Abstract finally reached, after a week of refinement and a lot of reading, we have a more concise view of where we want to go with our topic.
Abstract_
The Metabolist movement attempted to link the expansion of space in a city to the architectural scale, however, it was limited by the economic and social constraints of its time. Current projects addressing this issue have high levels of geometric complexity, but often lack programmatic significance relative to its environment. Through careful examination of case studies focused on developing cities and their unique morphologies, patterns of design strategies for adjusting to urban growth will be extracted. Analysis of an existing urban fabric through space syntax will serve as a basis for a generative computational system capable of addressing programmatic functions of transport centers as well as social, cultural, and environmental characteristics of its urban context. This system will have the potential to be applied to multiple scenarios within a city and develop different architectural conditions.
Keywords: Urban Expansion, Transportation Infrastructure, Social Relations, Evolutionary Computation, Generative System, Urban Tissue, Complex Spatiality
The Metabolist movement attempted to link the expansion of space in a city to the architectural scale, however, it was limited by the economic and social constraints of its time. Current projects addressing this issue have high levels of geometric complexity, but often lack programmatic significance relative to its environment. Through careful examination of case studies focused on developing cities and their unique morphologies, patterns of design strategies for adjusting to urban growth will be extracted. Analysis of an existing urban fabric through space syntax will serve as a basis for a generative computational system capable of addressing programmatic functions of transport centers as well as social, cultural, and environmental characteristics of its urban context. This system will have the potential to be applied to multiple scenarios within a city and develop different architectural conditions.
Keywords: Urban Expansion, Transportation Infrastructure, Social Relations, Evolutionary Computation, Generative System, Urban Tissue, Complex Spatiality
