As an atelier this year, we are researching ways to help tackle the climate crisis through understanding zero carbon city design. Is ZERO CARBON even achievable? 1/11 [Y6]
Exploring how to develop a Zero Carbon city by shifting the hierarchy between modes of mobility. Compactness can play a big role in delivering this shift. However, this can have a negative impact on the urban environment.
By Holly Millburn, Giorgos Porakos & Efi Athanasakopoulou
Grasshopper plug-in PedSim was used to simulate the pedstrian flow around the site and attempt to explore an approach to increase engagement between Bellhouse and other faculties, students and external partners.
To visualise the city we created a repository of buildings that can respond to plot sizes & geometry parametrically. Our group then added additional building types specific to our project, such as mixed use buildings and schools. Work by
@ohwaisookie
@lonylaw
@michmajalang
We are excited to announce our End of Year Exhibition,
featuring work from our BA3 & MArch students!
We cordially invite design practices to our Preview Event. Join us to discover the exceptional talent within the [CPU]ai atelier.
#complexurban
#codeyourowntools
#futurecities
Can computational tools help towards achieving zero carbon cities? Here we evaluate amenity distribution to maximise walkability and reduce car use.
#computationaldesign
#urban
#citydesign
#thesis
Jordan Bartlett:
Irina Balan:
Our main assessment criteria are 1)Carbon Emission, 2)Amenities Accessibility, 3)Transport Accessibility and 4) PV panels required to offset those emissions. We analysed the results and there are intriguing discoveries.
#futurecity
#architectsthatcode
#codeyourowntools
1/4 The foundation to our tool was a bespoke embodied carbon and operational energy calculator. Made using grasshopper, python & rhino. All building typologies are analysed to assess their success compared to the set goal
@Tom98Cooper
@HannahByrom7
@YasaminSalimi
@complexurbanism
Thank you everyone who visited our
#exhibition
today! ๐๐ป We all had a great time telling you about our projects, what we achieved and to let you try out our applications as well as VR experiences!๐ Looking forward to the public opening tomorrow!
#complexurban
#architectsthatcode
Our computational tool has been designed to provide users with the capability to augment traditional building typologies and integrate energy generating prosthetics into urban blocks at the Eastern Gateway, Manchester.
@complexurbanism
#CPUai
#codeyourowntools
#complexurban
We developed a tool to test the cost of affordable building units against various budgetary pressures and analyse whether the desired number of affordable units on a site can be achieved while still ensuring a viable return on investment.
#CPUai
#GenerativeDesign
#Complexurban
In order to achieve Net Zero Carbon our project focuses on operational and embodied carbon. It is implemented using timber in a DfMA system, along with passive and active strategies that respond to the site conditions and client brief.
@aishaazulfiqar
@Zilang_MArch
@sehaam_u
As part of our ongoing investigation into
#ZeroCarbonCities
for our thesis, we took a look at affordability, energy generation and building performance in relation to carbon emissions and the ongoing climate crisis. /1/ ๐งต
By:
@IsabellaKimathi
@BethanyTamara_
and Abdullah Jawdatt
In MArch 2, we attempt to develop a tool to establish a well-connected urban green space network in Northern Gateway to address landscape fragmentation.
Project by Jiao Xie, Junjie Su, Siyu Xie, Menghan Chen
Full portfolio:
Tool:
Our Carbon Negative team is developing an adaptive computational tool for a building framework on any site!
Payam Malakouti -
Jemma Baldwin -
Harry Chan -
Jakub Andruszkiewicz -
We use a generative approach to resolve correlations among morphological compactness, solar optimisation and green amenity distribution in the design of zero-carbon Northern Gateway.
By Yan Chen: Yirui Chen: Linyu Li
@complexurbanism
MArch 2 project: vectr, a
#computationaldesign
tool that generates and simulates the spatial design of cities for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases.
Promo video
By Elise & Henry
@complexurbanism
RIPPLE : A project which explores the temporal ramifications of building and policy interventions to aim for a better future.
Come and join us at this years CPU[ai] Interactive Event, tomorrow, Thursday 8th, from 5pm.
#ComplexUrban
#zerocarbon
Our tool addresses socioeconomic inclusivity,environmental sustainability in urban redevelopment scheme. Join us at CPU[ai] Employers Event on June 8th at Manchester School of Architecture from 5 pm to find out more.
@complexurbanism
@Nazgol_gd
@_AgrimaSharma
@_rushil_shah_
We have created an online web-app to allow the visualisation of our design tool iterations and the corresponding metrics.
See our website now at:
(only works on computers with Chrome, Firefox or Edge)
Project by Andreas Maragakis and Joshua Quinlan.
Proximity to transport links and city center is a driving factor in assigning general density levels. The concentrated areas hosting mixed-use facilities support the residential areas, and have great connectivity to the rest of the city.
#CPUai
#Complexurban
#Cityplanning
How to imagine the cities of the future?
Future cities blend imagination, research, and tech innovation. From sustainable skyscrapers to AI integration, envisioning tomorrow's urban landscape is a journey of creativity and exploration.
@complexurbanism
@ArchPmohit
@nick21697
Our project addresses the contemporary challenge of achieving near future net-zero carbon developments with a design science based computational design tool to generate new urban developments and analyse each designed urban form.
Project by Andreas Maragakis and Joshua Quinlan.
As a result of the Parcellation application, we assigned the land use based on site conditions and our rules through this simulation using Cellular Automata.
Muaz -
Danial -
#CPUai
#ZeroCarbon
#Complexurban
#codeyourowntools
Here we developed computational design tools to help achieve a zero-carbon future city. Our tools are divided into three sections.
#urban
#citydesign
#Thesis
Xinzi
Yao
1 Step - the Street Network
To measure the distance that different types of transportation can reach, we use the Urbano plugin which integrates the urban conditions including block size and road type to get a better result.
#CPUai
#codeyourowntool
@complexurbanism
Increasing socio-spatial and negative climate impacts are currently of issue in Manchester's eastern gateway. In response, using our computational tool to help identify what and where to intervene, we propose 5 strategic interventions.
@Hanjun_Kim_
@IsaamRahman
@URAgbodan
CPU Year6: Abigail March and Michael Williams
[Work in Progress] Our project explores the idea of designing a future sustainable city, focusing on the need to increase walkability and accessibility to public transport in order to achieve a more successful urbanisation strategy.
CPU Year6: Abigail March and Michael Williams
Testing the walkability performance of a high-density urban neighbourhood through the application of a Barcelona-style grid to The Northern Gateway, Manchester.