Meta-PREVI Grammar. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mendes, Leticia Teixeira; Celani, Gabriela; Beirão, José Nuno
• Is Part Of: International journal of architectural computing. Volume 12:Number 4(2014)
• Page Start: 459
• Page End: 476
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: Architecture -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Virtual reality in architecture -- Periodicals; Computer-aided design -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Data processing; Periodicals; 720.2840285536
• DOI: 10.1260/1478-0771.12.4.459
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-0771

Abstract

This paper describes part of a wider research that aimed at using Shape Grammar to generate more diverse and interesting urban spaces in Brazilian Social Housing developments. A shape grammar corresponding to design patterns was inferred from the PREVI Lima urban plan developed by C. Alexander [1] in the 1970s. The grammar was inferred from the plan layout and from the text instructions (or pattern descriptions) presented by Alexander, and can be applied to design new plans within a wider formal universe than what the plan layout would suggest. The final section of the paper points towards the development of generic grammars as a way of encapsulating good qualities of certain design projects and applying them to new situations.