- Title
- A syntactical and grammatical approach to architectural configuration, analysis and generation
- Creator
- Lee, Ju Hyun; Ostwald, Michael J.; Gu, Ning
- Relation
- Architectural Science Review Vol. 58, Issue 3, p. 189-204
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2015.1015948
- Publisher
- Earthscan
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The combination of Space Syntax and Shape Grammar approaches to design potentially offers a rigorous way of first understanding a characteristic instance of architectural configuration (say, a set of designs by an architect or a particular building type) and then producing variations of that instance. This paper presents a method that commences with a justified plan graph-grammar-based analysis of an architectural design, and then uses a grammatical interpretation of the structure of this syntax. Using this graph as a starting point, it is then possible to develop a 3D shape grammar of the same building. In this way, both syntactical and formal information are captured as part of the sequential analysis. This combined analytical approach can support a better understanding of an architectural style and its design instances as well as the generative capability of these two computational theories - Space Syntax and Shape Grammar. The paper introduces this combined method and then demonstrates it using 10 house designs by Glenn Murcutt.
- Subject
- space syntax; shape grammar; justified plan graph; architectural configuration; three-dimensional shape; Gelnn Murcutt
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1306518
- Identifier
- uon:21202
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-8628
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Architectural Science Review on 09/03/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00038628.2015.1015948
- Language
- eng
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