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_id	sigradi2014_037
id	sigradi2014_037
authors	Montaña, Ricardo Cedeño
year	2014
title	Design of a tool for the visualization of historical data
source	SiGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay- Montevideo 12,13,14 November 2014, pp. 563-566
summary	In the sciences the combination of different types of analysis, textual and visual, contributes to the legibility of the results of the research. Techniques such as data visualization and information graphics have a long history in the natural and social sciences. Recently, researchers in the humanities have got interested in producing visualizations to synthesize facts and trends. The purpose is to create novel observations and analysis of historical and cultural data. This paper presents the use of programming and markup languages to design a custom and open tool for the creation of one particular type of historical data visualization: chronologies.
keywords	Data visualization; chronology; XML; processing
series	SIGRADI
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_id	sigradi2014_144
id	sigradi2014_144
authors	Böhme, Luis Felipe González; Cristián Calvo Barentin
year	2014
title	Desarrollo de competencias avanzadas en computación en la formación de los arquitectos latinoamericanos del siglo XXI [Advanced Computing Competence Development in 21st-century Latin American Architects’ Education]
source	SIGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay - Montevideo 12 - 14 November 2014, pp. 217-221
summary	Automation and robotics are increasingly penetrating all types of industries in developed countries including architecture, i.e., products and services related to architectural practice. Therefore, more than ever, architects, designers and artists are interested in developing computational thinking skills to be able to integrate more functionality into their creations and take direct control of their fabrication. But what can a small school of architecture in Latin America do to prevent the deskilling of its graduates and, instead, create new labor opportunities for them abroad. Third-year students integrate physical computing with visual programming in an active learning environment to develop free proposals.
keywords	Architectural education; Physical computing; Visual programming; Computational thinking; Active learning
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2014_109
id	ecaade2014_109
authors	Kristoffer Negendahl, Thomas Perkov and Alfred Heller
year	2014
title	Approaching Sentient Building Performance Simulation Systems
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 49-60
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.049
wos	WOS:000361385100004
summary	Building designers make decisions in early design stages that have large impact on building performance, including those of energy-, daylight- and indoor environment performance. Building performance simulation (BPS) tools can support the designer, in making better decisions, by providing the performance consequences of design choices. However BPS tools often require deep technical knowledge and is too time consuming to use to effectively support the design exploration in the early design stages. To solve this challenge, the current paper proposes: Sentient building performance simulation systems, which combine one or more high precision BPS tools to provide near instantaneous performance feedback directly in the design tool. Sentient BPS systems are essentially combining: 1) design tools, 2) parametric tools, 3) BPS tools, 4) dynamic databases 5) interpolation techniques and 6) prediction techniques as a fast and valid simulation system for the early design stage.
keywords	Building performance simulation; parametric modelling; visual programming language; database; responsive system; integrated dynamic model
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2014_224
id	ecaade2014_224
authors	Mohammad Rahmani Asl, Michael Bergin, Adam Menter and Wei Yan
year	2014
title	BIM-based Parametric Building Energy Performance Multi-Objective Optimization
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 455-464
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.455
wos	WOS:000361385100048
summary	Building energy performance assessments are complex multi-criteria problems. Appropriate tools that can help designers explore design alternatives and assess the energy performance for choosing the most appropriate alternative are in high demand. In this paper, we present a newly developed integrated parametric Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based system to interact with cloud-based whole building energy performance simulation and daylighting tools to optimize building energy performance using a Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) algorithm. This system enables designers to explore design alternatives using a visual programming interface, while assessing the energy performance of the design models to search for the most appropriate design. A case study of minimizing the energy use while maximizing the appropriate daylighting level of a residential building is provided to showcase the utility of the system and its workflow.
keywords	Building energy performance analysis; building information model (bim); parametric modelling; parametric energy simulation; multi-objective optimization
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2014_028
id	caadria2014_028
authors	Chaszar, André and Bige Tunçer
year	2014
title	Integrating User and Usage Information in a Design Environment
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 45–54
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.045
summary	We describe research exploring and demonstrating the use of large-scale data gathering and processing to inform the activities of architectural and urban designers. We apply this research to public spaces in urban housing estates. The aim is to understand the current use patterns and usability of these spaces, and to adaptively redesign them according to the insights gained from these findings. Another aim of the research is to obtain scientific knowledge regarding the production and use of user-data-based design support systems which promote and enhance the capability of (digital) design aids, such as building- and urban-scale models, to act as ‘learning devices’ giving designers better insights to the nature of the design situations they are asked to address, as well as insights on design space definition and exploration. We adopt a multimodal data collection strategy, consisting of participatory workshops for residents and users, person-based crowdsourcing, location-based crowd sensing, and statistical demographics data.
keywords	integrated design environment; multi-modal data collection; data visualization; data analysis; public space design.
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2014_155
id	ecaade2014_155
authors	Martina Decker and Andrzej Zarzycki
year	2014
title	Designing Resilient Buildings with Emergent Materials
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 179-184
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.2.179
wos	WOS:000361385100019
summary	This paper looks at two distinct approaches to kinetic façades and smart building assemblies reminiscent of designs for the Institut du Monde Arabe and for Hoberman's Simon Center. The first approach uses Arduino microcontroller-guided kinetic components with a distinct assemblage of elements, each performing a dedicated function such as sensor, actuator, or logical processing unit. The second approach incorporates custom-designed smart materials-shape memory alloys (SMAs)-that not only complement or replace the need for electrically operated sensors or actuators, but also eliminate a microcontroller, since in this arrangement the material itself performs computational functions. The paper will discuss case studies that use physical computing and smart-material models as vehicles to discuss the value of each approach to adaptive design in architecture. Building on these observations, the paper looks into conceptual aspects of an integrated hybrid system that combines both computation approaches and unique opportunities inherent to these hybrid designs.
keywords	Adaptable designs; arduino microcontrollers; shape memory alloys (smas); smart materials; programmable matter
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2014_014
id	caadria2014_014
authors	Zhong, Chen; Stefan Müller Arisona and Gerhard Schmitt
year	2014
title	A Visual Analytics Framework for Large Transportation Datasets
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 223–232
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.223
summary	The advancement of sensor technologies makes it possible to collect large amounts of dynamic urban data. On the other hand, how to store, process, and analyze collected urban data to make them useful becomes a new challenge. To address this issue, this paper proposes a visual analytics framework, which is applied to transportation data to manage and extract information for urban studies. More specifically, the proposed framework has three components: (1) a geographic information system (GIS) based pipeline providing basic data processing functions; (2) a spatial network analysis that is integrated into the pipeline for extracting spatial structure of urban movement; (3) interactive operations allowing the user to explore and view the output data sets at different levels of details. Taking Singapore as a case study area, we use a sample data set from the automatic smart card fare collection system as an input to our prototype tool. The result shows the feasibility of proposed framework and analysis method. To summarize, our work shows the potential of geospatial based visual analytics tools in using ‘big’ data for urban analysis.
keywords	GIS; visual analytics; transportation data; flow map; spatial network analysis
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2014_004
id	ascaad2014_004
authors	Afsari, Kereshmeh; Matthew E. Swarts and T. Russell Gentry
year	2014
title	Integrated Generative Technique for Interactive Design of Brickworks
source	Digital Crafting [7th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2014 / ISBN 978-603-90142-5-6], Jeddah (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), 31 March - 3 April 2014, pp. 49-64
summary	Bricks have been used in the construction industry as a building medium for millennia. Distinct patterns of bricks depict the unique aesthetic intentions found in Roman, Gothic and Islamic architecture. In contemporary practice, the use of digital tools in design has enabled methodologies for creating new forms in architecture. CAD and BIM systems provide new opportunities for designers to create parametric objects for building form generation. In masonry design, there exists an inherent contradiction between traditional patterns in brick design, which are formal and prescribed, and the potential for new patterns generated using design scripting. In addition, current tools do not provide interactive techniques for the design of brickwork patterns that can manage constant changes parametrically, to inform and influence design process, by providing design feedback on the constructive and structural aspects of the proposed brick pattern and geometry. This research looks into the parametric techniques that can be applied to create different kinds of patterns on brick walls. It discusses a methodology for an interactive brickwork design within generative techniques. By integrating data between two computational platforms – the first based on image analysis and the second on parametric modeling, we demonstrate a methodology and application that can generate interactive arbitrary patterns and map it to the brick wall in real-time.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2016/02/15 13:09

_id	sigradi2014_128
id	sigradi2014_128
authors	Alves Veloso, Pedro Luís
year	2014
title	Explorando o diagrama de bolhas [Exploring the bubble diagram]
source	SIGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay - Montevideo 12 - 14 November 2014, pp. 115-119
summary	This paper presents an interactive bubble diagram developed to support design exploration. The proposed diagram consists of multiple goal-oriented agents, whose interaction with the user stimulates the analysis and exploration of new spatial patterns. Until now, there are two versions implemented. The first was developed combining scripting language and a graphical editor of algorithms embedded in modeling software. The second was developed with event-driven programming techniques emphasizing functions to amplify the interaction between user and agents. Finally, as the result of this exploratory stage of the research, we propose new paths of development for the next versions of the diagram.
keywords	Architectural design; bubble diagram; graph; interaction
series	SIGRADI
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_id	acadia14_579
id	acadia14_579
authors	Brell-Cokcan, Sigrid; Braumann, Johannes
year	2014
title	Robotic Production Immanent Design: Creative toolpath Design in Micro and Macro Scale
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 579-588
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.579
summary	This paper discusses applications of production immanent design in the context of robotic fabrication and offers an outlook to a new research project on robotic stone structuring.
keywords	production immanent design, robotic fabrication, parametric robot control, visual programming, Grasshopper
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	acadia14_333
id	acadia14_333
authors	Briscoe, Danelle
year	2014
title	Parametric Planting: Green Wall System Research + Design using BIM
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 333-338
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.333
summary	Parametric planning and planting methodologies challenge the capabilities of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a design tool; experimenting with alternative file types along with visualization from a Autodesk Revit Material Editor and visual programming plug-in Dynamo workflow.
keywords	BIM, parametric, landscape, bio-wall, component, collaboration
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	ijac201412105
id	ijac201412105
authors	Choo, Thian-Siong; Patrick Janssen
year	2014
title	Evolutionary Optimisation of Semitransparent Building Integrated Photovoltaic Facades
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 12 - no. 1, 81-100
summary	The optimisation of semi-transparent building integrated photovoltaic facades can be challenging when attempting to find an overall balance performance between conflicting performance criteria. This paper presents a three-phase design optimisation method that maximises overall electricity savings generated by these types of facades by simulating the combined impact of electricity generation, cooling load, and daylight autonomy. Two demonstrations are performed, with the difference being that the second demonstration uses an enhanced model for calculating daylight savings that takes into account the use of blinds to counteract glare. For both demonstrations, the three-phase optimisation method significantly reduces optimisation run times. Comparing the design variants evolved by the two demonstrations, the use of the enhanced daylight savings model results in a total electricity savings that is more accurate but in terms of visual differentiation, the difference between the optimized design variants is relatively small.
series	journal
last changed	2019/05/24 09:55

_id	ecaade2014_078
id	ecaade2014_078
authors	Elif Erdine and Evan Greenberg
year	2014
title	Computing the Urban Block - Local Climate Analysis and Design Strategies
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 145-152
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.1.145
wos	WOS:000361384700014
summary	This research develops a method for the analysis, integration and visualisation of climatic parameters in a dense urban block. In order to test this method, a typical urban block in Manila, Philippines, is investigated and results are represented through computational simulation. The translation of latent spatial qualities into visual data with common tools and techniques allows designers to gain an understanding of how to design local microclimates, and inhabitants to gain greater knowledge of the environment. In this regard, this research proposes, contrary to conventional methodologies, the use of analytical tools as the impetus to, rather than the outcome of, architectural design.
keywords	Computation; urban design; environmental analysis; computational fluid dynamics; simulation
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia14_601
id	acadia14_601
authors	Globa, Anastasia; Donn, Michael; Moloney, Jules
year	2014
title	Abstraction versus Case-Based: A Comparative Study of Two Approaches to Support Parametric Design
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9781926724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 601-608
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.601
summary	The paper investigates two approaches to reduce the barriers to the use of programming in design through utilising existing parametric design solutions. The first approach is the re-use of abstract algorithmic ‘patterns’, the second approach is the re-use of parametric solutions from specific design cases (case-based design).
keywords	Parametric design in architecture, Parametric modelling, Programming, Design patterns, Case-based design, Abstraction, Computational design research and education
series	ACADIA
type	Normal Paper
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_id	sigradi2014_169
id	sigradi2014_169
authors	Gutiérrez, Claudio Rodrigo Araneda; Nicolás Sáez G.
year	2014
title	Urban Instant 2 - Observations following the execution of the second urban instant
source	SiGraDi 2014 [Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-9974-99-655-7] Uruguay- Montevideo 12,13,14 November 2014, pp. 582-585
summary	This paper reports on progress related to the “Urban Instant” project (fondecyt 11110450) developed by the author as a tool for a systematic immersive/phenomenological assessment of the patterns of behavior of our visual field (photographically abstracted) regarding information in the shape of people during our navigations along the streets of any given city. Instead of simultaneous photographic journeys undertaken by a single person along the streets, in this occasion the applied method consisted of one simultaneous record made by more than a hundred voluntaries. This, we believe, might be the first urban instant ever to have been taken with this methodology. The case study remains the city of Concepcion, Chile.
keywords	Urban instant; Urban Polaroid; Space Syntax; Concepción; Phenomenology
series	SIGRADI
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_id	cf2015_347
id	cf2015_347
authors	Krakhofer, Stefan
year	2015
title	Closing the Loop: From Analysis to Transformation within BIM
source	The next city - New technologies and the future of the built environment [16th International Conference CAAD Futures 2015. Sao Paulo, July 8-10, 2015. Electronic Proceedings/ ISBN 978-85-85783-53-2] Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 8-10, 2015, pp. 347-357.
summary	The shift from traditional CAD to BIM has created a significant potential to embed optimization processes in many stages of the design. The presented research is situated in the early design stage of inception and concept, focusing on analysis-driven-form-finding during the integrated design approach within a BIM environment. A custom analysis framework, has been developed and linked to a visual programming environment that allows the exchange of data with the parametric components of a BIM environment. The developed workflow and sequential split of functionalities enables a shared design environment for multiple experts and the design-team. The environment is intended to close the loop from analysis to parametric modeling in order to generate and evaluate building designs against performance criteria, with the aim to expedite the design decision process. The prototype has been presented to participants of the Deep-Space Cluster at SmartGeometry 2014.
keywords	Algorithmic Design, Parametric Design, Parametric Analysis, Building Information Modeling, Design Automation.
series	CAAD Futures
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last changed	2015/06/29 07:55

_id	caadria2014_249
id	caadria2014_249
authors	Krietemeyer, Bess
year	2014
title	An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework for Designing Material Behaviours
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 55–64
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.055
summary	This paper describes an adaptive decision-making design framework for investigating the synergies between aesthetically-driven and performance-driven criteria, specifically in designing the material behaviour of an electroresponsive building envelope system. An immersive and interactive simulation environment developed in the C++ programming language provides a computational tool for testing the visual and energetic performance of a dynamic building envelope as it negotiates bioclimatic energy flows with participants’ aesthetic preferences and interactions. Experiments in bioresponsive feedback loops examine the impacts that user engagement and real-time energy performance feedback have on participants’ design choices. Preliminary results demonstrate that exposure to energy performance feedback and to the collective design choices of multiple users leads to adaptive decision-making that favours synergistic system performance with the potential for increased socio-ecological connections. Critically, this research provides new methods for supporting the design of emerging material behaviours for dynamic building envelopes that can negotiate multiple performance criteria.
keywords	Participatory design; decision-making tool; interactive environment; dynamic building envelopes; immersive simulation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2014_173
id	caadria2014_173
authors	Lim, Jason; Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler
year	2014
title	Robotic Metal Aggregations
source	Rethinking Comprehensive Design: Speculative Counterculture, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2014) / Kyoto 14-16 May 2014, pp. 159–168
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2014.159
summary	The recent convergence of computational design and digital fabrication has made new forms of architectural materialization possible. A workshop conducted at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology investigated how differentiated lightweight metal structures may be designed and fabricated under these new conditions. The workshop aim was to complete three such structures; each one is aggregated from aluminum profiles that are robotically assembled according to computationally driven geometric logics. The key challenge was to enable participants, assumed to lack programming and robotic fabrication experience, to design and construct their structures within imposed time constraints. This paper describes the subsequent development of accessible computational design tools and a robust robotic fabrication method for the workshop, and highlights the key decisions taken with their implementation. The workshop results are discussed and the design tools evaluated with respect to them. The paper concludes by recommending an approach to developing computational design tools which emphasizes the importance of usability and integration with the fabrication process.
keywords	Robotic fabrication; computational design; visual programming; lightweight structures
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2014_015
id	ascaad2014_015
authors	Mueller, Volker
year	2014
title	Second Generation Prototype of a Design Performance Optimization Framework
source	Digital Crafting [7th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2014 / ISBN 978-603-90142-5-6], Jeddah (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), 31 March - 3 April 2014, pp. 199-209
summary	The integration of performance evaluation into the building design process becomes increasingly important in order to respond to demands on contemporary design with respect to the future of our built and natural environments. This paper presents work on the second iteration of an implementation of a design performance optimization framework that attempts to respond to the challenges of integrating analysis and optimization into the design process. Main challenges addressed are speed of feedback through implementation on the cloud, utilizing parallelization of computations and availability of results in the computational context of the model through leveraging the parametric nature of the application; The goal is to enable designers in their decision-making throughout the design process with focus on earlier phases of the design process during which changes can be implemented faster and at much lower costs than in later phases of design or even during construction and occupation.
series	ASCAAD
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last changed	2016/02/15 13:09

_id	ecaade2014_018
id	ecaade2014_018
authors	Nils Seifert, Michael Mühlhaus, Gerhard Schubert, Dietrich Fink and Frank Petzold
year	2014
title	Decision support for inner-city development - An interactive customizable environment for decision-making processes in urban planning.
source	Thompson, Emine Mine (ed.), Fusion - Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, 10-12 September 2014, pp. 43-52
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2014.1.043
wos	WOS:000361384700003
summary	Re-densification of inner-city areas is a highly topical socio-political issue. In order to meet the increasing demand for centrally located living space, the cities have to amend building laws. At present, there are no analytical means of directly comparing and assessing different strategies and measures aimed at identifying the potential for internal development in specific urban quarters and learning about the consequences for the citizens. In this publication, we describe an interactive digital tool that monitors the key building codes and visualizes their effects on the urban structure in real-time, so that this can serve as an informed basis for debate and argumentation in the political decision-making and planning process, consequently supporting the development of re-densification strategies that are well-suited to their urban context.
keywords	Urban planning; redensification; decision support; visual programming; versioning
series	eCAADe
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