WEB APP
Plan Your Neighborhood
Hawai‘i Housing Lab collaborated with the data designers and software developers at KPF Urban Interface in Kohn Pedersen Fox’s New York City office.
KPF UI uses urban data analytics to inform decision making in the design of buildings and cities for people. The two teams worked together to tailor a version of their award-winning “Scout” design tool specifically for the contexts that exist across the Hawaiian archipelago.
The resulting “Plan Your Neighborhood” web app now generates different massing possibilities for neighborhoods that range from rural, to suburban, to low urban, to medium urban, to highly dense urban environments. It creates thousands of design schemes in real-time with a proprietary computational design process capable of visualizing nearly endless variations.
Another first for the software is the inclusion of “Walkability” as a metric. “Plan Your Neighborhood” automatically creates a list of neighborhood amenities as “Transit”, “Density”, and “Clustering” are adjusted to illustrate the trade-offs that exist between different massing visualizations.
Partners at KPF Urban Interface
Luc Wilson, Director
Snoweria Zhang, Urban Innovation Architect
Brandon M. Pachuca, Urban Data Analyst + Web Developer
