sahra:denCity (1of2)

denCity is a Masters level research project by Sahra (Peter Sovinc, Saif Almasri, Suryansh Chandra) at the Design Research Lab, Architectural Association, London.

denCity is a critique of modern day urbanization and city planning methodologies that are based on 20-year masterplans of linear city growth and are incapable of dealing with the pace of change of modern economic landscapes, societal conditions and life styles. It researches new interactive systems of master planning and urban design, that are capable of coping with completely different economic scenarios within a matter of seconds, producing relevant FAR and height regulation maps, programmatic distribution information and street networks.
At the architectural scale, denCity critiques modern day urbanization that is shaped by an assumed unending abundance of energy sources and the short sighted reliance on private vehicular transportation. The research is focussed on developing super high density 20 FAR pedestrian ladscapes and addressing issues of natural light penetration and ground association observed in contemporary high density cities.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Design Research Lab
• AA
• DRL
• AADRL
• Architecture
• Parametric Design
• Associative Design
• Grasshopper
• Maya
• Rhino
• Relational Modelling
• Parametric Architecture

[suryanshchandra]

Thankyou.

Most of the work here is a combination of Rhino with Grasshopper, and Maya with scripting done in MEL. To be technical, the 'hexagonal cell based' based master plan is generated by Grasshopper, saved as a sequence of images, which are then mapped onto meshes in Maya which are used as controllers of blend transformations between various low-poly meshes representing urban morphological blocks.

[khizerishtiaq]

Impressive Stuff man.... I am guessing that you scripted this in grasshopper...can you explain a little bit how the defintion works... as in the technical side of the script?

[maurolbia]

very nice! my compliments

wich software did you used????? rhinoceros?

[splitcliffhanger]

bravo dude.. :)