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CourtsWeb

A research database for new federal courthouses

CourtsWeb is the research data­base for new fed­eral cour­t­houses devel­oped by Geor­gia Tech Research Insti­tute through a GSA — U.S. Courts joint ven­ture. The appli­ca­tion is built upon a data­base with exten­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion of recent cour­t­houses includ­ing text, spread­sheets, pho­tos, panoramic images, dia­grams, draw­ings, and inter­ac­tive plans. There are pow­er­ful oper­a­tions for the descrip­tion and evaluation […]

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Autodesk Apps

Isovist, Pathfinder and GRAPPA

Finally we have found time to sit down and wrap-up sev­eral projects that have been lying around. The projects mostly evolved out of exper­i­ments and have now been brushed up and given an inter­face. The have now been pub­lished in the Autodesk app store. For Auto­CAD and Auto­CAD Archi­tec­ture there are apps to gen­er­ate Iso­vists and to […]

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GRAPE Line

Web-based shape grammar interpreter

A web inter­face for the GRAPE library. GRAPE is a shape gram­mar library and this inter­face offers a pre­view with two rule sets. The first rule set show­cases some para­met­ric rules based on max­i­mal lines and sup­port­ing emer­gence. The sec­ond rule set is an imple­men­ta­tion of the Pal­la­dian gram­mar (Stiny and Mitchell, 1978). Cur­rently not […]

Derivation of a square theme. Using one copy and one move rule.

GRAPE

Swing like an ape from shape to shape

GRAPE (GRaph shAPE) is a shape gram­mar edi­tor based on graph gram­mars. It cur­rently uti­lizes the pack­age GrGen.NET and is imple­mented as plug-ins for Rhino 5 and Auto­CAD 2011. Hard­coded rules can sup­port para­met­ric shape gram­mars in U13 x V03. The visual edi­tor, which is a more recent addi­tion sup­ports para­met­ric shape gram­mars in U13GRAPE […]

A montage showing the Revit Add-In and several steps of a derivation

Grappa

Transforming graphs to Palladian villas

An imple­men­ta­tion of the “Pal­la­dian Gram­mar” by Stiny and Mitchell as an Add-In for Autodesk Revit 2011.

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Sieve

Partial lattices of two- and three-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis

The Sieve is a Java applet, which can be used to learn about and ana­lyze point sym­me­tries. It started of with just the par­tial lat­tices of two-dimensional point sym­me­tries (G02), grad­u­ally more infor­ma­tion and dimen­sions where added. Cur­rently it shows for G02 and G03 the par­tial lat­tice, var­i­ous nam­ing con­ven­tions, the cycle index and a visual […]

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Combining Triples

A graph gram­mar for the gen­er­a­tion of topolo­gies for the U.S. fed­eral cour­t­house typol­ogy is intro­duced. Pos­si­ble con­fig­u­ra­tions are enu­mer­ated and a nomen­cla­ture is pro­posed. Embed­ded within a larger project on the analy­sis and gen­er­a­tive descrip­tion of U.S. fed­eral cour­t­houses, the aim of this task was to enu­mer­ate, gen­er­ate and name pos­si­ble topolo­gies for the […]

Comparing two floors on the coarsest resolution

Spatial Similarity Metrics

Com­par­ing space allo­ca­tion pro­grams com­pu­ta­tion­ally is a resource inten­sive task. This paper intro­duces a method which reduces the com­plex­ity of floor plan graphs to facil­i­tate the prob­lem. In a first step the nodes are labeled accord­ing to a laid out clas­si­fi­ca­tion scheme. This in its own right reduces the com­plex­ity of the com­par­i­son by introducing […]

Cover of the VIPA Report

VIPA

VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects

Christoph Falkner and Thomas Grasl are part of  the project team  at the Vienna Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy work­ing on the VIPA project, a transna­tional research project sup­ported by the Euro­pean Com­mu­nity. The objec­tive is the devel­op­ment of a transna­tional vir­tual cam­pus con­tain­ing an e-learning and research plat­form for Euro­pean archi­tec­ture uni­ver­si­ties in the field of […]