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caadria2024_44 |
| authors |
Gao, Jin and Patel, Sayjel Vijay |
| year |
2024 |
| title |
From Sketch to Design: A Cross-scale Workflow for Procedural Generative Urban Design |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2024.1.343
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| source |
Nicole Gardner, Christiane M. Herr, Likai Wang, Hirano Toshiki, Sumbul Ahmad Khan (eds.), ACCELERATED DESIGN - Proceedings of the 29th CAADRIA Conference, Singapore, 20-26 April 2024, Volume 1, pp. 343–352 |
| summary |
This study aims to transform urban generative design by aligning it with the symbolic thinking of urban designers, creating an interactive web-based tool. Urban planners and designers use graphic and symbolic thinking. Yet, computer-aided design software accepts inputs by numeric parameters, while recent generative design tools focus on quantity rather than controllability, where in most cases there are “black boxes" hiding the algorithm and procedural logic behind the hood. As a result, there is an established need to tailor tools to the mindset of urban designers to make them more user-friendly and practical. To address this need, we develop a tool that takes the users’ intuitive sketch as symbolic inputs to guide 3d urban form generation. It seamlessly combines symbolic thinking and urban form generation using ML-based gesture recognition middleware, and Tensor Field-based procedural urban network generation algorithm. The contribution of this work is: a review of urban generation algorithms and methods of human computation interaction, conceptual overview and methodology, and case study evaluation. We analyzed traditional and state-of-the-art urban design generative algorithms, such as cellular automata-based and machine learning image generation-based methods. It also compared different methods of human-computer interaction and selected appropriate urban design symbol systems. Combining both, the study develops a web-based interactive program backed by a Tensor Field-based procedural urban network generation algorithm, with JavaScript and React framework based on ML-based gesture recognition middleware. The research proposes a workflow for generative urban design. It further evaluates the possibility of integrating block or building scale, with generative architectural design platforms, to automatically refine and analyze rough urban volumes. Ultimately, this work points to a new future of tool development with tools that conform to the logic of urban growth while complying with the designer’s mind. |
| keywords |
generative urban design, procedural, workflow, cross-scale, HCI, gesture recognition |
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CAADRIA |
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