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Maria Fernanda Chaparro and Silvia Daurelio
(MSc with Distinction)
This research focuses on density, environmental quality and spatial identity. These studies are
extended to present-day Hong Kong and address a design system that aims to reinterpret spatial
logics, connected with local socio-cultural attributes, into a set of rules and code for an “intelligent
densification”. Existing building morphologies are transformed computationally into porous
organisms and are used to construct accurate models of growth for regaining the lost demographic
pressure. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are employed to generate a complex urban design
model characterized by the emergence of public green areas, integration of socio-cultural amenities
within the existing building morphologies and by generation of a comfortable outdoor microclimate,
at different operational scales.
