ROME WINTER SCHOOL 2023

URBAN PARAMETRIC DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

13 - 21 February 2023   In Rome
Registration deadline is 28th of November 2022

Number of students: 30 – 40 students
Official language: English with Italian and Arabic supports
Total training hours:   40 hours
Place: Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie
Theme‎: Urban Parametric Design Optimization ‎
Fees: 680 euros- includes all materials.‎
Relative outcomes: www.accademiadellearti.it - www.arch-algorithm.com

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Introduction

Algorithm Rome Winter School at The Academy of Art and New Technology has an advanced ‎computational approach that enables urban designers, landscapers, researchers and architects to ‎optimize their design interventions on urban scale in order to enhance ‎the urban ‏performance ‎supported with the interaction with humans and ‎environment. Series of lectures and software ‎tutorials on urban parametric analysis, generative design and optimization will be given to ‎participants. . Students from the beginning of the school will be divided into groups to ‎compete ‎on a case project increasing their ability to define project parameters, design factors, ‎solving ‎problems, understanding factors relationships, involving environmental and human ‎factors , and ‎optimizing their projects solutions. ‎

The application section focuses on cutting-edge tools and software that enable researchers to ‎complete their analyses more efficiently while also simulating different alternatives and ‎evaluating the best scenario for a development plan. Space syntax and other relevant theories and ‎applications will be implemented in addition of using QGIS. The theoretical and application ‎sections of the workshop collaborate to provide you with a challenging and interesting urban ‎design experience.‎

Tutorials Software on

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  • Space Syntax
  • DepthMap X
  • Rhinoceros 7
  • Grasshopper
  • Urbano & DeCodingSpaces
  • VisualARQ
  • Gizmo plugin‎

Schedule Full Details

Module 01

URBAN DESIGN PARAMETERS & DIGITAL ANALYSIS

Description‎:
The first module will introduce the participants to theories about how cities are formed ‎and the practice of urban design and development. It will glimpse the ideas of a wide ‎range of people who have addressed urban problems and acted to alter cities, ‎suburbs, and regions through urban design. The main aim of this part is to prepare the ‎participant to make the different levels of urban analysis. The analysis will be divided ‎into two phases the first one is the physical urban analysis the second phase is the ‎needed surveys to understand the space from the point of view of users’ needs and ‎the human behavior within the space. The second section in this module emphasizes ‎cutting-edge tools and software that allow researchers to complete their analyses ‎more efficiently while also allowing them to simulate different alternatives and ‎evaluate the best scenario for a development plan. The workshop's theoretical and ‎application sections work together to provide you with a challenging and interesting ‎urban design experience.‎

Output‎:
Participants will have a good knowledge about the workshop aim and the different urban schools. He/she will learn the principles of place-making. Participants will have a good knowledge about the different way of documentation of data through traditional ways. They will capable of performing spatial configuration analysis, as well as understanding and applying space syntax theory and tools. In addition, the participant will be aware of all the essential productive maps that should be presented in any urban design project as status quo documentation where the knowledge of all the traditional and up-to-date ways of Social Analysis is important. The participant will have knowledge on analyzing the human behavior in the public space and The ways of documenting it and using the digital analyses tools.‎

‎Lessons‎:

  1. Urban design parameters & physical analysis
  2. Human behaviours in urban space and Its analysis
  3. Spatial configuration analyses using Space Syntax theory and associated tools
  4. Morphological and visual analysis
  5. Permeability and accessibility in urban design
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Module 02

URBAN MODELING MEDIATE USING WEB INFORMATION ‎

Description‎:
In addition to being a formidable means of communication, the web is also a huge ‎container of constantly updated information, which is important for documenting ‎places. For example, on special websites we find GeoTIFF files, an open format similar ‎to a standard used in a GIS environment. The GeoTiff images generally used are those ‎produced by the STS-99 mission, carried out in 2000 by the American and German ‎space agencies as part of the Space Shuttle programme, with which a large part of ‎planet earth was mapped. As far as the description of urban environments is ‎concerned, the web network has the Open Street Map site where GIS data is collected ‎in a lightweight format that can be easily integrated and interrogated. With this ‎information, through algorithmic processes, it is possible to model the natural and ‎man-made landscape in 3D, enriching it with information (from GIS to BIM). ‎

Output‎:
Participants will learn to identify sites where to find information on the description of ‎natural and man-made environments. Subsequently, by learning specific Visual ‎Programming Language tools, they will be able to generate 3D scenarios enriched with ‎information useful for urban analysis.‎‎

‎Lessons‎:

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  1. Querying the web for landscape and urban information ‎
  2. Learning tools for 3D modelling of the territory and urban environments through Visual ‎Programming Language ‎
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  3. Procedures for 3D construction of urban environments using VPL ‎
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Module 03

GIS to BIM‎

Description‎:
The model obtained at the end of topic 1 is a CAD geometric model with associated ‎information, but the object obtained does not express any architectural characteristics; ‎in order to achieve a Level of Detail (LoD) and a Level of Information (LoI) suitable for ‎architectural description, we must enter into the processes of Building Information ‎Modeling. The transition from the conceptual model (CAD) to the building model (BIM) ‎enables the enrichment of the 3D model with morphological, physical and technological ‎attributes. Architectural elements follow the variation of the shape created through ‎GIS to CAD processes, in turn adding their own parameters of the connected object by ‎moving from the CAD model to the BIM model. The complex chain linking GIS to BIM ‎will be entirely managed through VPL processes.‎ ‎

Output‎:
Participants will learn how to extract GIS data and information from the Web for the ‎construction of informed geometric masses. The in-depth study of BIM applications for ‎VPL will enable them to scale GIS to BIM. The final product will be an architectural ‎model useful for the investigations proposed in the following Winter School.‎

‎Lessons‎:

  1. ‎GIS - CAD - BIM, the concept of interoperability between models.‎
  2. Learning the tools for BIM modelling using the Visual Programming Language.‎
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  3. Procedures for building BIM models from GIS cartography (LAB).
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MEET OUR TEAM


Michele Calvano

Architect, Ph.D. in Science of Representation, a research fellow at ISPC - CNR; specialized in mathematical and parametric modeling. He has written articles and books on reverse modeling, shape design, digital representation of architecture and urban space also by using BIM procedures. He has taught at the Sapienza University of Rome, the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Camerino. He currently teaches at the Polytechnic of Milan in the School of Design and the Academy of Arts and New Technologies in Rome (AANT). He collaborates with companies working in the AEC field to support them in the engineering of complex shapes.

Nabil Mohareb

Is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture in the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Former Director of the Faculty of Architecture – Design & Built Environment at Beirut Arab University’s Tripoli Campus in Lebanon. He has worked for prestigious universities in Egypt, the UAE, and Lebanon. He was a Fellow of the Heritage Program Fellowship in Liverpool (2020/21). His research focuses on the relationship between architecture and urbanism, emphasizing social behavior activities and their mutual effects on spatial and economic variables in urban spaces. His published research looks at different spatial arrangements and movement patterns on both micro and macro scales.

Nancy Abdel-Moneim

Assistant Professor at the Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport where she teaches classes in Urban Design, Architecture History, and Graduation Project Studio. In addition to Postgrad courses titled “Environment and Human Behaviours” and “Conservation of Culture Heritage.” She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from Cairo University. As for her MSc., she got it from the Economics School at Catania University – Italy. In 2018, she won the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award titled: “Gender Equity in Cities of the MENA: Women’s right to the city.” She has an experience in Historic Conservation. She worked on many restoration projects. In this field, she received funds from the Education Programme of Aga Khan Trust of Culture for teaching activities in 2019. She was granted the 2021 ENI Fund for the project titled “MED-QUAD,” where she was able to establish a virtual augmented reality heritage lab, “ARCHEO Living Lab-Innovative Community Supply.”

Roberto Cognoli

Architect. PhD fellow at the school of architecture and design SAAD Unicam – Ascoli Piceno. Postgraduate specialization in Environmental Technological Design at Sapienza University of Rome, finalist at Archiprix International Chile 2019 with the master degree thesis Temporary City – the geography of waiting. Collaborate with Keio University – Japan in the project AAT- Digital fabrication for common people. Focuses his research in parametric design and digital fabrication and robotic construction.


Mohamed Ali Negro

Architect, Vice head Consultant Architects branch in the Order of Engineers and Architects - Tripoli, Lebanon, and Academic instructor and lecturer in different universities in Lebanon; with 16+ years of experience with project management, design and constructions, Variety in teaching profile from Architectural program to Interior design and Engineering courses, using computational software’s related to each major, Juror and guest juror member in Architecture design studios. Focuses his research in employment of sustainable methods and principles, bioclimatic and biophilic solutions by using Passive Architecture impact on human being, Organizing regional Architectural trip for Italy, Spain and Turkey. From 2019 till 2022, a Scientific Committee membership and course trainer in the Order of Engineers and Architects, Tripoli, Lebanon.

MOSTAFA RABEA

Assistant professor at Beirut Arab University – Lebanon , PhD, Parametric design and Architecture, SAS-UNICAM-Italy. Lecturer at Faculty of Architecture - MSA University-Egypt validated by Greenwich University-UK 2013 – 2015 . Founder of Algoritm workshops and Epochal design studio-Egypt. Instructor of parametric design and Algorithmic generative Architecture.

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THE AVENUE

THE WINTER SCHOOL 2023 WILL BE HOSTED BY Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie.


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Address:
Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie
Via Monza 21, 00182 Roma.
Website:www.accademiadellearti.it/

Registration

Registration deadline is 28th of November‎ 2022
You can register by completing the online application by click

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You can register by completing the online application found in link on Algoritm Architecture ‎Winter School webpage. If you are not able to make an online application, send email ‎to register@arch-algorithm.com for registration and instructions to pay by bank transfer. Once ‎you complete the online application and make a full payment, you will be registered to the ‎program. All students traveling from abroad are responsible for securing visa required, and you ‎are advised to contact their home embassy early. The School will provide a letter confirming ‎participation in the program. In case of visa rejection, a full refund will be available. By the end ‎of the program, official certifications authorized by The Academy of Art and New Technology in ‎Rome _Italy will be provided to students.‎

Fees: 680 Euros

Fees include all teaching materials, software kit and lectures kit. The Fees don’t include flights or ‎accommodation, but accommodation options can be advised. Students need to bring their own ‎laptops‎.


CANCELATION AND REFUND POLICY‎:‎
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  1. Full refund is available if you cancel your participation no late than 29th of November 2022, ‎with only 80 euros deduction as a nonrefundable workshop registration fees
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  2. ‎30 % refund will be available if cancelation requested after 29th of November 2022‎.
  3. the workshop fees includes only 50 euros (nun refundable admin- registration) .
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  4. In case of visa rejection , you will get full refund of the fees without deduction , you need only ‎to send us the rejection letter from the embassy

Eligibility

This Winter School program is open to current urban designers, landscape definers, architecture ‎students, researchers , masters, PhD ‎candidates and young professionals. Software Requirements: ‎basic knowledge of 2D and 3D ‎modeling software.‎‏ ‏‎

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