I. PRINCIPLES: Urban Ecology + Computation, Week 1
- Social Interaction and Cohesion, urban ecology and Placemaking in Downtown Eugene
- Elk (OpenStreetMap dataset)
- Urban Design Barcelona types: Maritime Pueblos, Eixample, 22@ and Readings and Writing
- Parametric Urbanism: Form and non-formal parameters (Block/street exercise of Eixample post-processed)
II. METHOD: Urban Ecology + Computation, Weeks 2-3
- Case Studies in parametric methods of Urban Design/Ecology – identify individual relationships
- Various GH skills
III. PROJECTS: with weekly Grasshopper workshops, Weeks 4-10
- Background problem and project purpose
- Comparative statistics Barcelona / Portland / Downtown Eugene
- Formulation of urban characteristics to include dataset gathering
- Analog parametric drawings, digital parametric drawings in Rhino Grasshopper
- Urban design strategy and drawings using analysis tool.
*New for 2015 and 2016:
- New data gathering techniques
- More GH workshops (Elk v1.0, Elk v2.0, HUMAN, CSV, Post-production, Mosquito, Elephant, GH Yelp, etc)
- Even Shorter Case-Study Project
- Composite drawing (large format)
- Data Collection and Application in Eugene
