Incident Solar Radiation Prediction Revisited

New synthetic data informed the ML model to improve the prediction results by half. In the previous test the mean distance between prediction and real measure was ~23.70. Now the distance was reduced to ~8.25. One of the main advantages of synthetic data is that can be moulded to the problem.... more...

Incident Solar Radiation Prediction

Incident solar radiation, Buildings energy consumption, and other environmental analysis are based on expensive computational simulations. The building energy consumption forecast relies on environmental simulations and digital 3D models that represents the building physics properties. Typically, th... more...

Synthetic data with Rhino-Grasshopper, Ladybug and Laga library

Synthetic Data is data artificially created in contrast of data collected from real world events. The goal is to provide a fast and cheap alternative to real world data to create accurate Artificial Intelligent models. For this study an incident solar radiation simulation is executed automatically... more...

Physics notes for the broken balance of 4.5 billion years

The planet Earth is composed by living creatures as well as non-living elements like rocks, water, air, etc. All parts are connected and interact with each other. There are many ways of interaction, and many of these interactions are critical for survival. For example, one category of interaction is... more...

Optimal Painting Distribution for Museum Storage

An Innsbruck based museum, contact us to optimize the distribution of 3,299 paintings into their new storage facilities outside the city. The storage space is composed by an array of double side movable metal grid walls. The museum wants to optimize the painting arrange distribution on the walls to... more...

Diversity app

Diversity in an application that use artificial intelligence to understand human expressions to generate shapes. Unity was used as the main VR platform and HTC vive to interact and visualize. Everyone understand Virtual Reality will enhance some human activities and this is also applicable to the fi... more...

Data Visualization

Data visualization consists in communicate raw data clearly and efficiently to the user. Usually trough graphics like pie charts, curves, bars or any kind of visualization to helps the reader understand and analyze the data displayed. Working at IDOM I was assigned to design and develop a tool to... more...

Envelope + Typo = Political Manifesto!

The past year, I was involved in a design project to refurbish a mid 50's government office building. The project scope included: The structure, the interior design, the MEP system and the facade. The building facade was made by concrete prefabricated panels, distributed in a regular grid. Since the... more...

Complex System Simulation

In the most basic form, a complex system is based in a large number of simple agents self-organized. Without the benefit of any central controller. The complex system works as a collective whole with the capability to create patterns. In some cases take advantage of information to learn and evolve.... more...

HVAC Energy Consumption Optimization through Genetic Algorithms

One of the main problems in the AEC industry is the HVAC consumption in buildings. The reasons varies why it is necessary reduce the energy consumption. There are clear economic reasons, because a good energy consumption strategy could drive in reduce energy costs and impact in financial cost saving... more...