@inproceedings{KoenigTreyerSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Treyer, Lukas and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {Graphical smalltalk with my optimization system for urban planning tasks}, series = {31st eCAADe Conference - Volume 2}, booktitle = {31st eCAADe Conference - Volume 2}, publisher = {TU Delft}, address = {Delft, Netherlands}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2517}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160121-25171}, pages = {195 -- 203}, abstract = {Based on the description of a conceptual framework for the representation of planning problems on various scales, we introduce an evolutionary design optimization system. This system is exemplified by means of the generation of street networks with locally defined properties for centrality. We show three different scenarios for planning requirements and evaluate the resulting structures with respect to the requirements of our framework. Finally the potentials and challenges of the presented approach are discussed in detail.}, subject = {St{\"a}dtebau}, language = {en} } @techreport{KoenigTapiasSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Tapias, Estefania and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {New Methods in Urban Analysis and Simulation: Documentation of teaching results from the spring semester 2015}, organization = {ETH Zurich}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2505}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160118-25052}, pages = {76}, abstract = {Documentation of teaching results from the spring semester 2015 at the chair of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich}, subject = {Architektur}, language = {en} } @techreport{KoenigTapiasSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Tapias, Estefania and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {New Methods in Urban Analysis and Simulation: Documentation of teaching results from the autumn semester 2013}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2516}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160121-25168}, pages = {60}, abstract = {Documentation of teaching results from the autumn semester 2013 at ETH Zurich}, subject = {St{\"a}dtebau}, language = {en} } @techreport{KoenigTapiasSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Tapias, Estefania and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {New Methods in Urban Analysis and Simulation: Documentation of the teaching results from the spring semester 2014}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2515}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160121-25154}, pages = {62}, abstract = {Documentation of the teaching results from the spring semester 2014 at ETH Zurich}, subject = {St{\"a}dtebau}, language = {en} } @article{KoenigStandfestSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Standfest, Matthias and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {Evolutionary multi-criteria optimization for building layout planning: Exemplary application based on the PSSA framework}, series = {32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2}, journal = {32nd eCAADe Conference - Volume 2}, editor = {Thompson, Emine Mine}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2513}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160121-25139}, pages = {567 -- 574}, abstract = {When working on urban planning projects there are usually multiple aspects to consider. Often these aspects are contradictory and it is not possible to choose one over the other; instead, they each need to be fulfilled as well as possible. Planners typically draw on past experience when subjectively prioritising which aspects to consider with which degree of importance for their planning concepts. This practice, although understandable, places power and authority in the hands of people who have varying degrees of expertise, which means that the best possible solution is not always found, because it is either not sought or the problem is regarded as being too complex for human capabilities. To improve this situation, the project presented here shows the potential of multi-criteria optimisation algorithms using the example of a new housing layout for an urban block. In addition it is shown, how Self-Organizing-Maps can be used to visualise multi-dimensional solution spaces in an easy analysable and comprehensible form.}, subject = {Architektur}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KoenigSchmitt, author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {Backcasting and a new way of command in computational design : Proceedings}, series = {CAADence in Architecture Conference}, booktitle = {CAADence in Architecture Conference}, editor = {Szoboszlai, Mih{\´a}ly}, address = {Budapest}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2599}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160622-25996}, pages = {15 -- 25}, abstract = {It's not uncommon that analysis and simulation methods are used mainly to evaluate finished designs and to proof their quality. Whereas the potential of such methods is to lead or control a design process from the beginning on. Therefore, we introduce a design method that move away from a "what-if" forecasting philosophy and increase the focus on backcasting approaches. We use the power of computation by combining sophisticated methods to generate design with analysis methods to close the gap between analysis and synthesis of designs. For the development of a future-oriented computational design support we need to be aware of the human designer's role. A productive combination of the excellence of human cognition with the power of modern computing technology is needed. We call this approach "cognitive design computing". The computational part aim to mimic the way a designer's brain works by combining state-of-the-art optimization and machine learning approaches with available simulation methods. The cognition part respects the complex nature of design problems by the provision of models for human-computation interaction. This means that a design problem is distributed between computer and designer. In the context of the conference slogan "back to command", we ask how we may imagine the command over a cognitive design computing system. We expect that designers will need to let go control of some parts of the design process to machines, but in exchange they will get a new powerful command on complex computing processes. This means that designers have to explore the potentials of their role as commanders of partially automated design processes. In this contribution we describe an approach for the development of a future cognitive design computing system with the focus on urban design issues. The aim of this system is to enable an urban planner to treat a planning problem as a backcasting problem by defining what performance a design solution should achieve and to automatically query or generate a set of best possible solutions. This kind of computational planning process offers proof that the designer meets the original explicitly defined design requirements. A key way in which digital tools can support designers is by generating design proposals. Evolutionary multi-criteria optimization methods allow us to explore a multi-dimensional design space and provide a basis for the designer to evaluate contradicting requirements: a task urban planners are faced with frequently. We also reflect why designers will give more and more control to machines. Therefore, we investigate first approaches learn how designers use computational design support systems in combination with manual design strategies to deal with urban design problems by employing machine learning methods. By observing how designers work, it is possible to derive more complex artificial solution strategies that can help computers make better suggestions in the future.}, subject = {CAD}, language = {en} } @article{XinHijaziKoenigetal., author = {Xin, Li and Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi and K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Lv, Zhihan and Zhong, Chen and Schmitt, Gerhard}, title = {Assessing Essential Qualities of Urban Space with Emotional and Visual Data Based on GIS Technique}, series = {ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION}, journal = {ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION}, doi = {10.3390/ijgi5110218}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170401-30995}, abstract = {Finding a method to evaluate people's emotional responses to urban spaces in a valid and objective way is fundamentally important for urban design practices and related policy making. Analysis of the essential qualities of urban space could be made both more effective and more accurate using innovative information techniques that have become available in the era of big data. This study introduces an integrated method based on geographical information systems (GIS) and an emotion-tracking technique to quantify the relationship between people's emotional responses and urban space. This method can evaluate the degree to which people's emotional responses are influenced by multiple urban characteristics such as building shapes and textures, isovist parameters, visual entropy, and visual fractals. The results indicate that urban spaces may influence people's emotional responses through both spatial sequence arrangements and shifting scenario sequences. Emotional data were collected with body sensors and GPS devices. Spatial clustering was detected to target effective sampling locations; then, isovists were generated to extract building textures. Logistic regression and a receiver operating characteristic analysis were used to determine the key isovist parameters and the probabilities that they influenced people's emotion. Finally, based on the results, we make some suggestions for design professionals in the field of urban space optimization.}, subject = {Stadt}, language = {en} } @article{BielikSchneiderKuligaetal., author = {Bielik, Martin and Schneider, Sven and Kuliga, Saskia and Griego, Danielle and Ojha, Varun and K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Schmitt, Gerhard and Donath, Dirk}, title = {Examining Trade-Offs between Social, Psychological, and Energy Potential of Urban Form}, series = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, volume = {2019}, journal = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, editor = {Resch, Bernd and Szell, Michael}, doi = {10.3390/ijgi8020052}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190408-38695}, abstract = {Urban planners are often challenged with the task of developing design solutions which must meet multiple, and often contradictory, criteria. In this paper, we investigated the trade-offs between social, psychological, and energy potential of the fundamental elements of urban form: the street network and the building massing. Since formal mehods to evaluate urban form from the psychological and social point of view are not readily available, we developed a methodological framework to quantify these criteria as the first contribution in this paper. To evaluate the psychological potential, we conducted a three-tiered empirical study starting from real world environments and then abstracting them to virtual environments. In each context, the implicit (physiological) response and explicit (subjective) response of pedestrians were measured. To quantify the social potential, we developed a street network centrality-based measure of social accessibility. For the energy potential, we created an energy model to analyze the impact of pure geometric form on the energy demand of the building stock. The second contribution of this work is a method to identify distinct clusters of urban form and, for each, explore the trade-offs between the select design criteria. We applied this method to two case studies identifying nine types of urban form and their respective potential trade-offs, which are directly applicable for the assessment of strategic decisions regarding urban form during the early planning stages.}, subject = {Planung}, language = {en} } @article{HijaziKoenigSchneideretal., author = {Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi and K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Schneider, Sven and Li, Xin and Bielik, Martin and Schmitt, Gerhard and Donath, Dirk}, title = {Geostatistical Analysis for the Study of Relationships between the Emotional Responses of Urban Walkers to Urban Spaces}, series = {International Journal of E-Planning Research}, journal = {International Journal of E-Planning Research}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2602}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160622-26025}, pages = {1 -- 19}, abstract = {The described study aims to find correlations between urban spatial configurations and human emotions. To this end, the authors measured people's emotions while they walk along a path in an urban area using an instrument that measures skin conductance and skin temperature. The corresponding locations of the test persons were measured recorded by using a GPS-tracker (n=13). The results are interpreted and categorized as measures for positive and negative emotional arousal. To evaluate the technical and methodological process. The test results offer initial evidence that certain spaces or spatial sequences do cause positive or negative emotional arousal while others are relatively neutral. To achieve the goal of the study, the outcome was used as a basis for the study of testing correlations between people's emotional responses and urban spatial configurations represented by Isovist properties of the urban form. By using their model the authors can explain negative emotional arousal for certain places, but they couldn't find a model to predict emotional responses for individual spatial configurations.}, subject = {Geografie}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KoenigSchneiderHijazietal., author = {K{\"o}nig, Reinhard and Schneider, Sven and Hijazi, Ihab Hamzi and Li, Xin and Bielik, Martin and Schmitt, Gerhard and Donath, Dirk}, title = {Using geo statistical analysis to detect similarities in emotional responses of urban walkers to urban space}, series = {Sixth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC14)}, booktitle = {Sixth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC14)}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2514}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160121-25146}, pages = {1}, abstract = {Using geo statistical analysis to detect similarities in emotional responses of urban walkers to urban space}, subject = {St{\"a}dtebau}, language = {en} }