This paper presents the results of a survey to assess the extent of use of safety architectural patterns in Logica to solve commonly reoccurring problems in the safety domain. A number of Logica safety related projects, active during August 2011, were considered to establish which specific patterns had been used so a profile of pattern use could be established along with a view of their perceiv...

The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the different aspects of architecture modelling, such as architectural styles, structural and behavioural modelling, into a coherent framework. We propose an ontological approach for architectural style modelling based on descriptio...

Renewed interest and recently expanding research of ‘fabric forming’ as a means of producing concrete (or rammed earth) structures has established its benefits in physically manifesting complex curvatures, achieving good surface quality, ease of transport of form-work materials (Cauberg et al., 2009), producing sculptural forms of variable crosssection and buckling resistant forms (West and Ara...

In the last decade the attention of architectural designers and theorists has been primarily directed toward the descriptive geometries with which architectural space is written. To the extent that geometry is the preferred language for architectural communication, its interrogation has become the dominant form of writing in architecture. More precisely, the majority of both spatial and theoret...

There is currently little reuse of either design or code in the development of collaborative applications. Though there are some application frameworks for this domain, they tend to be rather inflexible in the functionality they offer. This paper seeks to provide design reuse in the form of architectural patterns that focus on low-level horizontal issues: distribution, message exchange, functio...

The paper seeks to investigate the potential of biologically inspired multi-agent systems for architectural applications. The generation of ‘form’ through the process of ‘rigid folding’ represents a complex architectural procedure, which we seek to perform by employing a number of simple collaborative agents. Through a prototypic approach, closely matched with the constraints of a real world ap...

Abstract: Aside of architectural heritage that is readily visible to the public like well-known tourist sites, there are many heritage objects which only exist in restricted excavation sites or in museums to where they have been moved. Some of them exist in literature only. Archaeologists put a lot of effort into the reconstruction of architectural heritage, even in digital form. Still, most of...