Interweaving Grammar: Reconfiguring Vernacular Structure through Parametric Shape Grammar

Muslimin, Rizal

doi:10.1260/1478-0771.8.2.93

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“…They include reinventing traditional steambending techniques in furniture-making with parametric software, structural analysis and digital fabrication for expression at the architectural scale; reinterpreting traditional interweaving techniques with parametric shape grammars to generate ornamental and structural expressions with rigid local materials; and reviving bamboo craftsmanship with parametric and structural simulation software. [34][35][36] Missing from most of these projects is tactile engagement involved in manipulating materials and their qualities.…”

Section: Craft and Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Noel

2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Computer-based design and fabrication systems in architecture contain modes of operation and preferences that often constrain tectonic possibilities in design and construction. These predispositions neglect architecture’s cultural and material dimensions, resulting in universalizing tectonics that erase nuances of place, culture, and expression in design. How may we celebrate local tectonic languages while also revisiting them through computer-based systems in architecture? The project examined here highlights novel possibilities for cultural expression and craftsmanship through computational design methods, retaining the expressive potential of a local craft while de-familiarizing its cultural context. I analyze how shape grammars and digital fabrication methods deployed in design, de-familiarizes the craft of wire-bending in costuming in the Trinidad Carnival. I present and apply new rules for the craft’s computational description based on material tests and an architectural application to expand discourses on critical regionalism. I adopt Tabbarah’s term “computational regionalism” to describe this process and elaborate it as a five-step sequence. Computational regionalism employs computational methods to translate local craft knowledge and tectonic languages into new interpretations and poetics of construction. Its process of creative de-familiarization raises critical questions about the local and the universal.

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Section: Craft and Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Noel

2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…They have been applied successfully in these tasks across virtually all areas of design from urban design to architecture to landscape design to craft to painting to product design to mechanical design. For examples in each of these areas, see, respectively: Beirão (2012), Duarte (2005), Stiny & Mitchell (1980), Muslimin (2010), Knight (1989), McCormack, Cagan & Vogel (2004, and Agarwal, Cagan & Stiny (2000).…”

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Making grammars: From computing with shapes to computing with things

Knight

Stiny

2015

Design Studies

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Recent interest in making and materiality spans from the humanities and social sciences to engineering, science, and design. Here, we consider making through the lens of a unique computational theory of design: shape grammars. We propose a computational theory of making based on the improvisational, perception and action approach of shape grammars and the shape algebras that support them. We modify algebras for the materials (basic elements) of shapes to define algebras for the materials of objects, or things. Then we adapt shape grammars for computing shapes to making grammars for computing things. We give examples of making grammars and their algebras. We conclude by reframing designing and making in light of our computational theory of making.Keywords: computational model(s); design theory; perception; reflective practice; shape grammarThe recent wave of interest in making, materiality, and material culture -the so-called "material turn" and "new materialism" (Coole & Frost, 2010;Dolphijn & van der Tuin, 2012) -in the social sciences and humanities has been paralleled by growing attention and research on new materials, making, and manufacturing processes in engineering, science, and design. While humanists and social scientists inquire into the subjective, embodied, situated relationships between people and material things, their engineer, scientist, and designer colleagues tend to focus on technological innovations and applications of advanced materials and fabrication devices.We pursue a different tack in the terrain of making and material things. We consider making from a computational point of view. Our computational view intersects with some concerns above, but offers a distinct alternative to how we can think about and engage in making. Our view is rooted in computationbut computation beyond the narrow, digital kind of computation to a more general and perceptual kind in which people carry out operations with things that may only have digital approximations. In a similar vein, we consider making to be processes carried out by people to form material things. From this perspective, the kinds of making are extensive and diverse -ranging from drawing a picture on paper, to producing an image on a computer screen, to weaving a basket, to 3D printing a model, to machining engine parts, to constructing a building. 2In developing our computational approach to making, we also consider the relationship between making and designing, the latter often understood as an intellectual or cognitive activity resulting in a plan for action or making. Our approach collapses many of the dualisms associated with designing and making that originate with Aristotle's concept of hylomorphism. Hylomorphism regards creation as the imposition of an idea of form (morphe) upon passive material or matter (hyle). A reincarnation of hylomorphism, perhaps better known to architects, is Alberti's distinction between designing -as a "pre-ordering of the lines and angles conceived in the mind" (Alberti, 1986: p 2) -and building. Th...

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“…This article presents a preliminary version of the analytical Customization Grammar, resulted from the study of a corpus of 56 CDs, whose main objective is to identify the remodelling patterns – rules most used in apartments’ customization process. In this sense, the focus is on the development of a generative design system – a shape grammar, that, although needs several digital technologies to be parametric – as the one developed by Said and Embi 31 and Muslimin, 32 and to provide mass customization of such designs, it still described in its preliminary version, in an analogic way.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Customization Grammar: Describing the customization process of apartment design

Griz

Amorim

Mendes

et al. 2017

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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This article introduces the concept of Customization Grammar, an analytical shape grammar that describes the alterations introduced by homeowners to high-standard apartments before occupation. This is viewed as a contemporary phenomenon that reveals the incompatibility between social demands and housing units offered by the current real estate market in Recife, Brazil. It is expected that the proposed grammar could support mass customization design procedures and able to generate suitable housing units to current and future lifestyles.

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Interweaving Grammar: Reconfiguring Vernacular Structure through Parametric Shape Grammar

Cited by 4 publications

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Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Making grammars: From computing with shapes to computing with things

A Customization Grammar: Describing the customization process of apartment design

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