Within the Project Urban Prototyping a series of 4 workshops were organised. Workshop III Planning and Design Process is dedicated to the planning and design process and to the different public and private institutions that are involved in it. Experts and representatives from different public authorities in Singapore are invited, who are involved in planning and development of the built environment.

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PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING
International Workshop III Planning and Design Process
Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012
Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and
Environment (SDE), Seminar Room at the Centre for Sustainable
Asian Cities (CSAC) - SDE1 / 4th floor
Time: 09:00-17:00
Synopsis
The Project Urban Prototyping is intended as a preparatory exploration to develop the proposal
for the establishment of the Laboratory for Urban Prototyping. The project will explore the
possibilities to establish a collaborative environment for design, planning and management of
climate smart urban areas by the application of advanced virtual prototyping technologies.
The exploratory study Urban Prototyping acknowledges the following approaches:
I Exploration of the state-of-the-art
II Identification of the user needs, and conceptualization of the basic architecture, for an
urban prototyping system
III Strategic partnerships
IV Qualified proposal for the next step: Laboratory for Urban Prototyping
In the first stage, indicated as Exploration of the state-of-the-art, the study envisions external
workshops with international experts:
Workshop I Virtual Prototyping
Workshop II Collaborative Planning and Design
Workshop III Planning and Design Process
Workshop III Planning and Design Process is dedicated to the planning and design process and
to the different public and private institutions that are involved in it. Experts and
representatives from different public authorities in Singapore are invited, who are involved in
planning and development of the built environment.
Main research question of Workshop III Planning and Design Process: What are the specific
conditions and demands of urban planning and design for the application of Virtual
Prototyping?

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PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING
International Workshop III Planning and Design Process
Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012
Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and
Environment (SDE), Seminar Room at the Centre for Sustainable
Asian Cities (CSAC) - SDE1 / 4th floor
Time: 09:00-17:00
Program Wednesday 18 January 2012
09:00 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Opening
09:45 - 10:15 Key Note Space syntax in urban research and strategic
planning by Akkelies van Nes, Space Syntax, The Netherlands
10:15 - 10:30 Q&A
10:30 - 11:00 Key Note Sustainable Infrastructure & Smart Cities by Sunil
M.K., Autodesk Asia, Singapore
11:00 - 11:15 Q&A
11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Key Note Design and calculate in integrated urban area
development; process and tools by Tineke van der Pol,
Municipality of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12:00 - 12:15 Q&A
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Key Note Modelling and simulation of heat demand in urban
fragments: Comparison of four European cities by Pablo Viejo
Garcia, European Institute for Energy Research, Singapore
14:00 - 14:15 Q&A
14:15 - 14:45 Key Note "DesignLink: Experiences from developing data
interoperability tools for building design" by Steven Downing,
ARUP, Australia
14:45- 15:00 Q&A
15:00 - 17:00 Plenary Discussion
17:00 Closing

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PROJECT URBAN PROTOTYPING
International Workshop III Planning and Design Process
Date: Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2012
Venue: National University Singapore (NUS), School of Design and
Environment (SDE), Seminar Room at the Centre for Sustainable
Asian Cities (CSAC) - SDE1 / 4th floor
Time: 09:00-17:00
Program Thursday 19 January 2012
09:00 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Opening
09:45 - 10:15 Key Note Representing Urban Environments by Tsou Jin Yeu,
Center for Housing Innovations (CHI)/ School of Architecture,
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
10:15 - 10:30 Q&A
10:30 - 11:00 Key Note Planning and Design Process and Urban Prototyping
by Richard Hoo, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA),
Singapore
11:00 - 11:15 Q&A
11:15 - 11:30 Tea / Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Key Note to be confirmed
12:00 - 12:15 Q&A
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch
Program Urban Prototyping Debate
Venue: Seminar Room Centre of Sustainable Asian Cities - SDE1 on 4th
floor
Time: 14:00-17:00
14:00 - 15:00 Presentation Project Team Urban Prototyping
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Closing
16:30 Snacks / Drinks

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International key note speakers
Akkelies van Nes
Akkelies van Nes has been coordinating several research projects dealing with urban centrality, mobility,
street life and urban safety where the space syntax method has been used. She was the chair woman for
the 5th International Space Syntax Symposium in 2005. She is member of the international space syntax
steering committee. In addition, she is involved in the knowledge management work package of the
European 7th framework project RUFUS (Rural Future Networks). Besides, she developed her micro
scale analyses tools in order to identify and analyse the spatial conditions for crime dispersal in urban
areas. Together with the firm RCM-Advies (Result Crime Management) she did a pilot study on the
relationship between space and crime in Alkmaar and Gouda funded by the Dutch Police and Science
office. Currently, she is working together with the archaeologists from Leiden University with the
application of space syntax on excavated sites, and doing space syntax consultancy of various urban
planning projects.
Sunil M.K.
Sunil M. K. is the Senior Manager, Industry Strategy and Relations for Architecture, Engineering and
construction ( AEC), Autodesk Asia Pacific (E). Autodesk, the world's leading design software company,
serves industries where design is critical to success - building, manufacturing, infrastructure, and digital
media. Autodesk provides solutions for sustainable design, digital prototyping, and the creation of visual
media. Suil M.K. is responsible for enhancing Autodesk's business with strategic programs in
Architecture, Construction and Engineering division to develop market presence in the Asia Pacific and
enhance profitable growth. He has held a variety of business development, sales development, strategy
and technical positions at Autodesk and Revit Technologies. He is a frequent public speaker and
represents Autodesk on different Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry forums like UNEP,
Department of Innovation Australia. Sunil M.K. is an Architect by training and a Corporate Member of
Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) with over 20+ years of AEC Industry experience.

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International key note speakers
Christina (Tineke) van der Pol
Tineke van der Pol holds a Master degree Architecture and Urban Planning from the Technical University
of Eindhoven. She stated with research on Urban Renewal at the Regional Planning Office Zuid-Holland.
From 1979 till 1990 she was Project Leader at the Housing Department of City of Amsterdam and
participated in urban renewal processes, leading architectural design processes of several projects After
that she became Division Manager of the Housing Department of Eastern part of the city’s
administration. And then Program Manager of the Housing Program for IJburg, consulting in the process
of designing the master plan, research and development of new types of residential areas, negotiation
with private developers. From 2008 she was Project Manager of several complex urban transformations
From 2008 she operates as Division Manager Physical Planning Department of de City of Amsterdam, for
the division of planning and urban design of IJburg and Amsterdam Waterfront Area.
Pablo Viejo Garcia
Pablo Viejo Garcia is urrently Chief Officer of Sustainable Cities for EDF in Singapore, Pablo Viejo Garcia
is a graduated architect with expertise in Geographical Information Systems and Urban Planning. After
studies in Spain (La Coruña) and Germany (Karlsruhe), he joined European Institute for Energy Research
(EIFER) in 2006. In 2005 he got an excellence scholarship from the Spanish King Juan Carlos.
Between 2008 and 2011 responsible of modeling and simulation projects in, where a dozen of
researchers worked under Pablo’s responsibility on the development of geographically distributed
models for simulation using complexity science approaches. Main topics of the group were the diffusion
of technologies, the impact of electrical mobility on the load curve, energy demand on urban areas,
integral simulation of complex energy systems or behavioral models. By the end of 2011 Pablo moved
from its task as Group Manager of the Geosimulation for Energy Research group to a new position in the
city of Singapore, developing a Sustainable Cities project within the city-state.

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International key note speakers
Steven (Steve) Downing
Steve Downing leads the global CAD/BIM development team for Arup. He is also part of a regional
software development team with skills across CAD/BIM, engineering, document and project
management, mobile devices, database and web development.
Steve’s specialty is developing tools for data interoperability between CAD/BIM and engineering
software, and he is continuing this work through the publically available ‘DesignLink’ project. Steve has
had various roles at Arup including: working as a Structural Draftsman, being part of the I.T. team and
developing bespoke software to support complex building projects. Steve was seconded on a 3 year
‘Research Assistant’ position at RMIT University as part of a federally funded research program entitled
‘Delivering Digital Architecture in Australia’. This research program studied the methods Architects and
Structural engineers can use to improve the delivery of projects typified by the emerging ‘Digital
Architecture’. One outcome of this was the creation of the DesignLink toolkit.
Tsou Jin Yeu
Tsou Jin Yeu is Professor at the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
and Director of the Center for Housing Innovations. Tsou Jin Yeu obtained his PhD at the University of
Michigan (USA). Tsou Jin Yeu hold many important positions: Associate Director of the Institute of Space
and Earth Information Science (CUHK), Director of the Architectural Computing Laboratory (School of
Architecture, CUHK) , Chairman and Committee Chairs of Organizing Committee of China Urban Housing
Conference, Assessor and Member of China Green Building Council, Vice-Chairman of China Green
Building (Hong Kong) Council, Chief Advisor for the Low Carbon Green City Implementation of San Shan
New Town in Guang Zhou.
Tsou Jin Yeu was awarded China National Association of Engineering Consultants, and the First Prize of
China Award for Science and Technology in Construction during the past 5 years. Tsou Jin Yeu is actively
involves in research covering areas of low carbon green city research, sustainable urban planning, urban
planning and architectural design, design computing and computer-aided design, building performance
simulation, environmental simulation and design, and building aerodynamics.