Masdar City
Procedural landscape and urban modeling
Innovative procedural modelling methods for the automatic creation of large-scale 3D city models offer unprecedented opportunities to understand and encode urban patterns. They allow to easily produce multiple design alternatives based on design rules leading the simulation procedure. While grammars shaping the urban environment have already been defined, the contribution of the natural environment to urban qualities has not yet been encoded and integrated into a procedural modelling approach for sustainable city planning.
We explore the use of shape grammar driven procedural models for effectively linking natural resource indicators into the urban design process. We are working on an approach providing a starting point for more comprehensive, sustainable urban planning, and a useful tool for better informed and participatory decision-making.
Projects in preparation
- Linking an ecological and economical model to procedural urban modelling for sustainability evaluation and optimization of urban design (Noemi Neuenschwander, U. Wissen Hayek, A. Grêt-Regamey)
Ongoing projects
- Procedural modelling of sustainable urban patterns – a case study of MASDAR (U. Wissen Hayek, Noemi Neuenschwander, A. Grêt-Regamey)
- Integrating natural resource indicators into procedural visualization for sustainable urban green space design (Dr. Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Noemi Neuenschwander, Jan Halatsch, Antje Kunze, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey)
