Parametric explorations
The need to design the city “under constraints” by integrating transition objectives (ecological, energy, and others) requires strengthening the role of objective evaluation through calculation. The evaluation must make it possible to integrate the multi-criteria nature of performance and to anticipate future contextual situations, in order to transform environmental constraints into project opportunities.
Developing engineering methods is necessary to respond to the systemic design of sustainable urban planning. A methodology capable of guiding conceptual choices on all the parameters that generate the performance of urban space: morphologies, materiality and uses. This evaluative methodology must first integrate a contextual dimension. It must then have a generative dimension that allows the production of scenarios based on the invariant and variable parameters of the project, consistent with the constraints and expectations of the actors and territories. Finally, with a view to being a “sustainability workshop” rather than a performance control that stifles creativity, the evaluation method must integrate a prospective dimension through its ability to optimize the overall project via its environmental performance; this is the “design by data” dimension placed at the service of urban intent.