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Generic grammars for design domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2018

José Beirão Open the ORCID record for José Beirão [Opens in a new window]  and
José P. Duarte Open the ORCID record for José P. Duarte [Opens in a new window]
José Beirão
Affiliation:
CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, R. Sá Nogueira, 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal
José P. Duarte*
Affiliation:
SCDC, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Penn State University, 150 Stuckeman Family Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Author for correspondence: José P Duarte, SCDC, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Penn State University, 150 Stuckeman Family Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: jxp400@psu.edu
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

CIMgeneric grammarsparametric designshape grammarsurban design
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Regular Articles
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AI EDAM , Volume 32 , Special Issue 2: Advances in Implemented Shape Grammars: Solutions and Applications , May 2018 , pp. 225 - 239
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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