Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 6, 2013 Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design - Case Studies and Design Workflows

Urban Analytics

High Performance Design

HPD City Design Practice SOM

ECOLOGY RESILIENCY FOOD

ECONOMY MOBILITY LIVABILITY

WATER ENERGY WASTE

Project

Location:

Offices:

Site area:

Staff:

Consultant:

Calendar

204311

Chicago, USA

Chicago

586 acres (3,600 ha)

Aaron May

Person one, Person Two, Person

Three, Person Four

Ramboll, WSP, CISCO, Clean

Energy Trust, Spaceco.

Lakeside Chicago

Summary

RA

CMP

DMP

DG

+ Research

+ Strategies

+ Indicators

+ Management

Smart Urban Models

Urban Infrastructure Integration

District Electricity

Lakeside Utilities Infrastructure Schematic

District Heating

District Cooling

ICT

Sewage

Non-Potable Water

Potable Water (City of Chicago)

Storm Water Solid Waste

Natural Gas (Peoples Gas)

Tri-Gen Plant

Consumers (Buildings & Grounds)

Residential, Commercial, Retail, etc

Data Center

Com Ed MWRD

Level 3 Recycle Processor City of Chicago Ground Recharge

Waste Heat

Waste Heat

Waste Heat

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Generators

Gas Turbines

Substation with Micro-Grid Controls

Heat Exchanger

Pumps, etc.

Absorption Heat Exchanger

Pumps, etc.

Integration/Control Center

Points of Presence

Recycle Sorting Center

Composting

Dumpsters Bio-Treatment

MBR or Living Machine

Treatment Equipment

Pumps, etc.

H.W. Loop

C.W. Loop

Backup Power Primary Power

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Gray Water

Gray Water

CityGML Geo-Spatial Database (Postgres/PostGIS)

Automated Multi-Model Integration and Optimization

LakeSIM Framework

(Geometry Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

(Network Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

(Energy Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

(Water Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

(Waste Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

(Financial Modeling)

Simulation/ Visualization/ Analysis Tool

CityGML Translation/ Extension

CityGML Translation/ Extension

CityGML Translation/ Extension

CityGML Translation/ Extension

CityGML Translation/ Extension

CityGML Translation/ Extension

Commercial Responses: CityEngine

Generative Design: Happy City

GrowingCities.avi

Information City

The Central Dogma, 1958, Francis Crick

The Double-Helix Base-Pairs Structure of DNA, 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick

Metabolism Neural Activity Cancer

Metabolic Pathway Network

Classification Systems

Could an Information-Centric Theory of Cities lead to revolutionary forms of urban design and policy-making, just as an Information-Centric Theory of Biology has done for medicine?

The Tree of Life (speciation)

DNA, Genes, Cells, etc.

The Metabolic Pathway

Genetic Engineering & Targeted Therapies

What are the URBAN equivalents of:

What are the BIOLOGICAL equivalents of:

People, Neighborhoods, Economic Systems, etc.

An “instant” city for a million people

Urban Renewal

Direct Acyclical Graph – defined by Bayesian correlations between variables.

Env. Parameter

Rhodobacteriales

Flavobacteriales

Rickettsiales

Pseudomonadales

Opitutales

Vibrionales

Rhizobiales

Larsen et al., Nature Methods, 2012

Argonne National Laboratory Institute for Genomic and Systems Biology

Associate PRMT-scores with environmental conditions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 6, 2013 Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design - Case Studies and Design Workflows