TY - BOOK A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin T1 - Concept : a dialogic instrument in architectural design N2 - Concept - this is a key term in architectural discourse. However, all too often it is used imprecisely or merely for marketing purposes. What is a concept actually? This publication moves between design theory and design practice and follows the history of the definition of concept in architecture, leading to the formulation of a specifically instrumental and operative definition. It bases concept in architecture on its strategic potential in design decision-making processes. In the changing profession of the designing architect, decisions are increasingly made in multidisciplinary groups. Concept can serve as a dialogic instrument in the process, making it possible to process heterogeneous information from a range of spheres of knowledge. The effective presentation of selected information becomes a relevant interface in the design process, which has a significant influence on the quality of the design. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-86859-364-8 PB - Jovis CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin A1 - Van Den Bergh, Wim A1 - Goliasch, Simon A1 - Kühnle, Christian A1 - Läufer, Jonas A1 - Ring, Jana A1 - Schmalt, Nicola T1 - Roman traces for cross-border identification T2 - Design Strategies for Transforming Cross-Border Regions N2 - The research group focuses on the characteristics in the land-and cityscapes of the Drielanden-zone, which contribute to generate common identities, as well as on those features that trigger differences and specificities of the adjacent countries that enrich the perception of the zone. In this research, the instruments of cartography and land survey system serve to detect and localize the fragmented appearance of relevant historic elements. These analytic procedures help to develop strategies for infrastructures and processes that gradually initiate local forms of cross-border tourism. The architectural research displays how top-down and bottom-up interventions can be combined in order to guarantee a sustainable use and development of the considered area. KW - Building Culture KW - Archeology KW - Cartography KW - Land Survey and Measurement Systems KW - Infrastructures Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Calliess, Gralf-Peter A1 - Kroll-Ludwigs, Kathrin T1 - Art. 6 Rome III-Regulation (consent and material validity) T2 - Rome Regulations : commentary Y1 - 2015 SN - 9789041147547 PB - Wolters Kluwer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matcha, Heike ED - Martens, B. T1 - Parametrized Systems: Conceiving of Buildings as Assemblies of Varied Parts JF - Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015 Y1 - 2015 SP - 143 EP - 148 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mottaghy, Darius A1 - Dijkshoorn, Lydia T1 - Implementing an effective finite difference formulation for borehole heat exchangers into a heat and mass transport code JF - Renewable Energy N2 - We present an effective finite difference formulation for implementing and modeling multiple borehole heat exchangers (BHE) in the general 3-D coupled heat and flow transport code SHEMAT. The BHE with arbitrary length can be either coaxial or double U-shaped. It is particularly suitable for modeling deep BHEs which contain varying pipe diameters and materials. Usually, in numerical simulations, a fine discretization of the BHE assemblage is required, due to the large geometric aspect ratios involved. This yields large models and long simulation times. The approach avoids this problem by considering heat transport between fluid and the soil through pipes and grout via thermal resistances. Therefore, the simulation time can be significantly reduced. The coupling with SHEMAT is realized by introducing an effective heat generation. Due to this connection, it is possible to consider heterogeneous geological models, as well as the influence of groundwater flow. This is particularly interesting when studying the long term behavior of a single BHE or a BHE field. Heating and cooling loads can enter the model with an arbitrary interval, e.g. from hourly to monthly values. When dealing with large BHE fields, computing times can be further significantly reduced by focusing on the temperature field around the BHEs, without explicitly modeling inlet and outlet temperatures. This allows to determine the possible migration of cold and warm plumes due to groundwater flow, which is of particular importance in urban areas with a high BHE installation density. The model is validated against the existing BHE modeling codes EWS and EED. A comparison with monitoring data from a deep BHE in Switzerland shows a good agreement. Synthetic examples demonstrate the field of application of this model. KW - Borehole heat exchanger KW - Finite differences KW - Heat transport Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.02.013 SN - 0960-1481 VL - 45 SP - 59 EP - 71 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin T1 - The concept as an operant instrument within the interdisciplinarity of the architectural design process N2 - In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les définitions vagues ont causé bien des erreurs, ont laissé germer bien des préjugés, enraciner bien des idées fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens différent." The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects. The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects’ profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect’s role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect’s ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity. The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process’ descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies. The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking. The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur. The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking. KW - methodologies KW - instruments KW - interdisciplinarity KW - architectural design process KW - design theory Y1 - 2012 PB - Politecnico di Torino CY - Turin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fissabre, Anke A1 - Niethammer, Bernd ED - Graf, Franz T1 - Early Glazed Curtain Walls and their Preservation T2 - Il vetro nell’architettura del XX secolo : conservazione e restauro = Glass in the 20th Century Architecture : Preservation and Restoration Y1 - 2011 SN - 9788887624502 SP - 185 EP - 199 PB - Mendrisio Academy Press CY - Mendrisio ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Matcha, Heike A1 - Barczik, Günter ED - Valena, Tomas ED - Avermaete, Tom ED - Vrachliotis, Georg T1 - Mass Diversity: Individualized housing via parametric typology T2 - Structuralism Reloaded? Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-936681-47-5 SP - 354 EP - 358 PB - Edition Axel Menges CY - Fellbach ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Matcha, Heike A1 - Ljubas, Ante T1 - Parametric Origami: Adaptable temporary buildings T2 - Future cities: 28th eCAADe Conference Proceedings. eCAADe: Conferences. Zurich, Switzerland Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-0-9541183-7-2 SP - 243 EP - 251 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fissabre, Anke A1 - Niethammer, Bernd T1 - The Invention of Glazed Curtain Wall in 1903 – The Steiff Toy Factory T2 - Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Construction History, TU Cottbus 20.-24. Mai 2009, Vol 2 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-936033-31-1 SP - 595 EP - 602 PB - Neunplus1 CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Matcha, Heike A1 - Quasten, Gero T1 - A Parametric-Typological Tool: More Diversity for Mass Produced Single Family Homes Through Parametrized Design and Customized Mass Production T2 - Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-9541183-8-9 SP - 409 EP - 416 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Karzer, Rüdiger A1 - Matcha, Heike T1 - Experimental design-build: teaching parameter-based design T2 - Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-9541183-8-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2009.153 SP - 153 EP - 158 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hirschberg, Rainer T1 - Decentral pumps in heating systems - a new hydraulic approac JF - 1st International Rotating Equipment Conference - Pumps and Compressors, 9th Pump Users International Forum, 9. Internationales Pumpenanwenderforum, Final Report, Düsseldorf, DE, 28.-29. Oct, 2008 Y1 - 2008 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - - ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Matcha, Heike A1 - Karzel, Rüdiger A1 - Quasten, Gero T1 - Architectural Design with Parametric Modeling & Customized Mass Production: Explorations and Case Studies in Architectural Design and Production Methods T2 - Language and the Scientific Imagination. The 11th International Conference of ISSEI, Language Centre, University of Helsinki (Finland) 28 July - 2 August 2008 Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gugger, Harry A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin ED - Geiser, Reto T1 - From city to detail: the sphere of the architect T2 - Explorations in architecture Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-7643-8921-5 SP - 50 EP - 53 PB - Birkhäuser CY - Basel ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Matcha, Heike T1 - Parametric possibilities: designing with parametric modelling T2 - Predicting the Future [25th eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-0-9541183-6-5 SP - 849 EP - 856 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krebsbach, M. A1 - Schiller, C. A1 - Brunner, D. A1 - Günther, G. A1 - Hegglin, M. I. A1 - Mottaghy, Darius A1 - Riese, M. A1 - Spelten, N. A1 - Wernli, H. 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