Architectural Cognition in Practice

Yuqin and Lara visited Asst. Prof. Panos Mavros at Telecom Paris, and both gave guest lectures for the Evidence-Based Design course at ETH-Zurich.

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

• Chenyi gave a guest lecture to the NUS course: AI for Design.
• Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, from the Zurich hub, successfully defended his PhD titled "Simulating urban complexity for city co-creation on three scales".
• A poster titled "My street is better than your street: Towards data-driven urban planning with visual perception", led by Matias, was submitted to ACM BuildSys'24.
• A paper titled "What is a Digital Twin Anyway? Deriving the Definition for the Built Environment from over 15,000 Scientific Publications", led by NUS postdoc Mahmoud Abdelrahman, has been submitted for review.
• Filip gave a Keynote presentation at a Geoinformation conference in Kuching, Malaysia

Dense and Green Cities

• The SG team will conduct biodiversity surveys at one-north buildings (Wilmar and Solaris) next week. The survey will involve observing and mapping birds, insects, animals, and fauna visible. The team is working with a biodiversity expert (BioSEA) to advise on the methodology and templates.
• The integration package is ongoing to capture the insights of the different work packages and derive correlations to density and greenery. The formalities for data sharing with Urbex have been completed, and the teams are now progressing in collaborating with the Urbex team on the data analysis.
• Sri will participate as a panel speaker at the upcoming Design Futures Forum on Wednesday, 2 October, as part of the Singapore Design Week 2024. Themed as 'Designing Our Collective Future', the forum features thought leaders and practitioners from Singapore and around the world to explore how people – from an individual scale to a larger, societal one – and design intersect to make a positive impact and create a better future for all beings. Sri will be part of the session on 'Design For the Future of Sustainability' and will talk about Shaping a Nature-Positive Future.
• A team of SUTD Masters students will visit FCL on 30 September 2024. The DEN team will share their ongoing research and insights, followed by an interactive session to discuss their ongoing thesis projects.

Circular Future Cities

• Rudi Stouffs was at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) to gave a keynote in the Cross Dispensary and Harmonious Smart Innovation for the Future—Sino-Italy Architecture and Design Forum on the topic “City modelling for sustainability".
• Shuyan Xiong published the paper : Environmental savings from concrete reuse: examining the limitations and optimal practices for cutting thresholds of concrete building components for reuse.

Powering the City

• PI Prof Arno Schlüter has arrived to Singapore this Monday. He will stay for a month until mid/end of October.
• Arno and the City Energy Analyst (CEA)-lead Dr Zhongming Shi are going to Shanghai to start a collaboration with ECADI Architects and Tonji University to work on a joint case study (Shanghai Expo Area) in context of the Integrated Design Project course of MIBS.
• The BIPV modelling paper “Towards a High Resolution Simulation Framework for Building Integrated Photovoltaics Under Partial Shading in Urban Environments”, led by Justin McCarty, has been accepted at "Renewable Energy Special Issue for ECOS 2023".
• Dr Jiazu Zhou is at the 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) in Edmonton, Canada this week. He will present his work titled "Estimating Electric Vehicle Charging Demand and Its Impact on the Power Grid Using Mobile Phone Data". The work is also in collaboration with Dr Tianyu Dong from the EFF module.
• POW has submitted a paper titled “Evaluating the impact of granular land use regulations on distributed solar energy system performance”, to "npj Urban Sustainability". It is led by Dr Jidong Kang, and in collaboration with the CKG team Dr Chenyi Cai and Dr Pieter Herthogs.
• The registration for our POW BIPV event on the 15 October is now open on Eventbrite. We are primarily inviting stakeholders, agencies and industry, and also researchers. The talks will be in hybrid mode, streamed online for Zurich/international participants. But the following roundtable discussion and networking session / software exhibition is in-person only, in Singapore CREATE tower.

Urban BioCycles Mycelium Digitalisation

In Singapore on-going sample characterization and training and guidance of the final-year undergraduate students in their respective Final Year Projects. Arrangements are currently being made with both NTU and a contractor for the testing and setup of large elephant-skin inspired mycelium tiles on one of the walls in the campus.

The Sea-​City Interface

Rudi accepted an apppointment as a member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Ministry of Education’s newly inaugurated International Joint Laboratory on Green and Low-carbon Urban Regeneration. The appointment is for five years.

Engagement Platform

This week we have delivered the another session of the EP training, focused on Data. In particular we showcased the various possibilities that FCL researchers have to store, share and visualise data through the FCL GlobalViews Platform and the Dataverse Environment. You can find the recording of the session here. The conversation around this topic will continue in the next sessions, scheduled for the last Wednesday of each months. If you want to attend them, please get in touch with your module coordinator or with Nicolò Guariento.

Future Cities Laboratory Global

• FCL Global has hosted the first morning session of the CAS Raumplanung, organised by our partner ETH RAUM - The Platform for Sustainable Spatial Development. The session has been curated by Julio Paulos and Nicolò Guariento with lectures from Prof. Thomas Schröpfer and Julio Paulos.
• We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Abstract for the upcoming Urban Research Seminar at ETH D-BAUG. Deadline for submission is on the 18th of October. The event is scheduled for the 22nd of November 2024. You can find more information here.