CItyMaker: Designing Grammars for Urban Design - Softcover

Beirao, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147935502X ISBN 13: 9781479355020

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

CItyMaker presents a method and a set of tools to generate alternative solutions for an urban context. The method proposes the use of a combined set of design patterns encoding typical design moves used by urban designers. The combination of patterns generates different layouts which can be adjusted by manipulating several parameters in relation to updated urban indicators. The patterns were developed from observation of typical urban design procedures, first encoded as discursive grammars and later translated into parametric design patterns. The CItyMaker method and tools allows the designer to compose a design solution from a set of programmatic premises and fine-tune it by pulling parameters whilst checking the changes in urban indicators. These tools improve the designer’s awareness of the consequences of their design moves.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147935502X
• ISBN 13: 9781479355020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440