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Topologic: Spatiality, Awareness and Abstraction in Architectural and Engineering Modelling

Wassim Jabi1 , Robert Aish2, Simon Lannon1, Aikaterini Chatzivasileiadi1, Nicholas Mario Wardhana1

1Cardiff University, 2University College London

San Francisco Computational Design Institute 18 September 2019

Presented by Wassim Jabi, Ph.D. Reader Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff University This project is supported by the Leverhulme Trust (Project RPG2016-016) E-mail: jabiw@cardiff.ac.uk Twitter: @TopologicBIM

Team

Team

Short Biography

• Dr. Wassim Jabi earned his B.Arch. from the American University of Beirut and his

M.Arch. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. While in the U.S., he led the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), secured a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, and taught at various universities before moving to Europe in 2008. He is currently a Reader (tenured Associate Professor) at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University where he leads the digital design area. Dr. Jabi has published widely on topics ranging from parametric and generative design to the role of light in architecture and building performance

• simulation. He has been a member of the editorial board of the International

Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC). Dr. Jabi has written a book titled "Parametric Design for Architecture" (Laurence King Publishing, London). His current research is at the intersection of parametric design, the representation of space, building performance simulation, and robotic fabrication in architecture. Dr. Jabi has recently secured a significant grant from the Leverhulme trust to enhance the representation of space through non-manifold topology in parametric design

• environments. This resulted in a freely available software development kit titled

Topologic (http://topologic.app).

Why Topologic?

SPATIALITY AWARENESS ABSTRACTION

Spatiality

Awareness

Source: Professor Gottfried Augnebroe. Presentation at the Welsh School of Architecture

Abstraction

Aggregation vs. Division

Manifold Geometry

a collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those

• f a topologically closed surface or an analogue of this in three or

more dimensions.

Non-Manifold Topology

A non-manifold body also has a boundary [composed of faces] that separates the enclosed solid from the external void. Faces are either external [separating the interior (enclosed space) from the exterior (void)] or internal [separating one enclosed space (or cell) from another]. Furthermore, a non-manifold solid can have edges where more than two faces meet.

Use Cases

Energy Analysis Structural Analysis Digital Fabrication (Conformal Cellular Structures) Spatial Reasoning

Multi-disciplinary Design Feedback Loops

Topologic

Build, Connect, Analyse

http://topologic.app

Topologic

• OPEN. MULTI-PLATFORM. FREE.

Topologic Model as Driver for Multi-disciplinary Analysis

Building Fabric Model Energy Analysis Model Structural Analysis Model Topologic model Spatial Reasoning Model

Topological Queries

Dual Graph – Connect Through Shared Faces

Dual Graph – Shortest Path

Hannah Ju

Content/Context and Custom Dictionaries

Topological Awareness

• One CellComplex is the Result of a Cell being

Imposed on a CellComplex

• Exterior Vertical Faces are Yellow
• Interior Vertical Faces that Separate Small Cells

are Blue

• Interior Vertical Faces that Separate a Small Cell

from a Large Cell are Red

• Horizontal Faces are Hidden.

TopologicalEnergy: OpenStudio & EnergyPlus

Geometric Optioneering with Refinery

WIP: FDS Fire Propagation

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning – Escaping a spreading fire

BuroHappold

Thank you.

Wassim Jabi, , Ph.D. .D.

Reader Welsh sh School of Architec ecture Cardiff Universi sity

jabiw@card rdiff.ac.uk or info@to topologic.app Twitte tter: @topol

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