Platform Grant: Space, Technologies and the Design of the Built Environment

激进的城市群既推动又回应了以知识为基础和技术驱动的组织、生产和交换形式的需求。这些变化在组织和个人建筑规模上也很明显，如果我们要适当地满足未来建筑使用者和客户的需求，这些变化需要迫切关注。与此同时，这些新的组织形式和技术提供了全新的工作方式、商业模式和服务提供模式。建筑和工程设计以及建筑行业在其业务性质上也会发生同样多的变化，但它们也在为所有其他行业提供建筑环境方面处于领先地位。这是一个变化和创新非常迅速的领域，伦敦大学学院巴特利特研究生院的空间平台小组专门从事这一领域的研究。它于2001年获得平台奖，并于2004年再次获得该奖项。自更新以来，该小组在科学和组织方面取得了一些关键进展。它已经获得了超过1050万美元的新资金，此外，它的行业和社区资助的工作已经从75万增长到170万。宾大已经收到了一个个人的椅子，并任命为主席的建筑与建筑环境分小组为RAE2008。它已被授予一个著名的RCUK奖学金（汉娜），并已任命了一个新的讲师（康罗伊道尔顿）。该集团的公式密切耦合的基础研究，通过我们的公司，博士和硕士培训，以及使用我们的方法和软件的研究人员的蓬勃发展的国际网络的应用研究，活的行业和社区项目，已被添加到非常实质性的UrbanBuzz知识交流计划。沃恩在贫困、种族和郊区方面的工作使她入围了新中心的候选人名单，以获得新工程项目的资助。与中国的国际合作正在迅速发展。平台资金在推动我们创新和提供冒险的灵活性方面至关重要。这反映在我们的活动范围的增长和相当大的扩展上。在下一阶段，我们建议将知识交流和我们的国际活动建立在坚实的基础上，并制定一项旨在多尺度城市空间系统，数字时代建筑设计和自适应建筑与制造的基础研究战略计划。平台资金支持这一重要的战略研究领域。

Radical urban agglomeration is both driving and responding to the needs of knowledge based and technologically driven organisations, forms of production and exchange. These changes are evident also at the organisational and individual building scale, and demand urgent attention if we are properly to accommodate the needs of future building users and clients. At the same time these new organisational forms and technologies afford radically new ways of working, business models and modes of service delivery. The architectural and engineering design and construction industries are subject to just as much change in the nature of their businesses, but they also lead the way in providing the built environments for all other sectors. This is an area of extremely rapid change and innovation in which the Space Platform Group at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, specialises. It received its Platform Award in 2001, renewed in 2004. Since renewal the group has made a number of key advances both in its science and organisation. It has gained over 10.5m in new funding, additionally its industry and community funded work has grown from 750k to 1.7m pa. Penn has received a personal chair and appointed to Chair the Architecture & Built Environment Sub-panel for RAE2008. It has been awarded a prestigious RCUK Fellowship (Hanna) and has appointed a new lecturer (Conroy Dalton). The group's formula of close coupling fundamental research, applications research on live industry and community projects through our company, doctoral and masters training, and a thriving international network of researchers using our methodology and software, has been added to by the very substantial UrbanBuzz knowledge exchange programme. Vaughan's work on poverty, ethnicity and suburbs has led to her shortlisting for new Centre funding under the Challenging Engineering programme. International collaboration with China is growing very fast. Platform funding has been crucial in driving us to innovate and in providing the flexibility to be adventurous. This has been reflected in growth and a considerable extension to the range of our activities. In the next phase we propose to set knowledge exchange and our international activities on a firm basis, and to develop a strategic programme of fundamental research aimed at Multi-scale Urban Spatial Systems, Building Design for a Digital Era and adaptive Architecture and Fabrication. Platform funding underpins this vital area of strategic research.