lunedì 28 ottobre 2013

Parametric Urbanism: a new frontier for Smart Cities

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.

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