'Bigger than a Hamlet, Smaller than a Town'
Redefining English Village Planning
Through the creation of an Emergent Process of Village Planning, this study seeks to propose an alternative approach to the design of contemporary Garden Villages. This process embodies the successful elements of a traditional village and seeks to redefine them for a contemporary context. By proposing a series of rules that govern the spatial layout of a village, settlements will be able to form at a locally led level, removing the bias and profit driven approach often associated with the planning of housing developments across Britain.
The development of this process utilises both grasshopper scripting and physical modelling. Grasshopper was used as a tool for testing the rules for village design in an unbiased and instantaneous manner, whilst the physical models were a means of realising the forms generated within grasshopper into architectural proposals.