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[[Category:Architecture]]
[[Category:Bartlett]]
[[Category:AA]]
[[Category:BIM]]
[[Category:DC]]
[[Category:UCL]]

[[File:AbelMaciel.png|200px|thumb|right|Abel Maciel]]

Abel Maciel is an architect and researcher based in London, United Kingdom. He has extensive experience on a wide range of design typologies and scales, from product and interaction design, to large-scale urban complexes and masterplans.  He also tutors architectural design at the [[Architectural Association]] ([[AA]]), [[the Bartlett School of Architecture]], the [[Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture]] ([[ESA]]).

=Biography=
During his professional career, Abel has worked with some of the  world’s leading design and engineering practices such as [[Foster + Partners]], [[Zaha Hadid Architects]], [[Herzog & de Meuron]], [[Arup]] and [[Bureau Happold]], preparing competitions, developing proposals and delivering projects in Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

On the conclusion of his Master of Architecture with a focus on biomimetics, Abel was invited to ingress on the [[EngD in Virtual Environments]] at [[UCL]], being awarded an [[EPSRC]] Scholarship. His research focus on the understanding of the social, economic and cognitive aspects of design thinking and how this value creation process informs the multidisciplinary and programmatic design modelling from early concept stages.

Using multidisciplinary research overarching Ethnography, [[Game Theory]] and [[Human Computer Interaction]], Abel has developed radically new models of this complex phenomenon, opening new avenues for further research and being awarded the Bartlett Doctorate Prize in 2014.

Abel is currently consulting for [[Heatherwick Studio]] on all projects using [[Building Information Modelling]] and [[Design Computation]].

For more on Abel's research and practice, please visit [http://www.abelmaciel.com/ abelmaciel.com]

=Research Focus=
==Anthropology==
==BIM==
*[[BIM Ontology]]
*[[Design Interoperability]], Integration and Linking of BIM
*[[eeBIM]]
*[[BIM]] Software Information interoperability
*Interface Ontology
*[[ESIM]] Ontology
*[[IFC]] Specification
*Semantic Sensors Network

==CSCW-D==
*Human-Human interaction Ontologies
==Strategic Thinking==

==Complex Geometry==
*Geometrical translation and distortion in software interoperability processes

=Propositions=
Integrating [http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/ Design and Science]. Applications of [[Blockchain]] technology for [[BIM]] and how this impact in [[Design Choice]] and [[Design thinking]], formulating new tool for [[CSCWD]]. Capturing this [[Design Protocol Analysis]].

=Publications=
2012 '''Empirical Observations in co-located collaborative design:Using combined ethographic refinements.''' Fifth International Conference On Design,Computing and Cognition (DCC'12), Workshop 6,Texa A&M University, USA.[http://gallery-32.blogspot.com/2007/04/swarming-futures-25-june-11-august-2010.html]

2010 '''Negotiations of instrumental values in architectural design: seeking for concept formation structures.''' Digital Relations in Architecture Symposium, CITA ,Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen.[http://www.re-ad.dk/karch/en/activities/digital-relations-in-architecture--international-phd-symposium-gathering-students-from-cita-dk-bartlett-school-of-architecture-dk-and-sial-australia-with-guest-panel-including-mark--jane-burry-sean-hanna-alasdair-turner-martin-tamke-mette-ramsgaard-thomsen-ole-sigmund%28a98d81de-2acf-46ac-9c55-7aa3d64ce84b%29.html]

2010 '''Brazilian Architects in London: RIBA'''. Wallpaper Magazine [link]

2009 '''DIY Design Process for Interactive Surfaces.'''HCI 2009 Microsoft Research, Cambridge University.[link]

2008 '''Space Craft: Developments In Architectural Computing.''' Edited by David Littlefield. RIBA Press. ISBN: 9781859462928. [link]

2006 '''Design Research Society: 3D geometry manipulation using compound biomimetic systems.'''[link]

2006 '''Building Design: How we did IT: Abel Maciel, artificial intelligence in architecture.''' December 15, 2006. [link]