For education
Follow how a brief, a source and a design rule become part of a building model. Use the agent to explore questions while the student's decisions stay visible.
“Design a mixed-use tower on a waterfront block in Dubai with 160 apartments1, about 8,000 m² of offices2, a podium3 of food, shops and leisure, and a public garden and plaza4.”
Asked for 160 apartments
160 homes on 20 floors, eight a floor: 40 one-, 80 two- and 40 three-bedroom
Asked for about 8,000 m² of offices
7,874 m² in 56 suites, four a floor on Levels 03 to 16
Asked for a podium
A café and shop at ground, the food hall on Level 01, gym, co-working and prayer rooms on Level 02
Asked for a public garden and plaza
A garden with lawn, play and a reflecting pool, and a plaza to Al Marsa Street
Every element records what it is attached to. Students can follow a door to its wall, the wall to its level and the door to the room it serves.
Level
Level 18
holds
Wall
Corridor wall
hosts
Door
1,000 mm entrance
opens into
Room
Living, kitchen, dining 18.04
The rule
Every bedroom is at least 10.5 m². Change the minimum once and all 320 bedrooms are checked against it.
OverrideThe exception
Make one bedroom deliberately different. The others keep the rule.
Illustrated on two Harbour Yard homes, Level 18.
Ask what was supplied, what was inferred and what was chosen. Authorship and judgment stay part of the exercise.
A tower of 160 homes on a 98 × 70 m block in Dubai, on a level site, rising 39 storeys to 143.5 m, with refuge floors at Levels 17 and 28 and a public garden in the sunny south-west.
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