Generating a Visual Language of Performance-Driven Configurations for the Principal Façade of a Prototype Sustainable House

A performance-driven application of shape grammars is presented. A parametric shape grammar that generates a language of pattern designs for the principal façade of a prototype house—featuring a 5 × 20 matrix of electrochromic windows—based equally on performance and aesthetic criteria is described....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kotsopoulos, Sotirios D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Basel 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103157