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.
sábado, 26 de setembro de 2009
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/
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/
sexta-feira, 25 de setembro de 2009
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.
quinta-feira, 24 de setembro de 2009
quarta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2009
terça-feira, 22 de setembro de 2009
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.
segunda-feira, 21 de setembro de 2009
Giovana de Godoi e Gabriela Celani
A study about facades from historical brazilian town using shape grammar
Shape 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
Shape 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
sexta-feira, 11 de setembro de 2009
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
terça-feira, 1 de setembro de 2009
segunda-feira, 31 de agosto de 2009
Michal Piasecki’s blog
deriving methodology from classicsI’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.
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
quarta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2009
quinta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2009
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.quarta-feira, 19 de agosto de 2009
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.htmlPaulus 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
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.segunda-feira, 17 de agosto de 2009
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.
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.
sábado, 1 de agosto de 2009
Eudardo Westphal(2007)
A Linguagem da Arquitectura Hospitalar de João Figueiras Lima
Orientador: Benamy Turkienicz
This work aims at describing the elements that characterize the architectural language of João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, developed for the Sarah Network of Hospitals for the Locomotor System, looking for the identification of attributes that assign identity to his projects and allow creativity despite of using an industrialized construction system. The analysis reached spatial articulation, using Space Syntax; the composition of shapes and their articulation, using Shape Grammars’ concepts; and the articulation of building components, using Color Grammars concepts. The identified attributes allowed the description of a genealogy of design procedures applicable to the synthesis of the language of Lelé. Such attributes are integrated into ways for coding a Genetic Algorithm that maps new solutions under the described language and the constraints of the hospital program and the industrialization process. The understanding of such genealogy finds applications both in professional practice and architectural design teaching. The conclusions of this work suggest the further development of the analysis, looking for a more complex algorithm able to search for fitter solutions
http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/11433
Orientador: Benamy Turkienicz
This work aims at describing the elements that characterize the architectural language of João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, developed for the Sarah Network of Hospitals for the Locomotor System, looking for the identification of attributes that assign identity to his projects and allow creativity despite of using an industrialized construction system. The analysis reached spatial articulation, using Space Syntax; the composition of shapes and their articulation, using Shape Grammars’ concepts; and the articulation of building components, using Color Grammars concepts. The identified attributes allowed the description of a genealogy of design procedures applicable to the synthesis of the language of Lelé. Such attributes are integrated into ways for coding a Genetic Algorithm that maps new solutions under the described language and the constraints of the hospital program and the industrialization process. The understanding of such genealogy finds applications both in professional practice and architectural design teaching. The conclusions of this work suggest the further development of the analysis, looking for a more complex algorithm able to search for fitter solutionshttp://www.lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/11433
sábado, 25 de julho de 2009
Creation of 3D Cities
Pascal Mueller is co-founder and CEO of Pascal Mueller is co-founder and CEO of Procedural Inc., an ETH spin-out company specialized in software for the efficient creation of 3D buildings and cities.CBA (MIT) activities. Rapid-prototyping tools
Related CBA activities across a wide range of length scales are investigating the foundations of fabrication in locally encoding global structures. Macroscopically, a "shape grammar" for wood frame construction was developed to represent the design of a building in coded joints:which can be assembled from press-fit panels produced with two-dimensional rapid-prototyping tools. This approach promises to reduce the cost of construction in time, labor, and materials, and even more importantly to enable rapid customization of low-cost construction that is responsive to local needs [Sass, 2005; Sass and Botha, 2006].Shape Grammars
At one point, mostly due to the Master's work of Miranda, I became interested in shape grammars. I wrote a little program called xform3d that allows a user to dynamically manipulate 3D shape grammars; kind of a less elegant, hard to use version of Miranda's program, Shaper2D. Below are a few of the nice images to come out of early versions of xform3d.
quinta-feira, 23 de julho de 2009
domingo, 19 de julho de 2009
Shape Grammar
The Shape Grammar created for this project consists of both diagrammatic and parametric rules.
1. The diagrammatic set of Shape rules (S) was based on:
. a generic 2D angle or corner with a fixed aspect ratio.
. a bounding box with four central openings to form an initial shape and to enclose various subshapes.
http://flightplay.net/design/shape_grammar.html#animation
1. The diagrammatic set of Shape rules (S) was based on:
. a generic 2D angle or corner with a fixed aspect ratio.
. a bounding box with four central openings to form an initial shape and to enclose various subshapes.
http://flightplay.net/design/shape_grammar.html#animation
terça-feira, 14 de julho de 2009
quarta-feira, 8 de julho de 2009
Artech 2010
“Envisioning Digital Spaces”
5th Internacional Conference of Digital Arts
21, 22 & 23 April, 2010 - Guimarães, Portugal
http://www.artech-international.com/artech2010/index.php
5th Internacional Conference of Digital Arts
21, 22 & 23 April, 2010 - Guimarães, Portugal
http://www.artech-international.com/artech2010/index.phpSEED Estudi d´ Arquitectura, Disseny y programació Experimental
terça-feira, 7 de julho de 2009
sábado, 4 de julho de 2009
Workshop: O Pensamento da mão
Introdução à Arquitectura
Este workshop, destinado a um público generalizado (maiores de 15 anos) com algum interesse pela área da arquitectura, pretende introduzir nos participantes alguns dos conceitos e elementos da composição arquitectónica.
Pretende-se desenvolver, além de um crescente gosto pela área da arquitectura, noções básicas de composição, proporção e harmonia.
Os participantes serão levados a explorar criativamente alguns dos conceitos arquitectónicos aqui apreendidos e, através de experimentações, apresentar uma pequena proposta em forma de modelo tridimensional (maqueta).
Esta actividade, que será orientada pelo arquitecto Rui Pereira, é organizada pela Associação Elucid’Arte e conta com os apoios da Câmara Municipal de Setúbal e do RP Atelier. A inscrição é 10€ e estas deverão ser efectuadas através do e-mail elucidarte@gmail.com ou dos telefones 96 722 82 97 e 96 00 02 422. Mais informações em www.elucidarte.blogspot.com.
Data: 2 e 3 de Julho (5.ª e 6.ª feira de manhã)
Orientador: Rui Pereira - Arquitecto e coordenador de um atelier multidisciplinar
Destinatário: Maiores de 15 anos
Local: Casa Bocage, Rua Edmond Bartissol, 12, Setúbal
Preço: 10 euros
http://elucidarte.blogspot.com/
Este workshop, destinado a um público generalizado (maiores de 15 anos) com algum interesse pela área da arquitectura, pretende introduzir nos participantes alguns dos conceitos e elementos da composição arquitectónica.
Pretende-se desenvolver, além de um crescente gosto pela área da arquitectura, noções básicas de composição, proporção e harmonia.
Os participantes serão levados a explorar criativamente alguns dos conceitos arquitectónicos aqui apreendidos e, através de experimentações, apresentar uma pequena proposta em forma de modelo tridimensional (maqueta).
Esta actividade, que será orientada pelo arquitecto Rui Pereira, é organizada pela Associação Elucid’Arte e conta com os apoios da Câmara Municipal de Setúbal e do RP Atelier. A inscrição é 10€ e estas deverão ser efectuadas através do e-mail elucidarte@gmail.com ou dos telefones 96 722 82 97 e 96 00 02 422. Mais informações em www.elucidarte.blogspot.com.
Data: 2 e 3 de Julho (5.ª e 6.ª feira de manhã)
Orientador: Rui Pereira - Arquitecto e coordenador de um atelier multidisciplinar
Destinatário: Maiores de 15 anos
Local: Casa Bocage, Rua Edmond Bartissol, 12, Setúbal
Preço: 10 euros
http://elucidarte.blogspot.com/
quinta-feira, 2 de julho de 2009
quarta-feira, 1 de julho de 2009
segunda-feira, 29 de junho de 2009
sexta-feira, 26 de junho de 2009
Generative circulation patterns for architecture and urban design with agent modelling
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