[Montgomery de Luna - The N-Dimensional City - COVER IMG] Conceptual image of a parametrically generated city designed to produce diversity, vitality, and equitable public spaces.

The N-Dimensional City

PrizeWinner in Landscape Architecture / Urban Planning, Winner in Landscape Architecture / Urban Design
University/SchoolUniversity of Waterloo
Lead ArchitectMontgomery de Luna
Design TeamMaya Przybylski (co-supervisor), Mona El Khafif (co-supervisor)

The N-Dimensional City proposes an equitable, accessible, and sustainable public realm throughout the three-dimensional space of a dense interconnected urban context, by parametrically generating abstracted urban strategies designed to produce vibrant public spaces throughout the 3D-field. The project does so through a custom-written parametric design tool that utilizes 176 different input parameters capable of over 100^63 configurations to re-produce the principles suggested by Jane Jacobs in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" throughout time and three-dimensional space.