Abstract. Urban planning projects usually comprises a complex set of objectives that needs to be addressed by developing a number of proposals, which require a lot of repetitive steps resulting in fewer and slowly-developed design alternatives. To address the limitations of existing systems, this research introduces the merge of associative parametric design tools with the conceptual design phase of urban planning process to proposes a Parameterized Conceptual Design Phase. The developed associative algorithm within the proposed phase represents a computational approach that translates a site’s settings into local attractors to define urban fabric and provide the designer with variations for optimal solutions. The Informal Settlement of Ezbet …show more content…
The idea is that the designer first establishes rules and relations by which design components are connected to minimize the time and effort consumed in modifications, and to provide multiple solutions that could not be reachable by traditional methods. The parametric approach has been studied and analyzed by numerous academics and designers (Araya, S., 2006, pp.11-12; Gane, V., 2004, p.54; Hudson, R., 2008, pp.18-19; Llabres, E. and Rico, E., 2016). Most of them coincide describing it as a series of phases, which increase in the level of detail and precision, as they involve from preliminary concept to construction. Herein, the parametric design process starts with Design Exploration, in which background data and design problems are determined, including the design objectives, variables, and constraints. The second phase, Design Development, includes possible solutions for design problems and manipulations of design instances. Generation of alternative solutions are reviewed and evaluated in the Simulation / Evaluation phase, to satisfy project goals, and previously built constraints. After these explorations, a development is considered one single direction in the Manufacturing / Construction phase (Araya, S., 2006, p.12; Gane, V., 2004,
Reading the article “City Solution” introduce students to previous solution to urbanization. Greenbelt are said to be like a ring of green space that prevent the growth of a city. The original idea derived from Ebenezer Howard who saw the negative side of urbanization and come up with a theory to migrate people to the rural area and resist the dispersion of poorly managed urbanization. Howard’s original idea was to prevent the city from overcrowding and provide the city with more greens. At present, even though urbanization continue to grow, human are reacting to it with a new dimension and put more thoughts in planning the city to prevent Howard’s horror from his living in London during the 20th century.
Since the Environmental Movement, traditional land art evolved, on one hand, to climate art, and on the other, influenced landform building. “The principles of landform building,” according to architect and theorist Stan Allen, “offer a new lens with which to reexamine phenomena as diverse as the megastructure of the 1960s, the current fascination with green building, artificial ski slopes, or the vast multi-use stadia being constructed today.” These principles include the inhabitation of the landscape, which much of contemporary architecture has incorporated into its design. However unlike land art’s wild terrains, such as the salt lake of Spiral Jetty or the vast desert of Double Negative, contemporary architecture has incorporated principles of land art into densely populated urban typology, of which the following two projects serve as significant examples.
This is due to the concern for urban development vision that takes consideration of material well-being as well as depends on more pluralistic, cooperative and welfare provision rather than the state-centered model. However, the communicative model and new urbanism theories are still applicable by extracting both strengths which allow planners to be more skillful in being a medium to negotiate and persuade participants as well as to produce realistic and attractive urban design in future development projects. In my opinion, the planning theory should be flexible so that it could be adapt with any urban changes due to the development trend that usually differs from time to time. Planners should also be more critical in choosing the best alternative to adapting better planning theory in implementation of planning practices.
Researching to see if there are finished examples that may be similar to what is being designed would be helpful. It won’t be the exact same thing but there may be some parts that would be comparable. You may also find that the design you are contemplating has been attempted and if problems arose with that project, then you would know what to expect and possibly how to avoid them in your project. Also, making sure that all of the know variables are available. Every project is different and the variables specific for that project need to be known.
The Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization (SFMPO) is developing a Teen Mobility Plan with the support of the Federal Transit Administration and the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The plan is intended to detail the level of travel independence enjoyed by local youth, how they travel through the metropolitan area and what their beliefs and experiences are relative to all modes of travel.
Urban planners plan for the development of urban and rural areas. Most work for city, county, or other governmental agencies, where they help develop and perform official policy regarding current and future land use. They are concerned with all features of the environment, including the location and design of buildings, transportation systems and with the protection of natural resources, including air and water quality and population density. They report on the best location for houses, stores and parks. Planners also consider social and economic factors that will be affected by land use changes. Planners generally work in clean, well-lighted offices. However, they may spend much of their time outside the office, attending meetings or hearings,
Client(s) may be in the first stage of our design thinking sequences (Archer, 1984, p. 67), and then the designer job is to explore what is the problem, what do we want, what do they need: to produce a design to meet the requirements. The initial design problem presented to the designer may be poorly and incompletely described (McDonnell, 1997, p. 45...
It was planned on a concentric pattern with open spaces, public parks and six radial boulevards (type of large road running through a city) extending from centre. It will combine the town and country to
Urban Land Use Models Often in geography models are used to try to explain something that we can see in the physical environment. During the 20th century a number of models were developed to try to explain how urban areas grew. Although models show a very general idea of the shape of the city, all of the ones described here have aspects that can be seen in most cities in the developed and developing world. The Burgess Model In 1925, E.W. Burgess presented an urban land use model, which divided cities in a set of concentric circles expanding from the downtown to the suburbs.
Optimization is a chronic and natural process usually witnessed in our daily life events. In various disciplines such as engineering designs, manufacturing systems, agricultural sciences, physical sciences, economics, pattern recognition etc. optimization is observed. Optimization is, thus a process of making best, effective and functional solution out of possible choices no way differs from the structural optimization which is being conceived in the present work. Structural optimization is a decisive and tricky step, where the designers are able to generate better designs saving time and money. Conventional optimization approaches like mathematical programming method, optimality criteria method etc. fails miserably in structural design problems which are highly complex and time consuming in nature. Optimization problems are mathematical models formulated to solve complex designs that may be of multi-objective nature in certain cases. Structural design procedure involves conceptual design and design realization leading to several probable results since higher degree of ambiguity is experienced in every steps. Conceptual design phase is more dependent on decision variables than in advance optimization phase. Optimization is one of the major tool for decision making at the conceptual or realization phase of modern design techniques. In design realization stage optimization is achieved by mathematical and numerical search methods.
A new product on the market may look all shiny and new and be appealing to customers but what is the story behind the product and what is the underlying future for this product. Where were the original materials from? Is it all legalised? Where did the manufacturing take place? How was the product manufactured? These are all questions that are never properly addressed in the design industry and are just simply overlooked. They are the aspects of designing and producing a new product that need to be carefully looked at to make a good design, and to make sustainable products.
Urban Planning is about places for people. It is about their creation, their function, their maintenance and their improvement .Cities and towns are the basic building blocks of modern society, operating as centers of commerce and trade, government and politics, and knowledge and culture. Well- planned, efficient cities provide healthy and attractive environment for people to live, work and play.
Urban Space involves the design of the public realm: the open space, streets, sidewalks. The arrangement and the qualities of the public space affects the way people react, interact, behave, and feel...
From this report, it is clear that a series of steps have to be taken in order to construct or renovate a building. Firstly, a problem is defined and in order to understand this information is gathered through a survey. Once the survey is drawn up, structures are determined. After calculating loads, sizes of structural members are figured. Materials are tested before using them in real life structures, hence creating a safer structure. When everything is on the point, the structure is constructed. In conclusion, this report shows that various factors contribute to the context of a design brief.
Manufacturing the process design also faces the same challenge in the optimization of the product (ARAUJO, JOSÉ AUGUSTO DA ROCHA DE; Costa, Reinaldo Pacheco da, 2004, p. 4).