Procedural generation of flood-sensitive urban layouts

Mustafa, Ahmed Mohamed El Saeid; Zhang, Xiao Wei; Aliaga; Bruwier, Martin; Nishida, Gen; Dewals, Benjamin; Erpicum, Sébastien; Archambeau, Pierre; Pirotton, Michel; Teller, Jacques

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Procedural generation of flood-sensitive urban layouts

Mustafa, Ahmed Mohamed El Saeid; Zhang, Xiao Wei; Aliaga et al.

2020 • In Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47 (5), p. 889-911

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Inverse procedural modeling; urban layout; urban flooding; neural network; Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Abstract :

[en] Aside from modeling geometric shape, three-dimensional (3D) urban procedural modeling has shown its value in understanding, predicting and/or controlling effects of shape on design and urban planning. In this paper, instead of the construction of flood resistant measures, we create a procedural generation system for designing urban layouts that passively reduce water depth during a flooding scenario. Our tool enables exploring designs that passively lower flood depth everywhere or mostly in chosen key areas. Our approach tightly integrates a hydraulic model and a parameterized urban generation system with an optimization engine so as to find the least cost modification to an initial urban layout design. Further, due to the computational cost of a fluid simulation, we train neural networks to assist with accelerating the design process. We have applied our system to several real-world locations and have obtained improved 3D urban models in just a few seconds.

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UEE - Urban and Environmental Engineering - ULiège

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Civil engineering

Author, co-author :

Mustafa, Ahmed Mohamed El Saeid ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > LEMA (Local environment management and analysis)

Zhang, Xiao Wei; Purdue University, USA

Aliaga; Purdue University, USA

Bruwier, Martin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering

Nishida, Gen; Purdue University, USA

Dewals, Benjamin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering

Erpicum, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Scientifiques attachés au Doyen (Sc.appliquées)

Archambeau, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > HECE (Hydraulics in Environnemental and Civil Engineering)

Pirotton, Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > HECE (Hydraulics in Environnemental and Civil Engineering)

Teller, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Urbanisme et aménagement du territoire

Language :

English

Title :

Procedural generation of flood-sensitive urban layouts

Publication date :

June 2020

Journal title :

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

ISSN :

2399-8083

eISSN :

2399-8091

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Sage Publications Ltd., London, United Kingdom

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889-911

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399808318812458

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FloodLand

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