Lenka Kabošová

Technical University of Kosice - Technicka univerzita v Kosiciach · CRIC - Center for Research and Innovation in Construction

The changing climate is a trigger for architects to reconsider the conventional design approach and possibly enrich it with novel approaches brought by the digital age. Sun analysis for urban planning with wind analysis too, proves inevitable for creating comfortable public spaces and built environment in general. When incorporating wind analysis i...

The paper presents an experimental digital form-finding method demonstrated on a tensegrity pavilion design. The creation process is driven by biological inspiration, relating the architectural design to the natural organism’s adaptation to its surroundings. In the Grasshopper parametric environment, we interrelate weather data, expressed through o...

The concept of a nature-responsive, morphing building skin based on the geometric principle of tensegrities is explored digitally and through the scaled prototype. The immaterial climatic fluxes (specifically the wind) reflect in the design as it passively complies with the wind loads. The change in the shape is reversible; the envelope resumes its...

This chapter introduces the wind-driven design method for creating nature-conscious, wind-adaptive architecture. With the changing climate, urban and architectural planning focusing more on climate-conscious design strategies, the significance of climatic factors in the architectural design process is highlighted. The interaction between wind and a...

The grounds for diving into the topic of Designing with the wind are discussed in this chapter. The carefully chosen information about the extremes in the climate is explained, followed by the facts about the wind and its role in architecture and civil engineering, with the third part of the chapter focused on Algorithms-Aided Design and simulation...

The subject of this paper is a nature-driven digital architectural form-finding of a small-scale pavilion made of bi-pyramidal tensegrities covered in a textile membrane. Inspired by nature, we propose to create architecture as an organism that evolves based on ambient influences. Within the form-finding process, digital software, such as Grasshopp...

This book explores wind-adaptive architectural design blending the parametric design with digital simulations and suggests a novel approach for specific, even extreme conditions, as the first step in creating architecture that can act in response to the nature around. The chapters propose an urban and architectural design that emerges from the spec...

The building industry, like many other industries, is driven to take a significant turn due to the pressing issue of global climate change. The potential in digital technologies and digital design approaches is pushed forward and exploited in architecture, structural, civil, and geotechnical engineering. The challenges such as the overheating of bu...

This paper deals with the review and categorization of form-finding techniques. Their utilization in architectural design, consisting of realized as well as theoretical concepts, is studied. Employing experiments, parametric and simulation-based designing, or artificial intelligence in the design process provides a platform for novel, architectura...

The paper describes a scientific project that is solved at the authors' workplace. The scope of the project is the analysis and experimental research of fragments and details of building envelope structures designed for demanding conditions. It will be a question of determining the physical properties (thermal, humidity, energy, aerodynamic, light...

This paper delivers an idea of weather-based optimization as a sustainable design strategy addressing the changing climate. An environment-driven design technique is introduced and tested at the urban and architectural scale. Utilizing the interplay between the architectural intention and weather influences (specifically solar radiation and wind ef...

Digital design and analysis tools are continually progressing, enabling more seamless integration of climatic impacts into the conceptual design stage, which naturally means enhanced environmental performance of the final designs. Planning sustainable urban configurations and, consequently, environment-derived architectural forms becomes more rapid...

The focus of this paper is the multilevel modeling of the woven carbon-reinforced-fiber composite shell structure. Through the steps of (1) Micro-level modeling, (2) Meso-level modeling, (3) Macro-level modeling, and (4) Structural-level modeling, an experimental complex-shaped pavilion is designed. The mechanical behavior of fiber bundles is deter...

Given the continuous improvements in digital design and analysis tools, designing in line with the environmental conditions can be much more seamlessly integrated into the conceptual design stage. That leads to faster, informed design decisions and, if incorporated into day-to-day practice, to a sustainable built environment. The presented design m...

Despite the immense influence of the building shape on the wind flow, the wind-based design is not yet a part of the daily architectural practice. With improvingdigital design tools, however, the interactions of architecture and the wind flow can be quite precisely analyzed very early in the design process. Buildings are constantly exposed to dynam...

Together with the natural environment, the built, artificial environment represents a barrier to the wind fluxes. Especially in the densely built cities, the wind flow pattern and the wind speed are considerably altered by buildings, which can lead to zones of an accelerated wind and turbulent flow. Incorporating the wind into the early conceptual...

In the climate change era, the tendency to utilize computer-aided strategies in architectural design enables the incorporation of the influences of ambient conditions into the design process. Such a design strategy can consequently contribute to creating nature-based, sustainable architectural, and urban solutions. In this paper, it will be shown t...

As an architectural response to the changing climate, a wind-driven design approach is developed. By adopting the digital design tools, the wind can be integrated into the design process, from the large scale of urban planning, through the form-finding of buildings, as well as designing the texture and roughness of building surfaces. In its more ex...

The paper provides information on the solution of project supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of VEGA of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of Slovak Republic and of the Slovak Academy of Sciences of Slovak Republic. There is project: VEGA 1/0674/18. This research project is programmed for the years 2018 to 2021. In this p...

Building skins are persistently exposed to changes in the weather, including the cases of weather extremes, increasing in frequency due to global climate change. As a consequence of the advancements of digital design tools, the integration of the weather conditions into the design process is much smoother. The impact of the ambient conditions on bu...

The linkage of individual design skills and computer-based capabilities in the design process offers yet unexplored environment-adaptive architectural solutions. The conventional perception of architecture is changing, creating a space for reconfigurable, “living” buildings responding, for instance, to climatic influences. Integrating the element o...

The paper presents research for wind-responsive architecture. The main objective is the digital design methodology incorporating the dynamic, fluctuating wind flow into the shape-generating process of architectural envelopes. These computational studies are advanced and informed through physical prototyping models, allowing a hybrid method approach...

The rapid enhancement of computers’ power and the boom of open-source software development have offered a broad range of possible applications in architectural design. Grasshopper is a visual programming language developed for the 3D CAD modeling program, Rhinoceros. Utilizing Grasshopper’s free software extensions, it is possible, among other thin...

Over the past few decades, digital tools have become indispensable in the field of architecture. The complex design tasks that make up architectural design methods benefit from utilizing advanced simulation software and, consequently, design solutions have become more nature-adapted and site-specific. Computer simulations and performance-oriented d...

Mankind has always been interested in music from beating on something with a hammer and composing similar rhythms together up to today’s music consisting of a number of harmonies. Today, there are many music genres and expansion requires the construction of buildings necessary for this purpose more and more than ever. The focus is moved from classi...

The paper investigates the design loop of parametrically creating an architectural shape based on the analysis of the specific wind situation of the design site, continuously testing the design's performance in the wind using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and subsequently adjusting the formed architectural shape based on the wind s...

Although gradual, the changes in the weather patterns are also noticeable and impactful to architectural design. If the local microclimate is taken into account early in the conceptual stage of design, the longevity of the ultimate structure can be greatly enhanced, despite challenging environmental factors. Parametric designing enables to discover...

A case study in a former oil terminal in Stockholm is carried out. The extreme outdoor local climate of the site is caused by the dense urban structure of cylindrical silos. In the proposal, the industrial zone from 1926 is changed into a recreational zone while the character of the place is preserved. In few of the empty silos that are reduced in...

Architecture is mostly perceived as a static, unchanging and rigid element without an ability to react to the changing environment around it and the specific conditions of its location. The digital approach to architectural design has already shown that it is possible to create architectural prototypes that react to the external inputs by changes i...

In the dynamic environment, the conventional design principles aren't enough. Extremely low or high temperatures, temperature changes, strong winds, droughts, floods and other events are starting to be more common and more evident in today's environment. If the environment is changing and evolving, architecture should evolve too to be able to react...

Existing buildings of music centers confirm their importance and need. Spaces that can be found here - concert hall and rehearsal rooms, along with music shops, exhibition spaces, and living room - offer a modern cultural space with great potential. The architectural design of the music center building should correspond with the surrounding buildin...

The contribution points to environmental problems in the interior of cultural buildings. The aim of the article is a description and characteristics of typological, structural, physical and acoustic requirements of test rooms in cultural buildings and in musical centers for presenting rock and pop music. It includes initial requirements for the spa...

This contribution describes environmental, architectural, technical, structural etc requirements of the premises of cultural buildings, musical centers, in particular test rooms for pop music. Mankind has always been interested in music. From the pre-historic times when the music was represented by beating on something with a hammer, through a comp...

Living organisms have been constantly adapting to the specific environmental conditions of the most diverse places in the world and have developed a balanced relationship with nature that is particularly interesting to observe in extreme conditions. The landscapes are continually influenced, even shaped by natural forces. Many of the beautiful natu...

Architecture is mostly perceived as a static, unchanging and rigid element without an ability to react to the changing and evolving environment around it. In the era of computers and technology, architects, designers and engineers are engaging more with the issue of movement in architecture. The conventional, stationary architecture is not able to...

Architecture is mostly perceived as a static, unchanging and rigid element without an ability to react to the changing and evolving environment around it. In the era of computers and technology, architects, designers and engineers are engaging more with the issue of movement in architecture. The conventional, stationary architecture is not able to...