ARCH 510
Urban Analysis and Simulation
About
SPRING 2022
Teaching Team:
Cameron Parkin
The urban realm is a complex territory. In cities, we are often forced to ask ourselves what our priorities are, a question that becomes more and more relevant as populations move to urban centers, and our understanding of the role cities play in broader contexts grows. With competing agendas, budding ideas, and critical decisions all at play, designers are turning to data, analysis, and simulation to make more informed decisions and test new ideas. With the proliferation of BIM, big data, and out of the box analysis tools, this approach becomes more accessible, but we must ask ourselves how this data can be incorporated into the design process in a way that not only provides additional insight and opportunity, but also aligns with the designer’s motives and goals, and the publics’ best interests.
This course introduces students to tools, methodologies, and concepts that will allow them to pursue analysis informed investigations of topics of interest relating to the expanded urban realm. The course begins at a broader scale looking at regional data driven mapping using GIS, before moving towards site-finding exercises and scenario testing using simulation, analysis, and optimization in a grasshopper environment.
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