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Mass Customization and Grammar Studies

The Grammar of Siza’s Malagueira Houses by Jose Duarte shows an overhead view of 25 house design iterations.

The goal of this project is to develop the tools to support the mass customization of housing, work spaces, and daily use objects. It addresses both the grammatical analysis of existing building and object types, as well as the development of design systems encoding new types.

José Pinto Duarte Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation; Director, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing Learn More

More about this project

Project Partners

Team

FACULTY

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

  • Eduardo Castro e Costa
  • Anja Wutte

Funding

  • SCDC
  • Design Innovation Fund

Publications

  • Wutte, A.; Duarte, J. “Shape Grammar as a Typology Defining Tool for Ancient Egyptian Funerary Monuments,” in Nexus Network Journal. In Press.
  • Castro e Costa, E., Jorge, J., Knochel, A., & Duarte, J. (2020). “Enabling parametric design space exploration by non-designers.” Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060420000177 (Published online: 16 April 2020)
  • Shekhawat, K.; Duarte, J.P.  “Introduction to Generic Rectangular Floor Plans,” in Chen, Hoyle, Kim (eds.), AIEDAM, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Volume 32, Issue 3 August 2018, pp. 331-350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060417000671
  • Shekahwat, K.; Pinki; Duarte, J.P. A Graph Theoretical “Approach for Creating Building Floor Plans,” in Ji-Hyun Lee (ed.) Proceedings of the 18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, on Computer-Aided Architectural Design. “Hello, Culture,” Selected Papers, Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 1028), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, June 26–28, 2019, pp. 3-14. Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-13-8409-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8410-3_1
  • Hadighi, M.; Duarte, J.P. “Bauhaus Internationalism to College Town Modernism: Exploring Bauhaus Culture in Hajjar’s Hybrid Architecture,” in Ji-Hyun Lee (ed.) Proceedings of the 18th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2019, on Computer-Aided Architectural Design. “Hello, Culture”, Selected Papers, Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 1028), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, June 26–28, 2019, pp. 429-443, Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-13-8409-7. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8410-3_30
  • Duarte, J.P. “Customizing Mass Housing: Toward a formalized approach,” in Kolarevic, B.; Duarte, J.P. (eds.) Mass Customization and Design Democratization. Routledge, New York, USA, 2019. ISBN: 9780815360605, 0815360606. DOI: 10.4324/9781351117869-11
  • Guerritore, C.; Duarte, J.P. “Rule-based systems in adaptation processes: the adaptation of office buildings into housing in the Italian context,” in Gero, J. (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, DCC 18, Milan, Italy, July 2-4, 2018, pp. 541-560, Springer, The Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05363-5_27