Regulação da Forma Urbana e Modelagem da Informação

Abstract

This paper presents a central question: how to qualify the built urban form if it is mostly composed of private buildings and therefore hardly influenced by public urban designs, especially in consolidated urban fabric? To progress in this challenge, we propose a reflection on the current urban rules and the traditional planning, and their capacity to regulate the urban form in favor of the collective interest. Thus, in order to evolve in the potential of the urban control instruments for the activity of designing the city, we have adopted a new method, which regulates the urban form through density indicators. As a tool to actualize this method we chose to use the Esri CityEngineTM, a tridimensional modeling software specialized in urban environment generation from a set of predefined rules. Using the software, we modeled three scenarios: two descriptives ones, illustrating the existing situation and the neighborhood's current legislation application and a alternative design exercise from the elaboration of different sets of CityEngineTM rules and their application on buildable areas.