TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH TO NATURE-INSPIRED DESIGN

DS 89: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2018), University of Bath, Bath, UK

Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Agnieszka Mars, Ewa Grabska
Series: ICDC
Section: BIO-INSPIRED CREATIVITY
Page(s): 330-337
ISBN: 9781912254071

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach to architecture design, which enables natureinspired modification of buildings prototypes. In the proposed method, analogy between a prototype and a class of natural objects (e.g. plant species) is found with the use of a knowledge base of natural forms. To define classes of natural objects, a generative tool called graph grammar is used. Matching a building prototype with a class of natural forms enables application of a graph grammar on the building model, which results in a nature-related aspects of an architectionic object. The main objective is to propose a method of computational design, which can be verified with regard to its capability of imitating human process of creatve design of architecture. This will help to learn more about alghoritmising of creative processes.

Keywords: artificial creativity, architecture design, computer-aided design

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