Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters

Hong, Tzu-Chieh Kurt; Economou, Athanassios

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90625-2_11

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“…41 And yet, much more work is needed to see whether indeed the shape grammar implementations can find their way into the toolkit of most practicing architects. 42,43…”

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Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice

Okhoya¹,

Bernal²,

Economou

et al. 2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Generative design is emerging as an important approach for design exploration and design analysis in architectural practice. At the interior design scale, although many approaches exist, they do not meet many requirements for implementing generative design in practice. These requirements include the need for end-user accessible tools and skills, rapid execution, the use of standard inputs and outputs, and being scalable and reusable. In this paper, we describe a hybrid process that uses both space allocation and shape grammar algorithms to solve workplace and space planning interior design problems. Space allocation algorithms partition spaces according to program requirements while shape grammar automates the placement of inventory and the production of high-resolution drawings. We evaluate using three real world example projects how this hybrid approach meets the identified requirements of generative space planning in architectural practice.

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“…41 And yet, much more work is needed to see whether indeed the shape grammar implementations can find their way into the toolkit of most practicing architects. 42,43…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice

Okhoya¹,

Bernal²,

Economou

et al. 2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…The implementation of shape embedding through database query, despite its success in well-structured cases and design workflows, fails to provide a general solution to the subshape problem (McKay et al , 2012). The implementation of shape embedding through the derivation of the transformation matrices is still the most promising method, but it is plagued by a series of problems across several fronts (Stouffs, 2019; Hong and Economou, 2021).…”

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What shape grammars do that CAD should: the 14 cases of shape embedding

Hong

Economou

2022

AIEDAM

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Shape queries based on shape embedding under a given Euclidean, affine, or linear transformation are absent from current CAD systems. The only systems that have attempted to implement shape embedding are the shape grammar interpreters albeit with promising but inconclusive results. The work here identifies all possible 14 cases of shape embedding with respect to the number of available registration points, four for determinate cases and ten for indeterminate ones, and an approach is sketched to take on the complexities underlying the indeterminate cases. All visual calculations are done with shapes consisting of straight lines in the Euclidean plane within the algebra U ij for i = 1 the dimension of lines and j = 2 the dimension of space in which the lines are defined, transformed and combined. Aspects of interface design and integration to current work design workflows are deliberately left aside.

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Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine

Economou

Hong

2023

Design Computing and Cognition’22

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Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice

Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice

What shape grammars do that CAD should: the 14 cases of shape embedding

Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine

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