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Paper: af34
| Paper title: | Exploracion de Alternativas Formales de Edificios Ortogonales |
| Authors: | Combes., Leonardo and Saito, Keiko |
| Summary: | The shape of buildings determines the relationships between the contained spaces with the contained activities. As shapes are represented by their perimeter, the form and the length of building perimeters is of particular interest to architectural design. This paper presents a short computer program oriented to the exploration of modular floor plans related to their perimeter. The characteristics of a class of orthogonal configurations called polyminoes has been taken as a basis for the programming work. Polyminoes are briefly presented in the first part of the paper as well as some data concerning their geometrical structure. The operation of the computer program illustrated by some working examples, is described in the last part of the paper. The results obtained can be used for comparison between alternative shapes. Additional information about these modular shapes is given together with every particular form so as to ease the evaluation task. In these terms the program must be seen as a tool of assessment rather than as a designing procedure. |
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| Year of publication: | 1998 |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/af34.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Combes., Leonardo and Saito, Keiko (1998). Exploracion de Alternativas Formales de Edificios Ortogonales . II Seminario Iberoamericano de Grafico Digital [SIGRADI Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-97190-0-X] Mar del Plata (Argentina) 9-11 september 1998, pp. 286-291, http://itc.scix.net/paper/af34 |
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