TA: Muskan ChopraGenerative Techniques for Urban Place Making
Urban population explosion, both due to rural-urban migration and growth, will demand 3000 new cities in the next 20-30 years. A major concern for these will be their ability to incorporate high density without compromising the spatial quality; and cope with global climatic and ecological changes. The studio, this semester, will investigate development of a high density mixed-use urban block with a focus on the urban micro-climate.
The studio explores urban place-making and intends to focus on urban studies at 3 specific scales; Global (1 sq. km) Regional (200mx200m) and Local (50mx50m). The aim is to generate design responses embedded with intelligence of climate, social-organization and infrastructure. We use computational means to define and ‘design’ inter-relationships between network–infrastructure–people and environment and let the form ‘emerge’ as a resultant. The design method is iteration based where we test and evaluate multiple design variations in order to achieve an optimized design solution.
