A design-research studio has been developed as part of Philipp Urech’s doctorate and was conducted jointly at the ETH in Zurich and at the SUTD in Singapore in the Spring of 2018 to develop landscape designs that are more climate friendly and conducive to alleviating in part some of the heat island effect that Singapore is faced with. The method draws from sampled three-dimensional models of the entire southern segment of the green corridor including adjacent neighborhoods, precisely documenting certain physical and spatial characteristics of a place. It employs point-cloud modelling techniques to look at the green corridor in Singapore in order to develop a method to optimize the physical form of a site and to simulate climatic phenomena. The doctoral project is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary project at the Future Cities Laboratory for the module ‘Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes’. Research on the urban heat island effect currently being done by Philipp Urech at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore similarly uses advanced point cloud landscape modelling to make advances in this highly complex domain. It takes a first, but very important step, towards defining new design methodologies and construction techniques for large scale robotic landscape fabrication applied to difficult situations such as mountain landslides, inland flooding and coastal protection. By manipulating terrain with an autonomous excavator, the design-research studio studies the organization of spatial relationships and performances in terrain surface structures by shaping natural granular materials for levees and mounds. They build on recent advances in mobile robotic systems for excavators, AI and digital fabrication. All three studios are situated in the context of difficult large-scale earth moving exercises in Switzerland. Marco Hutter at the ETH Department of Mechanical Engineering. Three Robotic Landscapes design-research studios have been developed as part of Ilmar Hurkxkens’s doctorate in close collaboration with the ETH Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication of Prof. What is at stake is the topological manipulation of terrain through robotic processes based on point cloud modelling principles. Thanks to this knowhow and experience the chair has been invited to contribute in the current NCCR Research Project in Digital Fabrication of the Department of Architecture of the ETH. In matters of remote sensing today, the environment can now be reproduced in all its physical and material complexity with high definition point cloud models. TOPOLOGY APPLIED TO POINT CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
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