These days I have been updated my GC<->E+ connection. I fix some bugs to get more speed, and I get it. you will see in the video 10 different thermal analysis of the box in less than a minute. so I’m glad for that. Unfortunly Since E+ needs some seconds to generate the new files, the speed in the evaluation has a limit.

Results: The data that you are viewing.
Inside Air temperature Average : is the average of the inside Air temeperature in the hottest and coldest day in Barcelona, this number should be the same all the time. 21 C degrees/hr.

Cooling Average : This is the jules/hourly that you have to spend in this building to keep the temperature at 21 C degrees. during the hottest and coldest day in the year. (this number must be change)

Heatting Average : This is the jules/hourly that you have to spend in this building to keep the temperature at 21 C degrees. during the hottest and coldest day in the year. (this number must be change)

The settings of the buildings, like the type of glass in windows, the material of walls or even the weather are defined in the E+ file.

My PhD. is about Evolutionary Estrategies. More Precisely in Genetic Algorithms (GAs). I understand the GAs like a complex machine of optimization that knows nothing about the problem which it is trying to (re)solve.
This Particularity (detail) is very interesting, due to the fact that you can apply the GAs to different fields. For example, on the web you will find a lot of resources about GAs, such as Libraries of algorithms, examples of code, images and a lot of explanations.

The complex thing in a GA is not the programming part, as you can think, Is the way of how you define the problem that you want to optimize. This is usually a function called Fitness Function (FF). The correct set of your FF will determine the increase of the population’s level in each iteration. Therfore the effort must be put here.

The FF allows to evaluate each solution (individual) and to set who is who in the population, or in a different way, which of these solutions are the best and which are not.

Sometimes you can work with a really simple FF, like evaluating the length of a path, that you want to reduce. Besides, it can consists os a series of different equations that each individual must test. Logically, this process involve computational resources, it take some seconds or even minutes to achieve a correct evaluation.

In the case of one of my experiments, the evaluation consisted of determine how much energy a building spends in a specific weather. To achieve that I had to write a series of classes in C# (some of classes are built embedded in GC). Well a whole programme (with out interface, Console application) to allow me to transform the complete geometry in a different type of file for its thermal analysis in EnergyPlus.

This Video shows one of my first experiments in which I connect automatically (send and retrieve the data) GC and E+.

Estás Imagenes corresponden al trabajo de los alumnos de primer año de arquitectura de la IE School of Architecture en la sede de Segovia.

Students Works, First Year IE School of Architecture, Segovia.

Extracto del encargo:
…Este proyecto consistirá en hacer un análisis espacial y/o programático de una parte de la Universidad con el objetivo de identificar una falencia que pueda ser suplida con un proyecto arquitectónico.

Hoy en día la profesión de arquitecto no puede ser planteada de la misma manera como se hizo hace algunos años atrás. El arquitecto que pretenda ser competitivo en el mercado internacional actual debe ser capaz de auto gestionarse y auto encargarse proyectos para buscar nichos económicos que no hayan sido explotados hasta el momento.

Nuestra profesión nos otorga una poderosa herramienta que es la observación y nos aprovecháremos de ella para desarrollar un proyecto arquitectónico que busque suplir un carencia dentro del edificio de la universidad y proponer una solución innovadora mediante la programación como herramienta proyectual.

El segundo encargo será un trabajo en parejas.
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estatement of assignment…
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This project will consist in to make a spatial analysis and / or programmatic analysis of the university with the objective to identify failures or problems that can be solved by architectonical project.

The profession of the architecture cannot be seen in the same way like years before. The architect that pretends to be competitive in the actual international market or even in the local market must be capable of self-managed and self-assignments projects that seek economic targets have not been exploited.

Our profession is based on a powerful tool that is the observation. We will use it to develop an architectonical project to propose an innovative solution trough scripting like design tool.

The second assignment will be in pairs.
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Para más detalle de los proyectos, contactar a los alumnos a través de la universidad
For more information about the projects, please contact the students through the University.

Entrega final del proyecto: Los alumnos deberán presentar 8 laminas A2. La presentación será oral con un máximo de 15 minutos por grupo.

Se deberá incluir análisis espacial, conceptos y el código que hizo posible el proyecto, secciones, plantas, elevaciones del proyecto, considerando materiales, espesores y principios estructurales. (Planimetría)
Además se deberán incluir renders, dibujos donde deberá aparecer reflejado el carácter o la intención de materialidad del proyecto. También deberán aparecer intenciones de la construcción, así como ensambles, fijaciones, tensores, pilares. Deberá aparecer como los alumnos se imaginan la construcción del proyecto, que técnicas utilizarían para poder concretar su fabricación, que tipo de tecnología necesitarían para desarrollar sus proyectos.

Lamina 1: análisis del espacio
Lamina 2: Referencias Biológicas y arquitectónicas.
Lamina 3: Concepto del Proyecto
Lamina 4: Plantas
Lamina 5: Elevaciones
Lamina 6: Secciones
Lamina 7: Renders y dibujos
Lamina 8: Construcción
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Final submission: the students will be present 8 Panels A2. The presentation will be oral with 15 minutes per group.
The Students will be showing spatial analysis, concepts, and the code of the project. Sections, plants, views, considering materials, widths and structural principles (planimetry).

Also they will include renders, drawings showing the character of the intentions of the project. Furthermore they should demonstrate intentions of the construction, assemblies, connectors, tensors, pillars.

The students must be show how imagine the project, which techniques will use to build the projects, and which type of technology is necessary.

Lamina 1: space analysis
Lamina 2: Biological and architectonical references
Lamina 3: Concept of the Project
Lamina 4: Plants
Lamina 5: Views
Lamina 6: Sections
Lamina 7: Renders and Drawings
Lamina 8: Constructio
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Para más detalle de los proyectos, contactar a los alumnos a través de la universidad
For more information about the projects, please contact the students through the University.

In July 2009 two leading independent schools of architecture, the Architectural Association, London and the IE School of Architecture, Madrid/Segovia, will join forces to launch a new summer school in Madrid, one of Europe’s most dynamic capital cities. The intensive 10-day studio-based design workshop is open to students, young architects and other designers worldwide. Participants will investigate new architectural and urban design approaches within the context of Madrid. The workshop will focus on the redesign and redevelopment of an iconic site located in the core of the city.
(text from the Summer School Poster)

Links:
IE Shool of Architecture
Architectural Association + IE School of Architecture = Summer School Madrid

Flyer and Summer School Poster :

The AZCA district in Madrid underwent a rapid transformation in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Designated as a special zoning district, the 190-hectare site was envisioned as a great business centre with high-risebuildings for finance, offices, housing, hotel, commercial use and open space. Following models derived from old dominant principles, it was driven by a combination of factors that quickly contributed to its decay, demise and disuse. Like other large-scale developments elsewhere in Europe, it became obsolete as it failed to keep pace with the many ways in which building
types, open spaces and public use patterns evolved since the time of its construction. Focusing on the AZCA district, the workshop will emphasise the way in which emergent urban ideas, experimental design strategies, processual working methods and hybrid
public initiatives can be brought to bear on such sites in order to fundamentally improve public life in the city.
Text: extract from the Summer School Poster

Image from google Earth.