IPCity: Some rules and references

I see the IPcity program as unique opportunity to witness and participate in a kind of “synchronization” between planed, programmed solutions/predictions and on the other side unexpected complex, self-organizing resulting behavior, which will emerge from relatively simple set of rules. Also the real-time/space experiencing of the results is something that will I think also contribute to the knowledge of city planning. The IPcity program is learning field for (re)defining urban strategies, how to script urban field, how to use computer intelligence for city planning etc.

STEPS

After Friday discussion my thinking was going towards abandoning the division on regions.

I think better step is to create one topological outline of the whole area, which must have exact FAR, building coveridge value and number of building objects. This urban topology will be changing shape but always persist the same volume and number of objects.

Next step would be assigning rules to colored bodies. The rule would describe the nature of empty space between buildings, for example width and number of streets, geometry of grids, or entirely empty space etc.

In the intersection areas between radiuses of two bodies there should be description of combined empty space, for example average value of empty space…

The topology of urban space must stay the same for the whole field, but not for the radiuses of influence, they could also be without objects. That will make a tensions and dynamics in the field.

As example of urban topology I attached project from Emergent density workshop. As example of different empty spaces I attached project from Neumayr parametric workshop and Prix grids workshop.

I also attached examples of different recipes from book Tooling (Aranda/Lasch), which could we use also on our later experiments…