Canada, Toronto
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2018-10-10 by Riccardo Caimano
The visible information in this photo includes the amount of parking space on the street, how many cars are passing through, the height and materials of the buildings as well as the spacing in between the different buildings. We can also see that there is new development in the neighbourhood with the construction of a new high rise. Some other visible information is the amount of greenery along the street and in the median and the number of pedestrians on the far right and on the median. From this visible information we can begin to extract invisible information such as walking and travel patterns of the pedestrians on this block. Knowing the height, shape and spacing of the different buildings, especially the sky scrapers in the background, we can combine this with data on wind and weather patterns to get an idea of how the skyscrapers cut the wind and create new wind tunnels and vortices around them. Taking this type of data into account, we can plan future development with these effects in mind to not