Creating Specific Grammars with Generic Grammars: Towards Flexible Urban Design

Beirão, José Nuno; Duarte, José Pinto; Stouffs, Rudi

doi:10.1007/s00004-011-0059-3

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“…This search has already begun in the past decade. Researchers around the world are striving to develop new (digitally-based) urban planning and design methods and techniques that enable more flexible and quicker response to unpredictable changes in space and time (Batty, 2013;Beirão, Duarte, & Stouffs, 2011;DeVries, Tabak, & Achten, 2005). Rather than designing a final solution (master plan), we should design its control system (Verebes, 2013a) and let the solution gradually evolve itself through time.…”

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Adaptive urbanism: a parametric maps approach

Vidmar¹,

Koželj

2013

IU-CG

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Adaptive urbanism: a parametric maps approach

Vidmar¹,

Koželj

2013

IU-CG

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“…In the majority of cases, shape grammar research has tended to produce only a single grammar for a given corpus of work, but we feel it is the comparison of different grammars for similar or partially overlapping corpora that will yield greater insight into questions of style and representation. Moreover, this research is seen as an initial step in the development of a generic grammar for housing, a concept applied in urban contexts by Beirão et al [2]. It is hoped that by breaking the tacitly assumed equation of a single grammar with a single style, significant steps may be made toward this goal.…”

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A New Palladian Shape Grammar

Benrós

Duarte²,

Hanna

2012

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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The following paper describes a shape grammar that recreates Palladian villas. A Palladian grammar was originally proposed by Stiny and Mitchell. However, this alternative grammar uses different parametric shape rules and methodology to test the hypothesis that different grammars can generate the same corpus of designs.The formalism is then implemented using a computerised design tool.The grammar includes subdivision rules that allow for a more economical formulation. A new corpus of solutions is explored and the derivation is compared with the original Palladian grammar. The project is part of wider research aimed at formulating a generic housing grammar.

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“…Beirão et al [2], working on urban shape grammars, proposed a generic grammar for design and illustrated an application for urban design. Stiny [3] showed how shape grammar rules may be classified into a finite set of rule types or schemas expressed algebraically to suggest how different grammars may share a common structure.…”

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A Generic Shape Grammar for the Palladian Villa, Malagueira House, and Prairie House

Benrós

Hanna

Duarte³

2014

Design Computing and Cognition '12

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Shape grammars are formulations consisting of transformation rules that describe design. Previous studies have focused on recreating the style of family-related solutions. This study does not aim to recreate a specific architectural style but is part of wider research aimed at inferring shape grammars. It is believed that more than one grammar can be developed for the same style, but no one has ever demonstrated this possibility. In addition, no one has ever developed a grammar that can describe more than one style. The aim of this work is to demonstrate both possibilities. Firstly, it proposes a shape grammar that can produce three different design styles, and, secondly, it uses a process that is distinctively different from other tested examples yet still produces the same corpus of designs. It also enables a new corpus of designs to be produced, which had not been possible using the previous (or original) grammars. A selected case study of three grammars, namely for Palladian, Prairie and Malagueira houses, allowed for comparison and observation of the different processes and shape rules and for a new set of rules to be proposed, combined in a shape grammar. This was followed by the recreation of a new subdivision type of grammar with a top-down approach and a set of generic design rules. The result is a generic shape grammar that enables three different house styles to be designed from the same formulation.

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Creating Specific Grammars with Generic Grammars: Towards Flexible Urban Design

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Cited by 37 publications

References 15 publications

Adaptive urbanism: a parametric maps approach

Adaptive urbanism: a parametric maps approach

A New Palladian Shape Grammar

A Generic Shape Grammar for the Palladian Villa, Malagueira House, and Prairie House

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