LINKS
The holistic
approach to the production of the built space
Indicative
characteristic websites, as well as articles, mainly derived from the framework
of "sustainable building":
Alliance for Global Sustainability
Architectural Record: Innovation
The Integrated
Design Process (IDP) – a more holistic approach to sustainable architecture (paper, PDF)
Bringing in the
Social Perspective: User Centred Design (paper, PDF).
"Ekistics",
the field of research established by the architect and urban design researcher C.
Doxiadis, can be considered as an early holistic investigation of the built
space. Within Ekistics the factors that affect the development of the built space
are considered as a system, while issues such as morphogenesis through
optimization (e.g. effort minimization), interdisciplinary integration of the production methods, achievement of synergies, sustainability, as well as development of structures in different scales, are investigated. This
approach was established decades before the particular issues were considered
as a mainstream research within the framework of either complex systems or sustainable
design.
The holistic approach to the computational design methods
Computer aided
design methods, which can be considered within the framework of the holistic
approach, are those that support emergent properties as well as the development of design
solutions through the simulation of living-world paradigms. Such simulation are usually attempted by means
of evolutionary and cellular systems respectively. Another issue, within the holistic approach, concerns the integration of the computational procedures with the other production procedures.
Challenges and Fallacies in Computer Applications of the Evolutionary
Analogy in Design Methodology
The computer
languages GENETICA and G-CAD
Architectural
Interpretation of Cellular Automata
Using Cellular
Automata to Challenge Cookie-Cutter Architecture
The Groningen Twister: An experiment in applied generative design
Understanding
spatial and temporal processes of urban growth: cellular automata modelling
Genetic Programming Bibliography entries for Paul S Coates
Collaborators' websites
Websites of
friends and collaborators who are either directly involved in integrated
building systems, or participated in organized discussions on the subject while
contributed in the development of this website with comments and suggestions.
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