93 Buehler did not have time to devote himself personally to the project, he deputized Badut to be vrbn’s representative. Modeling Tools Bring Ideas to Life One of the primary tools Badut used to create Utopian Disruption is ArcGIS CityEngine, advanced 3D modeling software for massive, interactive, and immersive urban environments. Urban planners and architects use CityEngine for realistic visualizations of their projects. Badut had first encountered the tool during her studies at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Romania, where she used it to examine real spaces. “So I Planning and Designing Better Communities Buehler offered a comparison with Brasilia, Brazil’s capital city. Built according to a master plan between 1956 and 1960, Brasilia has since become an urban planning cautionary tale. “Brasilia was designed as an ideal city, and it is ideal in the geometric sense,” Buehler said. “It has broad highways that reflect a transport-centric philosophy, but with too little thought on social space for actual living. Brasilia was designed more like a sculpture. It’s not a truly livable space if function follows form and the form is unchangeable.” Buehler proposed the Ideal City project to Gehmann, to collaborate again and explore these concepts. Although At the sketching phase, the Utopian Disruption design took form to look like a modern city, rather than a fantasy utopia. (Screenshot courtesy of VRBN)
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