Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2020-07-29 by Razan Baswaid
Examples of visible information: 1- type of the residential buildings in this urban area (private single-family house) 2- level of privacy high level (Solid interfaces with small openings or covered medium size openings/ high solid fences) 3- lack of landscape spots and public sport sectors (running/ biking ways and paths) 4- traffic movement is light. 5- pedestrian movement is almost not existing. Examples of invisible information that are extracted from urbanism data. 1- User’s needs. 2- Building energy performance. (energy pattern). The invisible information about the user’s needs, how people are spending their time? And what type of activities and places they are visiting? This information can become knowledge that help designers and planers to create more livable and suitable spaces in every urban district that meets the needs of users.