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

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合作的一项为期三年的计划，旨在为城市规划者开发一个交互式可视化工具，以管理城市发展和让设计师探索规划代码。该项目将有六名美国研究人员参与，其中包括爱荷华州立大学的五名教职员工和一名学生，以及两名中国科学家，一名来自北京工业大学，一名来自北京市城市规划管理局。他们计划在虚拟现实(VR)环境中设计一个工具，包括一个数字城市和一套规划法规。用户将能够在城市中导航、选择物业地块、确定规划问题、输入数据、可视化三维图形指南以及动画环境以查看上下文造成的潜在影响。该项目的独特之处在于，它将开发一种工具，能够支持新建筑设计的投入，可以在分析中使用地方政府建筑法规的框架，并且可以使用美学和功能基础来评估设计。该项目展示了跨越学科和国际边界的罕见的专业知识集合。所生产的工具可能成为建筑系和大学用于城市设计的教育工具包的一部分。该项目的成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，并可能产生显著的社会效益。中国自然科学基金和国家自然科学基金共同资助了这一项目。

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.