Print Email Facebook Twitter Creating specific grammars with generic grammars: Towards flexible urban design Title Creating specific grammars with generic grammars: Towards flexible urban design Author Beirao, J.N. Duarte, J.P. Stouffs, R.M.F. Faculty Architecture Department Building Technology Date 2011-12-31 Abstract The aim of the City Induction project is to develop an urban design tool consisting of 3 parts: an urban programme formulation module, a generation module and an evaluation module. The generation module relies on a very generic Urban Grammar composed of several generic grammars called Urban Induction Patterns (UIPs) corresponding to typical urban design moves. Specific grammars, such as the analytical grammars inferred from our case studies, can be obtained by defining specific arrangements of Urban Induction Patterns and specific constraints on the rule parameters. We show that variations on the UIP arrangements or rule parameters can provide design variations and specific grammars to be synthesised through design exploration. It is therefore seen as a process for synthesizing a specific design grammar within the field of urban design and has two main features: (1) it allows for the synthesis of specific grammars during the design process and (2) it allows for the customization of a personal design language within the broad scope of the generic grammar. A formal definition of Urban Grammars is presented and its application in the production of customized urban designs is demonstrated by customizing design languages using a specific compound grammar defined by a specific arrangement of generic grammars. Subject urban designshape grammarsurban patterns To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9e390f56-60fa-41ea-a5fc-e4a0bf02d968 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-011-0059-3 ISSN 1590-5896 Source http://www.springerlink.com/content/g024086x4n113760/ Source Nexus Network Journal, 13 (1), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2011 The Author(s)Springer Files PDF 279211.pdf 3.07 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9e390f56-60fa-41ea-a5fc-e4a0bf02d968/datastream/OBJ/view