This article is about the city and architecture. Although about beautiful houses there will be nothing. On them was a bit in the previous article
and, alas, it distracted attention from the actual information component and sent a discussion into the mainstream discussion of 3D-models cities - and geographic information systems (GIS), which in one form or another this model offer or provide the opportunity to participate in the simulation. Thus, two- and three-dimensional GIS sorts of innumerable. Why, then, GIS has not yet led to a revolution in urban planning?
First, let's talk about why the architecture and construction should be approached more responsibly than it is now accepted. The fact is that in addition to building design, architect job is to plan people's lives. You every day gradually manages the city you go, and go on to trace someone streets, live in placed with some mysterious calculation houses and even a park bench someone in this place set on purpose. The architecture of all time quietly makes you do something within the usual life, but it is possible to encode and something new, and you accept it without even noticing. For example, designing a bathroom in each apartment houses changed the way of life of tens of millions of people. You would be surprised to see an innovative residential project "improved planning '30s, when it was assumed that to wash once or twice a week is enough public bath and laundry plant, the toilet is in each apartment at the time was the technical and cultural breakthrough.
Typical section of the Moscow City Council, the plan fragment 1925
Modern life is changing rapidly, and design goes with her in the leg. Of course, you will not find the drawing board, roll of tracing paper and blueprint table. They were replaced by many CAD (Computer Aided Design). Instead of mascara bottles, gouache and watercolor - a program for 3D-modeling and photorealistic rendering. Calculations are not conducted on a slide rule, a special software package that extracts data from three-dimensional models. Algorithms have become more complex, accuracy and reliability - above
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But it's all - quantitative rather than qualitative changes. Yes, they have transformed the daily work process, but the decision-making mechanism remains the same. Sometimes, no analysis is not carried out at all, but the arguments may be the level of "well let's wrong" and "will then look pretty on the map." The economic rationale is attracted by the ears: "We have built ten years ago, almost the size of a swimming pool in the town of N-sk, and it paid off at X percent of Y years, so just index the price." To extract relevant information - to voluntarily bring down an avalanche of incomprehensible calculations on his head. And the majority of stakeholders are satisfied with this situation, although there are just epically failed project.
Thus, the general plans of cities developing architects from the standpoint of beauty lines, their understanding of the convenience of life and intuition. Evaluate and approve the projects managers and economists, who are important figures balance areas, the expected costs and benefits. And consumers protection, the inhabitants, does this situation usually does not affect, and they do not even come to mind that could influence.
Somehow it looks promising master plan. Different colors - this is where it has already built or to be built, for example, housing, park or offices. Then he developed a detailed project with an explanatory note, which occupies an entire wardrobe - on paper, of course
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Compared obviously it wins constantly updated geoinformation model. Not just a 3D-map, but actually the information system. Where can the mouse to select a group of houses and find out how many people live there. Where on the map marked with all institutions and establishments with their bandwidth and target audience. Where can I learn the averaged vehicle traffic on any street at any hour. Where measured noise or air pollution at some point turns into a public figure in the plan of the city, not in a trance in the same day, a piece of paper in a dusty folder. Alas, money and labor to be invested right here and now, and is expected to return "somewhere out there", so the GIS design come very slowly and unevenly.
Simulate in 3D thousands of unremarkable buildings - do not very interesting task, but it can be trusted to automation only very tentatively. Mainly engaged in this or lovers, then the result is accessible to all, but the quality is not too high, or private companies, developers, suitable to business professional - but they share the fruits of labor are in no hurry
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