Behaviourlinks:Urban Mode and Smartvolumes modeler

SmartVolumes is developed as spatial design extension for the design environment BehaviourLinks :: Urban Mode. The agenda of BehaviourLinks is to reshape the way architects employ digital techniques by proposing a dynamic, open, collaborative design praxis. A BehaviourLink is a piece of programming code that is executed in real-time and defines interactions between conceptual entities, by manipulating data contained in one entity based on data contained in another entity. The nature of these manipulations is dependent on the type of link chosen by the user. The conceptual entities can represent architectural concepts but also digital interfaces to sensors, users and exchange data.
By defining conceptual nodes and laying behavioral links, users can grow a parametric diagram of the urban plan. Its shape, structure and visualization originate from the behavioral design rules and decisions made by the users as well as the feedback negotiation between interacting nodes. The interactive diagram lets a group of stakeholders make fast and well-informed urban design decisions.
In BehaviourLinks::Urban mode, all data is subject to real-time interactive, iterative adaptation by the behavioral links the user laid between entities. Functional extensions of BehaviourLinks consist of node typifications, which can be affected by additional link types. For BehaviourLinks :: Urban Mode, extensions have been implemented that let the users simultaneously explore how the program of demands, volumetric plan, traffic models, parametric spatial relationships, shadow volumes, façade styles, plan boundaries and urban data affect each other, with direct visual feedback and embedded media of the actual site.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Voronoi
• Hyperbody
• Architecture
• Virtools
• CGAL
• SmartVolumes
• BehaviourLinks