How to Customize Architecture under Heavily Prescribed Design Conditions? Principles and Prospects for an Evolutionary System

How to Customize Architecture under Heavily Prescribed Design Conditions? Principles and Prospects for an Evolutionary System

Bunster, Victor

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Architectural design is a complex activity. The development of a building involves management of the diverse goals of a heterogeneous group of agents using no more than the discrete resources of a given setting. These variables can often conflict and result in rigid normative frameworks that can limit the capacity of a designer to respond with accuracy to diverse environmental factors. The main aim of this paper is to present the theoretical foundations of an evolutionary system to assist the customization of architecture under such prescribed design conditions.

Architectural design is a complex activity. The development of a building involves management of the diverse goals of a heterogeneous group of agents using no more than the discrete resources of a given setting. These variables can often conflict and result in rigid normative frameworks that can limit the capacity of a designer to respond with accuracy to diverse environmental factors. The main aim of this paper is to present the theoretical foundations of an evolutionary system to assist the customization of architecture under such prescribed design conditions.

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DOI: 10.5151/despro-sigradi2013-0060

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Bunster, Victor; "How to Customize Architecture under Heavily Prescribed Design Conditions? Principles and Prospects for an Evolutionary System", p-319-323. In: Proceedings of the XVII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics: Knowledge-based Design [=Blucher Design Proceedings, v.1, n.7]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/despro-sigradi2013-0060