Academic Catalog

UD555 PARAMETRIC URBAN DESIGN

Course Code: 8550555
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(2-2)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Urban Design
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Computational design thinking and techniques within the specific context of spatial planning and design. Introducing planning students with the emerging techniques of computational design within the specific context of parametic modelling. The basic (Morphological) knowledge on the components of urban design for the students of architecture. Creating a generative link between computation and urban design on the basis of creative collaboration between architecture and planning. Experimenting the contemporary approach of generative urbanism with the operational tools of parametric modelling.