With rapidly expanding urban landscapes, the challenge of creating cohesive and sustainable civil engineering designs is more critical than ever. Our Group is meeting this challenge by focusing on an innovative concept known as ‘Urban Facilities’. This integrated system is designed to literally bridge the gap between residential and commercial areas within a valley, promoting a seamless blend of functionality and community cohesion.
Our project envisions a dynamic urban layout where tiny houses on one side of the valley provide cosy, efficient living spaces, while a frame structure building on the opposite side provides opportunities for shopping, work and social interaction. The connective tissue of this urban organism is a bridge supported by retaining walls that allows easy and safe passage across the valley. This physical and conceptual link not only unites two distinct areas, but also symbolises the integration of different civil systems into a single, harmonious urban environment.
Exploring the integration of different civil systems, this page presents
- Four different civil systems, their ontologies and parametric models.
- The integration of these systems into a coherent ‘Urban Facilities’ framework.
- The merging of individual ontologies into a unified framework.
- Illustration of interdependencies through a combined parametric model.