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Establishing A Site By establishing the number of car park sites needed to achieve the “30 by 30” goal, and understanding the key qualities that allow for architectural and urban planning designs to be propagated across Singapore, a series of sites must be identified as the beginning of a neighbourhood food hubs network. In the scope of this thesis, a single site must be selected from one of the 932 potential HDB multistorey car parks around Singapore as a prototypical design opportunity. While manual examination would be possible, the large sample size would make it extremely tedious, so a computational analysis was instead chosen to quickly narrow down the selection. The intention was to identify a typical HDB multistorey car park site which would share many characteristics with other sites. This would allow for the implementation of architectural strategies to connect people with food, which can then propagated throughout a series of subsequent sites, becoming a network of HDB neighbourhood food hubs around Singapore. The selection first analysed five criteria which characterized each site. The first was the footprint area, which was scored based on how typical, or similar it was to other sites. The second was site orientation, which is relevant to optimise crop growth. The third was footprint typicalness, or how regular the footprint is, and the fourth was the number of surrounding HDBs. Lastly, each car park was also evaluated based on its proximity to other car parks to create a distribution mapping to prevent multiple sites to be chosen from the same area.
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