Abstract
The International COP 21 Paris Agreement was created to generally support professional and municipal architecture and urban design practice emphasizing greenhouse gas reductions and carbon-neutral city planning and operations. Miami benefits through multiple large-scale grants focused on strategic solutions to combat and adapt to the effects of global warming, sea level rise, flooding, hurricane impacts, and salt-water intrusion. However, Miami’s sustainability master plans do not sufficiently target the International COP 21 carbon-neutrality targets. This paper critically describes a recently funded three-year research project by EU agencies and the US-National Science Foundation in partnership with nineteen partners from six countries (the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, USA, and China). The paper describes how transdisciplinary, parametric-algorithmic, computational research workflows, combined with cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning simulation engines can produce outcome scenarios for the period from 2019 to 2100. These scenarios are generated by the Miami research team at the Urban Living Lab (ULL), part of Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS). The ULL’s research sectors include water management, robotic urban farming, local food production and hydroponics, mixed renewable energy design, and carbon-neutral power generation with adaptive blue-green infrastructure projects that support the local and regional Food-Energy-Water Nexus.
Presenters
Thomas SpiegelhalterProfessor, Co-Director Structural and Environmental Technologies Lab, College of Architecture, Communication and the Arts, Florida International University, Florida, United States Darren Ockert
Chief Executive Officer, Iconic Horizon, Inc., Florida, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
Climate Change, Resiliency, Carbon Neutral, Nexus, Water, Food, Energy, Design
