GENERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLACE MAKING

Soni Siddhi Minesh

4130-A

The aim of this studio is to generate design responses which are embedded with intelligence of climate, social organisation and infrastructure. Computational means are used to define and ‘design’ inter-relationships between network-infrastructure-people and environment. We have investigated planning principles and urban samples, have quantified them and decoded them to algorithms for urban form generation, such that our designs emerge as a resultant.
The aim of the studio --Understanding emergence theories and importance of computation today, through several readings--Site Analysis and data quantification--Data processing in Rhino-Grasshopper, using different plug-ins for different parameters --Using a bottom-up approach in designing a neighbourhood

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Poster based on "Digital Morphogenesis" by Leach N. (AD Theoretical Meltdown) On the right side, are some of the factors that are given as an instance of inspiration from biology and the environment around, whilst on the left is the modern day computational method (rhino-grasshopper) which helps in visualising the quantified information which have been gathered and formed a logic from. In the centre is the experiment carried out by Frei Otto and how he seamlessly generates a form through a l

Calico Mills land would be our location of design intervention and in order to intervene, it is necessary that we study what surrounds it. Jamalpur is a complex site with several layers of information, which we have broken down into following parts - Density Distribution and Proximities, Network Analysis, and Built Typology and Character which are further broken down and analysed individually. All the information gathered (qualitative and quantitative) gathered was quantified.

Built Density analysis has been sub divided in to several parts in order to realise the multiplicity of the built forms on the site and how they play a role in affecting the manner in which people and things move around it. Eight 100m*100m patches were selected from the site and each patch was analysed and compared considering the following aspects : Built V/S Open - ratio between the two and the grain patterns Floor Area Ratio - to know relationship between height of the building and the plo

Built Density Analysis

The aim of this exercise was to get us introduced to the plug-in Space Syntax, so as to make us understand its importance as an analytical tool. This was an individual exercise and each of us had been given a site, to understand its network, in terms of a human scale by understanding visual and physical permeability of the site, as well as at a larger scale by understanding its fabric. The site here is Paldi, Ahmedabad.

Analytical plug-ins are tools to study and analyse conditions of our surrounding affecting our physical and social comfort. In Grasshopper we have made use of ladybug and decoding spaces as plug-ins which is a toolkit that helps perform climatic visualisation, thermal analysis and quantify spaces respectively. The analy- sis is performed on six different patches from Ahmedabad, five from Jamaplur (site), and one Dhal-ni-Pol.

This exercise (Evolutionary Computation) aimed at learning the basics of evolutionary computation. The terminologies - gene, gene pool, fitness criterias and body plan were introduced, such that we could start understanding the different parameters of evolutionary computation. The diagrams show how Hutongs (traditional residences in Beijing) were recreated using through Evolutionary Computation.

Design Process : Various movements, people, activities, buildings and many more things can be observed in Jamalpur. But, it was observed that all these movements were not uniformly distributed throughout the site. The vibrancy of the site had to be spread across!

A representative diagram of land use distribution throughout the site. The distribu- tion was done on the basis of rules which were created on the basis of site analysis done earlier

Compact Neighbourhood final outcome, its uses and movements that follow.