COURSE OBJECTIVE
BUILD UP KNOWLEDGE (GEOSPATIAL KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE) AND SKILLS (GH GIS VIZ, LADYBUG)
BACKGROUND
Philip’s research area: geospatial understanding of small-scale social and natural phenomena.
- Social Interaction Project
- Air Quality project
- Ecological study with UO Barcelona Urban Design Program 2018 2016, 2017,
- Design projects – Push | Pull; Hult Plaza; Birch Fircrest House; Hudson House
COURSE APPROACH
- Purpose / Design Research Question:
- Research Shared Streets in urban design.
- Remote access site analysis via online virtual experience and databases.
- Explain project end point
- Skills to teach and Scales of time and space
- Design (how each student will apply new information)
*Philip – will teach critical understanding of shared streets and scales of time and space (small scale and time)
SAMPLE INVESTIGATION
Theory+Technology Review and Design Examples
- lcaBCN Human Comfort platform (problem: Air Pollution, Sound Pollution and Inclusive Urbanism)
- Cantrell Holzman (Arduino) Responsive Ecologies
- Speranza Architecture (mostly Ladybug): Birch Fircrest (shading summer), Hudson House (cooling summer air), Hult Plaza (proximity and humidity)
- Google Street Maps with air pollution sensors + Smart Citizens network
Get to know place over time including research problems – visit, observe, quality/indicator. Barcelona example problems:
- Air pollution (5th worst in Europe) – year-long (traffic), cruise ships, topography of Montjuic
- Sound Pollution (local and tourist driven entertainment)
- Cost of Living / Tourism economy
- Summer heat (humidity and heat) wind limited to times (check surfing websites!)
Types of Data: social or ecological; measured on-site or off-site; existing or data acquisition;
Choosing site/s and baseline comparisons (1-3)
Visualizations of data (start this early)
Design Revisions
- street, plaza, site design (screens, trees, vegetation, ecological elements of water, air and light)
- existing project, current project, or new project?
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WEEKLY OUTLINE
I. INTRODUCTION: PURPOSE, TECHNOLOGY + DESIGN
Theory of Social and Thermodynamic (environmental qualities)
- Shared Streets as small-scale geospatial analysis for urban and non-urban spaces (Rhino GH instead of ESRI ArcGIS)
- Gehl Design for People; Vicente Guallart (Valldaura, Self Sufficiency Labs, water and energy; ); Lacaton Vassal, summer green houses, solar chimney
- Project purpose statement and problem statement through initial field observations. Initial GIS VIS work, background via OSM and initial CSV data.
Method, Site Visit
- Data acquisition – walking and observing
- Data location over short time such as Strava or Data at the same time (Google Timeline export?)
Skills, Technology
- Grasshopper refresher
- GIS VIZ TOOL; mesh spray; circle tool
- Ladybug (Diva) for 3D parti, sunpath, psychometric chart, temp/humidity, windrose
…Design (early, middle, final)
II. SITE VISITS + DATA ACQUISITION
Pilot Data Collection
- testing limits of time and space; testing for technology failure
- final dataset development; normalize data with multiple data collection or 24 hour data.
Baseline Comparison
- Existing data (online)
- Data Acquistion
III. DESIGN
Three design approaches (JUD article):
- Direct (reactions to adjacent data)
- Indirect (design quality exploration)
- Responsive design (real-time response)
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PROJECT OUTLINE
See Schedule + Assignments for project outline and grading.