Author(s):
Figueiredo, Bruno ; Costa, Eduardo Castro e ; Araújo, Bruno ; Fonseca, Fernando ; Mendes, Daniel ; Jorge, Joaquim A. ; Duarte, José Pinto
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/35273
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F69910%2F2010/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F88040%2F2012/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F91372%2F2012/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/104031/PT
;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/108274/PT
;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/129309/PT
;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/133002/PT;
Subject(s): Alberti; generative design; multi-modal interfaces; shape grammars; user experience; Arts & Humanities; Humanidades::Artes
Description
This paper presents an interactive apparatus to didactically explore Alberti's treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria, as generative design systems, namely shape grammars. This apparatus allows users to interactively explore such architectonical knowledge in both appealing and informal ways, by enabling them to visualize and manipulate in real-time different design solutions. The authors identify the difficulties on encoding the architectural knowledge of a parametric design model into an interactive apparatus to be used by laypeople. At last, the authors discuss the results of a survey conducted to users that interacted with the prototype in order to assess its ability to communicate the knowledge of an architectural language.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho
This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT): doctoral grants SFRH/BD/69910/2010, SFRH/BD/88040/2012 and SFRH/BD/91372/2012, and projects MIVis PTDC/EIA-EIA/104031/2008, Alberti Digital PTDC/AUR-AQI/108274/2008, TECTON-3D PTDC/EEI-SII/3154/2012 and Pest OE/EEI/LA0021/2013.
