Description:
Parametric design at the urban scale offers completely new and powerful ways of analyzing, designing and visualizing 3D urban space. Parametric urban design tools offer the possibility of understanding urban space qualitatively through the generation of 3D urban models as well as quantitatively through automatically generated space-related data. Parametric urban design models may be used in game engines for high-end rendering, VR applications and more.
Based on the state-of-the-art parametric design software CityEngine, this course offers a theoretical introduction to parametric urban design as a methodology and design approach as well as a hands-on introduction to writing your own parametric design scripts which will work across scales from single buildings to entire cities.
The course has five parts, each of which are concluded with a well-defined output, which forms the basis for the next part:
- Introduction to parametric urban design
Understand the logic of scripting and the parametric design approach - Form and shape analysis
Make your first basic scripts for site designs, building envelopes and facades - Structure and system analysis
Connect scripts to generate urban blocks with different building typologies. - Terrain and geographical constraints
Position your design on a terrain and control it with geographical constraints - Applications
Develop your own use scenarios, based on your specific research needs
Develop your own use scenarios, based on your specific research needs
The course is relevant to anyone who is studying aspects of urban form, such as urban space design, site design, urban transformation, or structural aspects of the city such as green structures and infrastructures, as well as to media and game designers who create virtual urban spaces, whether for entertainment or analytical purposes.
The course is organized as a flip classroom course with blended learning. Participants will have access to an online learning space complete with online videos, readings, and instruction sheets, a blog and chat forum for peer-to-peer communication and learning, as well as a submission platform for sharing work in progress.
Course activities span over 30 days. It is highly recommended not to schedule other major activities during this period. The course encompasses individual work, collaborative work, and online as well as campus learning. Based on individual preparations from home, participants will take part in a four-day workshop at Aalborg University at an early stage of the course.
The rest of the course will be conducted from your home university in close collaboration with other participants. As collaboration and peer learning are central to the course, participants must take part in scheduled events and observe submission requirements for work in progress. The course concludes with a half-day online workshop.
Organizer: Associate Professor Nicolai Steinø - steino@create.aau.dk
Lecturers: Associate Professor Nicolai Steinø - steino@create.aau.dk
ECTS: 4.0
Time: 01-30 April 2021 - Four-day workshop at Aalborg University: April 13-16, 2021
Place: Aalborg University, CREATE campus, Aalborg and online
Zip code: 9220
City: Aalborg
Number of seats: 16
Deadline: 24 March 2021
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Nicolai Steinø