Shape grammar

Learning Outcomes 1. Produce new designs using shape grammar method from the student’s own set of rules. Take Taylor's Lakeside as the site, a building for Kayak Club is designed with a reception area, store room, changing room, office and cafe. Using 5 shape rules, 6 designs are creates according to different shape rules. One of the designs is further developed with spaces and facade.

The concept of shape grammars was first introduced by George Stiny and James Gips in 1972 to explain generative patterns in paintings and sculptures. Shape grammars are "a set of shape rules that apply in a step-by-step way to generate a set, or language, of designs" (Shape grammars in education and practice, by Terry Knight, 1999) in both 2D and 3D space. They can serve as a simple starting point for sophiscated and complex designs. The graph (source) below demonstrates four simple additive…

The exploration into means for designing images for the recombinable vector graphics library led me to a foray into the field of shape grammars. This text is of an exploratory nature, and by no mea…

Shape Grammars were first invented by George Stiny and James Gips in their 1972 article Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture. Shape grammars combine shapes and…

Sortal grammars extend on (...): - Shape grammars commonly rely on labeled shapes, a combination of line segments and labeled points (in two dimensions), (...) - Color grammars allow for a variety of qualitative aspects of design, such as color, to be integrated in the rules of a shape grammar. (...) In sortal grammars, shapes may be either the object or the attribute in the relationship (...). Any sort can serve as object or attribute and sortal structures can extend multiple levels deep.