Andrzej Zarzycki

• S.M.Arch.S, M.Arch
• Professor (Associate) at New Jersey Institute of Technology

As TAD approaches its five-year anniversary, the editorial board reflects on the state of the journal, its objectives, and achievements, while looking ahead to the next chapter. We launched the journal five years ago to fulfill a need for a focused platform to share and advance peer-reviewed research in architectural technology. Design disciplines...

This article discusses research case studies that deploy physical computing with kinetic, pneumatic, and smart material technologies as vehicles to address the prospects of these technologies and their future impact on resilient and high-performance buildings. It looks into conceptual aspects of an integrated hybrid system that combines both comput...

This paper reviews strategies for embedded systems for product development and research prototyping. It focuses on the open-source and open-access technologies that can be applied into wiring smart cities, smart buildings, and smart building components. The paper contextualizes this discussion through two smart product case studies deploying microc...

This paper reviews current Internet of Things frameworks integrating embedded and distributed sensing and actuation in the context of research prototyping and the do-it-yourself movement. It focuses on the open-source and open-access technologies that can be applied into wiring smart cities, smart buildings, and smart building components. The paper...

This paper discusses the role of prototyping as a vehicle to integrate electronic media technology, materiality, and physical computing into architectural design process and education. It connects a creating-making approach to a broader maker and hacker culture through adaptive and autonomous assemblies and embedded electronic systems. It recognize...

Computation and electronic technologies combined with smart materials provide a new ingredient in the creating-making of a built environment. Understanding virtuality in the context of materiality and materiality in the broader intellectual, cultural, and social framework is critical for the integrity and future of the discipline. This creating-mak...

Augmented Reality (AR) increasing occupies an important place in manufacturing, transportation, branding, tourism, education, and many other areas of life. It finds its applications in a diverse range of disciplines from remote collaboration and navigation to interactive print and data visualization. Unlike virtual reality (VR) fully immersed in no...

Mom's Tray is a dietary monitoring system that integrates smart tray with embedded sensors, pre-arranged and RFID-tagged food packages, and a mobile app to provide a real-time feedback on food ordering and consumption in a school cafeteria setup.

This paper discusses the role of prototyping as a vehicle to integrate electronic media technology, materiality, and physical computing into architectural design process and education. It connects a creating-making approach to a broader maker and hacker culture through adaptive and autonomous assemblies and embedded electronic systems. It recognize...

This paper discusses research into embedded building assemblies with a focus on distributed sensing, real-time building envelope monitoring, and smart material integration. It looks into extending the concept of the Internet of Things from devices and appliances housed within a building to assemblies and a structure itself. The paper presents a num...

This paper uses a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) device with multiple building materials to provide guidance for developing an autonomous robotics-friendly environment. The results demonstrate various materials that not only provide missing data, such as for clear glass, but also can provide inaccurate data, a dangerous situation in the contex...

Adaptive designs and intelligent spaces are in the forefront of the current architectural and product design discourse. They engage users in interactive dialogue, allow for public domain authoring, and are critical factors in sustainable designs where buildings monitor their own performance and respond to environmental factors or user needs (figure...

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To cite this article: Brause, Caryn; Ford, Chris; Olsen, Clare; Ripple, Jeana D'Agostino; Uihlein, Marci S.; Zarzycki, Andrzej. (2017). “Why TAD?” [Editorial, Founding Board Members]. Technology|Architecture + Design, Viral, 1:1, 1-2, DOI: 10.1080/24751448.2017.1292784 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2017.1292784

This paper investigates localization and guidance systems as important future considerations for autonomous mobility within the built environment. Specifically, it looks at embedding magnets within building construction assemblies, using magnetic sensors for autonomous navigation, and understanding the impact construction materials may have on magn...

The human relationship with the environment, history, and culture is framed by our already embedded experiences and mental images---we see what we expect to see. In turn, cultural and technological context continuously forms new mental images. This continuous feedback loop is expressed by the punchline to Microsoft's HoloLens commercial: "when you...

When considering architectural and urban responses to autonomous mobility, it becomes evident that the future strategies will have to include a significant transformation to the built environment, particularly the ways it operates and interacts with inhabitants. Designers will not only need to rethink formal and functional arrangements but also, an...

This paper discusses and demonstrates an integration of embedded electronic systems utilizing distributed sensors and localized actuators to increase the adaptability and environmental performance of a building envelope. It reviews state-of-the-art technologies utilized in other fields that could be adopted into smart building designs. The case stu...

Contemporary video games such as Mass Effect or Assassin’s Creed are emerging as a new form of media departing from traditional games purely seen as problem-solving exercises. They represent a new creative direction enjoyed by a broader audience, similar to those of TV and cinema. At the same time, they are significantly different from TV and cinem...

Contemporary video games such as Mass Effect or Assas-sin's Creed emerge as a new form of media and depart from traditional games purely seen as problem-solving exercises. They are enjoyed by a broader audience, similar to those of TV and cinema. At the same time, they are significantly different from TV and cinema, since they place the user at the...

This paper discusses ways in which emerging interactive augmented reality (AR) technologies are being adopted by designers and extended into areas of tourism, education, entertainment and commerce. It discusses, in detail, project development stages and methodologies used to engage design focused students into, often complex, technological issues....

Formal mutations explore tectonic possibilities in architectural form and space. They build upon the observation that editing already existing data is more native to the digital environment than inputting new data. In an architectural context, this means that transforming already existing forms is a potent and effective way to derive new forms, ide...

The discourse within the public realm and, to some extent, the physical shape of the urban spaces are defined by contemporary electronic culture. Electronic devices augment our daily lives and the ways we function within them. Distributed sensory networks connect individual data nodes into an interdependent system-organism that monitors its own beh...

This paper discusses ways emerging interactive technologies are adopted by designers and extended into areas of design, education, entertainment, and commerce. It looks, in detail, at various project development stages and methodologies used to engage design focused students into, often complex, technological issues. The discussion is contextualize...

This paper looks at two distinct approaches to kinetic façades and smart building assemblies reminiscent of designs for the Institut du Monde Arabe and for Hoberman's Simon Center. The first approach uses Arduino microcontroller-guided kinetic components with a distinct assemblage of elements, each performing a dedicated function such as sensor, ac...

Many architects and engineers regard BIM as a disruptive force, changing the way building professionals design, build, and ultimately manage a built structure. With its emphasis on continuing advances in BIM a research, teaching, and practice, Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice encourages readers to transform disrupti...

1.1 INTRODUCTION Despite the myth of the heroic architect, popularized by Ayn Rand 's novel The Fountainhead , whose Howard Roark–like designs spring entirely from personal inspiration, architects and engineers need information to design buildings. Few people today question the needs of the clients and/or users so at least a rough program of activi...

The use of open-source microcontroller platforms in building design facilitates new responsive building systems and intelligent facades. Adaptive designs and intelligent spaces are at the forefront of the current architectural and artistic discourse. They engage users in interactive dialogue, allow for public domain authoring, and are critical fact...

This paper discusses the integration of physical and digital models in the context of building technology teaching. It showcases projects that explore the design possibilities of a chosen structural system with the use of parametric and behaviour-based computational modelling. It uses detailed mock-ups as vehicles to study, optimize, and evaluate t...

all to Wall: The For better or worse, digital technologies — smartphones, LEDs, social networking — are changing our cityscapes. by Andrzej Zarzycki "Foursquare is all about helping you find new ways to explore the city. Earn points and unlock badges for discovering new places, doing new things, and meeting new people." This message greets you when...

We are used to objects that respond to our actions. When crossing a street, we push a button and a green light appears. The light may say "walk," but it actually does not tell us anything more than that we have just pressed the button. The system does not check for moving cars or verify our safety; it simply announces our intention of crossing the...

Computer-based tools have changed the focus and modes of design thinking in architecture.While often criticized for its overemphasis on formal expressions and its pursuit of the spectacular, digital creativity has begun to take into account a multiplicity of design factors that define architecture.These factors relate to performance simulation and...

Computer-based tools have changed the focus and modes of design thinking in architecture. While often criticized for its overemphasis on formal expressions and its pursuit of the spectacular, digital creativity has begun to take into account a multiplicity of design factors that define architecture. These factors relate to performance simulation an...

A new potent mix of gaming, mobile devices, and urban environments transforms the public realm and the way we operate within it by embedding digital information in the physical world. According to the website for Simon Games, a project of the Pervasive Media Studio, "Games are the new cinema, they are breaking free from the console and hitting the...

The promising directions in current design practice and teaching relate to creativity with digital tools in the context of building information modelling (BIM), performance analysis, and simulations as well as digital materiality (computational simulations of materials) and dynamics-based behaviour. This line of research combines spatial design wit...

While usually associated with the back-end of the design process (implementation), building information modeling (BIM) could also redefine the way design ideas are generated by bridging formal creativity with design and technological innovation. This is achieved through a close integration of generative tools with parametric capabilities and intell...

Recent developments in digital design have brought new tectonic freedom into architecture. These innovative forms break away from the traditional or modernistic framework. In turn, they often relate to contemporary developments in other design disciplines, such as product design. Emerging tectonic trends, combined with research into new material an...

This paper looks at form-making as a result of parametric explorations of material, light, and dynamics-based behavior. Parametric explorations of materials and light aim beyond representational photorealism, and are used as speculative tools to pursue imaginative designs, to ask " What if… " questions in the context of material research. This pape...

Developments in digital design have brought a new design freedom into architecture. Emerging tectonic trends, combined with research into new materials and fabrication technologies, make it possible to pursue imaginative designs with new expectations of space and form. However, these innovative designs often exist exclusively as visual propositions...

This paper discusses the adoption of BIM tools as an opportunity for design generation, validation, and implementation. It specifically focuses on parametric modeling in discussing construction details, assemblies, and generative explorations in the design context. The introduction of parametric thinking into architectural design allows for underst...

Recent developments in digital design have brought new tectonic freedom into architecture. These innovative forms break away from the traditional or modernistic framework. In turn, they often relate to contemporary developments in other design disciplines, such as product design. Emerging tectonic trends, combined with research into new material an...

New computational theories and technologies developed over recent years are expanding the formal language of architecture and renewing interest in the nature of the creative process. While they often depart from strictly Cartesian geometries and traditional architectural form, they frequently converge on broader aesthetics of contemporary design, t...

British anthropologist James Burke described the history of our civilization as a constant shaping of tools by people, and consequentially shaping people and the way we think by the tools we create. This dictum is as relevant today as it was in the past and applies particularly well to digitally created art and design. In light of this observation,...

63 The term "design process" might be seen as an oxymo-ron, however it is an interesting combination of contrasting words. The word "design" suggests a creative endeavor with unlimited possibilities, not tempered by predictable or predetermined patterns. It also suggests something new and out of the ordinary. From a different perspective, the word...

Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 19. bis 22. April 2007 in Weimar an der Bauhaus-Universität zum Thema: ‚Die Realität des Imaginären. Architektur und das digitale Bild'

We present a new method for controlling kinematic joint chains in animation rigs which addresses significant shortcomings of traditional forward and inverse kinematic systems, combining the best aspects of each while eliminating their respective trade-offs.

This series of projects, titled Formal Mutations, explore tectonic possibilities in architectural form and space. They combine my personal design and research practice with lessons learned during a recent architectural digital design studio at the Rhode Island School of Design Interior Architecture department titled "Formal Mutations; Designing a T...

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We present a novel point-based rendering approach based on object-space point interpolation. We introduce the concept of a transformation-invariant covariance matrix of a set of points to efficiently determine splat sizes in a multiresolution hierarchy. ...

There is a certain mystery surrounding the unbuilt projects or unrealized ideas of famous architects. Often there is an expectation of deeper meaning and hidden genius present in unfulfilled buildings. Some critics go as far as to claim that the best and most interesting projects remain unrealized because of the progressiveness of the ideas associa...

My interest is in spatial and social patterns of architecture, specifically, the relationship between the urban pattern and the architectural form. The discourse of the relationship between urban design and architecture employs a vehicle to discuss the interdependency of forms in the built realm There must be an investigation of the existence of th...