Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design

Yingyi Zhang; Marc Aurel Schnabel

Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design

Yingyi Zhang
, Marc Aurel Schnabel^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Victoria University of Wellington

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Abstract

This paper analyses parametric modelling in connection with the Form-based Code (FBC) methodology to support continuous design in an urban scale. FBC is an approach to optimize conventional zoning regulations and has been implemented by a number of cities. Akin to a utopian urban design solution, we argue that the FBC is crucial to develop main objectives, characteristics, trends and impacts in a design process systematically and logically. Zoning emphasizes excessively on land use and intensity control, however, FBC promotes to (re-)create and predict urban-rural environments through controlling forms. FBC is developing and offers opportunities for flexible coding processes, adjustment of density and seamless public participation. Parametric modelling, being rule based, is a significant step towards a continuous urban design creating a mechanism for FBC. This paper presents a framework to connect parametric modelling with FBC processes, and how parametric modelling methodologies allow the formbased coding processes to be more impeccable hence being more appropriate in the process of continuous design flow.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias
Subtitle of host publication	Towards Continuous Designing
Editors	Marc Aurel Schnabel, Walaiporn Nakapan, Stanislav Roudavski, Sheng-Fen Chien, Mi Jeong Kim, Seungyeon Choo
Publisher	The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
Pages	33-42
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9789881902672
Publication status	Published - Apr 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, CAADRIA 2016 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 30 Mar 2016 → 2 Apr 2016

Publication series

Name	CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, CAADRIA 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	30/03/16 → 2/04/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Continuous urban design
Form-based code
Parametric modelling
Utopian design solution

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Zhang, Y., & Schnabel, M. A. (2016). Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design. In M. A. Schnabel, W. Nakapan, S. Roudavski, S.-F. Chien, M. J. Kim, & S. Choo (Eds.), CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing (pp. 33-42). (CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing). The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).

Zhang, Yingyi ; Schnabel, Marc Aurel. / Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design. CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing. editor / Marc Aurel Schnabel ; Walaiporn Nakapan ; Stanislav Roudavski ; Sheng-Fen Chien ; Mi Jeong Kim ; Seungyeon Choo. The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), 2016. pp. 33-42 (CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing).

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Zhang, Y & Schnabel, MA 2016, Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design. in MA Schnabel, W Nakapan, S Roudavski, S-F Chien, MJ Kim & S Choo (eds), CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing. CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), pp. 33-42, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, CAADRIA 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 30/03/16.

Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design. / Zhang, Yingyi; Schnabel, Marc Aurel.
CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing. ed. / Marc Aurel Schnabel; Walaiporn Nakapan; Stanislav Roudavski; Sheng-Fen Chien; Mi Jeong Kim; Seungyeon Choo. The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), 2016. p. 33-42 (CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing).

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Zhang Y, Schnabel MA. Form-based code in parametric modelling for continuous urban design. In Schnabel MA, Nakapan W, Roudavski S, Chien SF, Kim MJ, Choo S, editors, CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing. The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). 2016. p. 33-42. (CAADRIA 2016, 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing).

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