UD555 PARAMETRIC URBAN DESIGN
| Course Code: | 8550555 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Urban Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Being open to both the students of planning and those of architecture, the course aims integrate the already established computational design approach in architecture into the context of urban design in MSc-level design research. In this regard, the course sets its main objectives as follow:
- to introduce the planning students with the emerging techniques of computational design (within the specific context of parametric modelling),
- to introduce the students of architecture the basic (morphological) components of urban design (i.e. street pattern, block structure, building setting in collective urban fabric) by using the computational domain of parametric design,
- to provide them with a clear and operational understanding and insight of complexity in urbanism by experimenting the parametric tools to simulate and control urban form within computational domain.
Course Content
Computational design thinking and techniques within the specific context of spatial planning and design. Introducing planning students with the emerging techniques of computational design within the specific context of parametic modelling. The basic (Morphological) knowledge on the components of urban design for the students of architecture. Creating a generative link between computation and urban design on the basis of creative collaboration between architecture and planning. Experimenting the contemporary approach of generative urbanism with the operational tools of parametric modelling.