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About this paper
Rohan Agarwal
A shape grammar system was developed in Shape Machine to generate architectural plates in the style of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, leveraging software engineering principles like modularity and object-oriented concepts. This system successfully replicated and generated variations of Durand's plates, demonstrating a structured approach to computational architectural design.
Key insights
- Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand's 19th-century systematic architectural procedures are analogous to pseudocode or algorithms and can be effectively codified into a computational framework.
- Applying software engineering principles, even conceptually, to shape grammar design creates more flexible, modular, and extensible generative systems.
- A clear separation of design stages (layout generation, room marking, part building, final detailing) with an abstract interface enhances systematic composition and variation of architectural forms.
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