Architectural Morphospace: Mapping Worlds of Built Forms
Architectural Morphospace: Mapping Worlds of Built Forms
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DOI：
10.1068/b35102t
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2010-04
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P. Steadman;L. Mitchell
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作者：
P. Steadman;L. Mitchell
提出了一种方法来绘制各种各样的矩形建筑形式在二维“形态空间”的可能性。平面图是通过二进制编码技术列举出来的，这样相似的形状被分组在这个形态空间的不同区域内。一些应用到建筑类型的几何历史的草图，从19世纪的亭子医院，英国小学，和早期的纽约摩天大楼的例子。目的是提供建筑形式的分类，以系统的方式理解它们之间的相互关系，并了解建筑类型如何在这个形式空间中遵循特征的“形态轨迹”。它是一个工具，用它来接近建筑的历史，从几何的角度来看。它并不主要被认为是设计的辅助工具：尽管如此，本文总结了一些关于使用遗传算法对设计方法可能产生的影响的简要推测。
A method is proposed for plotting the plans of a large variety of rectangular built forms across a two-dimensional ‘morphospace’ of possibilities. The plans are enumerated by means of a technique of binary coding, such that similar shapes are grouped within distinct areas of this morphospace. Some applications to a geometrical history of building types are sketched, with examples from 19th-century pavilion hospitals, English elementary schools, and early New York skyscrapers. The purpose is to provide classification of built forms, to understand their interrelationships in a systematic way, and to see how building types have followed characteristic ‘morphological trajectories’ through this space of forms. It is a tool with which to approach the history of architecture from a geometrical point of view. It is not primarily conceived as an aid to design: nevertheless the paper concludes with some brief speculations about possible implications for design methods, using genetic algorithms.