Relational Urbanism at work | a post from Eduardo Rico

Deep Ground project designed by Groundlab Collective has recently won the first prize in the Longgang Centre and Longcheng Square international competition. The work is based in research recently conducted in relational urbanism methodologies for the design of large scale developments. A typological generation and database controlled distribution of components using paracloud gives the team flexibility to implement changes, options and modifications within the design process. This new approach to masterplanning opens up new ways of discussing the city in terms of spatial qualities, infrastructural performance and different stakeholder input, turning relational urbanism into a powerful tool within the decision making process. The images attached show the overall massing strategy finally proposed, with almost 9,000,000 m2 of new development within the city fabric, as well as mesh definition and option generation and typology researched.

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• ParaCloud Modeler featured at RELATIONAL URBANISM ESA, PARIS. FRANCE
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