Town of Fefa Dildiy
Syn City 2
Parametric Masterplanning for Emerging Cities
Parametric Masterplanning for Emerging Cities
Parametric masterplanning was chosen as the best way to approach Ethiopian’s ongoing issue of a need for new small towns which will serve as regional centres in rural areas. With this exchange of rural living for a more urban style doesn’t mean only new buildings and infrastructure but also a whole different way of living. Therefore the change has to be done gently and always keeping in mind what is today essential for Ethiopian people. Their dependency on the farmlands and animals can be changed but it has to be taken in small steps. Our approach is creating a city with 7 – 8 districts which can be built as phases of a project, one by one. At this pace of raising the city, there is no need to take all the farmlands at once, but rather start the change slowly, with implementing the most important functions region by region.
Jeanne Dentin, Maria Diego, Martin Oravec
Weimar 01/2017
Weimar 01/2017
With parametric masterplanning we can produce any number of needed cities, we simply input data, usually about site and conditions and the program will generate the best possible solution. This studio was a mix between designing a city from scratch theoretically and then putting our theories and methods to the test with scripting them in Grasshopper.
The principles and process that we set to design our cities on are a bit more complex. But the way we all approached this task was to simply gather as much data about the given site and use it to design the city step by step. We tested the script on 3 sites in different regions of Ethiopia and as a results we got 3 diverse masterplans, but all of them are following the rules set in the script.
