Concept

Integration of engineering products as an urban system

The three civil systems, the theatre, the roller coaster and the library are to be combined into an urban system semantically by means of a concept and moreover by merging the ontologies and the parametric models. As a result, the authors hereby present the “Cultural Park”. In a separate area, various cultural and scientific institutions will be combined here. A roller coaster serves as a means of transport, chauffeuring interested guests from a reception building, through which the park can be entered, first to the library and then to the theatre.

The main intention of the developers of the concept of the “Cultural Park” was to inspire facilities such as a library and a theatre building for a younger audience on the one hand, but also to inspire inquisitive and art-interested people from all ages.

 Combined modelling logic

The three models serve as sub-systems from the system “culture park”. These sub-system must have the ability to interact with each other and adjust themselves to match the demand and the needs of their visitors. For this instance, two global parameters were created.

1) The expected people’s number per year:

The designers can chose a location for the culture park to be established in. According to the location the dingers can anticipate the expected visitor’s number yearly. The number is then divided by the number of days in year. The model will adjust itself according to this input.

2) Age of expected people:

Integrating these three subsystems into one, is fraught with different challenges. A very important one is that these systems attracts individually a specific type of visitors. In order to avoid this problem, the age parameter was included. The designers have the options to choose from:

A- Improvisation theatre

B- Musical

C- Opera

The integrated model can have different shapes and sizes according to this input. A and B have the same impact on the model since the majority of the possible visitors are young peoples. C on the other hand have a different impact on the model. By varying these two global parameters different scenarios can be created. Three of them are described below.

First scenario

In the first scenario the expected visitor’s numbers is set to equal 0.6 million visitors yearly, while the age parameter is set to C.  The camelback height of the roller ´coaster reduces itself, in addition to that the library reduces also its height accordingly. The reason behind this, is that older people which needs to visit the opera and the library, will not necessarily need the extra height.

 

Second scenario

In this scenario the expected visitor’s numbers is set to equal 0.6 million visitors, while the age parameter is set to B. In this case the height of the camelback is increased as well as the height of the library. The size of the theatre is decreased. Furthermore a loop in the rollercoaster is added. The majority of the expected visitors in this case are young people, which have the courage and the ability to go throw the looping and the relatively high camelback

 

Third scenario

In this last examined scenario the expected visitor’s numbers is doubled and set to equal 1.2 million. The age parameter is set to A. In order to have the ability to host this big number of visitors, the width of the library and the part of the roller coaster which goes near it, gets bigger. The theatre gets a bit smaller since the option A in the initial model had this impact. Furthermore, in this kind of theatres, the event duration is too long, a lot of people can fit inside, if the whole operation period is considered.

 

Combined models in dynamo. combined_dynamo