Automated Representation of Style by Feature Space Archetypes: Distinguishing Spatial Styles from Generative Rules

Style is a broad term that could potentially refer to any features of a work, as well as a fluid concept that is subject to change and disagreement, yet approaches to representing it too often seek either a pre-defined set of generative rules or list of measurable features. Instead, a general and fl...

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Published inInternational journal of architectural computing Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Main Author Hanna, Sean
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2007
Subjects
Algorithms
Architecture
Computational fluid dynamics
Design engineering
Fluid flow
Fluids
Lists
Representations
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ISSN1478-0771
2048-3988
DOI10.1260/147807707780913001

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Summary:Style is a broad term that could potentially refer to any features of a work, as well as a fluid concept that is subject to change and disagreement, yet approaches to representing it too often seek either a pre-defined set of generative rules or list of measurable features. Instead, a general and flexible method of retrospectively and automatically representing style is proposed based on the idea of an archetype, to which real designs can be compared, and tested with examples of architectural plans. Unlike a fixed, symbolic representation, both the measurements of features that define a style and the selection of those features themselves can be performed by the machine, making it able to generalise a definition automatically from a set of examples. This process is implemented in analysis, and coupled with a generative algorithm to produce plans in a learned style.
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ISSN:1478-0771
2048-3988
DOI:10.1260/147807707780913001