Smart Cities - Adaptive Parametric Design Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development

In light of the global impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has already subsided. The recent earthquake in Turkey and Iran revealed that the tents provided inadequate protection against aftershocks and inclement weather conditions such as wind, rain and snow. Consequently, there is a need to explore alternative shelter options, such as prefabricated structures like geodesic domes, which offer numerous advantages, and serves as an alternative to traditional shelters. These advantages include quicker assembly, better use of resources. The optimal design of geodesic domes as prefabricated shelter structures is investigated in this work, with a particular emphasis on horizontal loads like wind. The results can be applied and generalized to seismic activity. Moreover, there has been a noticeable shift in the fields of architecture and design in recent years toward the usage of new and efficient design techniques. The use of Grasshopper, a visual programming plug-in built for Rhino, facilitates the use of metric modelling, which has received a lot of attention. dome constructions and structural optimization. The goal of this thesis is to look into Grasshopper's capabilities for creating, analyzing, and optimizing Geodesic dome structures. .