UR2001

Faculty: Radhika Amin

TA: Muskan Chopra

Generative 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.

Studio Unit

Studio process

Site study and Analysis

Background research

Network, Density and Use distribution

Block development and visualisation