Alignment
Controlled studies of how block distribution affects heating, cooling, and primary energy.
Research direction / Urban computation
OctoCity
A developing framework for reading urban morphology, context, and performance as interacting fields.
Question
Can urban form be generated and compared through contextual consequences rather than fixed visual types?
Response
OctoCity is the urban-scale branch of NexoNest: a planned environment for connecting block geometry, climatic neighbourhoods, spatial patterns, and design alternatives.
Urban scale
blocks and relationships
Context first
forces before appearances
Research-led
alignment and CBEM foundations
Concept stage
direction stated honestly
01
From objects to relationships
A city is not a collection of independent buildings. Distance, obstruction, access, orientation, programme, and behaviour create overlapping neighbourhoods that rarely match cadastral boundaries.
OctoCity explores how those relations might become explicit inputs to early urban design.
02
Research foundations
Climatic neighbourhoods
Performance-based zones of influence rather than arbitrary context radii.
Morphological descriptors
Computable attributes that allow alternatives to be compared consistently.
Procedural context
Local forces enter a transferable process without forcing every place into the same form.
03
What exists today
Not yet a released plugin
OctoCity currently names a coherent research direction and interface concept. Its component set and validation programme are still under development; the page publishes the agenda without presenting a future system as a finished product.