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Evolutionary design using grammatical evolution and shape grammars : designing a shelter

O'Neill, Michael ; McDermott, James ; Swafford, John Mark ; Byrne, Jonathan ; Hemberg, Erik ; Brabazon, Anthony ; Shotton, Elizabeth ; McNally, Ciaran ; Hemberg, Martin (Inderscience Enterprises, 2010-04-24)

A new evolutionary design tool is presented, which uses shape grammars and a grammar-based form of evolutionary computation, grammatical evolution (GE). Shape grammars allow the user to specify possible forms, and GE allows ...
A Methodology to Develop Judgment Skills in Sustainable Architectural Education

Kenny, Paul ; Brophy, Vivienne (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2011-10-18)

Students of sustainability, in particular architectural students, are faced with a vast body of published work that forms an important part of their reference library. The idea of the precedent study is, traditionally, ...