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Advancing the design of thermally activated surfaces in architecture requires modelling the complex interplay between form, materiality and building systems. In this paper we discuss accelerating numerical methods for modelling the specific multi-physics behaviour encountered by high performance computing (HPC) on massively parallel Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hardware. Through two case examples: The Chicago Chinatown Public Library in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and a confidential project with Ateliers Jean Nouvel we illustrate how adapting simulation methods can enable lighting, thermal and energy solutions to co-exist and intensely interact within the design process. In both cases massively parallel serves as both technical approach and metaphor for a concurrent process of simulation, design and emergence.
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Boyer, J.L., Yu, Y., Naik, A. (2015). Thinking Massively Parallel: Design Modelling Thermoactive Architecture. In: Thomsen, M., Tamke, M., Gengnagel, C., Faircloth, B., Scheurer, F. (eds) Modelling Behaviour. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24208-8_12
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