Abstract

By 2050 an estimated 70 percent of the world's population will live in megacitieswith more than 10 million citizens (Renner 2018). This growth calls for newtarget-oriented, interdisciplinary methods in urban planning and design in citiesto meet sustainable development targets. In response, this paper exemplifies anintegrated urban design process on a master plan project in Vienna. Theobjective is to investigate the potential towards a holistic, digital, urban designprocess aimed at the development of a practical methodology for future designs.The presented urban design process includes analyses and simulation tools withinRhinoceros 3D and its plug-in Grasshopper as quality-enhancing mediums thatfacilitate the creative approaches in the course of the project. The increase inefficiency and variety of design variants shows a promising future for thepractical suitability of this approach.

Highlights

  • A contemporary urban design process demands human-centered development where future technologies intertwine with traditional approaches to generate a sustainable, livable environment while saving time and resources

  • We argue that the further development of intelligent planning tools has a high scientific relevance due to the advancing urbanization

  • We argue in this paper that besides classical urban analyses such as the distribution of use, green space, and density the proximity, variety, and density of amenities influences the urban attractiveness

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INTRODUCTION

A contemporary urban design process demands human-centered development where future technologies intertwine with traditional approaches to generate a sustainable, livable environment while saving time and resources. For instance, is pursued by the Urban Strategy Playground research group at the Chair of Architecture Informatics at the Technical University of Munich [url-20] They investigate different densification strategies as decision support for authorities with a focus on the integration of digital models, including data layers within analog planning methods. Their ambition is an efficient architecture and urban planning with higher quality for which they develop the free software DeCoding Spaces Toolbox for Grasshopper [url-3] This toolbox contains various analysis and generative components that were utilized in the methodology of the paper. What is known as performance-based computational design contains the support in spatial analysis, synthesis, and evaluation that mainly focuses on the performance during the design process (Nourian 2016) In this light, the potential to create a sustainable environment by integrated parametric urban design is promising since this workflow allows further incorporation of additional analyses and simulation. The availability and accuracy of POIs vary greatly and needs to be carefully checked to achieve a meaningful analysis

Urban Analyses
Concept Development
Design Development
Simulation and Analyses
Design Evaluation
Visualization
RESULTS & DISCUSSION
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