City Induction: A Model for Formulating, Generating, and Evaluating Urban Designs

Duarte, José Pinto; Beirão, José Nuno; Montenegro, Nuno; Gil, Jorge

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29758-8_5

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Regarding the re-engineering of existing ontologies, to the best of our knowledge, few ontologies are formalised in the urban morphology domain; the more important instances are Beira˜o et al (2009), Camacho-Hu¨bner (2011), Duarte et al (2012) and Me´tral et al (2007). We have concluded that experts can deal with just a few ontologies in a much more simple and effective way than any currently available tool.…”

Section: Perspectives On Automatic Ontological Learningmentioning

confidence: 93%

Semantic urban modelling: Knowledge representation of urban space

Berta

Caneparo

Montuori

et al. 2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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The paper presents a methodology for describing in generative terms the structure of urban fabrics: the objective is to transfer conceptually the knowledge about the domain of urban space into a hierarchical and interrelated semantic structure with relevant concepts, elements and their mutual relationships, providing explicit and unambiguous definitions. The conceptual and operational instrument adopted for this purpose is the ontology, a method of knowledge representation and management coming from the Artificial Intelligence. This approach aims to create a customisable digital design tool, to support the designer in the early stages of urban design process, such as street pattern and massing definition, by generating in real time a number of design scenarios, starting from a large number of constraints and requests. This paper focuses on the knowledge formalisation aspects of the research that is the basis for the generative modelling of urban space.

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Section: Perspectives On Automatic Ontological Learningmentioning

confidence: 93%

Semantic urban modelling: Knowledge representation of urban space

Berta

Caneparo

Montuori

et al. 2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…The basic idea was that following contextual analysis, certain patterns would be triggered, forming a program for urban intervention, and then such patterns could be formalized in a flexible urban plan using shape grammars. Later on, in “City Induction” Duarte et al (2012) formalized the underlying methodology with the aim of developing a supporting computer platform. In addition to the use of patterns and grammars, it was proposed the development of an ontological structure (Gruber, 1993) to describe the urban environment and the development processes, and space syntax (Hillier & Hanson, 1984) to characterize affordances of urban solutions.…”

Section: Generic Grammars For the Urban Design Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generic grammars for design domains

Beirão

Duarte

2018

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Shape grammars have been developed to codify a specific type of artifact – Queen Anne houses, Buffalo bungalows – or the style of a particular designer – Andrea Palladio, Frank Lloyd Wright, or Álvaro Siza Vieira. However, these specific grammars fail to encode recurrent design moves or features that are above the particularities of a specific design style or the idiosyncrasies of a specific designer and, therefore, are common to a larger category of designs and maybe reutilized and incorporated in the definition of new, specific design languages. To overcome these limitations, the notion of generic grammars for defining design domains is introduced. Its application to the urban design domain is illustrated by showing a generic grammar implementation resulting in a City Information Modeling platform composed of a parametric design interface connected to a geographic database.

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“…The research project City Induction (Beirão et al, 2012;Duarte et al, 2012) involved several researchers in the development of a computational platform to generate possible scenarios as a tool for the urban design process at the scale of the site. The research applied three different theories to the development of the parametric model: (1) pattern language (Alexander, 1977), for the formulation of urban programs, based on an analysis of the context; (2) descriptive grammars (Stiny & Gips, 1972) for generating urban plans consistent with the formulated program; and (3) space syntax (Hillier & Hanson, 1984) for the evaluation of the generated urban plans.…”

Section: Rhinoceros3dmentioning

confidence: 99%