Informed Design Platform: Interpreting “Big Data” to Adaptive Place Designs

As a novel concept, "Informed Design" is proposed in a multidisciplinary project "Livable Places" in Singapore to innovate place design from empirical to evidential by harnessing geo-referenced "Big Data" for a responsive design. As a final delivery, an Informed Design Platform (IDP) is being implemented as a design support tool interpreting multi-source big data to adaptive urban designs for a more livable place. Due to the complexity in "Objects", which include physical devices and virtual services to generate space related data, "Data", which are massive and heterogenous to be interlinked and analyzed for valuable insights, and "Services", which integrate back-end and front-end service modules for innovative services, IDP collaborates them through dedicated mechanisms proposed by a Smart Service Orchestration Architecture (SSOA) to achieve a high scalability in data collection, integration, analysis, and visualization. In this paper, the overall design and currently available services of IDP are presented.