SMART CITY ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

It is essential to consider data at all scales: the human, the building, and the urban levels to truly adapt how architects design buildings of the future to be part of a holistic, sustainable urban system. With a growing emphasis on life cycle analysis or assessments at the building level, design decisions are often evaluated by the up‐front impact of manufacturing through the full use of the material or component as a way to understand the impact of building design and to assess sustainability. Several measures have been created‐such as the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program‐to help architects and building owners evaluate their buildings. The Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet of everything: the communication of a broad array of sensors in the built environment creates new opportunity for architectural design that will create truly smarter buildings and better, more sustainable and resilient cities.