Lhasa Bioregional Urbanism

http://www.resilientcity.org/site/ywd_craigapplegath/assets/pdf/UD_Hon_Mention_1_-_S4-0045.pdf

Urban Design: Hybrid Algorithm

http://www.archi-europe.com/news-633-ResilientCity.org_Design_Ideas_Competition_Winners.html

behavioral urbanism: urban density scenario B: yiota goutsou, diego perez, robert stuart-smith

Diego Perez and Robert Stuart-Smith have developed 3d cellular automata algorithms that operate in similar ways to wolfram's in their masters thesis project "behavioral space" at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AADRL) in collaboration with yiota goutsou. The project may be found at aadrl's site or in kokkugia's research section

http://www.kokkugia.com/

“Regardless of their complexity, the tasks and decisions involved [in designing a building] can be formalized as an algorithm. As such, algorithms provide a framework for articulating and defining both input data and procedures. This formalization can promote structure and coherency, while systemically maintaining full traceability of all input data.” – in: “Algorithms in Architecture – Five Approaches” (Michael Hansmeyer)

http://fastforeword.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/michael-hansmeyer/

Algorithms in Architecture

Michael Hansmeyer

http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/

http://www.mh-portfolio.com/indexl.html

DATA atelier

LIC - POWERFOLD http://www.atelierdata.com/en/powerfold.html

http://www.atelierdata.com/en/data.html

Agostinho da Silva

DESIGN EDUCATIONAL 2010

The International Journal of Architectural Research (Archnet-IJAR) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Design Education 2010: Explorations and Prospects for a Better Built Environment. Co-edited by Professors Ashraf M. Salama and Michael J. Crosbie, this special issue of Archnet-IJAR is intended for publication in July 2010. It will be structured around three categories of contributions that include Paradigms, Positions, and Practices, with contributions that address transformations in philosophical foundations, approaches, program contents and structures, models of teaching, case studies and empirical findings.
http://www.archnet-ijar.org/

http://www.aboutblank.pt/

SIGraDi 2009 sp

http://www3.mackenzie.br/ocs/index.php/SIGraDi2009/SIGraDi/

yourHOUSE is a research and design project conducted by MIT's Design Lab that is breaking new ground as a pioneer in prefabricated home construction. With a thorough understanding of the past, an extensive utilization of new technologies of the present, and with an awareness of the possibility and growing need for low-cost and high-quality housing, yourHOUSE is set to change the future of home construction.

http://mit.edu/yourhouse/index1a.html

CBS - Cork Block Shelter - Design It: Shelter Competition

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/sackler-center/design-it-shelter

DANIEL CARDOSO LLACH

A generative Grammar for 2D Manufacturing of 3D objects

Much of the current research in Desing and Computation for Architecture proposes to automate the production of construction information as a means of freeing architects from the sticky and inconvenient contingencies of dealing with physical matter.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39500?show=full

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.08/people/daniel/idea.html

Buthayna H. Eilouti and Amer M. Al-Jokhadar

A Generative System for Mamluk Madrasa Form-Making
In this paper, a parametric shape grammar for the derivation of the floor plans of educational buildings (madrasas) in Mamluk architecture is presented. The grammar is constructed using a corpus of sixteen Mamluk madrasas that were built in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine during the Mamluk period. Based on an epistemological premise of structuralism, the morphology of Mamluk madrasas is analyzed to deduce commonalities of the formal and compositional aspects among them. The set of underlying common lexical and syntactic elements that are shared by the study cases is listed. The shape rule schemata to derive Mamluk madrasa floor plans are formulated. The sets of lexical elements and syntactic rules are systematized to form a linguistic framework. The theoretical framework for the formal language of Mamluk architecture is structured to establish a basis for a computerized model for the automatic derivation of Mamluk madrasa floor plans.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u58456q674708t03/

Belinda Torus

Generative Design in Architecture and Mass-Customization

In this study, the generative design in housing is characterized through the utilization of shape grammars. The functions and the relations within a chosen housing typology are described and different types are produced through the defined relations. Three main constraints are the number of inhabitants (room numbers and sizes), the number of storeys and the main module. In this case, cube is selected as the main module. Mardin is selected as a region to be focused on because of its grammatical housing morphology. Different colors are given to different functions; kitchens, living spaces, rooms, bathrooms, semi-open spaces and open spaces. Different types and variations are produced computationally, and by using this method, it is aimed to integrate the customers to the generative design process. This method is likely to emphasize variation and personalization and make a start to mass customization.

http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/papers2005/05.Belinda_Torus.htm

http://www.bot.yildiz.edu.tr/_sites/mardin/English/indexe.htm

bk2a architektur

http://www.bk2a.de/index2.htm

Fairuz Reza Razali

Urban Ecologies

http://annecleopatra.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3F3D582961513B14!1577.entry
http://www.dysturb.net/2008/final-presentations-at-the-berlage-institute-watch-live/

Meryem Birgul Colakoglu

Design by grammar : algorithmic design in an architectural context

An experimental study was performed to explore the practical applicability of the rule based design method of shape grammars. The shape grammar method is used for the analysis and synthesis of the hayat house type in a particular context. In the analysis part, the shape grammar method is used to extract basic compositional principles of the hayat house. In the synthesis part, first the evolution of a new hayat house prototype is illustrated. An algorithmic prototype transformation is considered. This transformation is achieved in two ways: by changing the values assigned to the variables that define the component objects of the form, and by replacing the vocabulary elements of the form with new ones. Then, the application of the rule based design method for housing pattern generation is explored. The design of a housing complex is illustrated using this method.

http://envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b3096

http://www.generativeart.com/on/cic/papersGA2002/15.pdf

Giovana de Godoi e Gabriela Celani

A study about facades from historical brazilian town using shape grammarShape grammars have been used in architecture for analysis and synthesis - in the first case, mainly for the characterization of styles and in the later for the generation of novel compositions. The present research proposes the use of shape grammars for establishing guidelines for the requalification of historical areas that have lost their original characteristics due to improper renovations. In order to develop and test the proposed method, a study will be carried out in a small Brazilian town called Monte Alegre do Sul. The town was chosen because its original urban morphology, developed in the XIXth century, is still relatively well preserved, although part of the original façades have been transformed. The objective of the research is to develop a shape grammar to set guidelines for the re-adaptation of the already renovated façades in Monte Alegre do Sul.
http://cumincades.scix.net/data/works/att/sigradi2008_089.content.pdf

Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Generating Networks

Cities are places where information and material are integrated. This integration takes place on top of a changing infrastructure that is sometimes designed and sometimes organic. We can think of this infrastructure as a network, or, more accurately, as a set of overlapping networks, each with different distance measures between nodes.

http://home.fa.utl.pt/~jduarte/dcc08_workshop/notes/2008_Proceedings_Workshop_1_DCC08.pdf

Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky

Alan Turing: Codebreaker and AI Pioneer by Jack Copeland

Michal Piasecki’s blog

deriving methodology from classics

I’ve been working for the Msc AAC on a paper which looks at the possibilities of devising a research methodology based on D’Arcy Thompson’s Cartesian Transformations Method (”On Growth and Form”, 1918), which would be relevant to the call for science of buildings expressed in Philip Steadman’s “Evolution of Designs” (1979). The above is a quick processing sketch written in order to visualize the first step of the imagined “Transformations Method”. The base drawing is a floor plan of Paris Opera House, which comes from Durand’s comparison of the forms of theaters contemporary to him, done in 1801. Steadman refers to Durand’s work when he discusses the notion of classificatory analogy in his book.

http://michalpiasecki.com/2009/01/09/deriving-methodology-from-classics/

Alan Mathison Turing

British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer

Turing worked from 1952 until his death in 1954 on mathematical biology, specifically morphogenesis. He published one paper on the subject called "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in 1952, putting forth the Turing hypothesis of pattern formation.[30] His central interest in the field was understanding Fibonacci phyllotaxis, the existence of Fibonacci numbers in plant structures. He used reaction–diffusion equations which are now central to the field of pattern formation. Later papers went unpublished until 1992 when Collected Works of A.M. Turing was published.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/680DC76E-BBED-4B70-8AE3-86BA461116E5/
http://www.turing.org.uk/sources//biblio3.html

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/activities/ieg/e-library/sources/tp2-ie.pdf

27th eCAADe CONFERENCE / SEPTEMBER 16-19, 2009 / ISTANBUL - TURKEY

http://www.ecaade09.itu.edu.tr/

Owen Jones (1856) The Grammar of Ornament

English designer, architect, and writer, best known for his standard work treating both Eastern and Western design motifs, The Grammar of Ornament (1856), which presented a systematic pictorial collection emphasizing both the use of colour and the application of logical principles to the design of everyday objects.

http://www.illuminated-books.com/books/grammar.htm

Paulus Gerdes (1999) Geometry from Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations

This book draws on geometric ideas from cultural activities from Subsaharan Africa, and demonstrates how they may be explored to develop mathematical reasoning from school level through to university standard. Paulus Gerdes provides a thoroughly illustrated and researched exploration of mathematical ideas, motifs and patterns. Many important mathematical points are brought to the fore, not via the formal 'theorem-proof' method, but in a more schematic and diagrammatic manner. African artifacts, oral traditions, sand drawing and other forms of artwork with a geometric basis, all provide mathematical ideas for discussion in this unique book. Mathematicians and teachers of mathematics at all levels will be fascinated, as will anybody with an interest in African cultures.http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/gerdes_paul.html

http://www.ecum.uminho.pt/ModuleLeft.aspx?mdl=~/Modules/UMEventos/EventoView.ascx&ItemID=953&Mid=67&lang=pt-PT&pageid=52&tabid=4

Paulus Gerdes, New designs from Africa

Inspiration from Angolan traditional designs

He has been analysing mathematical properties of traditional ideo and pictograms of the Tchokwe population in Angola. These drawings were traditionally done in sand, and were used to illustrate stories the men told at evening gatherings, around the communal fires in the village or at hunting camps. Young boys would learn the easier stories and accompanying designs, but only the storytellers, who were highly esteemed for their knowledge, and formed an elite, knew many more.

Paulus Gerdes (2007) Lunda Geometry: Mirror Curves, Designs, Knots, Polyominoes, Patterns, Symmetries

http://plus.maths.org/issue19/features/liki/index.html

Peter Engel Origami Patterns

The Chinese invented the paper folding art of origami over 1000 years ago, and they endowed it with the aesthetic principies that are at the heart of their culture. As Peter Engel, an American master of the art, says, "the success of a completed figure depends on the creator's eye for form—is it a mere likeness of the original, or does it delve deeper into the form's essential character?" [Engel, 1988]

Engel points out that origami has been taken up in this country by mathematicians rather than artists. He says: "To the mathematician, the beauty oforigami is its simple geometry. Latent in every pristine piece of paper are undis-closed geometric patterns, combinations of angles, and ratios that per-mit the paper to assume interesting and symmetrical shapes."An origami figure always begins with a single square piece of paper. Only folding, with no cutting or pasting, is permitted.

in: Jay Kappraff (1990) Connections. The geometric bridge between art and science.

Origami by Peter Engel

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Nate Andrysco

Urban Grammar
A continuation of the AMUSE project which deals with visualizing large urban
environments. In Urban Grammar, a 2D map of a city is parsed to detect roads, land
boundaries, and building outlines. The parsing creates a unique grammar which
describes the city. Once the information is obtained, we can then derive new cities in the
style of the original using the grammar. This process includes how to obtain the
boundary data, how parsing is conducted, and how derivations are done. It will also be
shown how cities may be edited so that a city planner may use this tool for his work.
Issues involved in editing are grammar simplification, region similarity estimation, and ngon
to m-gon mapping. Grammar simplification greatly helps reduce the number of
computations needed during derivation. Similarity estimation is an essential tool needed
in derivations and most phases of editing. N-gon mapping is used to project texture
coordinates from a region in the original city to a new, possibly deformed, region in the
edited city.