The Urban Decision Room: A multi actor design engineering simulation system

Abstract

This paper deals with the definition and construction of a decision based multi actor urban design model which enables the integration of the allocation of a variety of urban land uses with the distribution of different urban functions: the Urban Decision Room. Urban design (and planning) is, among others things, about the spatial distribution of human activities and their physical facilities like buildings, roads, green areas etc. in amount, place and time over a well-defined area. In the Urban Decision Room the individual and specific visions and knowledge of the various participating parties with regard to the development area in question, are translated into individual and specific negotiable preferences for particular solutions for that area. By processing these preferences simultaneously and interactively in an Urban Decision Room, as opposed to dealing with them successively as in traditional design teams, the result is not a series of plan variants, but one common solution space.Real Estate and HousingArchitectur