DIGITAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE 2022 (DLA 2022) JUNE 09-10, 2022 @ Harvard Graduate School of Design
12/07/2022
The 23rd Annual International Digital Landscape Architecture Conference with the topic “HYBRID” was held as a hybrid conference at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge Massachusetts USA. This year´s topics ranged from categories including ” Algorithmic Design and Analysis of Landscapes”, “Geodesign”, “Drone/UAV Imagery”, “Digital Landscape Architecture in Practice”, “Responses to Climate Change” and others. In the category “Responses to Climate Change”, I had the opportunity to publish a paper in JoDLA-7-2022, a summary of my doctoral thesis about a framework of artificial coral reef design, and to present at the conference (Session online available -> here).
Conference paper reference: Vogler, V. (2022). A New Framework For Artificial Coral Reef Design. JoDLA Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, Issue 7-2022, 524–537. Berlin/Offenbach: Wichmann Verlag im VDE VERLAG. e-ISSN 2511-624X, doi:10.14627/537724050.
I am also grateful for the invitation to speak during the plenary discussion about “Reflections and Projections: Focus on Climate Change” Rosalea (available online -> here) together with incredibly talented women Leena Cho, Susannah Drake, Anya Domelesky, Amy Whitesides, and Rosalea Monacella.
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THE OPEN-ACCESS MONOGRAPH ABOUT THE ARTIFICIAL CORAL REEF DESIGN FRAMEWORK IS OUT!
21/03/2022
Recently, I published my thesis “A framework for artificial coral reef design: Integrating computational modelling and high precision monitoring strategies for artificial coral reefs – an Ecosystem-aware design approach in times of climate change” as an open-access online publication because I would like to share the ideas, the knowledge gained, as well as the methods and software tools with interdisciplinary folks for pushing the field of artificial coral reefs development for regeneration purposes. Please find the LINK to the PDF document here.
Published monograph and published 3D digital high precision twin models of (artificial) coral reefs.
Publication reference of the monograph: Vogler, V. (2022). A framework for artificial coral reef design: Integrating computational modelling and high precision monitoring strategies for artificial coral reefs – an Ecosystem-aware design approach in times of climate change. Dissertation Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 1–243. https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4611.
Publication LINK Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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“SUMMA CUM LAUDE” FOR MY DISSERTATION ABOUT ARTIFICIAL CORAL REEF DESIGN, NOVEMBER 23, 2021, PUBLIC DEFENCE @ THE BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITY Weimar
30/11/2021
Thanks to my supervisors Prof Sven Schneider and Prof Jan Willmann, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the external examinator Prof Jane Burry, my mentor Prof Max Welch Guerra, the German National Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Andrea von Braun Foundation, and the many collaborators, colleagues at McNeel, my dear family & friends for the great support during these challenging past years♡♡♡! For a more ecosystem-aware and conscious generation. The thesis is dedicated to my son♡.
Announcements: Chair of Computer Science in Architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar/ Chair of Theory and History of Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
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Talk about the role of design in times of climate change at the designforum 171 Dessau, anhalt university of applied science, bauhaus dessau, december 11, 2019
15/12/2019
With Severin Wucher, Manuel Kretzer, and lots of creative design students.
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Go-3D Conference 2019 “With 3D towards MariTIME 4.0 “, September 5, 2019, in Rostock
10/09/2019
During the Go-3D 2019, organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD in Rostock, Germany, I had the opportunity to present my latest research paper about “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“. The article went through a peer-review and discusses the potential of underwater photogrammetry and underwater videogrammetry for close-range submarine survey processes of complex 3D objects such as corals.
Reconstructed 3-D point cloud model of a natural coral reef from high- resolution still images. The point cloud model has 621,912,135 points (Vogler V., 2019).
Coming from a different background, I enjoyed new input regarding ship construction, hydrodynamic modelling and especially the examples for useful VR, AR and AI applications in the marine and submarine environment.
© Fraunhofer IGD.
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2ND Publication ABOUT ARTIFICIAL CORAL REEFS
15/06/2019
The second publication, “High-resolution underwater 3-D monitoring methods to reconstruct artificial coral reefs in the Bali Sea: A case study of an artificial reef prototype in Gili Trawangan“, is a peer-reviewed journal article presented and published at the DLA Conference 2019 in Dessau. It discusses the design and high-resolution underwater monitoring methods to measure and understand in detail growth processes and complex surface configurations of our artificial coral reef prototype 1. In this article, we present the specific workflow to survey marine environments using underwater LiDAR scanning (M210UW Newton Labs underwater laser scanner) and high-resolution underwater photogrammetry (Sony Cyber-shot RX100 II and Canon EOS 5Ds) and voxel models from high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan of an extracted sample of Prototype 1.
Thanks to both co-authors Jun. Prof. Jan Willmann and Prof. Sven Schneider and the amazing group of collaborators until this point!
Reconstructed 3-D point cloud model from still images. ©Verena Vogler.
CT Scan of a segment of the artificial coral reef in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. Greyscale analysis displays that there are areas of higher and lower density in the 3-D model. Voxel model displayed in Volume Graphics VGStudioMAX shows the growth of calcium carbonate layer and condition of metal piece inside of the artificial coral reef.
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DLA Conference (Digital Landscape Architecture) May 22-25, 2019 in Dessau
05/06/2019
The 20th annual International Conference on Information Technology in Landscape Architecture, Digital Landscape Architecture DLA 2019, was held at the Dessau Campus of Anhalt University / Hochschule Anhalt, Germany. 130 Landscape Architects from thirty countries attended the conference.
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1st Publication ABOUT ARTIFICIAL CORAL REEFS IS out!
Open Access (Gesamt-PDF): BZI 21/2018
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Underwater Monitoring of Reef Prototype 1
On November 15th, 2012 we launched Seascape Prototype #1 at Gili T. in Indonesia.
In the meanwhile, the calcium-carbonate layer that surrounds the metal pieces has grown thicker. The synthesis between mineral accretion fabrication and the digitally developed skeleton becomes more evident as time passes.
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Underwater launch pilot reef – Prototype 1
My latest project in collaboration with the Global Coral Reef Alliance and Eco Gili Trust is part of hopefully continuing research about Artificial Reefs and Computer-based Ecological Manufacturing in Architecture.
Some of the main challenges our civilization is facing are related to environmental depletion and the restoration of damaged habitats. Especially coral reefs currently experiencing a major crisis. “Seascape Prototype #1” is an experiment: A digitally designed and fabricated metal structure mimics the geometry of natural coral reefs with the increased ability to dissipate the energy of large ocean swells. Through mineral accretion fabrication natural rock formations grow around the synthetic structures with the ability to repair and sustain themselves. As such, they form a natural growing support layer around the proposed synthetic structure. Both, natural rocks and the proposed digital metal structure form an artificial coral reef, contributing to restoring depleted habitats within an integrated computer and nature-based design approach.
Please watch in HD :).