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Project Urban Prototyping - Workshop III Planning and Design Processes January 2012

PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING International Workshop III Planning and Design Process Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012 Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and

Environment (SDE), Seminar Room at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC) - SDE1 / 4th floor

Time: 09:00-17:00

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 Workshop III Planning and Design Process is dedicated to the planning and design process and to the different public and private institutions that are involved in it. Experts and representatives from different public authorities in Singapore are invited, who are involved in planning and development of the built environment.

Main research question of Workshop III Planning and Design Process: What are the specific conditions and demands of urban planning and design for the application of Virtual

Prototyping?


PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING

International Workshop III Planning and Design Process Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012 Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and


Time: 09:00-17:00

Program Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:00 Registration 09:30 - 09:45 Opening 09:45 - 10:15 Key Note Space syntax in urban research and strategic

planning by Akkelies van Nes, Space Syntax, The Netherlands 10:15 - 10:30 Q&A 10:30 - 11:00 Key Note Sustainable Infrastructure & Smart Cities by Sunil

M.K., Autodesk Asia, Singapore 11:00 - 11:15 Q&A 11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:00 Key Note Design and calculate in integrated urban area

development; process and tools by Tineke van der Pol, Municipality of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

12:00 - 12:15 Q&A 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:00 Key Note Modelling and simulation of heat demand in urban

fragments: Comparison of four European cities by Pablo Viejo Garcia, European Institute for Energy Research, Singapore

14:00 - 14:15 Q&A 14:15 - 14:45 Key Note "DesignLink: Experiences from developing data

interoperability tools for building design" by Steven Downing, ARUP, Australia

14:45- 15:00 Q&A 15:00 - 17:00 Plenary Discussion 17:00 Closing


PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING

International Workshop III Planning and Design Process Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012 Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and


Time: 09:00-17:00

Program Thursday 19 January 2012 09:00 Registration 09:30 - 09:45 Opening 09:45 - 10:15 Key Note Representing Urban Environments by Tsou Jin Yeu,

Center for Housing Innovations (CHI)/ School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong

10:15 - 10:30 Q&A 10:30 - 11:00 Key Note Planning and Design Process and Urban Prototyping

by Richard Hoo, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore

11:00 - 11:15 Q&A 11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:00 Key Note to be confirmed 12:00 - 12:15 Q&A 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

Program Urban Prototyping Debate Venue: Seminar Room Centre of Sustainable Asian Cities - SDE1 on 4th floor Time: 14:00-17:00 14:00 - 15:00 Presentation Project Team Urban Prototyping 15:00 - 16:00 Plenary Discussion 16:00 - 16:30 Closing 16:30 Snacks / Drinks


International key note speakers

Akkelies van Nes

Akkelies van Nes has been coordinating several research projects dealing with urban centrality, mobility, street life and urban safety where the space syntax method has been used. She was the chair woman for the 5th International Space Syntax Symposium in 2005. She is member of the international space syntax steering committee. In addition, she is involved in the knowledge management work package of the European 7th framework project RUFUS (Rural Future Networks). Besides, she developed her micro scale analyses tools in order to identify and analyse the spatial conditions for crime dispersal in urban areas. Together with the firm RCM-Advies (Result Crime Management) she did a pilot study on the relationship between space and crime in Alkmaar and Gouda funded by the Dutch Police and Science office. Currently, she is working together with the archaeologists from Leiden University with the application of space syntax on excavated sites, and doing space syntax consultancy of various urban planning projects.

Sunil M.K.

Sunil M. K. is the Senior Manager, Industry Strategy and Relations for Architecture, Engineering and construction ( AEC), Autodesk Asia Pacific (E). Autodesk, the world's leading design software company, serves industries where design is critical to success - building, manufacturing, infrastructure, and digital media. Autodesk provides solutions for sustainable design, digital prototyping, and the creation of visual media. Suil M.K. is responsible for enhancing Autodesk's business with strategic programs in Architecture, Construction and Engineering division to develop market presence in the Asia Pacific and enhance profitable growth. He has held a variety of business development, sales development, strategy and technical positions at Autodesk and Revit Technologies. He is a frequent public speaker and represents Autodesk on different Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry forums like UNEP, Department of Innovation Australia. Sunil M.K. is an Architect by training and a Corporate Member of Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) with over 20+ years of AEC Industry experience.



Christina (Tineke) van der Pol

Tineke van der Pol holds a Master degree Architecture and Urban Planning from the Technical University of Eindhoven. She stated with research on Urban Renewal at the Regional Planning Office Zuid-Holland. From 1979 till 1990 she was Project Leader at the Housing Department of City of Amsterdam and participated in urban renewal processes, leading architectural design processes of several projects After that she became Division Manager of the Housing Department of Eastern part of the city’s administration. And then Program Manager of the Housing Program for IJburg, consulting in the process of designing the master plan, research and development of new types of residential areas, negotiation with private developers. From 2008 she was Project Manager of several complex urban transformations From 2008 she operates as Division Manager Physical Planning Department of de City of Amsterdam, for the division of planning and urban design of IJburg and Amsterdam Waterfront Area.

Pablo Viejo Garcia

Pablo Viejo Garcia is urrently Chief Officer of Sustainable Cities for EDF in Singapore, Pablo Viejo Garcia is a graduated architect with expertise in Geographical Information Systems and Urban Planning. After studies in Spain (La Coruña) and Germany (Karlsruhe), he joined European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) in 2006. In 2005 he got an excellence scholarship from the Spanish King Juan Carlos. Between 2008 and 2011 responsible of modeling and simulation projects in, where a dozen of researchers worked under Pablo’s responsibility on the development of geographically distributed models for simulation using complexity science approaches. Main topics of the group were the diffusion of technologies, the impact of electrical mobility on the load curve, energy demand on urban areas, integral simulation of complex energy systems or behavioral models. By the end of 2011 Pablo moved from its task as Group Manager of the Geosimulation for Energy Research group to a new position in the city of Singapore, developing a Sustainable Cities project within the city-state.



Steven (Steve) Downing

Steve Downing leads the global CAD/BIM development team for Arup. He is also part of a regional software development team with skills across CAD/BIM, engineering, document and project management, mobile devices, database and web development. Steve’s specialty is developing tools for data interoperability between CAD/BIM and engineering software, and he is continuing this work through the publically available ‘DesignLink’ project. Steve has had various roles at Arup including: working as a Structural Draftsman, being part of the I.T. team and developing bespoke software to support complex building projects. Steve was seconded on a 3 year ‘Research Assistant’ position at RMIT University as part of a federally funded research program entitled ‘Delivering Digital Architecture in Australia’. This research program studied the methods Architects and Structural engineers can use to improve the delivery of projects typified by the emerging ‘Digital Architecture’. One outcome of this was the creation of the DesignLink toolkit.

Tsou Jin Yeu

Tsou Jin Yeu is Professor at the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Director of the Center for Housing Innovations. Tsou Jin Yeu obtained his PhD at the University of Michigan (USA). Tsou Jin Yeu hold many important positions: Associate Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (CUHK), Director of the Architectural Computing Laboratory (School of Architecture, CUHK) , Chairman and Committee Chairs of Organizing Committee of China Urban Housing Conference, Assessor and Member of China Green Building Council, Vice-Chairman of China Green Building (Hong Kong) Council, Chief Advisor for the Low Carbon Green City Implementation of San Shan New Town in Guang Zhou. Tsou Jin Yeu was awarded China National Association of Engineering Consultants, and the First Prize of China Award for Science and Technology in Construction during the past 5 years. Tsou Jin Yeu is actively involves in research covering areas of low carbon green city research, sustainable urban planning, urban planning and architectural design, design computing and computer-aided design, building performance simulation, environmental simulation and design, and building aerodynamics.