This is a shared course. The course is core component of the Computational Design Program. For CoDe students, this course is the third semester practice-orientated teaching trajectory ‘Contextualising’ in Stream 3: Smart and Ubiquitous Cities. It is also a core course in the Master of Landscape Architecture, where it supports the design investigation in LAND 7201 Master Landscape Studio 3: Public Realm.

The course will introduce students to advanced digital urban modelling techniques, with the outcomes of students producing a digital model of a real-world site and further exploring semantic information modelling, 3D city representation and analysis aspects of urban models. Course content will comprise: an introduction to a range of urban data types, e.g. GIS data, cadastre data, ABS data, building information, urban flows data, etc; advanced urban modelling methods used to represent all relevant parts of cities (e.g. semantics, geometry, topology, appearance, etc); CityGML that provides an open standard for information sharing and semantic information modelling; integration of GIS, CityGML and BIM; 3D visualisation and analysis of urban models; and Google Earth application.