SPT-E8010 - Smart and Liveable City Studio V D, 03.03.2021-02.06.2021
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Assignment 4a - Planner rules: how to guide a designer (mid-day submission)
Krav för slutförande
Note: In the previous exercises the focus has been on assessment methods, whereas in here the focus is on normative (guiding) methods.
Senaste inlämningsdatum: onsdag, 14 april 2021, 11:50
Goal
Create a set of rules to ensure future the liveability within the target area defined in assignment 3, with which future projects suggested for the area can be scored.Scenario
Any change suggested to the area will be assessed based on the system You devise. A high score would increase the likelihood of the officials approving the suggested change, whilst a low or negative score would significantly lower it. You have been briefed that Your scoring system should work in a holistic manner ie. a suggested new building would be scored not only based on how liveable its new apartments would be but also based on how it affects the environment and other buildings around it.Note: In the previous exercises the focus has been on assessment methods, whereas in here the focus is on normative (guiding) methods.
Performing the exercise
- Create the scoring system by negotiating with your group/pair.
- You are to present an early draft of the dynamics of the scoring system to base further discussions on. At this point You are not expected calibrate the actual numeral values of the scoring system, but to explain how Your calculation method would work and what kind of effect each of the rules You devise would have.
- You don’t have to give exact scores or balance different rules, describe the effect relatively - see example below and devise Your own method of communicating the dynamics of the rules.
Hints
- Expect an indifferent or even hostile “adversary” trying to break the rules You develop.
- Think of a liveability-wise indifferent developer trying to minimize cost and maximize the capacity on a plot, or a generative AI iterating through all possible solutions
- Be explicit - create a set of concrete rules with minimal amount of interpretation required (whenever possible, base the rules on distances, predetermined areas, data You consider easily available/calculable/simulateable & etc)
- Bad example: “Significant negative score if not enough sunlight at housing units”
- Less bad example: “Significant negative score for east-south-west facing housing units that’s shaded by any new buildings at 1.7. between 07-19 for more than two hours”
- Good examples left as an exercise to the reader
- Try
to have as low a number of rules as possible, try to have them as
allowing as much freedom as possible, while still ensuring your ruleset
ensures liveability as You understand it
Final rule description document:
- Explain the calculation method You devise, see example below
- Group all the rules under titles based on, for instance liveablility components of previous or other grouping relevant to Your method
- For each rule explain the justification ie. what the rule You suggest are supposed to accomplish
- For each rule, explain the effect the conditions in question it would have into total score, see example below
- For each rule, explain what extra material You’d have to provide (if any) to ensure a working rule - it’s not necessary to create such maps etc. as a part of this exercise. Any such material should however be something You would be able to prepare in a reasonable amount of time based on the data, skills & experience available to Your group
- Submit Your work-in-progress in the middle of the day
- Submit the final material by the deadline assigned below
- Be prepared to explain the basics of Your system to other group(s) & teachers in the afternoon, consider creating a short PPTX/PDF presentation
Return format
Mid-day checkup, deadline at 14.4.2021 11:50- Work-in-progress/draft of the set of rules as a .pdf document
- Very short free form explanation how the work is proceeding and how You are going to utilize the rest of the day, include into the document
- Tutoring available @ teams at 12, if You need
- Teachers will follow email in case there are questions
- Note: No more than one person per group has to upload the files to mycourses,
- Set of rules as a .pdf document Note: No more than one person per group has to upload the files to mycourses
- Join the meets link, share Your screen when asked and use the rule document or a powerpoint to explain Your scoring system to other students and teachers
Downloadable materials
- 1 mars 2021, 14:19