A Design Tool for Generic Multipurpose Chair Design

Garcia, Sara; Romão, Luís

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-47386-3_33

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“…Moreover, and regarding the evaluation of ChairDNA as a design tool, we will detail a user evaluation oriented for synthetic purposes. In previous work, ChairDNA was evaluated as an analysis tool (Garcia & Barros, 2015), being able to restrict the solution space to one particular style, and as a pedagogical tool (Garcia & Romão, 2015), being evaluated by design students.…”

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Shape grammars as design tools: an implementation of a multipurpose chair grammar

Garcia

Leitão

2018

AIEDAM

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This paper presents a multipurpose chair grammar and its implementation in the design tool ChairDNA. This tool is oriented for the exploration of design alternatives in the early concept phase of the chair design process. This work addresses two shortcomings within the research area of shape grammars (SGs), namely, the lack of implementation of SGs applied to design domains, and the lack of practical applications in real-life design scenarios. To address these problems, a methodology is proposed for the implementation of a SG (more specifically, a set grammar) into a tool, comprising the translation of the grammar into user-interface elements oriented for design practitioners. By using the proposed tool, the user can add/delete chair components and edit shape parameters, while visualizing the effects on a three-dimensional digital model presented in a variety of CAD applications. Compared with other SG implementations, ChairDNA uses an approach that keeps under control the combinatorial explosion of rule applications, which simplifies the use of the tool by designers that do not have experience in SGs. The generative potential of the tool is demonstrated by generating chairs of different types, and its usability and utility in aiding the designer are evaluated by design students and design practitioners.

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“…In both cases, the connection to the CAD applications is ensured by Rosetta (Lopes & Leitão, 2011). The first version of the tool is briefly documented in (Garcia & Romão, 2015); the second version will be discussed below.…”

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Shape grammars as design tools: an implementation of a multipurpose chair grammar

Garcia

Leitão

2018

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“…McGill 2002Yingzao fashi grammar Li (2002) Harley Davidson Pugliese and Cagan (2002) Grammar use and interaction Chase (2002) Buick McCormack and Cagan (2004) Coca-Cola grammar Chau et al (2004) Cross-over vehicle grammar Orsborn et al (2006) Digital camera design parametric grammar Lee et al (2012) Malagueira Duarte (2005), Duarte and Correia (2006) 2015Dirksen grammar Park and Economou (2015) Multipurpose chair grammar Garcia and Romão (2015) Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing four steps: (1) extracting objects from the data;…”

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AI EDAM special issue: advances in implemented shape grammars: solutions and applications

Eloy

Pauwels

Economou

2018

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This paper introduces the special issue “Advances in Implemented Shape Grammars: Solutions and Applications” and frames the topic of computer implementations of shape grammars, both with a theoretical and an applied focus. This special issue focuses on the current state of the art regarding computer implementations of shape grammars and brings a discussion about how those systems can evolve in the coming years so that they can be used in real life design scenarios. This paper presents a brief state of the art of shape grammars implementation and an overview of the papers included in the current special issue categorized under technical design, interpreters and interface design, and uses cases. The paper ends with a comprehensive outlook into the future of shape grammars implementations.

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“…One may now jump to step 4. ( 4) A generic grammar may be inferred from two specific grammars that generate two different specific languages (Benr s et al 2012, Castro e Costa and Duarte 2014) or by designs of a more generic language (Garcia and Romão 2015). A generic grammar is able to be customized into the previous existing specific grammar (2), a new specific grammar which generates a new specific language (4a), and generate new designs of new specific languages (4b).…”

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“…This paper refers to the second stage, in a bottom-up approach from a specific grammar developed in the first stage to a generic grammar. The third stage of the design comprised a more generic grammar, its implementation and evaluation (Garcia and Romão 2015). The fourth stage detailed the incorporation in the generic tool of a specific grammar (Garcia and Barros 2015).…”

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Development of a Virtual Reality Solution for End User Involvement in Interior Design

Svidt¹,

Sørensen²

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eC

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The original idea of bringing the eCAADe conference to Oulu dates back to September 2012 after the eCAADe conference in Prague. Officially, the eCAADe Council granted us the permission to organize the 34th eCAADe conference in Oulu in March 2013. Over the last four years several people have helped us to make this conference happen. We thank especially the former Dean of Oulu School of Architecture, now the Vice Rector for Education, University of Oulu, Professor Helka-Liisa Hentilä and the present Dean of Oulu School of Architecture, Professor Rainer Mahlamäki for their positive and supportive attitude.During the lengthy process of organizing the eCAADe 2016 we have had the privilege to experience the supportive and kind atmosphere of eCAADe Council, whose members have helped us with all aspects of the organizing. We warmly thank both Presidents Johan Verbeke (until 2016) and Joachim Kieferle (since 2016) for encouragement and unswerving support during the organizing of this conference. We most warmly thank Bob Martens, the liaison with the conference host and the previous conference organizer, for always kindly and patiently guiding us through the multistage arrangement process of the conference. Also, we wish to thank all the other previous conference organizers, Henri Achten, Rudi Stouffs and Emine Mine Thompson, for sharing their experience and knowledge without hesitation.Quality control is an emerging issue concerning the publishing of a conference proceedings. We are grateful for eCAADe Council for being able to use the OpenConf system throughout the publishing process. Authors uploaded their extended abstracts (length of 1000 to 1500 words and one optional image) for the double blind peer review process. Each abstract Acknowledgements -Volume 2 -eCAADe 34 | 7 was evaluated by three reviewers. With the help of the OpenConf system we could, for example, easily ensure that none of the reviewers came from the same institution as the authors.Altogether, we received 241 abstracts from authors from 44 different countries. After the peer review process, 165 papers were accepted for full paper submission. In the end, altogether 157 papers were presented in eCAADe 2016 and published in the proceedings. We are very grateful for all the 98 reviewers from 29 different countries (see the List of Reviewers) for their constructive and thorough comments for each author. We also continued the practice started in eCAADe 2015 conference in Vienna of having all the session chairs to give prospective comments of the papers to evoke the discourse at early stage between the author and session chair for the 27 sessions of the conference. All the session chairs also participated the peer review process of the extended abstracts. We owe the session chairs great gratitude for their commitment and long term contribution to the process until the final paper presentations.Parallel to these prospective comments editorial team gave comments to the authors too. We thank and congratulate all authors for their hard work and support on using...

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A Design Tool for Generic Multipurpose Chair Design

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Shape grammars as design tools: an implementation of a multipurpose chair grammar

Shape grammars as design tools: an implementation of a multipurpose chair grammar

AI EDAM special issue: advances in implemented shape grammars: solutions and applications

Development of a Virtual Reality Solution for End User Involvement in Interior Design

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