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The design research group SUPERSPACE at Woods Bagot has a 15 year history of developing design methodology based on visual conditions in academia and professional practice. This chapter will review the many pioneering developments of visibility design that provided the basis for much international academic research in the field, such as an interactive VGA for CAD at Aedas in 2004 for passive supervision design of schools, the first 3D volumetric and sequence-based visual conditions analysis for the National September 11th Memorial Museum New York in 2007 or the introduction of the fast polygon traversal algorithm for visual fields in 2013. SUPERSPACE has always integrated visual and spatial analysis into its generative computing methodology and the case studies show the relation between analytic and generative design.
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Izaki, Å., Derix, C. (2017). Evolution of Planning with Visual Conditions. In: Piga, B., Salerno, R. (eds) Urban Design and Representation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51804-6_7
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