Data Adaptive Urban Design: A Case Study of Shanghai Hengfu Historical District

Data Augmented Design (DAD) can be applied to the redevelopment-oriented urban design, which helps find problems via an existing condition analysis based on multidimensional data, and quantitatively evaluate the implementation of designs after reconstruction. Based on this framework, a data adaptive urban design solution for redevelopment-oriented urban space is proposed in this chapter. It integrates space measurement and feedback into the process of urban design, which will convert the long-term design evaluation into short-term spatial intervention. Through establishing ICT infrastructures on a site, the feedback from precise and customized big data can be applied to promote the interaction between urban space and social activities. This chapter displays a series of quantitative methods including the workflow and tools to analyze opportunities and challenges of the design site. To better describe the framework, we take the design in Shanghai Hengfu historical district as a case study to depict the application of DAD in redevelopment-oriented urban design.