Data-driven development in the smart city: Generative design for refugee camps in Luxembourg

Elie Daher, Sylvain Kubicki and Annie Guerriero
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Elie Daher: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Sylvain Kubicki: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Annie Guerriero: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2017, vol. 4, issue 3, 364-379

Abstract: The paper addresses computational design as a key technological asset in the development of the smart city. In particular, the research targets context-aware adaptation to usage requirements at urban fragment level. Indeed, cities’ policy makers have to take into account many factors in a development policy, such as situational, technical or human-related factors as well as anticipating future usages. Moreover, nowadays, cities are key resources to answer growing humanitarian needs in terms of sheltering and camps. Indeed these situations are increasing due to different factors related to the nature, climate change or human activities. Resilience is therefore essential at the levels of districts, cities and territories. In Luxembourg, a public program aims to develop three container villages for refugees. The objective of this work is to help policy makers and humanitarians in the optimization of the spatial design of camps. The use of parametric modeling approach enables the optimization of space layout planning. It is applied on a case study allowing policy makers to explore scenarios for the decision-making in the camp space planning.

Keywords: smart city; computational design; data-driven development; parametric modeling; humanitarian need; generative alghorithm; space planning; usage requirements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 C61 C63 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2017.4.3S(11)

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