An Analytic Study of Architectural Design Style by Fractal Dimension Method

Abstract

Abstract-The design style form, is the different current thought and the local characteristic, the penetration idea but gradually develops into has the representative design form. One kind of typical style form usually is and the local humanities factor and the natural condition close correlation also must have in the creation the idea and the model characteristic. The style although displays to the form, but the style has art, the culture, the social development and so on the profound connotation, said from this in-depth meaning, the style does not equate to the form, therefore the design style embodiment is this research institute needs to go into seriously.Index Terms-architectural master, designing style, fractal dimension, architecture analysis

The comparative numerical analysis of nature and architecture: A new framework

“…Elevations and plans are relevant subjects for analysis, as an elevation can be considered to provide a measure of the geometric complexity of the building as viewed from the exterior and the plan provides a measure of the complexity of the design as it is inhabited. In the past, box-counting has been applied to line drawings of plans [10,31] simple line elevations [6] and detailed linear elevations [29]. Single line digitised tracings of site plans showing the outlines of buildings have been taken from the maps of both ancient [24] and contemporary cases [23].…”

“…Researchers have also used the box-counting variation of fractal analysis to measure the visual properties of recent architecture [6,10,11,31].…”

Representing architecture for fractal analysis: a framework for identifying significant lines

“…Consider the example of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, a design which has been the subject of five separate applications of fractal analysis (Bovill 1996;Lorenz 2003Lorenz , 2012Wen and Kao 2005;Ostwald, Vaughan, and Tucker 2008). Across these studies, variation in the measurements recorded for the north elevation is in the order of 18%.…”

“…The primary representational media used for architectural analysis is orthographic drawing and there are many variations in how a building can be represented in such a drawing. For example, Wen and Kao (2005) measured and analysed the lines present in a series of published design drawings of Villa Savoye. In these drawings, a range of graphic standards were used to represent the textural and material qualities of the architecture and to signal the function of certain spaces.…”

“…In contrast, Bovill's (1996) analysis of the same building is derived from a tracing of a similar drawing where he chose to only delineate major changes in form. The difference between Bovill's (1996) and Wen and Kao's (2005) representation of the Villa explains a large portion of the 18% anomaly in fractal measures; they were measuring different lines on a drawing. But which one, if any, is right?…”