U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Utilizing Three-Dimensional Data in a Virtual Urban Environment to Support and Evaluate Planning Decisions

0089884Chan这是爱荷华州立大学的陈秋水博士和北京工业大学的万素春博士之间为期三年的合作提案，旨在开发一种交互式可视化工具，供城市规划者管理城市发展和设计师探索规划规范。 该项目将涉及六名美国研究人员，其中包括爱荷华州立大学的五名教员和一名学生，以及两名中国科学家，其中一名来自北京工业大学，一名来自北京市规划管理局。 他们计划在虚拟现实（VR）环境中设计一种工具，包括数字城市和一套规划法规。 用户将能够在城市中导航、选择地产地段、确定规划问题、输入数据、可视化三维图形指南以及对周围环境进行动画处理以查看环境造成的潜在影响。该项目的独特之处在于，它将开发一种工具，可以支持新建筑设计的输入，可以在分析中使用当地政府建筑规范的框架，并可以使用美学和功能基础来评估设计。 该项目展示了跨学科和国际边界的罕见专业知识集合。 所生产的工具可以成为建筑系和学院城市设计教育“工具包”的一部分。 该项目的结果可能会对未来城市规划师和建筑师的教学和培训产生重大影响，并可能产生重大的社会效益。 国家自然科学基金委员会和美国国家科学基金会联合支持该项目。

0089884ChanThis is a three year cooperative proposal between Dr. Chiu-Shui Chan of Iowa State University and Dr. Suchun Wan of Beijing Polytechnic University to develop an interactive visualization tool for city planners to manage urban growth and for designers to explore planning codes. This project will involve six U.S. researchers, including five faculty members and one student of Iowa State University, and two Chinese scientists, one from the Beijing Polytechnic University and one from the Beijing City Planning and Administration Bureau. They plan to design a tool in virtual reality (VR) environments including a digital city and a set of planning regulations. The user will be able to navigate through the city, select a property lot, determine planning issues, input data, visualize three-dimensional graphic guidelines, and animate surroundings to see the potential impact caused by the context. This project is unique, in that it will develop a tool that can support the inputs of new building designs, can use of the framework of local government building codes in the analysis, and can evaluate designs using aesthetic and functional bases. The project presents a rare collection of expertise across both disciplinary and international boundaries. The tool produced could become a part of the educational "toolkit" for urban design uses by architecture departments and colleges. The results of this project could have substantial impact on teaching and training of future urban planners and architects, and could have significant societal benefit. The Natural Science Foundation of China and the NSF jointly support this project.