Overview URS 2020

The third edition of the International Conference on “Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques” and the second edition of the International Conference on “Urban Regeneration and Sustainability” were held together in collaboration with the University of East London in the United Kingdom, and took place virtually from the 7th to the 9th of October 2020, due to the travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.

The conferences addressed all the aspects of the urban environment. Urban regeneration was discussed thoroughly in the conference by rendering it as a process and a strategy that aims at transforming and renovating areas in the hope of upgrading public housing, public and private buildings, infrastructure, and services.

It could also be considered a highly effective way to improve urban performance by targeting countless areas and taking their economic levels and developments into consideration which could affect society either negatively or positively.

IEREK organized this conference to help establish better and more efficient solutions and plans to help solve such rapidly-growing challenges within a countless number of cities around the world by viewing different aspects and solutions offered and discussed throughout the conference.

Among the main topics discussed in the conference:

1-     Aspects and Principles of Urban Regeneration

2-     Designing and Development of Urban Regeneration

3-     Strategies to Improve Urban Performance

4-     Overview of Urban Transformation

5-     Challenges of Urban Regeneration

Day 1:

Welcoming Session:

The Opening Ceremony started with the online registration and welcoming speeches from the conference Chair and co-chair.

Short welcoming speeches were given by the conference chair Professor Hassan Abdalla, Dean of School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK, and the conference co-chair, Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Zaha Hadid Architects Associate, UK.

Following the welcoming speeches, Toka Amer, IEREK representative and Operations Manager at IEREK, Egypt, conducted a presentation about IEREK introducing the company and its activities to the audience.

Plenary session:

A plenary session followed introducing the first keynote speaker, Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Zaha Hadid Architecture Associate, UK, whose speech was entitled: “The Impact of Modularity in Future Construction.”

After the keynote speech was the First Session of the conference entitled “Parallels in Construction: Materiality and Context.” The session was moderated by Britta Knobel Gupta, Founding partner, Studio Symbiosis Architects, Stuttgart, Germany, and Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Partner at Wirz Architects, UK. The session had four presentations before a short break.

Following the short break was the second Keynote Speaker Amit Gupta, Founding partner, Studio Symbiosis Architects & Former Zaha Hadid Associate, UK. whose speech was entitled: “Diagram: Design Processing Tool.”

The Second Session entitled “Design-Led Urban Regeneration and Management” started afterwards and was moderated by Dr. Elisa Magnini, Foresight and innovation specialist at Arup, UK. Ten presentations were discussed during the second session and concluded the first day of the conference.

Day 2:

The second day of the conference started with the speech of the keynote speaker, Dr. Eduardo Mayoral Gonzalez, CTO Senior in City Thinking, Spain, with a speech entitled: “Designing Resilient Cities through an Ecosystemic Approach & Parametric Design.”

After the keynote speech, the Third Session started entitled: “Parallels in Urbanism: Parametric Design, Theory, and Urbanism,” which was moderated by Professor Hassan Abdalla, Dean of School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK, and Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Partner at Wirz Architects, UK. The third session discussed two presentations.

Next was the Fourth Session of the conference entitled: “Strategies to Improve Urban Performance” and was moderated by Professor Hassan Abdalla, Dean of School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK, and Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Partner at Wirz Architects, UK. Fourteen presentations were discussed during the second session and concluded the second day of the conference.

Day 3:

The third day of the conference started with the Fifth Session entitled “Challenges of Urban Regeneration,” which was moderated by Professor Hasim Altan, Director and Professor in Research Centre and Faculty of Design, ARUCAD, Kyrenia, Cyprus and, Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Partner at Wirz Architects, UK. The Fifth Session discussed eight presentations.

Following the Fifth Session was the third Keynote Speaker Dr. Vincenzo Reale, chartered structural engineer (ICE) and architect (ARB), senior structural engineer in the Specialist Technology + Research group in Arup, London, UK, whose speech was entitled: “Digital Strategies and Technologies for Contemporary Architecture & Engineering” before a short break.

After the short break, the Sixth Session entitled “Parallels in Big Data: Digital Theory and New Sciences” and the Seventh Session entitled “Parallels in Access: Gamification, Open-Source and Virtual Reality,” which are moderated by Amit Gupta, Founding partner, Studio Symbiosis Architects, Delhi, India, and Dr. Fulvio Wirz, UEL School of Architecture, and Partner at Wirz Architects, UK took place. The Seventh and last session of the conference discussed the remaining three presentations.

A discussion and a Questions and Answers session followed, and the conference was concluded by a Panel session where final remarks and feedback were discussed.

An International Conference from the Comfort of Your Own Home!

Due to the uncertainties and restrictions inflicted by the #COVID19 pandemic, and for everyone's safety following the Health Organization's recommendations, it is in everyone's interest to host the conference online. As pioneers of this movement, IEREK is proud to be hosting this conference online. IEREK believes that rather than giving in to this disease and stopping our progress, pushing forward is of utmost importance.

So, how can participating in an international Video Conference boost your career, future potentials, and experience?

• Obtain an internationally accredited certification of participation which could boost your future academic career opportunities.
• Save costs of travel & accommodation.
• Discuss your research paper online with professors, stakeholders, and other authors (Online Oral Presentation).
• Get the chance to publish your paper with Springer in the ASTI Book Series.
• Make sure that your paper will get the maximum exposure in front of a relevant audience, as we share samples of publications within our weekly newsletter and online platforms.

About the PACT 3rd Edition:

Consequent to the success of its previous editions in 2016 and 2018, the third edition of the ‘Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques’ conference will be held in collaboration with the University of East London (UEL) in London, United Kingdom.

This conference unveils the latest trends of architectural technologies and computational thinking as a way of improving the performance of computational design software in architectural and engineering discourses. In a fast-paced world and in light of recent technological advancements due to industrialization and globalization, the way we see the universe has changed. That being said, the conference will shed a light on the ways in which parallelism can be integrated into different architectural and computing dialogues through stimulating a discussion on topics of Complex Digital Fabrication, Augmented Reality, Intelligent Environments, Advanced Fabrication Technologies, Big Data and more.

Through an analysis of the representation of Parallelism, this conference will work towards revealing the relationship between the Environment, Architecture, and Computing Techniques. Through a set of diversified yet pertinent sessions, the conference will focus on:

• Parallels in Access and the role of digital media, augmented reality and advanced graphics in the implementation of the architectural modern buildings.
• Parallels in Algorithms as a key player in design and construction presenting applications of innovative techniques such as Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to solve complex issues.
• Advanced Digital fabrication and Additive Manufacturing to make possible emerging design ideas once deemed impossible to execute.
• The power of Big Data, its technologies and associated challenges, analytical methods and paradigm shift. 
• Parallels in Construction: materiality and context.

This conference aims to explore the complexity that is embedded within the computation discourse under the theme of parallelism. Introducing world-renowned keynote speakers in the field, such as Patrik Schumacher during PACT of 2016 and Gabriele Sorrento in PACT of 2018, this conference will generate stimulating discussions led by experts in the field.

Conference Session Moderators:

Britta Knobel Gupta

Founding partner, Studio Symbiosis Architects, Stuttgart, Germany.

Amit Gupta

Founding Partner, Studio Symbiosis Architects, Delhi, India.

Elisa Magnini

Foresight and innovation specialist at Arup, UK.

• 1. Parallels In Access: Gamification, Open-source, Interfaces And Virtual Reality

  -Advanced Graphics

  -Computer vision & Applications

  -Gamification Techniques & Applications

  -Open-source & Accessibility

  -Virtual and Augmented Reality

  -Projection Mapping

• 2. Parallels In Algorithms: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence And Distributed Computing

  -Distributed computing &Data mining

  -Cloud computing

  -Agent based methods

  -Machine learning & Artificial Intelligence

  -High-performance computing

  -Heterogeneous architecture systems

• 3. Parallels In Advanced Fabrication: Large Scale Additive Manufacturing

  -Large Scale Additive Manufacturing.

  -Advanced fabrication

  -Robotic fabrication

  -Generative design

  -Construction automation and tectonics

• 4. Parallels In Big Data: Digital Theory And New Sciences

  -Digital Theory and New Sciences.

  -Digital theory in architecture

  -History of architecture and computational design

  -Data-driven computation

  -Big data

  -New sciences of simulation and optimization.

• 5. Parallels In Urbanism: Parametric Design, Theory And Urbanism

  -Parametric urbanism

  -Parametric design

  -Urban Theories

  -Urban analysis & Simulations

  -Sustainable urbanism

  -Smart &Future cities

• 6. Parallels In Construction: Materiality And Context

  -Materiality and Context

  -Sustainable design

  -Cities & theories

  -Construction

  -Heritage conservation & management

Instructions

- Each research paper should have one main author who should pay the full fee (Author fees) regardless of attendance.

- Each co-author (1-5 max) has his/her own separate fees to pay as shown in a table below.

- A research paper fee allows only one author, whether main or co-author, to attend the conference and receive only one copy of the conference proceedings book in both hard and soft copies. Extras can be requested for a fee shown below.

Conference Fees:

All accepted papers of the third Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques (3^rd PACT) after the peer-review process will be either published as chapters in the Book Series “Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation” (ASTI) by Springer or in The International Journal of Academic Research Community Publication (ARChive) online by IEREK Press.

To publish your research in the online Journal or Book by 'Springer' and provide it with world-wide visibility, authors must submit an extended version of their short papers that are 10 -12 pages long.

The ASTI Book Series by Springer is by highly professional members of an International Editorial Board to ensure a high-quality publication material to be eventually published online and printable.

The ASTI Book Series will be submitted for indexation in Web of Science (ISI), EI-Compendex, and Scopus databases.

Note that only authors of accepted papers who will register before the deadline will be allowed to present during the conference sessions (see Important Dates and Conference Fees). 

If you are not sure whether you or one of your co-authors will be able to attend the conference, you should bear in mind that there is a fee to be paid for Audiences (Co-authors, Learners, and Interests). The accepted paper will not be included in the conference proceedings without paying the fee (see Conference Fees for more details). A research paper fee allows only one author, whether main or co-author, to attend the conference and receive only one copy of the conference proceedings book in both hard and soft copies. Extras can be requested for a fee shown below.

The proceedings of the third Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques (3^rd PACT) will be edited by a group of highly esteemed professors from our scientific committee.

For IEREK's Provious Publications, Please Click here

- Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques (PACT) - 1st Edition held University of East London, UK in September, 2016.

Taylor & Francis

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.

Supplement Issue: Parallelism in Architecture & Computing Techniques

Publication Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gpaa20/32/sup1

- Parallelism in Architecture, Engineering & Computing Techniques (PACT) -2nd Edition held University of East London, UK in October, 2018.

IEREK Press

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ESSD)

Vol 3, issue #2 (2018): Sustainable Engineering: Issues and Solutions

(Selected Papers) Publication Link: https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ESSD/issue/view/16/showToc

IEREK Press

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ESSD)

Vol 4, issue #1 (2019): Improving Sustainability Concept: From Theories to Successful Practices (Special Issue)

(Selected Papers) Publication Link: https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ESSD/issue/view/19/showToc

- English will be the official language.

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Abstract and full paper submission instructions,Click here

Elementary Review:

Once an abstract has been submitted to our website, it is assigned for review by the reviewers using the abstract review sheet and validation of publication. This is based on four criteria:

1· Accepted as is for publication (with minor editing changes).

2· Conditionally accepted for publication (with revisions provided to authors).

3· Rejected but encouraged for re-submission with major modifications.

4· Rejected as inappropriate or unworthy of publication in this certain conference.

First Acceptance:

Authors will receive a notification message to know the feedback of the reviewers committee. If an author receives the acceptance of his or her abstract, he or she has to continue writing the full-length paper using the requested templates.

Uploading Full-Length Paper:

Authors who are allowed to upload their full-length paper(s) should use the same account details to upload their full paper(s).

Second Acceptance:

The final paper will proceed to the primary revision to be checked if it meets the conference proceedings standards. Once it gets accepted, the author will be informed to pay the fees so that it could be sent for the final revision by the scientific committee.

Inspections and Final Approval of Full Papers:

The full papers that paid the requested fees will get finally inspected, either scientifically or linguistically. There will be a rigorous review process of full papers following the previous process according to the following criteria:

(1) Is the topic relevant to the conference?

(2) Is the writing and structure clear?

(3) Are graphics, photos, illustrations used where needed?

(4) Are the aims of the study clearly stated?

(5) Are the objectives of the study achieved?

(6) Is the literature review relevant and adequate?

(7) Has the author used appropriate methodology and explained them clearly?

(8) Has the author interpreted the findings correctly?

(9) Is the paper a significant contribution to the field?

These are the registration and revision procedures for publication that all authors should follow.

Delegates in any event who cancel their registration due to special circumstances will receive refunds according to the following:

Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation Book Series
IEREK Series for Interdisciplinary Studies

Springer:

- On 10 May 1842 (his 25th birthday), Julius Springer founded his bookstore and publishing house in Berlin, laying the foundation for today’s company.

- After 175 dynamic years, the name Springer stands for a globally active publisher dedicated to the advancement of science, putting its authors and editors at the heart of the company’s publishing activities.

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About the Series:

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) is a series of peer-reviewed books based on the best studies on emerging research that redefines existing disciplinary boundaries in science, technology, and innovation (STI) in order to develop integrated concepts for sustainable development. The series is mainly based on the best research papers from various IEREK and other international conferences or direct submissions and is intended to promote the creation and development of viable solutions for a sustainable future and a positive societal transformation with the help of integrated and innovative science-based approaches. Offering interdisciplinary coverage, the series presents innovative approaches and highlights how they can best support both the economic and sustainable development for the welfare of all societies. In particular, the series includes conceptual and empirical contributions from different interrelated fields of science, technology, and innovation that focus on providing practical solutions to ensure food, water, and energy security. It also presents new case studies offering concrete examples of how to resolve sustainable urbanization and environmental issues. The series is addressed to professionals in research and teaching, consultancies and industry, and government and international organizations. Published in collaboration with Springer, the IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development will acquaint readers with essential new studies in STI for sustainable development.

Publication:

Publishing your paper with a reputable and renowned publisher is necessary to maintain the high quality standards of the scientific process along with retaining your copyright. It is even more advantageous to increase the exposure of your paper to the rest of the scientific community either online, offline, or in both versions.

All of the papers present in the book either belong to the best research papers in IEREK’s conferences or the authors’ direct submissions.Fees for direct submission: - The revision process: 200$ (nonrefundable)- Once the paper is accepted and approved: 200$.

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