Nicolai Steinø – CityPeople

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Perspective view towards E of the climate park with automatic parking towers to the left.

CityPeople has been awarded the 2nd price in the Jomfrustien urban renewal ideas competition in the Danish town of Haderslev. The competition concerned an inner city area adjacent to the medieval town centre. An important asking point in the competition was landscape based stormwater mangement.

For our proposal, we scripted a parametric model to visualize new developments as well as the existing urban fabric in 3D. As the parametric model can be scripted to visualize both plans, diagrams and perspective views, the design can stay open up until shortly before deadline. Therefore, this is a very powerful technique for projects with a limited timeframe such as competition projects.

The proposal is based on a future vision for self-driving cars and features automatic parking towers, a driverless city bus, reduced on-site parking and the transformation of existing parking areas into a climate park and urban gardens. New housing features an intricate hierarchy of stormwater management features from green roofs and water retention areas to sculpturally designed overflow basins.

Project collaborators: Nicolai Steinø, Kristian Mortensen, Laura Iosub.

Site plan. Top half: bus terminal (red), regional bicycle path (red), green band with climate park (left), urban gardens (middle) and office park (right). Bottom half: Perforated urban housing blocks with green backyards along shared spaces (grey).

Circulation diagram.

Urban housing block typology diagram.

Perspective view towards S of shared space between perforated urban housing blocks.

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SE bird’s eye view of terraced housing scheme. Sub-consultancy for COWI.

In this small sub-consultancy project for COWI, we scripted a model for a housing scheme consisting of terraces on a sloping site in Aalborg. While the housing typology was fixed, we used the parametric model to adjust the number of units in each row, the location and orientation of each row, and the alignment of the s-shaped street.

E bird’s eye view of terraced housing scheme. Sub-consultancy for COWI.

SW bird’s eye view of terraced housing scheme. Sub-consultancy for COWI.

S bird’s eye view of terraced housing scheme. Sub-consultancy for COWI.

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SW Birds eye view of single family housing scheme. Study.

In this study we examined parametrically how a single housing family development consisting of identical two-level villas with terraces could be distributed on a sloping suburban site overlooking a valley.

The challenge was to provide all units with a view while filling the site efficiently within the build-to line. At the same time, road space should be kept a a minimum. Roads should not be too steep and the natural terrain should be modified as little as possible.

These different parameters were analyzed in the parametric model, and were adjusted to meet these partly conflicting requirements.

Plan view of single family housing scheme. Study.

View uphill from SW of diagonal access road and adjacent villas. Study.

NE Birds eye view of single family housing scheme. Study.

View from E of garden side spaces between villas. Study.

]]> Town Planning Meeting http://citypeople.dk/annual-danish-town-planning-meeting/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:00:25 +0000 http://citypeople.dk/?p=188

Youtube video presented at the annual Danish Town Planning Meeting (click to view).

Nicolai Steinø was invited to present his research on parametric urban design at the annual Danish Townplanning Meeting in Vordingborg, Denmark, on October 1-2, 2015. At the event, he presented a video (in Danish) explaining his work.

Nicolai Steinø’s contribution was covered in Byplan Nyt, No. 4, 2015, p. 7 (in Danish).

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Parametric design by Thor Nielsen

In the Spring of 2014, approximately 40 students from the Architecture and Design program at Aalborg University followed my parametric urban design course. Here are some interesting student works from the course.

Parametric design by Brage Hult

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Published in Architecturae et Artibus, vol. 19, no. 1, 2014

Parametric urban design is a potentially powerful tool for collaborative urban design processes. Rather than making one-off designs which need to be redesigned from the ground up in case of changes, parametric design tools make it possible keep the design open while at the same time allowing for a level of detailing which is high enough to facilitate an understanding of the generic qualities of proposed designs.

Starting from a brief overview of parametric design, this paper presents initial findings from the development of a parametric urban design tool with regard to developing a structural logic which is flexible and expandable. It then moves on to outline and discuss further development work Finally, it offers a brief reflection on the potentials and shortcomings of the software – CityEngine – which is used for developing the parametric urban design tool.

Read the article here.

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GIF animation showing the combined results of the student workshop. Each student was asked to script either a site layout or a building envelope. The different scripts were combined and parametrically changed to produce the animation.

On May 9-10, 2014, Nicolai Steinø was invited to give a parametric urban design workshop to students attending the eCAADe International Workshop and Regional Conference at Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. At the end of the workshop, the results of the efforts of the students – most of whom had never written a design script before – were combined into this little animation.

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The famous orange stair of seats, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. Photo: Nicolai Steinø.

The eCAADe 2013 conference took place in the fantastic spaces of the Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture. Nicolai Steinø presented a paper at the conference, coauthored by Mine Özkar, Istanbul Technical University, and Miray Baş Yıldırım entitled “Parametric Design Strategies for Collaborative Urban Design”.

Read the article here.

Conference participants in conversation. Photo: Nicolai Steinø.

The informal layout of spaces allows for students to work in-between lecturers and people walking to other parts of the faculty building. Photo: Nicolai Steinø

]]> Hillerød South http://citypeople.dk/hillerod-south/ Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:00:34 +0000 http://citypeople.dk/?p=211

CityPeople submitted an entry to the Hillerød Syd [Hillerød South] ideas competition for a large-scale urban extension to the Danish town of Hillerød. The proposal is based on a parametric urban design approach.

The organizing principle of the design is a fractal grid of streets of varying length. A system of core units are laid out in the open landscape and filled with land art objects. Over time, these units will fill the fractal grid, while at the same time function as local stormwater management stations with different climate design elements.

Within the fractal grid, a system of plots of app. 0.9 HA is uniformly distributed across the area. Each plot may be programmed for housing, commercial activities, health (a new hospital is planned within the area), or green space.

At the train station to the east, densities are higher. Thus, more plots hold buildings and buildings are higher. To the west, densities are lower, more plots are green and buildings are lower. Hence green space to the east consists of isolated urban parks surrounded by built up plots. This gradually changes towards west where green space is made up by continuous bands of pasture-like open landscapes which meander between built up plots.

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