In public opinion and
on international political agendas the phenomenon of Smart Cities is fast
becoming an innovative response to the need to increase the efficiency of
tomorrow’s cities: improving their performance and diminishing the resources
they consume. The wealth of information and real-time data provided to the
study of urban phenomena by new technologies (mobile phones, urban CCTV, networks of
sensors, satellite navigation, digital control panels, GIS, Wi-Fi, smart grids,
etc.) is rarely employed in a systematic and selective manner, and even less so
by architects and urban planners. There is a sense that innovations in ICT move
faster than our ability to find a use for them. A new frontier of
research within this scenario may be represented by the utilisation in urban
design of parametric software, in other words, digital tools used to generate
form as the result of the adaptive logical processing of selected information
and data. With parametric platforms design does not offer a univocal response
to a group of pre-established conditions, but instead becomes a dynamic model able
to rapidly respond to input provided by the designer. This paper delineates
a possible line of research that applies the techniques and methodologies of parametric
design in the field of urbanism. The aim is not only that of generating
simulations at the urban scale of events in the fields of architecture and
design, but also of assisting planners and public administrations involved in
processes of decision-making related to the development of urban planning
instruments. (download)
RIF. BIBLIO. - Questo articolo deve essere citato come segue: Fusero P., Massimiano L., Tedeschi A., Lepidi S., "Parametric Urbanism: A New Frontier for Smart Cities", Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, n.27 vol. 2/2013, pp.1-13.
