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evolutionary path. The data collected is classified into two categories, which will be termed “tanks”. The data entered in these tanks involves the reading of the landscape as a surface, and as a body.

3. Measuring and mining urban data - Configuration

3.1. Landscape as surface

The idea of landscape as surface means seeing the landscape surface as being active and operational, rather than as a thin passive board (Allen (2001)). At this point, the landscape as surface is not understood as a flat lifeless plane, but rather as a set of behavioural characteristics. Soil has permeability and plants have height and growth rate – characteristics that make the surface a living carrier of flows and processes. The idea of the surface includes the performative aspects of the landscapes surface. Slope, hardness or softness, permeability, depth, or soil chemistry are all variables that influence the behaviour of surfaces such as their tendency to shed or hold water, or their ability to support traffic, events, or plant life (Wall (1999)). Specifically, according to this research, the potential tool analyzes and configures the landscape in a double layer: natural landscape, and infrastructure. Concerning natural landscape, the dynamic tool of this research collects data of ground morphology, soil materials, green spaces, planting, hydrographic network of the case area and specific ecological characteristics (air pollution, CO 2 , noise, rain percentage, sunshine percentage, humidity). Thanks to the natural structure, the ground has the capacity to effortlessly accommodate the energy infra structures and incorporate them in the dynamic topology, which in turn is re-determined by its interaction therewith . In this way identified through GIS the existing urban fabric and the respective polygons are drawn by the Maps Algebra (Map Algebra). The second tank relates to data arising from human perception. Researches have shown that a space can easily affect human behaviour either in a pleasant or unpleasant way . At this point the current methodological approach introduces the parameter of human factor. Human brains have specific neurons that help to create an "internal construction of the outside world (Leutgeb (2003)). For example, all of human senses are engaged or influenced by the physical attributes of architecture, (light, sound, surface textures, and the familiarity of the spaces), which are constantly flipping switches in human minds that can affect cognition, mental state, and preservation of long-term memory. While the impact of these stimuli can affect human immediately (such as the sense of calmness felt upon entering a daylight-filled space) others can take longer to manifest. Thus, it is clear that one of the most important para meters of the current methodological approach is information from human perception. Nowadays, researchers from the University of California, UCLA Department of Nanosystems in collaboration with Aneeve Nanotechnologies LLC, are trying to create sensors for measuring certain hormone levels in human body. Their purpose is the participation of the user in the design process. These sensors can be installed individually, embedded in the walls, or can be transported. Summarizing, the landscape as a surface, and the landscape as a human perception contribute to the development of operational strategies aimed at the management of the landscape as a whole. The establishment of the two tanks is the first piece of the methodological tool. The objective of this phase is to collect data, and to transform the data into appropriate forms, vector objects, so as to be used as data of the next phase (syntaxis). The handling of the land scape as a combined surface, system and body may actively contribute to the dynamics of the city and aims to develop operational strategies towards the city redefinition. At this point, it is worth to mention that the vector objects have quantitative metrics (values) and spatial data (the position of space coordinates, influence scope to other vector objects). 4. The parametric approach of projecting higher - dimensional hypercubes to R 3 At this level, as we mentioned before, this paper presents a method for approaching three-dimensional models for n-dimensional hypercubes through polar zonohedra. This method will help the dynamic tool to collect data from 3.2. Human perception and environmental experience