{"id":34309,"date":"2022-09-13T15:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34309"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:02:55","slug":"mit-creates-3d-scan-of-rio-de-janeiros-largest-favela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34309","title":{"rendered":"MIT creates 3D scan of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s largest favela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35483353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34310\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rocinha_favela_main_road_2014_Chensiyuan_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brazil\u2019s BRTech 3D has created a LiDAR-scanned virtual model of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration\u00a0 By Chensiyuan &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35483353<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 findings could also be used to develop planning strategies that make the formal city more inclusive to informal settlements\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Global Construction Review<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s Senseable City Laboratory used point-cloud data taken at street level, which will enable researchers to view the favela\u2019s complex built environment. In particular, the model can reveal patterns in the unregulated construction of Rocinha that could help standardise property trading and also reduce landslide risk.<\/p>\n<p>Some 100,000 residents live in Rocinha, a large percentage of the 1 billion people that the World Bank estimates live in informal settlements&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Carlo Ratti of City Lab said: \u201cDespite their challenging circumstances, favela residents have developed ingenious and responsive ways to build their own urban systems. This bottom-up planning process and the complex architectural forms it produces can challenge the standard way of designing cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington Fajardo, Rio de Janeiro\u2019s city planning commissioner, added: \u201cThe findings could also be used to develop planning strategies that make the formal city more inclusive to informal settlements, or to spark research into alternative ways of building that make urban environments more accommodating and affordable&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can view the 3D scan of Rocinha\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senseable.mit.edu\/favelas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalconstructionreview.com\/mit-create-3d-scan-of-rio-de-janeiros-largest-favela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brazil\u2019s BRTech 3D has created a LiDAR-scanned virtual model of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro. image: for illustration\u00a0 By Chensiyuan &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35483353<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34311,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34309\/revisions\/34311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}