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PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING International Workshop I Virtual Prototyping Date: Friday 21 October 2011 Venue: SDE Conference Room - on 3rd floor Time: 09:30-18:00

Synopsis The Project Urban Prototyping is intended as a preparatory exploration to develop the proposal for the establishment of the Laboratory for Urban Prototyping. The project will explore the possibilities to establish a collaborative environment for design, planning and management of climate smart urban areas by the application of advanced virtual prototyping technologies. The exploratory study Urban Prototyping acknowledges the following approaches: I Exploration of the state-of-the-art II Identification of the user needs, and conceptualization of the basic architecture, for an

urban prototyping system III Strategic partnerships IV Qualified proposal for the next step: Laboratory for Urban Prototyping In the first stage, indicated as Exploration of the state-of-the-art, the study envisions external workshops with international experts: Workshop I Virtual Prototyping Workshop II Collaborative Planning and Design Workshop III Planning and Design Process In Workshop I Virtual Prototyping international experts will be invited to present concepts of virtual prototyping from different fields of application. In this first workshop the state-of-the-art of virtual prototyping will be discussed and will explore the possibilities of transfer and translate methods and technologies of virtual prototyping to the demands of the design, planning and management of climate smart urban areas.

Main research question of Workshop I Virtual Prototyping: To what extend can the advanced technologies of Virtual Prototyping be applied on urban

level? To what extend can the advanced technologies of VP be applied on urban level? What kind of system architecture is required to integrate different simulation processes and design

procedures applicable to the task of urban planning, design and management?

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Program 09:30 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 10:15 Opening 10:15 - 10:45 Urban Modeling, Spatial Analysis, and Cyber Infrastructure for

Responsive Cities by Joseph Ferreira, Urban Planning and Operations Research, Urban Planning and Studies (DUSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

10:45 - 11:00 Q&A 11:00 - 11:30 Virtual Prototyping in the Built Environment by Martin Riese,

Front Inc, Hong Kong 11:30 - 11:45 Q&A 11:45 - 12:00 Tea / Coffee Break 12:00 - 12:30 Urban Energy Micro-simulation by Darren Robinson, Building

and Urban Physics, University of Nottingham, UK 12:30 - 12:45 Q&A 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Exploration and Evaluation of Urban Quarters and Estates by

Intuitive Virtual Modelling; Integrative and Instant Visualisation of Form, Function and Finance of Real Estate Development by Markus Zahnd, Urbanis Ltd / Indosity, Switzerland

14:30 - 14:45 Q&A 14:45 - 15:15 A Platform for Urban Prototyping by Patrick Janssen,

Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment (SDE), National University of Singapore (NUS)

15:15 - 15:30 Q&A 15:30 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:30 Plenary Discussion 17:30 - 18:00 Closing

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International key note speakers Joseph Ferreira

Joseph Ferreira is Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research and heads the Urban Information Systems group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Urban Studies and Planning Department. During the fall semester of 2011, he is the MIT Faculty in Residence for the “Future Urban Mobility” Project within the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) on the NUS campus. Professor Ferreira teaches analytical methods and computer-based modeling for planning and urban management including courses involving extensive use of geographic information systems (GIS) and database management. Professor Joseph Ferreira’s research uses GIS and interactive spatial analysis tools to model land use, transportation, and environmental interactions and to build sustainable information infrastructures for supporting urban and regional planning.

Martin Riese

Martin Riese is a licensed Architect with 25 years of international experience in professional practice. He has worked with Santiago Calatrava and Foster and Partners and was a regional Managing Director of Gehry Technologies, where he oversaw numerous large-scale Building Information Modelling (BIM) projects in Asia and throughout the world. He is Founding Partner in the renowned integrated building industry practice called Front Inc, which has provided technology-enabled design and construction consultancy services worldwide since 2002. Martin is also a Visiting Professor in the School of the Built Environment at Salford University and is a professional member of the Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling (HKIBIM). Martin publishes and lectures regularly on the subjects of “Construction Industry Transformation” and the role of information technology in sustainable development.

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International key note speakers Darren Robinson

Professor Darren Robinson is Chair in Building and Urban Physics and Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests lie at the intersection between social physics (people), building physics (buildings) and urban physics (city): people • buildings • city. Professor Robinson’s main research interests currently lie in the modelling of urban energy and environmental performance with a view to designing more sustainable urban forms and in the stochastic modelling of inhabitants’ behaviours. These two interests are now beginning to converge in the form of urban energy micro-simulation software such as CitySim, the development of which was coordinated by Professor Robinson whilst he was working at EPFL in Switzerland.

Markus Zahnd

Markus Zahnd is CEO of Urbanis Ltd, a company that focuses on research, training and consulting for integrated urban design and sustainable development. He is Co-Founder and Project Leader of the Indosity Project. Indosity is software for integrative and explorative visualisation of urban design and systems of projects. Indosity helps especially in early-making decision, where with few efforts new ideas, design, scenario can be explored, viewed, simulated and evaluated. This software supports exploration and evaluation at 3 different Levels: city, quarter and house level. Since 2011 Markus Zahnd is Senior Research Fellow at Department for Urban Design and Planning, Langenthal. He is Project Leader of the Programme Agglomeration Langenthal and involved in analysing and designing a new plug-in of Indosity, called Modular City. He is also involved in designing the Steve-Tool in collaboration with NUS.