Material City

Urban development hinges on the availability of free space. The planned growth Helsinki as reflected in General plan 2016 relies identifying areas for infill urban fabric. In built-up there is a tendency to let processes change take place instead top-down planning. This therefore not managed, but piecemeal, resulting patchwork ‘stamp’ plans directed by narrow private economic considerations. life-span buildings varies according their material composition – also type building and its spatial configuration affect vitality. These attributes conditions play part how long can endure before confronting need radical changes, be aggregated from open-source data modeled using historical referents benchmarks. information forms layer probabilities city, revealing dormant locations facing imminent change. By mapping topography we identify potentials development. Identifying these latent sites city engaging proprietors landowners would give new tools City renewal associated with turnover stock.