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accelerating urban response to user defined need Time is a crucial factor in the transformation of a city, equal to that of the economic and cultural behaviors of its people. As the needs of its people change due to the insertion of additional factors such as technology, the city reflects these shifts in the population’s needs through gradual, progressive change. However, the adaptation of the urban environment cannot occur as rapidly as the user demands.
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At its simplest, the term “city” characterizes the human collective consisting of a set of user groups: residents, tourists, passerby, pedestrians, drivers, and bicyclists. However, due to the relative condition of time, each user group experiences the city differently. While the city naturally evolves due to the inevitable push of time, technology increases the velocity in which the user travels through and interprets his or her environment. Due to the incessant demand of time and technology, attention has been directed to vehicular patterns, inevitably weakening public space for the pedestrian in regards to architecture and the urban realm. As a result, the city’s architecture has become static, lacking a malleability that allows the urban environment to respond directly to any user group.
parametric modeling variations with evaluative process code & classification
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THESIS STATEMENT
esence of architecture in the uralm has become static, requiring a ology to increase interactions behe person and the built environment.
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Visual outline of conceptual growth throughout the semester
A symbiotic relationship between the urban environment and the user must be strengthened in order to accelerate the urban response to the user defined need. Architecture must then become the vehicle for urban transformation based on the individual input on the human collective.