CAD logic III
Den-city
Tutor: PROF. Krassimir Krastev
More than half of the world’s population live in cities, and this number is rising. Cities
grow and constantly transform; space and structure are materialized as a product of
dwelling habits and activities – people continuously assembling, bending, breaking,
melting, removing and stacking material around themselves.
C
Conventional urban planning methods rely on deterministic mechanisms and often
fail to adapt to the dynamics and complexity of our multi-layered metropolitan environment. Simulations of environmental, social, economic and demographic fluctuations can be adequately developed with computation, enabling architects to add
powerful strategy-evaluation tools to their palette of space-planning methods.
Each student will develop an information model of a dense metropolitan region, as
its location and extents are free to choose. This 3-dimensional sketch will contain not
only geometry, but also data about resources, economic potentials, environmental
pressures, population, infrastructure, etc. resulting in an interactive GIS (geographic
information system) model in which energy and material flows, ecologic, economic
and demographic gradients are simulated as parametrically linked dynamic layers.
The ultimate purpose of this exercise is to develop strategies for quick, interactive
and accurate evaluation of diverse urban planning scenarios, opening up the possibility to foresee today the consequences of our actions tomorrow.
COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015