Urban Elements
This blog post aims to expand the discourse on parametric urban design education by introducing ‘Urban Elements’ as conceptual urban design instruments with an inherent rule-based logic, which can help to bridge gaps in teaching...
Working with and Exporting Geospatial Data
We are introducing an upcoming set of features that enable Grasshopper users to work with geospatial data and export the project in the GeoJSON format that can be used to generate web maps...
Rural Urban Metabolism
The videos on this site document the results of the integrated computational design summer semester course 2018 "Rural-Urban Metabolism - Metabolism-based Planning Strategies for Rural-Urban Transformation in Ethiopia" at the Bauhaus-University Weimar as...
Cognitive Urban Design Computing @ FCL
This post documents our research in the Cognitive Design Computing (CoDeC) workstream of the Big Data Informed Urban Design and Governance project at the Future Cities Lab in...
Parametric assistance for complex urban planning processes
In the following we present examples of new parametric urban design techniques that are applied for large-scale urban developments in order to achieve three goals: inclusiveness and transparency; automatization and speed; flexibility and...
Computational Urban Design Prototyping
The presented study is made for Cape Town city in South Africa, in which approximately 7.5 million people living in informal settlements and about 2.5 million housing units are needed. This motivates us to develop...