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Research Modules of Integration & Strategies

Architectural Cognition in Practice

This research embeds architectural cognition into the architecture and urban design process, through an iterative process of interactions between scientists and architecture practitioners, to actively shape key design decisions at different design stages. Behavioural studies are combined with design research to understand how architects/designers utilise information about end-users while employing researcher secondments and refining design-support tools (from educational materials to simulations) to improve the design process and outcomes. Comparative analysis of case studies in Singapore, Zurich, and Sarajevo provide variation in parameters such as building and urban design typologies, urban density, and social, cultural and climatic conditions, to contribute to context-specific as well as generalisable research outputs.

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Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification

This project derives resource-efficient urban intensification strategies that are based on a deeper understanding of the human activity in the built space. The project couples urban science (complexity science, urban economics and machine learning) with urban planning and design, which so far have been rather separated streams. This allows for the development of well-informed and place-specific planning and design interventions to sustain and enhance socio-spatial interactions in densifying urban environments. These measures will allow the functioning of densifying cities in a resource-saving way but also make urban environments more vital for its residents.

SDG

Semantic Urban Elements: Linking Urban Analytics, Design, and Usage for Cyber-Physical Cities

Cities are dynamic systems with multi-scaled dependencies. Yet, current practices of urban analytics, design, and usage are static and misaligned with the emerging life and virtualisation of the city, being in permanent flux. The emergence of big open urban data, knowledge graphs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), crowdsourcing methods, and the possibility of perpetually adjustable parameters demand a new mode of analysing, designing, and governing the city. The project asks how geo-data science, Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) applied to urban design and Computational Social Science approaches can be harnessed to achieve sustainable, resilient, and liveable cities.

SDG

Other Clusters

Cycles & Districts

This cluster focuses on the improvement of material processes (digital fabrication, energy generation, building material reuse) involved in sustainable construction and habitation of high-density settlements at building and city-district scales.

Infrastructure & Ecologies

This cluster focuses on the connective tissue of settlement systems (roads, rail, ports and airports, waterways) and their transformative effects on land use patterns, working at city-district, the sea-city interface, regional and transnational scales.

Food & Territories

This cluster focuses on emergent edge-city and hinterland regions, to integrate food production, water management, ecosystem services, hybrid land uses and biodiversity in sustainable extended urbanisation.

Tools & Platforms

This cluster groups various software development efforts at FCL Global to create and maintain a suite of desktop applications, web services, software addons, plugins and processing pipelines. We aim to unify and merge the functionality of new and existing software into a universal frontend and standardized processing middleware to provide a complete, open-source platform.

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