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Integrative design process
Published in Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts, Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, 2019
Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts
Geodesign is a new framework for sustainable urban planning which uses geographic information system (GIS) computer models to study the existing context for a project and to simulate the impacts of different design solutions. The principles of geodesign have their origins in the work of Ian McHarg’s ecological mapping in Design with Nature and now are combined with current technology to analyze the resulting data digitally. GIS integrates many types of data and organizes it into maps and 3D imaging. GIS is a useful tool for understanding needs, measuring impacts, creating maps, analyzing performance, and engaging stakeholders (ESRI 2018). GIS can reveal deeper patterns, relationships, and outcomes that could impact the surrounding environment – both built and natural. Some cities use GIS as part of a smart cities approach to control energy usage, traffic, and emergency services.
Siting offshore energy arrays
Published in Katherine L. Yates, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning, 2018
Karen A. Alexander, Ron Janssen, Timothy G. O’Higgins
Geodesign is ‘design in geographic space’ that provides the framework for exploring issues from an interdisciplinary point of view by combining science- and value-based designs. It is a set of technological ideas that combine geography with design. It does this by providing tools, such as simulation models, multi-criteria analysis, visualisation, spatial optimisation and real-time feedback. Using a case study, we describe the use of geodesign tools to facilitate collaborative marine planning based around a prospective tidal energy extraction site on the west coast of Scotland.
A multi-criteria optimization study for locating industrial warehouses with the integration of BIM and GIS data
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2021
Mehdi Asgari Siahboomy, Hadi Sarvari, Daniel W.M. Chan, Hala Nassereddine, Zhen Chen
GIS technology has the ability to provide comprehensive analyses. This capability enables project designers and managers to analyze the effect of their designs in a conceptual stage called Geodesign (Dou et al., 2020). Yang, Quan, Castro-Lacouture, and Stuart (2018) discussed how a geodesign method facilitates a process of managing a closed-loop urban system through algae cultivation by turning urban waste streams into renewable energy. Three sites in Atlanta were tested to explore to what extent the system performance can move toward a ‘net-zero’ urban environment. The results showed that the three neighborhoods have the highest potential to reach 12–18% of the total building energy demand met by the energy production in the algae system in the extreme scenario (Yang et al., 2018). GIS technology can depict natural and man-made environments and analyze their effects on infrastructural systems such as transportation, land usage, geographical conditions, water resources, human lives, etc. (Madhu et al., 2017). GIS technology can also predict and model actual construction and special examples of passive defense and crisis management (Zhou, Wu, Xu, & Fujita, 2018).
A multidisciplinary approach to authentic learning experiences for nature-based solutions design: broadening the monkey cheeks
Published in Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Kim Irvine, Fa Likitswat, Asan Suwanarit, Thammarat Koottatep
In this paper, we have documented some success in achieving an enriching multidisciplinary experience, as discussed above; however, we also believe the experience in this first effort has indicated some ways forward for improvement. We conclude that the most significant pedagogical improvement is to more explicitly outline the multidisciplinary experience and interaction we expect with both the Landscape Architecture and Engineering classes. This might be done most effectively using Steinitz’ Framework for Theory and the concept of geodesign. Hollstein (2019) has provided a good summary of Steinitz’ framework evolution. Gu, Deal, and Larsen (2018) explain geodesign as a set of processes and technologies used to collaboratively design for a broad range of the complex and interconnected spatial challenges inherent in the built and natural environment. The processes may be given shape by the framework, as shown in Figure 8 (See Figure 8 in the online supplemental material), which is applied specifically for our two courses. The first three models assess existing site conditions, while the second three models represent an intervention or design process and assessment of the potential costs and benefits of alternative designs. It is possible to go back and forth iteratively between the six models (and the student teams). Although there certainly are criticisms of this framework (e.g. Hollstein 2019), an advantage is the flexibility it provides in being adapted to both the Landscape Architecture and Engineering classes, giving them a common starting point for the process. This framework can be linked to the environmental design disciplines since it allows the students to evaluate their proposed design in a systematic way.