citiGen

This small experiment is focused on the use of GH as instrument for the development of a generative masterplan. The project avails the Lea (river) Valley, which separates London from Stratfor Upon Avon. The same area has been selected for the Olympic Games 2012.
The GH definition starts with the acquisition of a simple surface and a multi-attractor system. Attractors influence the surface deforming it and allowing the definition of streamlines. A point grid is then extracted from streamlines and used to develop a Voronoi pattern. Some of the Voronoi faces are culled, in order to define the presence of water into the masterplan. Other surfaces are populated with two different components, aiming to generate high rise buildings (based on the attractors) and low rise buildings (characterized by an internal court).
At the end of the process all the geometries have been baked and refined in Rhino.