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Parametric Urban Design and Analysis

Methods for generating, analysing and exploring urban morphology
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  • Introduction to the course 0

    • Lecture1.1
      Welcome, Motivation & Organisation 01 hour 30 min
  • Design and its computational representation 1

    In this module we are dealing with the process of designing and how this process can be represented computationally.

    • Lecture2.1
      Design & Computation I – What is design? 20 min
    • Lecture2.2
      Design & Computation II – Design Strategies 14 min
    • Assignment2.1
      Task: Design Recipes 0 day
    • Lecture2.3
      Results – Design Recipes
    • Lecture2.4
      Design & Computation III – Automating Design Processes 12 min
    • Lecture2.5
      Further Readings: Design & Computation
  • Design Models - From 2D Drawing to Parametric Modeling 0

    Here you will learn the principles of parametric modeling.

    • Lecture3.1
      Design Models I – Introduction to the Generation of Forms 11 min
    • Lecture3.2
      Excursus: Ivan Sutherlands Sketchpad (1962) 05 min
    • Lecture3.3
      Design Models II – Computer Aided Drawing 11 min
    • Lecture3.4
      Design Models III – 3D Modeling 12 min
    • Lecture3.5
      Design Models IV – Parametric Design Representations 11 min
    • Lecture3.6
      Further Readings: Design Models
  • Parametric Urban Modeling - Streets 1

    Here you apply the principles of parametric design on the generation of urban morphology (streets, plots, buildings).

    • Lecture4.1
      Parametric Street Networks I – Introduction to Rhino and Grasshopper 01 hour
    • Lecture4.2
      Parametric Street Networks II – Recursive Street Network 30 min
    • Lecture4.3
      Parametric Street Networks III – Adaptable Grids (Cleaning and Snapping) 30 min
    • Assignment4.1
      Parametric Urban Quarter “Weimar Nord-West” – Streets 8 days
  • Parametric Urban Modeling - Plots Parcellation 1

    • Lecture5.1
      Parametric Plot Parcellation I – Voronoi Parellation 24 min
    • Lecture5.2
      Parametric Plot Parcellation II – Manhattan Grid 28 min
    • Assignment5.1
      Parametric Urban Quarter “Nord-West-Weimar” – Plots 8 days
  • Parametric Urban Modeling - Building Typologies 1

    • Lecture6.1
      Parametric Building Typologies I – Building Footprints 30 min
    • Lecture6.2
      Parametric Building Typologies II – Variable Building Height 26 min
    • Assignment6.1
      Parametric Urban Quarter “Nord-West-Weimar” – Buildings 10 days
  • Computational Urban Analysis 0

    In this section you will learn at the basics of Computational Design Analysis.

    • Lecture7.1
      What is Computational Design Analysis? 15 min
  • Computational Urban Analysis - Density 1

    In this module you will learn the basics for calculating urban density.

    • Lecture8.1
      Urban Density I – Concept & Examples 13 min
    • Lecture8.2
      Excursus – Kowloon Walled City 18 min
    • Lecture8.3
      Urban Density II – Calculating Urban Density 55 min
    • Lecture8.4
      Urban Density III – Challenging the Concept of Density 22 min
    • Lecture8.5
      Task – Analyse the Density of your Weimar Nord-West neighbourhood 02 hour
    • Assignment8.1
      Submission – Density Analysis 8 days
    • Lecture8.6
      Further Readings on Urban Density
  • Computational Urban Analysis - Visibility Analysis 2

    In this module you will learn the basics for calculating what one can see of an urban environment.

    • Lecture9.1
      Visibility I – Vision & Environment 14 min
    • Assignment9.1
      Submission – Vision & Environment Example 3 days
    • Lecture9.2
      Results – Vision & Environment
    • Lecture9.3
      Visibility II.1 – Isovist 12 min
    • Lecture9.4
      Visibility II.2 – Object Visibility 07 min
    • Lecture9.5
      Visibility II.3 – Isovist Properties 15 min
    • Lecture9.6
      Visibility II.4 – Isovist Path 11 min
    • Lecture9.7
      Visibility II.5 – Isovist Field 11 min
    • Lecture9.8
      Task: Analyse visual properties of your designed urban quarter 02 hour
    • Assignment9.2
      Submission – Visibility Analysis 10 days
    • Lecture9.9
      Excursus – Capturing the 3rd dimension 10 min
    • Lecture9.10
      Further Readings on Visibility
  • Computational Urban Analysis - Spatial Relationships 1

    In this module you will learn the basics for calculating how spaces relate to each other.

    • Lecture10.1
      Spatial Relations I – Graph based representations of the environment 17 min
    • Lecture10.2
      Spatial Relations II – Convex Maps 20 min
    • Lecture10.3
      Spatial Relations III – Axial Maps & Segment Maps 24 min
    • Lecture10.4
      Tutorial – Street Network Analysis 18 min
    • Lecture10.5
      Tutorial – Selecting single street segments 17 min
    • Lecture10.6
      Tutorial – Preparing Street Network Geometry 09 min
    • Lecture10.7
      Task – Street Network Analysis 03 hour
    • Assignment10.1
      Submission – Street Network Analysis 10 days
  • Design Space Exploration 3

    • Lecture11.1
      Design & Computation IV – Challenges for Computational Design 30 min
    • Lecture11.2
      Design Space Exploration Framework 30 min
    • Assignment11.1
      Explore your Parametric Model! 3 days

    Excursus: Ivan Sutherlands Sketchpad (1962)

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    This video is a cut version of the full documentation that you can find on You Tube.

    Prev Design Models I – Introduction to the Generation of Forms
    Next Design Models II – Computer Aided Drawing

      8 Comments

    1. Bahar Amiri
      14. October 2018
      Reply

      Just in case other students are also interested in a more complete version of this video, I watched it via this link:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o

    2. Martin Oravec
      14. October 2018
      Reply

      50 year old version of Rhinoceros!

    3. Maryampaknafs
      15. October 2018
      Reply

      Human brain is so complicated and has such a great capacity to create such tools to ease solving issues! I can’t believe they had progressed such a program at the time that maybe there was even no computer in Iran at all.

    4. Yuqi Wang
      15. October 2018
      Reply

      Very impressive! I am looking forward how smart the program could be after 50 years. Maybe just see what we will use after 5 years.

    5. Diellza Elshani
      16. October 2018
      Reply

      I never knew that sketchpads exists that long. It is such an influential computer program; I believe it served a lot to other designers of the new sketchpads and software afterwards. I just I feel a little bit sad that there are no women in the documentary but just man and the important machine.

    6. Subhashree Nath
      16. October 2018
      Reply

      Why did we not know about this? Meaning, why isn’t Ivan Sutherlands not celebrated for designing a highly functional sketchpad, much before we even had touch phones.

    7. Dario Corral Lopez
      20. October 2018
      Reply

      You gotta be kidding me!

    8. Eva Maria Beham
      22. October 2018
      Reply

      Good that also the size of computers changed in the last 50 years 🙂

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