Urban Design Architecture
Learn more about Urban Design Architecture, a core program at the Centre for Design Innovation responding to key challenges of urbanisation, densification, accessibility and climate change.
Led by Professor Marcus White, the Urban Design Architecture program conducts spatio-temporal research responding to key challenges of urbanisation, densification, accessibility and climate change.
Projects focus on spatial (3D) level of thinking with change over time (movement of people/vehicles, movement of the sun, change of temperature etc.) with the aim to:
create more liveable built environments
explore new urban typologies for sustainable, affordable housing
develop solutions for design and construction of complex geometry
have a high-level impact on urban policy
explore designing with data and emerging technology
position pioneering digital research within broader historic contexts.
The program’s core strengths are in complex computational modelling, exploring the balance between movement and place in designing safe and successful cities, and smart urban research for decision-making and policy change.
Program team
Professor Marcus White, Program Director
Professor Mark Taylor
- Professor Mark Burry AO
Feature projects
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Safe and Successful Places
Developing evidence-based design principles and guides for balancing vehicle movement with place-making.
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ARC Linkage
A multicriteria design platform to evaluate precincts and test various ‘walk-friendly’ scenarios.
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Fabricate 2020
CDI are heavily involved in Fabricate 2020, an international digital fabrication conference.
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Solar Preservation for the City of Melbourne
Protecting Melbourne’s public open spaces from overshadowing, in an Australian first.
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Melbourne Korean War Memorial
Designing Victoria’s first significant public memorial to honour those who served in the Korean war.
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Domesticity under Siege
Research examining instances where the nurturing boundaries of home collide with both outside and inside agents.
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Collaborate with the Centre for Design Innovation
We always welcome new partners. If you are interested in transforming ideas into commercially competitive outcomes, need the support of our research or have any other queries, contact us on +61 3 9214 6072 or email cdiadmin@swinburne.edu.au.