Student Workshop in Bucharest
On March 20-23, Nicolai Steinø held a parametric urban design workshop in Bucharest, Romania, by invitation from the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism. Architecture students built their first parametric urban design skills in this 4-day intensive workshop, and
PPADD Conference in Sharjah
At the conference “Representation: Process and Practice Across Design Disciplines” at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on February 15-17, Nicolai Steinø presented a paper entitled "Architectural Drawing: Notation, Reflection, Communication and Presentation". Download the paper here.
Yilong Livable City
In an entry for the Yilong Livable City competition, CityPeople has proposed a parametric urban design approach, combining city-wide mobility, landscape and topology analysis, and urban morphology. The proposal integrates three scales – the superblock, the neighborhood and the urban
Cambridge to Oxford Connection
In an entry for the Cambridge to Oxford Connection Ideas Competition, CityPeople has proposed a strategy of dispersed concentration within the framework of autonomous places. It is based on a parametric urban design approach, combining regional mobility, landscape and topology
Mapping the Architectural Genome
The eCAADe 2017 conference took place in Rome at the Sapienza University Department of Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, which is located in a beautiful old convent. Nicolai Steinø presented a paper at the conference entitled "Mapping the Architectural
CityPeople wins 2nd Price
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
Single Family Housing 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
Town Planning Meeting
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
Student Works
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.
Architecturae et Artibus
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.