The students examine patterns of crowd-flows in an extraordinary urbanisation phenomena: festivals. Festivals are comparable to urbanization in the their attitude of buttom-up organization of space comparable to situations in slums or camps (military/exploratory/refugee camps). Students will learn how to program simulations using Processing/Java. Previous programming knowledge is not necessary. Furthermore they will be given an overview on different kinds of simulation and analysis methods and learn about their significance, strengths and weaknesses.
Students will look at the mentioned urbanization patterns from two sides. One being the view of a planner asking to find bottle necks or the ideal place for amenities such as food stalls, medical services, toilets etc. Another being the view of visitors. Students will program different behaviours that should compete against each other in order to compare different strategies to achieve goals like passing through the area quickly or get the preferred food as quickly as possible. Caliente Festival in Zurich will be used as a case study.
Where: HIT H 31.4 (Video wall)
When: Mondays 10:00 – 12:00
2 ECTS
Supervision:
Dani Zünd
zuend@arch.ethz.ch
Lukas Treyer
treyer@arch.ethz.ch