Springer Formal Methods in Architecture: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020 (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation)

This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020. Studies focus on the use of methodologies, especially those that have witnessed recent developments, that stem from the mathematical and computer sciences and are developed in a collaborative way with architecture and related fields. This book constitutes a contribution to the debate and to the introduction of new methodologies and tools in the mentioned fields that derive from the application of formal methods in the creation of new explicit languages for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It adds valuable insight into the development of new practices solving identified societal problems and promoting the digital transformation of institutions in the mentioned fields. The primary audience of this book will be from the fields of architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, AEC, landscape design, computer sciences and mathematics, both academicians and professionals. From the Back Cover This edited book gathers research studies presented at the 5th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (5FMA), Lisbon 2020. Studies focus on the use of methodologies, especially those that have witnessed recent developments, that stem from the mathematical and computer sciences and are developed in a collaborative way with architecture and related fields. This book constitutes a contribution to the debate and to the introduction of new methodologies and tools in the mentioned fields that derive from the application of formal methods in the creation of new explicit languages for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It adds valuable insight into the development of new practices solving identified societal problems and promoting the digital transformation of institutions in the mentioned fields. The primary audience of this book will be from the fields of architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, AEC, landscape design, computer sciences and mathematics, both academicians and professionals. About the Author Sara Eloy graduated in Architecture (FA.UTL 1998) and have a PhD in Architecture (IST.UTL 2012) under the theme “Transformation grammar-based methodology for housing rehabilitation: meeting contemporary functional and ICT requirements”. She is an Assistant Professor in ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and develops her research in ISTAR-IUL (Information Sciences, Technology and Architecture Research Centre) and with international collaborations. Eloy is the director of ISTAR-IUL since 2017. She was director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and of the Integrated Master in Architecture at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon between 2013 and 2016. She has participated in national and international funded research projects (Artificial Realities, OLA, IRIS, VUK, AAL4ALL, among others) and published more than 100 papers in several journals as Sensors, Environment and Planning B, AIEDAM and Nexus Network Journal and conferences. She has been expert evaluator for the European Commission since 2015 and acts as an expert consultant for companies regarding design project and the incorporation of digital technologies as mixed realities in architecture. She curated two exhibitions in the scope of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale first in 2013 and more recently, in 2019, with the theme “Artificial Realities: Virtual as an Aesthetic Medium for Architectural Ideation”. Eloy’s main areas of research are shape grammar design systems, Digital Technologies applied to Architecture, CAAD, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Analysis of the building space namely considering space perception, Space Syntax and Housing Rehabilitation. In ISTAR-IUL she collaborates with researchers from the fields of Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Psychology. This collaboration enabled the development of real software prototypes to be use in the arc