local code’s entry for the WPA 2.0 competition is an incredible use of grasshopper and ArcGIS to locate publicly owned abandoned sites in major cities across the US and design a landscape intervention that responds to solar, thermal, and water issues that’s specific to each site.
it’s an incredible use of grasshopper as an analysis tool and seems to pose the question- if grasshopper can create a design response for environmental data for multiple sites, could it also create a design response for environmental, programmatic, code, structural, and any other data for one site? could this be the dawn of an MVRDV-esq software that actually works?
more specific analysis:
from ::derivativecontent.
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Congratullations to all the people involved in the develpoment of this project, it would be great if you could explain how you made the zonification process Good Work !!!
Thanks for introducing me to this project Alex. Its a big development on MVRDV’s attempt, although the critique of MVRDV remains – local code are still using rule based design methods, which seems highly questionable to me. I wrote a little follow up post on this over at http://www.nzarchitecture.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/07/mass-gis-based-customisation-in-grasshopper/