Abstract

The contribution presents an interdisciplinary approach to education developed by the authors, who belong to the field of study of urban design and environmental psychology. The presented study is part of a wider research aiming at developing a methodology for assessing, before construction, the impact on people’s well-being generated by urban design projects. The method is based on the combined use of immersive visualization and psychological survey, administered to inhabitants along the design process, for testing—and potentially re-tuning—the architectural solutions. In particular, the paper presents a case study application with a university class of architects and planners of the last year of the Master of Science. The paper outlines the general contents of the ongoing experimental research, it provides a brief theoretical framework, it describes the tools used and developed ad hoc, and it finally illustrates the case study application.

Highlights

  • The contribution presents the development of an ongoing interdisciplinary research conducted by two research units, namely Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana ‘Fausto Curti’

  • The aim of the research is to develop an interdisciplinary methodology for assessing urban design projects before construction

  • We propose a combined use of immersive visualization and psychological survey administered to inhabitants of urban transformation areas along the design process

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Introduction

The contribution presents the development of an ongoing interdisciplinary research conducted by two research units, namely Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana ‘Fausto Curti’ Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) and Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment—Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI), belonging to the field of simulation for urban design and environmental psychology. (ii) testing the coherence between design concept and results; and informing the design process (iii) supporting negotiation and decision making of public administrations in the urban design and planning field. This contribution focuses on the application of the methodology to the architectural higher educational domain, and it presents the results of the first experimental application into a class of the last year of the Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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