Morphological Crossovers. Spatial Compression, Typologies and Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Vertical Settings

The introduction of ‘giga’ projects to the current urbanisation paradigm challenges the praxis of the
morphological discipline at large. First, quotative spatial features of the built environment deliver fully hybridized conditions that fuse both the city and mega buildings as a coherent condition. Second, the emphasis placed on volumetric compression to accommodate a ‘gravity free settings’ with numerous layers of usable public and private spatial types, amalgamates the use of conventional spatial typologies formally and functionality. Thirdly, giga projects additionally rely on numerous metrics to assess the measurability of such settings. Missing within the giga approach is the qualitative qualities of space, exposing a knowledge gap in the measurability of human experiences in volumetric settings.
This paper will explore the implications of linking complex form to experiential design frameworks.
Not as a definitive outcome, but as an initial underscoring of conceptual linkages, the paper will trace the viability of HCD to environments that are volumetrically derived. First, the paper establishes new environmental needs, discussing the contemporary urbanisation metric of the giga as both an urban experience and as totalising spatial metric. Second, literature review over the last two decades exposes gaps in the conceptual framework of space linked to behavioural and experiential traits.
Finally, the paper outlines three behavioural avenues (perceptual, cognitive and emotional) as viable
HCD-based tools open to HCD-morphological analysis. Conclusions dwell on the implications of
merging HCD qualities through morphological expressions, before closing on the emergent spatial
agenda of human well-being as part and parcel to the evolution of type-morphological methodologies and its bases for interdisciplinary enquiry.