Verena Vogler

McNeel Europe

Report about field research in Indonesia: Coral Reefs in the Bali Sea are complex structures that prevent beaches from erosion, serve as habitat for sea life and are a major resource for the local fishing industry and tourism. Currently, however, they are threatened and partly already destroyed by dynamite fishing, ocean acidification due to elevat...

This paper discusses a novel approach for artificial coral reefs. In our case study-pursued at the shoreline of Gili Trawangan (Indonesia)-we present new methods and techniques for their design and fabrication, and, ultimately, to enable regrowth of damaged coral reefs. Of particular importance is the use of underwater laser scanning and underwater...

Coral threat levels from climate change have increased around the globe. Coral reefs are nature's best coastal protection device [MS48]. They dissipate portions of the wave energy through a system of multi-scalar tunnels to gradually reduce the power of large swells. As complex and permeable underwater structures, reefs refract waves instead of ref...

Anthropic activities negatively impact natural and artificial ecosystems, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies such as multi-species building envelope designs. This paper introduces a computational multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology to support these envelope designs. We also propose a nested set strategy for key perf...

Rapid urbanization negatively affects the built and biotic environment, necessitating interdisciplinary mitigation strategies. Current nature-based solutions that are integrated into building envelope design have proved to be beneficial. These solutions, however, are primarily anthropocentric and often overlook the potential to support other living...

Research is revealing an increasing number of positive effects of nature for humans. At the same time, biodiversity in cities, where most humans live, is often low or in decline. Tangible solutions are needed to increase urban biodiversity. Architecture is a key discipline that has considerable influence on the built‐up area of cities, thereby infl...

Urbanisation, due to its contribution to climate change and loss of biodiversity, damages ecosystems, thereby affecting human health and well-being. Current urban and architectural design approaches, that aim to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, include, among other strategies, the integration of greening systems but focusing primarily...

The tropical coral reef ecosystem is currently facing an unprecedented ecological crisis (HUGHES et al. 2017 & HARRIS et al. 2006), and it remains unclear how reef regeneration projects are progressing without efficient artificial reef designs that hold the long-term potential to become a fully integrated part of the coral reef ecosystem. As a resp...

Tropical coral reefs, one of the world’s oldest ecosystems which support some of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet, are currently facing an unprecedented ecological crisis during this massive human-activity-induced period of extinction. Hence, tropical reefs symbolically stand for the destructive effects of human activities on nature...

Nowadays, vast amounts of multimedia content are being produced, archived, and digitized, resulting in great troves of data of interest. Examples include user-generated content, such as images, videos, text, and audio posted by users on social media and wikis, or content provided through official publishers and distributors, such as digital librari...

3D high precision point cloud models from underwater photogrammetry scans of artificial coral reef prototypes and of coral reefs. Available here: https://3d.artificialreefdesign.com/potree/reef/. Click on the thumbnail images to open the 3D models in your web browser.

Urban areas are facing significant challenges regarding degradation of environments and ecosystems, species loss, and increased vulnerability to climate hazards, all of which impact negatively upon human health and well-being.Focusing on building envelopes can offer an effective approach to the regeneration of urban ecosystems, by providing new spa...

MindSpaces provides solutions for creating functionally and emotionally appealing architectural designs in urban spaces. Social media services, physiological sensing devices and video cameras provide data from sensing environments. State-of-the-Art technology including VR, 3D design tools, emotion extraction, visual behaviour analysis, and textual...

The presentation shows visually the content of the submitted conference paper "Close range underwater photogrammetry for a high-resolution survey of a coral reef: A comparison between reconstructed 3-D point cloud models from still image and video data ". Basically, a natural coral reef has been scanned at close range using underwater photogrammet...