Yingge, a ceramic-producing town in Northern Taiwan, has experienced three development stages in the 50 years since 1970. The town's fabric and the second contour evolved through the transformation of its former manufacturing industry into cultural tourism on Old Street. This process of evolution is evidenced through chronological changes of overlaid sections, skylines, and horizontal sections along Old Street since 1970. The street fabric has been shaped by its historical background, government planning strategies, commercial activities, cultural identity, and living patterns. Three-dimensional (3D) scans supported our analysis by capturing and segmenting the vocabularies and overlaid sections with special characteristics and changes. Commercial spaces and open street spaces were found to be mutually influential. A flexible and sometimes hidden spatial structure of fabric was elucidated. Yingge has become a large-scale shopping mall and important window into cultural tourism, with its fabric and contours redeveloped to be consistent with the identity of nearby cities. 3D scanning data were combined with documentation and maps to create a referable connection between reality and chronological data. An augmented reality (AR) application was used to simplify the inspection process through a productive connection between as-built scans and user interactions.
Shape grammar implementation tools play an important role in the generation of designs. Most of the available tools were created to allow the application of shape grammar rules without restrictions. This is largely because shape grammars are context free, as such, the application of a rule is not controlled during derivation. This is also the reason some generate designs that have parts that are too small for the human eye to see. This work presents a tool that allows the addition of bag context to shape grammar rules such that it automatically allows when a rule should be applied based on a defined range. Bag context represents information that is not part of a developing design but instead evolves separately during a derivation. This helps to generate an infinite number of images that are similar but not identical. This tool could offer a wide range of application areas such as aiding the teaching of shape grammar or bag context shape grammar implementation in formal language classes or higher learning in general, a framework to support designers for the development of an improved bag context shape grammar interpreter tool, and others.
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