Towards a Computational Description of Urban Patterns (original) (raw)

2008, Architecture in Computro [26th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-7-2] Antwerpen (Belgium) 17-20 September 2008, pp. 239-248

"This study is concerned with the formulation of solutions for urban problems. It departs from Alexander’s pattern language theory and urban design guidelines, to create a system for generating specifications or the ingredients of a plan, given a scale, a site and a community. It takes into account strategies, regulations, guidelines, physical features of the site, and furthermore, the social, cultural and economic characteristics of the population. This system, sorted by a sequence of events, through stages, categories, methods and agents, describes taxonomic levels and their inner relations. Such an ontology provides a pattern encoding structure towards a computational model within the capabilities provided by the spatial data modeling of GIS (GIS-O). The urban formulation model is conceived to increase qualitative inputs, reducing ambiguities, through a flexible while automate process applied to urban planning. Cite: Montenegro, N.; Duarte, J. P. (2008). Towards a Computational Description of Urban Patterns: an urban formulation ontology. In M. Muylle, & E. De Vos (Ed.), Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - eCAADe 2008, (pp. 239-248). Antwerpen, Belgium. "