信息城市

The Informational City

我们未来的城市会是什么样子?与当下的城市相比,它们会有惊人的变化吗?会用最先进的技术和最新颖的材料设计建造吗?还是在表面上与今天的城市区别甚微,除了偶尔几座新建的大楼,现存的大部分建筑物都被保留,而仅以最新的信息技术完成了信息化改造?文章认为,未来城市变革的最大推动因素不是新颖的建筑形式,而是那些已经使其他行业出现巨大变革的信息系统。文章探讨了可计算界面作为信息交换的场所,其对于交通运输行业的突出影响,提出类似的变革同样也将会席卷整个建筑行业,且已初露端倪。同时还提出,随着"大数据"的面世,建筑学科的重塑不仅要通过引入BIM、GIS等信息服务,还需要对自身运作方式展开彻底反思。最终的结论是:目前需要被设计的并非是新颖的建筑形式,而是一套为建筑学而设的,基于信息的全新工作方法。

What will our future cities look like？ Will they look strikingly different to the cities of today,and be constructed with the latest materials and designed using the latest design methods？ Or will they look much like our existing cities, with occasional new buildings, but with most existing building stock retained and simply retrofitted with the latest information technology？ This article argues that the most likely driver of change in our future cities is less likely to be new architectural forms, than informational systems that have already revolutionized other industries. It explores the impact of the computational interface as the site of information exchange in the transportation industry in particular, and argues that not only is a similar revolution likely to sweep across the building industry, but that it has already begun to leave its mark. It also argues that with the advent of ＇big data＇ the discipline of architecture needs to be reinvented not just through the introduction of BIM,GIS and other information based services, but also through a radical rethinking of its operations. What needs to be designed, then, the article concludes,are not new forms of architecture？ or indeed new architectural forms？ but an entirely new information based approach to the discipline of architecture.