Antarctica for Other Earth Locations in the Light of Climate Crisis: Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station 2020+

Ewa Kuryłowicz, Piotr Kuczyński, Karolina Czumaj

4.6. Envisioning Ecological Planning Merged with Smart Technologies and Density

Frederick Besançon

4.7. The Intelligence of Buildings: Information and Bioclimatic Design

William W. Braham

4.8. Smart Energy harvesting from natural and artificial aquatic systems

Bastian Steudel

4.9. Amphibious Structures for Smart Flood Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Łukasz Piątek & Elizabeth C. English

4.10. Smart Ocean Living: Speculative Design of the North Atlantic Floating Archipelago

Lukasz Piatek

4.11. Aquatic Structures: Designing Marine Futures

Joerg Baumeister

4.12. Expansion in the Water: Growth and Design Processes to Grow Living Islands

Despina Linaraki, Joerg Baumeister, Tim Stevens, Paul Burton

Paradigmatic Category Five: On Smart Design for Mobility and in Defiance of Pollution

5.1. Smart Mobility and the Future of Cities

Jaymes Dunsmore

5.2. Smart Airports: Opportunities and Challenges

Terence Young

5.3. The Future of Advanced Air Mobility and the Role of the Airports

David Tomber

5.4. Innovation and Tradition in Space Architecture: Lessons Learned from the Space-Stations Prototypes for Intelligence and Constructability: The Triangular-Tetrahedral (Tri-Tet) Space Station

Marc Cohen

5.5. Mobile Architecture for, with, and by the People: Smart Design Responses to Climate Change Challenges

Eric Farr and Poorang Piroozfar                                       

Paradigmatic Category Six: Simulation and Advancements Trajectories in Digital Technologies and Data-Driven Smart Designs

6.1. Simulation Driven Eco-Social Design: Toward Creating Smart Designs

Robert R. Neumayr

6.2. Smart Prototyping: From Data-Driven Mass-Customization to Community-Enabled Co-Production

Sina Mostafavi, Asma Mehan, & Bahar Bagher

6.3. Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry 4.0 and Beyond: Building construction automation through 3D printing and additive manufacturing towards lower environmental impacts

Poorang Piroozfar & Eric Farr

6.4. Nesting Fabrication: An Integrated Approach Using Existing Tools to Minimize Waste in Large-Scale Freeform Construction

Alireza Borhani & Negar Kalantar

6.5. Huma-Robot Reconfigurations: Advancing Feminist Technoscience Perspectives for Human-Robot-Collaboration in Architecture and Construction

Gili Ron, Yana Boeva, Cordula Kropp, Achim Menges & Thomas Wortmann

Biography

Mitra Kanaani, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), and a Fellow and Distinguished Professor of the Association Collegiate Schools of Architecture (DPACSA). Mitra holds a D. Arch, with a focus on Performative Architecture, and an M.Arch. with a minor in Structural Engineering, as well as a Master of Urban Planning and a B.A in Musicology. She is the former Chair of the NewSchool of Architecture, and an active researcher, author, and editor. She is currently on the California Architect Board, a Global Associate faculty with BIHE, and a liaison with the UIA.