Urban Autopoiesis: Towards Adaptive Future Cities
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2017-04
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A city, defined as a unity of inhabitants with their environment and showing self-creating and self-maintaining properties, can be considered as an autopoietic system if we take into account its bottom-up processes with unpredictable behaviour of its components. Such a property can lead to self-creation of urban patterns. These processes are studied in well-known vernacular architectures and informal settlements around the world and they are able to adapt according to various conditions and forces. The main research objective is to establish a computational design-modelling framework for modelling autopoietic intricate characteristics of a city based on an adaptability, self-maintenance and self generation of urban patterns with adequate visual representation. The paper introduces a modelling methodology that allows to combine planning tasks with inhabitants’ interaction and data sources by using an interchange framework to model more complex urban dynamics. The research yields preliminary results tested in a simulation model of a redevelopment of Tanjong Pagar Waterfront, the container terminal in the city of Singapore being transformed into a new future centre as a conducted case study.
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Protocols, Flows and Glitches - Proceedings of the 22nd CAADRIA Conference
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695 - 704
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The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
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CAADRIA 2017 Protocols, Flows and Glitches. The 22nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia
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Urban Metabolism; Urban Autopoiesis; Computational Interchange; Emergent Urban Strategies; Adaptive City
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03276 - Schmitt, Gerhard (emeritus) / Schmitt, Gerhard (emeritus)
08058 - Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) / Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
08060 - FCL / FCL