TY - CHAP
T1 - Parametric Sankey
T2 - Interactive Mapping of Complex Material Flows for Urban and Architectural Design
AU - Huang, Jeffrey
AU - Kim, Frederick Chando
AU - Johanes, Mikhael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The mapping of flows in a city is essential for understanding urban systems and enabling the transition of the city into a circular economy. However, while tools for the virtual representations of physical volumes and spaces in urban environments have proliferated, effective tools for modeling the underlying flows are still missing. This paper discusses the development of Parametric Sankey, a tool for the trans-scalar representation of flows, and demonstrates its instrumentation in a research design process. The proposed Parametric Sankey tool overlays different flow categories (material, energy, labor, customer, waste, etc.) into one dynamic trans-scalar system, enabling interactive processes between analysis and intervention, and providing thereby an experimental interface to envision future circular cities and architectures.
AB - The mapping of flows in a city is essential for understanding urban systems and enabling the transition of the city into a circular economy. However, while tools for the virtual representations of physical volumes and spaces in urban environments have proliferated, effective tools for modeling the underlying flows are still missing. This paper discusses the development of Parametric Sankey, a tool for the trans-scalar representation of flows, and demonstrates its instrumentation in a research design process. The proposed Parametric Sankey tool overlays different flow categories (material, energy, labor, customer, waste, etc.) into one dynamic trans-scalar system, enabling interactive processes between analysis and intervention, and providing thereby an experimental interface to envision future circular cities and architectures.
KW - Circular cities
KW - Grasshopper
KW - Material flows
KW - Parametric Sankey
KW - Trans-scalar
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184283573&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-8405-3_21
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-8405-3_21
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85184283573
T3 - Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication
SP - 248
EP - 259
BT - Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication
PB - Springer
ER -