
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 U13. GRAPE […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]