-Use of grasshopper’s Plugins

Aims of the

Workshop :

-Data tracking

-Data visualisation

Based on the “Smart City” concept, the workshop will be focused on the analysis, under-standing and proposal of this new approach through the next three steps:

Presentation of three case studies regarding the concept of Smart City in the Urban Pub-lic Space developed in the Master of Advanced Architecture of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), specifically in three different streets of Barcelona: Pere IV, Meridiana and Paseo Grácia.Approach to the first visualization tools and based on the mapping concept (data collection, interpretation, representation and new analysis strategies).Tools application over different urban contexts in order to understanding the relation be-tween Paris and the smart city concept.The workshop results will be published in the collective blog and web page, with the goal of amplifying the range of influence of this developing concept and bring to public view the work of all the people involved in this knowledge incubator.

-Use of grasshopper’s Plugins

Aims of the

Workshop :

-Data tracking

-Data visualisation

According to a forecast by the United Nations (UN), 70% of the world population will live in urban courts in 2050. In addition, the UN warns that the increasing population in cities can become a serious urbatn issue, unless citizens reach a balance between the social and environmental aspects and among themselves.The concept of “Smart City” (associated to the concept of “Smart Growth”), is proposed in a social context where infrastructure and population of urban areas continue to grow, in many cases, dispro- portionately. Therefore a “Smart City” is the one that uses technological advanc-es and tools to support and improve the quality of life of its citizens.

As a result of this phenomenon of transformation, it is imperative to recognize and understand the new schemes and systems of configuration, growth and development of cities, related to the Informa- tion and Communication Technologies (ICTs).Smart cities make instrumented, interconnected and intelligent systems. This new urban con-cept is generated by the lifestyle of today’s citizens, who increasingly use digital devices to maintain them informed of local and global happenings. According to studies, almost 90% of the citizens had at least one account on social sites in 2012.This kind of urban behaviors affects the role of the architect as a urban designer, demanding knowledge, understanding and application of new analysis and design tools, in order to con-sider several variables that have an impact in the design parameters of any project.

For instance, the analysis and design of a city project should consider:

Data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior, mobility patterns, resouce consump-tion, etc. in order to inform an evidence-based process of designing new cities.Parametric urban design tools to schematically define mobility nodes, streets, building massing, and location of resources to create nested compact urban cells (walkable neighborhoods).

SMART CITY CONCEPTS

Urban energy, mobility, water, food, and waste simulator for new, post-oil cities.Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and responsive technology for cities.It is important to understand the city as an interconnected urban ecosystem, where chang-es or a variation in one component affects directly or indirectly the overall system.

Based on the “Smart City” concept, the workshop will be focused on the analysis, under-standing and proposal of this new approach through the next three steps:

Presentation of three case studies regarding the concept of Smart City in the Urban Public Space developed in the Master of Advanced Architecture of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), specifically in three different streets of Barcelona: Pere IV, Meridiana and Paseo Grácia.Approach to the first visualization tools and based on the mapping concept (data collection, interpretation, representation and new analysis strategies).Tools application over different urban contexts in order to understanding the relation be-tween Paris and the smart city concept.The workshop results will be published in the collective blog and web page, with the goal of amplifying the range of influence of this developing concept and bring to public view the work of all the people involved in this knowledge incubator

THE WORKSHOP

Total registered participants : 11 Tutors number : 6 Mobile tracking devices (smart phones) : 8

Classes Time : 8 hours

Outdoor tracking time : 2.5 hours

Indoor workshop hours : 5.5 Rest time : 0 hours Nombres de sandwichs: 68

Coffee (thanks to Sieriocki Maks) : 3,2 liters

Laptop (Pc and Mac) : 18 Total Open Drink participants : 48

Temperature : hot

The Key

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definition 1 :

Data_topography

visualisation

Data_topography

visualisation

“This work is inspired and is part of Luis E. Fraguada research”

“This work is inspired and is part of Luis E. Fraguada research”

Rain data

visualisation

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definition 2 :

visualisation

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definition 3 :

Map’s informations

visualisation

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definition 3 :

Map’s informations

“This work is inspired and is part of Luis E. Fraguada research”

“This work is inspired and is part of Luis E. Fraguada research”

visualisation

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Definition 4 :

Topography

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Definition 5 :

Tracking velocity

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“This work is inspired and is part of Luis E. Fraguada research”

Workshop

activity :

Group’s findings

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Group 2 : Boulevard Richard Lenoir

Group 1 : Parc des Buttes Chaumont

Group 3 : Rue de la Fon-taine au Roi

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Frost Kathryn: American architect in Paris, especially interested in net-works, systems and cycles, and how they connect us to our surroundings.

Née Lénaïk: Architecture student at “Ecole de Marne la Vallée”, and for one year at “Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne”. Interested by Grasshopper, by digital and collaborative design.

Marquis Pierre: I am currently doing a double diploma in MArch at EAVT and MEng in Civil Enginering at Ponts Paris Tech, France.I have collaborated with some offices as Ayastudio (Paris), LabDORA (New York), and EZCT Architecture & Research (Paris).

Nikolas Walzer Alexander: Born and raised in Vienna, studied at ‘Vienna University of Technology’, ‘Politecnico di Mitlano’ and ‘University of Innsbruck’. Future education unknown so far, but focussing in digital tooling and biomorph designing. Projects installations in Italy and one coming soon in Africa. Always positive, keep going!

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Maitaillet Yannis: Etudiant en architecture à Paris Val de Seine. J’ai effectué une année de master à Queens University de Belfast, et j’ai travaillé en Tunisie où j’ai de la famille. Aujourd’hui je m’intéresse aux processus de fabrication, qu’il soient alimentés par des outils paramétriques, conventionnels ou bien traditionnels. J’ai aussi une fascination pour les environnements interactifs et les logiciels open source.

Pawlak Matylda: Architect and interior designer with a strong interest for graphic design.

Sierocki Maks: I am an engineer in building and construction.After 6 years of work I’ve decided to change my life and to graduate an architecture diploma. So I went back to school in Paris (ENSAPLV).I am doing my Master 2 this year.During the class I have discovered Grasshopper and this is the tool that suits me the most. I literally fell in love with this software!!

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Nayituriki Marie Ange: I should describe my-self as a humanist if this still means something nowadays! Architecture is my chosen way.

Safaoui Sarah: I’m an architecture student in Paris, doing my master in ESA. I was born in France, raised in Ivory Coast and grew up in Lebanon. I recently started a personal research on anything related to parametric design.

Pavone Roberto: Architect taking part in numer-ous courses in Europe on urban regeneration. Main focus at the moment are smart cities and parametric design.

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The Tutors

Sollazzo Aldo

Cingolani Francesco

Garita Robert

Diaz De Leon Alejandra

Mugarra Iker

Carabini Alessandro

The Tutors

Cingolani Francesco

Garita Robert

Diaz De Leon Alejandra

Mugarra Iker

Carabini Alessandro

Sollazzo Aldo : Italian architect, co-founder of Noumena Architecture.Attended a postgraduate master program at Iaac (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia).Partecipated at several workshop with Andrea Graziano, Luis Fraguada, Monika Wittig and Uto.

Cingolani Francesco : Co-founder and Curator at superbelleville coworking.Parametric Design Teacher and Lecturer at École d’Architecture Marne La Vallé in ParisComputational designer since 2007.

Garita Robert : Co-founder and Partner of MG Studio & Plan.in Group & School of Architecture Pro-fessor , Veritas University.

Diaz De Leon Alejandra : Mexican architect collaborator of the firm Taller 13 and coordinator of the Architecture Cell of the multidisciplinary studio Ezequielfarca in Mexico City. Attended the Master in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.

Mugarra Iker : Architect from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Tutor assistant at IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, recently project architect at Cloud9 located in Barcelona.

Carabini Alessandro : Co-founder and designer for abacO, researcher on urban social design for VoD Think Tank platform (Iuav).In the last years, he has attended many events and workshops like Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) and Smart Geometry.

Superbelleville

SuperbellevilleSuperbelleville coworking is a a collaborative space for architects, parametric designers, visual artists and slashers.

The term “slasher” was coined to describre the rising trend of the “one person/multiple careers” and it refers to the ‘slash’ in the job title of someone who is, for example, a de-signer/manager/web editor. At superbelleville we encourage design transdisciplinarity and we believe that creation has no borders.

Superbelleville is located in the heart of Belleville district, in Paris. It is a quiet and friendly place and it is designed on a human scale (it is the smallest cow-orking space in Paris).

Superbelleville coworking has been cofounded by Concetta Sangrigoli (oikos.pro), Pierre Cattan (smallbang.fr) and Francesco Cingolani (immaginoteca.pro) and it is driven by a com-munity effort of about 20 amazing people.

Conclusion(by Francesco Cingolani)

ConclusionREaction workshop was an amazing experience in which we experimented how to track urban information, how to make it visible and understandable and, finally, how we could use this information to improve the design of our environements.

As designers, I think the most important thing today is to have a general vision of what technology can do. I think it’s more important to know which technology we can use to acheive something, more than control every detail of the technology itself. That’s why I said that “KNOWING WHAT YOU CAN DOIS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DOING IT.” With REaction workshop we wanted to create a learning environnement to help urban and architectural designers to take into account in-formation exchanges in our cities, in order create better experiences in our built environne-ment. «DATA AND INFORMATION ARE THE OIL OF THE FUTURE». Today, we can say that almost everything is an information exchange. If you talk, you are exchanging information. If you are here, in a physical space, your body is exchanging heat with the environnement. And if you walk with an smartphone in your pocket, you are producing (end exchanging) informa-tion about your localisation, your speed and your direction.

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