A language for automatic design generation

Alternative shaper: a model for automatic design generation

“…In Alternative Shaper [SaR13,SaE15] the emphasis is made on symbols, not on shapes. Each symbol may identify a different shape, starting from a set of basic shapes, whether they are dots, lines, geometric or solid shapes or even images, i.e.…”

“…A workbench automating the Alternative Shaper model has been implemented in SWI-prolog to explore a depth first search strategy of the design solution space. This first tool has been used for producing house layouts in a constructive modular system with wooden modules [SaR13,SaE15] and producing house layouts of mass-customized wooden single family houses [KSA16].…”

“…We are particularly interested in the automatic generation of designs based on spatial grammars as a descriptive method for shapes [StG72]. We have been developing computational tools for shape computing and working on its application in the generation of urban and architecture designs [ATS16,KSA16,PRS11,PRL12,SaR13,SaE15].…”

“…One of the main challenges we face in our project is to find out convenient generic concepts for providing easy design specification and fully automatic design generation. These objectives compelled us to propose an extension of traditional spatial and shape grammars [SaR13,SaE15] that we called Alternative Shaper. Alternative Shaper differs from conventional shape grammars in the following aspects: i. emphasis is made on symbols, not on shapes; and ii.…”