Friday, March 2, 2012

Assessing Computational Tools for Urban Design Towards a “city information model”

by Jorge Gil, José Beirão , Nuno Montenegro, and José Duarte

This paper presents an assessment of a selection software tools for urban design confronting their capabilities with the goals of the CityInduction research project. The goal of this paper is the assessment of existing platforms for computer aided urban design to select one as the basis for implementing the urban design model proposed in the CityInduction project. This model includes three sub-models that support the formulation of design programs from contextual information, the exploration of designs solutions through a grammarbased generative approach, and the validation of designs against the program through the use of evaluation tools. To each of these sub-models corresponds a module in the envisioned platform and so, existing platforms are assessed in terms of their ability to support the implementation of each module. The current goal is a proof-of-concept implementation, but the final goal is the development of a complete platform for supporting urban design.


more about design softwares:

Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Javaâ„¢

Close Out Version: Drafting and Design for Architecture

Ebook: Systems Architecture

Introducing Revit Architecture 2009: Bim For Beginners

No comments:

Post a Comment