Generative urban design using shape grammar and block morphological analysis

Monitoring Urban Design through Generative Design Support Tools: a Generative Grammar for Praia

Design new urban spaces is a complex process that extends for a long period, goes through several stages, and addresses several issues, including defining the urban programme and devising the plan layout in all its details, such as the street network, the neighbourhood identity, the city block typologies, and so on. Developing solutions for problems on each stage and evaluating the qualities of...

A Generative Approach towards Performance-Based Design Using a shape grammar implementation

Due to a growing number of regulations and standards, building performance becomes equally important as traditional design drivers. Therefore, it is necessary to quickly explore design alternatives that meet these performance requirements. To support this complex design task, a rule-based design system is proposed that is founded on a shape grammar. This paper describes a graph-based implementa...

Evaluation of Shape Grammar Rules for Urban Transport Network Design

Shape grammar rules are increasingly applied in urban simulation. Even though many network 1 design standards propose shape grammar rules, little is known of the measurable impact of these 2 rules on the performance of transport networks. This paper provides a general definition of 3 shape grammar rules for transport network design. Different rules are evaluated regarding a 4 comprehensive obje...

Multiword Expression Translation Using Generative Dependency Grammar

The Multi-word Expressions (MWE) treatment is a very difficult problem for the Natural Language Processing in general and for Machine Translation in particular. This is true because each word of a MWE can have a specific meaning but the expression can have a totally different meaning both in source and in target language of a translation. The things are complicated also by the fact that the sou...

Harmonised shape grammar in design practice