tom verebes – computational urbanism lecture
tom verebes (OCEAN UK) will be presenting a lecture at uts next tuesday entitled ‘computational urbanism: strategies confronting rapid urbanisation and the problem of disposable buildings’.
in an attempt to investigate the phenomenon of the insta-city approach of mainland china, toms studio’s at the DRL and Hong Kong University have set out to develop parametric frameworks for the generation and simulated effect on the urban condition.
toms previous studio at the AADRL, focused on endurance & obsolescence – a term to describe an oscillation ‘between political discourses and speculative design work driven by advanced design and productions techniques, on a range of scales dealing with duration and design life of architecture and urbanism. as an alternative to throw-away architecture and the design of instant cities, the projects sought to argue for the economic benefits of high-quality design, with an emphasis on innovation backed up with credible computation and material research, aiming for increasing the design life of buildings, and the capacity of cities to evolve and adapt to dynamic contextual conditions. key to achieving the objective of greater endurance of the social and material space of future chinese cities – i.e. to increase design life – is to approach environmental performance as an opportunity for greater local specificity rather than a global problem to solve.’
the lecture will be held at:
level 5 architecture studios, building 6, uts, city campus
6-7pm, 25th may.
team 21, mo*town, , DRL v10
AM/PM, dunes, DRL v10
