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Research Streams

CoCoA interweaves multiple streams of fields, from physical to digital, traditional to modern, micro to macro. Each stream delivers unique research agenda, equipped with a distinctive vision, strong expertise, and extensive experience, yet malleable and versatile to couple with initiatives across boundaries.

Multi-Sensory Environments & Simulations

Dr. Anastasia Globa

This research stream explores the use of immersive multi-sensory experiences and simulations as a means to rapidly assess design options and inform decision-making in architecture and beyond. The study builds upon the foundation of existing knowledge on computational design, human-computer interactions, extended realities and post- and pre-occupancy evaluation methods and leverages from the affordances of […]

ReBE: Regenerative Built Environments

A/Prof. Arianna Brambilla

Established at the intersection of architecture, construction, building physics, and engineering this stream draws upon the different disciplines to assess and interpret the built environment as a holistic concept, with a strong focus on sustainability. Re-generation Climate change is the biggest challenge of our times and it is likely to impact the generations to come. The construction industry […]

EthnoComputation and Computational Making

Dr. Rizal Muslimin

The degree of complexity in tacit design, either in small-scale individual production such as traditional craft or collectively at large scale as in a settlement design, has never been easy to measure. Yet, our built environment is predominantly shaped by implicit knowledge and unspoken activities, either in formal or informal setting. This research stream considers […]

Architectural Robotics

A/Prof. Dagmar Reindhart

The adoption of digital and advanced manufacturing and fabrication in the creative and construction industries continues to accelerate as the potential for innovation using robotics is harnessed. Developed for factory automation, industrial robots offer accuracy, flexibility, and reliability with reduced operational costs. For these reasons, research in architecture and building industry has enthusiastically adopted industrial […]

Prefab Timber + Advanced Building Envelopes

Dr. Eugenia Gasparri

Dr Eugenia Gasparri research interest is in the field of sustainable construction with a strong emphasis on multi-disciplinarity as a key factor for innovation. She is an expert in the field of industrialised timber technologies and advanced building envelopes, developing strategies to reduce buildings’ environmental impact, increase construction productivity and promote circular approaches for sustainable […]

Future/Past Construction

Dr. Paolo Stracchi

Past/Future Construction draws on the notion of continuity between past and future and adopts historical and contemporary building experiences to comprehend how Construction Knowledge Capital is informed, theorised, contaminated and transferred. It aims to capture the intellectual value expressed in the act of building and detect the presence of behavioural characteristics driving or hindering construction […]

Hi-Def Space Use

Dr. Ozgur Gocer

Building performance and its evaluation have earned increased attention in recent years, particularly as some new buildings are charged with performing poorly in meeting user needs, environmental performance, and economic feasibility. The mismatch between design intentions and user experience, in other words, a well-known gap that exists between the predicted and actual performances of buildings […]

Climate Adaptive and Bio-Architecture

Dr. Aysu Kuru

A whole-systems approach to explore and enhance the connection and inspiration between natural and built systems and processes to enhance adaptation to a changing climate and varying requirements in the environment Conventional building design and construction processes account for a major part of the global greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. With the ever-increasing need […]

Transforming Places

Chris Fox

We bridges the disciplines of art, architecture, engineering and construction, recalibrating our perception of place through material and architectural intervention. Our research navigates the complex constraints of the public domain with poetic sensibility, utilising innovative computational processes and unexpected material manipulations. Working from concept design to project delivery, we have developed a collaborative computational workflow, […]