International Alliance for Sustainable Urbanization and Regeneration

November 21, 2016

Call for Participants
Urawa Misono Smart City Studio Workshop
March 19-25, 2017
Dear Graduate Students,IASUR (International Alliance for Sustainable Urbanization and Regeneration |http://www.iasur.org) is joining the “On-Site Workshop” of the “Urawa Misono Smart CityStudio” conducted by Associate Professor Perry Yang for School of City and Regional Planningand School of Architecture, College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology. The aim and theschedule of the studio are described in the following pages.
IASUR is calling for graduate students of architecture, civil engineering, urban planning/designand environmental engineering who are interested in participating in the “On-Site Workshop”
part of the studio which will take place in Tokyo, Saitama and Tsukuba from March 19 to 25,
2017.
The details will be explained in the pre-workshop meeting planned be held in mid to late
December 2016. If you are interested in taking part, please send a message with your name andaffiliation to Associate Professor Akito Murayama, Department of Urban Engineering, The
University of Tokyo by December 11. Please also feel free to ask any questions. The e-mailaddress for registration and questions is event@up.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Best regards,Akito Murayama
Associate Professor, Dept. of Urban Engineering,
School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
event@up.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp1

School of City and Regional Planning + School of Architecture, College of Design,
Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration withNational Institute of Environmental Studies of Japan and Global Carbon ProjectInternational Alliance for Sustainable Urbanization and Regeneration
Department of Urban Engineering, the University of Tokyo

2017 Tokyo Smart City Studio
Misono Project - a Tokyo 2020 Olympics Site
Perry Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact: perry.yang@design.gatech.edu)
Collaborators: Yoshiki Yamagata, National Institute of Environmental Studies Japan, Global
Carbon Project; Akito Murayama, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo /International Alliance for Sustainable Urbanization and Regeneration

What is not yet clearly demonstrated and understood is thathuman species have created a completely new environment – ahuman-made one, in which the complexity and scale of theform is comparable to nature [1]. (The Shape of Community,
Chermayeff & Tzonis, 1971)
How does the complexity problem be managed when thesystem boundary is moved up from the scale of building tourban systems? What are the dynamic relationships of thecross-scale systems? How do we connect energy, material andwater flows through infrastructural systems and urban
form making across scales from buildings, blocks,
Design for urban metabolism: Tokyoneighborhoods to a city? Based on the Panarchy theory, how
Bay proposal 1960, Kenzo Tange
do we design a focal scale that can be used for bridging scales
below (buildings/households) and above (cities and regions)
to meet net zero objectives? [2] (The Complexity Question of Urban Systems Design, Yang, 2012)

Urban resilience is becoming an increasingly pressing issue after recent natural or humaninduced disasters, such as the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushimadisaster in Japan in 2011. The 2017 International Urban Design Studio address the question of
how cities should be planned, designed, managed and restructured to be more resilient tofuture changes caused by potential shocks, using the Tokyo 2020 Olympics site as a test bed. Inorder to better prepare for the 2020 Olympics event and longer term sustainable and resilient
future city life, a framework for designing resilient urban forms that adapt to, mitigate or
prevent disasters such as earthquake, heat wave, flooding and blackout…etc. will be needed.
Contemporary cities, however, were not necessarily designed with resiliency in mind. Urban
form, street patterns, block structures and building typologies are often produced according toorganizational principles other than resilience to climate change. Tokyo as a global mega city has
been seen an urban laboratory that owns intellectual legacy such as the movement of urban
metabolism from 1950s that sees cities as adaptable systems for accommodating future changes.
Its complex urban form, agglomerations of physical, cultural and technological system provide atest bed for reflecting contemporary urbanism of our time.

2The Tokyo Smart City Studio investigates one of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics sites at Misono, asatellite town of Tokyo’s metropolitan region, and focuses on how smart city technologies andtools such as 3D GIS, urban energy modeling, eco district certification such as LEED ND, IOT(internet of things), pervasive computing and big data can be incorporated in design processes
to address those problems in the shaping of ecologically responsive, system resilient and humansensing urban environment. The Studio is in collaborations with the Global Carbon Projects(GCP), National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) at Tsukuba Japan and Department ofUrban Engineering of the University of Tokyo. It is an urban design studio that provides anintensive and interactive workshop-like learning environment. We expect students to participate
in an international field trip to Tokyo for a workshop during the spring break March 17-27, 2017.
The local accommodation will be supported by our local partners. However, students should be
prepared to pay for their own airfares, travel insurance and living expenses while in Tokyo (andvisa to enter Japan if it is required). The studio welcomes MArch and MCRP students fromvarious backgrounds, including specializations in urban design, GIS, economic development,environmental planning and health, as well as students enrolled in programs of MSGIST, MS inArchitecture (High Performance Building), MSUD and Master of Science in Civil andEnvironmental Engineering.

The Misono smart city project, a Tokyo 2020 Olympics Site

Studio Schedule (Tentative)
PART I: STUDIO AS AN URBAN LABORATORY (WEEKS 1-9)
Week 1-3: Modeling urban form
Week 4-6: Local Climate Zones and Human Comfort in Cities
Week 7-8: Urban Energy and Urban Carbon Mapping
Week 9: Alternative Urban Scenarios and Assessment

PART II: CO-DESIGN WORKSHOP (WEEKS 10-12)
Week 10 – 12: Midterm Report, Field trip and On-Site Workshop in Tokyo

PART III: PLAN MAKING AND FINAL PRODUCTION (WEEKS 13-15)
Week 13-15: Final design and final report3PART I: STUDIO AS AN URBAN LABORATORY (WEEKS 1-9)
Week 1-3
Modeling urban form

1.

Introduction:
1/09
Monday1/11

Wednesday

1/13Friday

2pm: Studio space arrangement and data preparation
2pm: Studio briefing and lottery (Architecture group)
4-5pm: MCRP group meeting
2-3pm: Introduction and MArch group meeting
3-4pm: Urban Metabolism in Japan from 1950s
4-6pm: Outline of tutorial on framework, data and tools
Tutorial: Data management, GIS mapping: figure-ground & land covers

22.

Mapping: 100KM to 1KM2 (Large to Medium scales)
Conceptual Sketches – setting the goals in urban context
1/16
MondayWork Session
1/18
Wednesday
Crit Session
Urban form structure, Grid as generator
1/20
FridayTutorial: 3D GIS - Cities as 3D artificial topography

3.

3D Modeling: 1KM2 to street blocks (Medium to Small scales)
Conceptual Sketches – street networks and block typologies
1/23
Monday:Work session
1/25
Wednesday
Crit Session
Density and typology
1/27
FridayOIE briefing
Tutorial: Viewshed analysis and Sky View Factor
Week 4 -5
Local Climate Zones and Human Comfort in Cities

4.

Local climate zones
Conceptual design I
1/30
Monday2/01
Wednesday
2/03

5.

FridayWork session
Crit Session
Local Climate Zones, Urban Canyon and Sky View Factor mapping
Tutorial: Human Movement: Walkability, Connectivity, and Mobility

Human movement, walkability and mobility
Conceptual design I
2/06
MondayWork session
2/08
Wednesday
Crit Session
Simulation of Sequential Movement (visual quality, sky opening,walkability and human comfort) in cities
2/10
FridayTutorial: Building Energy modeling
Week 6-7
Urban Energy and Carbon Mapping

6.

Building typology and energy performance
Conceptual design I to II – Iteration
2/13
MondayWork session

42/15
2/17
7.

Wednesday
FridayUrban carbon mapping
Conceptual design II
2/20Monday
2/22
Wednesday
2/24
FridayBuilding energy modeling
Tutorial: GIS Solar analysis

Work session
Urban carbon mapping
Tutorial: LEED ND assessment/
A synthesis of performance modeling tools

Week 8-9
From Performance Modeling to Assessment
8.

LEED ND assessment/ Geodesign: putting pieces together
Conceptual design II
2/27
MondayWork session
3/01
WednesdayConnecting Performance modeling and LEED ND/ Geodesign
3/03
Friday2-6pm, Midterm Review

9.

Human sensing environment
Conceptual design II to III: Iteration
3/06 Monday
Work session
3/08 Wednesday
Human sensing environment in cities(i.e. Using sensors, Internet of Things and Big data)
3/10 Friday
Work session on midterm report

PART II: CO-DESIGN WORKSHOP (WEEKS 10-12)

Week 10 - 12
Midterm Report, Field trip and On-Site Workshop in Tokyo

10. Midterm Report and Field trip preparation
3/13
MondayWork session on midterm report
3/15
Wednesday
Midterm-report submission
Core team to depart from Atlanta to Tokyo
3/17Friday
Whole team to depart from Atlanta to Tokyo
11. On-site workshop in Tokyo
3/17 Friday
Core team to arrive Tokyo- Tsukuba
3/18 Saturday
Whole team to arrive Tokyo- Tsukuba*
3/19 Sunday
10am meeting at Misono Urban Design Center (UDCMi)/ Field work on
Site at Saitama City - Urawa Misono and Kawagoe
3/20 Monday
Morning: Field work at Tokyo Olympic Site (Central Tokyo)
Afternoon: Symposium at the University of Tokyo (with ProfessorMichael Batty)
3/21 Tuesday
Workshop kick-off meeting at the University of Tokyo
3/22 Wednesday
Workshop at the University of Tokyo
3/23 Thursday
Workshop at NIES at Tsukuba
3/24 Friday
Workshop at NIES at Tsukuba
3/25 Saturday
On-site Community Meeting and Project Presentation
3/26 Sunday
City visitation (Tokyo Fish market)
3/27 Monday
Departure from Tokyo to Atlanta

512. Workshop report, journal writing and studio website
3/27
MondayBack to Atlanta
3/29
Wednesday
Writing journals regarding issues learned from the workshop
3/31
FridayWorkshop report due
Updating the studio website, media and publicity
Reflections on workshop and field trip experiences
Defining the final-stage project framework

PART III: PLAN MAKING AND FINAL PRODUCTION (WEEKS 13-15)
Week 13-15
Final design and final report

13. 4/03
4/05
4/07

MondayWednesday
FridayRevision of the midterm report based on the workshop
desk crit
Pin-up session

14. 4/10
4/124/14Monday
Wednesday
Fridaydesk crit
desk crit
Pin-up session

15. 4/17
4/19
4/21

MondayWednesday
FridayFinal production
Final production
Final Review

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