parkcheolhee-lab

Datascape, the landscape created by data
Abstract
This study aims to explore data-driven design methods that leverage data, algorithms, and AI, etc.

The physical environment and social constraints that make up the city today (in the fields of politics, economy, society, environment, etc.) are affecting all industries, including architecture. These factors act as an unthinkable series of external conditions separate from architecture and greatly influence the determination of the condition of a city and a building. Examples include the high-rise urban environment, population density and expensive land prices in Seoul, which created a landscape of high-rise apartment complexes, and the creation of a large residential cluster around the Dutch and Belgian border and the Hong Kong border.

The FAR game described the floor area ratio, a concept underlying building codes today, as a "constraint that triggers creativity," comparing it to games. The numerous constraints that make up a city serve as the main factor in determining design in architecture, and unlike medieval architecture, which was dominated by architectural style, contemporary architecture creates unique characteristics of a city (or a country) as its own distinctiveness is emphasized. This difference has become a landscape with a city-specific identity under the name of the regionality, highlighting the importance of external conditions in contemporary architecture. In this context, external conditions act as objective data in architecture making it the starting point for architectural design to determine the design. These collected data are expressed as a physical form of architecture and create a cityscape, which is named the landscape created by the data, the "datascape."