Abstract
The increasing interest in materiality currently challenges the long existing traditions that consider visual thinking as the primary actor in design creativity. Shape grammars offer a formalism to represent visual reasoning in design, which is never purely limited to the visual aspects of design processes. Aiming to develop ways to explicitly include material manipulation in a computational formalism, we report on an ongoing exploration of how shape computation extends beyond abstract visual shapes to incorporate material shapes that have a physical existence. We present a materially informed process with shape rules and show that we can apply these rules creatively to explore the physical character of the material.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 29-50 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Design Studies |
Volume | 41 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Architecture
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Engineering(all)
- Social Sciences(all)
- Computer Science Applications
- Artificial Intelligence