Cumincad : CUMINCAD Papers : Paper e9f1:A Tool for Typological Analysis

authors

Alaimo, G., Pellitteri, G. and Scianna, A.

year

1993

title

A Tool for Typological Analysis

source

[eCAADe Conference Proceedings] Eindhoven (The Netherlands) 11-13 November 1993

doi

https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1993.x.q0g

summary

Any design problem is faced drawing from the architect's knowledge both case knowledge and general knowledge. One type of the latter is abstracted from a multiplicity of cases of which the common features are recognised in such a way as to single out a prototype representing in the best way a class of architectural objects. If applied to a set of residential buildings and to the flats in them the analysis is typological and it is one of the fundamental ways of acquiring general knowledge to be used to face design problems. The tool we present is aimed at such a type of analysis and is based on the idea that it possible to acquire qualitative knowledge through the statistical analysis of measurable characteristics of the examined architectural objects. It has been tested by applying it to the typological analysis of a set of flats of illegal buildings in Sicily. The procedure is organised in two main phases. The first one consists in a series of elaborations performed during the reading of architectural organism; the second one consists in a series of statistical analyses on the results (characteristic variables) of the first.

series

eCAADe

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	Gero, J.S. (1993) New Knowledge-Based CADModels of Design , Proceedings of Management of Information Technology for Construction, Singapore

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