Shading design workflow for architectural designers

Configurbanist: Easiest paths, fuzzy accessibility, and network centrality for walking and cycling in cities

In a quest for promoting sustainable modes of mobility, we have revisited how feasible and suitable is it for people to walk or cycle to their destinations in a neighbourhood. We propose a few accessibility measures based on an 'Easiest Path' algorithm that provides also actual temporal distance between locations. This algorithm finds paths that...

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

New North Xiaguan: City Communication Center Design

The theme of Hyperbody this year is focused on Climatic Ecology. Based on this theme, I chose one site in Beijing, China to do my experiment. The site is surrounded by various land uses of neighborhoods and different kinds of users. Meanwhile, because of the existing traffic situation, the neighborhoods are separated from each other. These...

Merwehaven New Ferry Station

The Hyperbody graduation studio is set to be an endeavor to integrate research with the final design product. The “computational” nature of the whole process serves as both an opportunity and challenge to develop a design methodology out of analyzing the complexity of current social and climatic context and using these presets as “intrigues” to...

A syntactic design methodology: Integrating real-time space syntax analysis in a configurative architectural design process

A synthetic architectural design methodology: Integrating real-time space syntax analysis in a configurative architectural design process

Designing for Pedestrians: A configurative approach to neighborhood planning and design, promoting pedestrian mobility, using an interactive computational design method for 'polycentric distribution of built space' according to walkability, attractions and topographic features

Real-time measurement of perceptual qualities in conceptual design

Implications of design decisions are hard to oversee for designers. This is the case in particular with respect to decisions, which influence perception related qualities of designs. Such qualities are for example visual openness, visual privacy, and spatial intimacy. They are difficult to measure because of their subjective and soft nature....

Configurbanist: Urban Configuration Analysis for Walking and Cycling via Easiest Paths

In a quest for promoting sustainable modes of mobility, we have revisited how feasible and suitable is it for people to walk or cycle to their destinations in a neighbourhood. We propose a few accessibility measures based on an 'Easiest Path' algorithm that provides also actual temporal distance between locations. This algorithm finds paths that...