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Thesis Title: Green infrastructure and the micro-environmental data of the metaverse.
Primary Supervisor: Andy Hudson-Smith
Second Supervisor: Sean Hanna
Funding: BSA PhD Staff Award
Start Date: September 2022
Biography
Enriqueta Llabres-Valls is an architect who graduated from Barcelona in 2002. She has an MSc in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics. She is a lecturer in research at the Bartlett School of Architecture and was a Mittelstein Guest Professor at Wuppertal University in the Autumn of 2021. She co-founded Relational Urbanism in 2009 and LlabresTabony Architects in 2017. She received the RIAI award in the category of public space design for the Le Fanu Skate and Play Park Project. She currently co-leads Research Cluster 18 in the MArch Urban Design Program at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Research Summary
Green Infrastructure is increasingly vital in adapting the urban environment to climate change. However, household challenges result from complex interactions between specific site conditions and how the socioeconomic landscape affects them.
Green infrastructure is a multifunctional element: it is the supporting tissue for urban biodiversity. It can have a productive purpose, host recreational activities, and impact security or housing price. Implementing it requires a cross-scale transdisciplinary multistakeholder approach, which involves sharing and communicating data. Innovative deployment of the Internet of Things is changing how we communicate about the environment. With the emergence of the Digital Twin, stakeholders can share, learn and participate in the built environment.
This practice-led research aims to develop a new design method based on Digital Twins and multi-user three-dimensional collaborative worlds to implement green infrastructure as a multifunctional element in the urban fabric. It asks how to use data to evaluate green infrastructure as a multifunctional element. And how creative data disclosure empowers the community to interact with designers and potential stakeholders, helping create new partnerships and building community resilience.
Research Themes
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, URBAN BIODIVERSITY, INTERNET OF THINGS, METAVERSE