Planning built environments for change
26 Mar | Dr Pieter Herthogs will speak about the concepts, approaches and digital tools in planning a more adaptive built environment, as part of the URA's Design and Planning Lab talks.
While change is a key driver of urban environment, our built environments are not purposefully designed to support it. The idea that buildings should be designed for change is gaining ground, implemented in various ways, such as circular economy in construction, multi-use community spaces, or adaptable building projects.
However, in order to integrate "design for change" at the urban planning scale, we need to understand how to plan and distribute adaptable capacity throughout our built environments.
As part of the talk series by the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Design and Planning Lab, known as DPX∆, Dr Pieter Herthogs will illustrate concepts, approaches and digital tools that help build this understanding.
Speaker
Dr Herthogs is a senior researcher and co-investigator of Cities Knowledge Graph project and the Circular Future Cities module in FCL Global, where he researches topics related to design evaluation, design computation, and design-related knowledge management. He has a background in architectural engineering and a passion for process analysis and design framework development. He is an experienced transdisciplinary urban researcher, analysis tool developer, and computational designer.