Shape Machine +
Shape Grammars
with Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong
Athanassios Economou
James Park
The shape grammar formalism has offered a visual, rule-based framework for interpreting architectural languages for over forty years. However, the ability to implement grammars within a technology that allows for direct engagement with shape rules and productions so that they can be dynamically simulated, shared, understood, modified, and brought into a more active theoretical dialogue is only partially achieved. The work here asks how a new technology that allows shape rules to be implemented by drawing shapes to specify scripts instead of writing code can reinvigorate shape computation to advance formal analysis and synthesis in architectural research and design theory. The example in the video above is a case study to produce a 3x3 variation on John Portman’s Entelechy I with Shape Machine.
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