Abstract The decisions and personal preferences of the designer are vital for all aspects and stages of the design. To elaborate, the designer has the central role in creation, development, detailing and construction of the built forms. Also, the scientific/engineering evaluations of the design models are carried out under the directions and decisions of the designer. The paper explores the con...

this paper intends to highlight one of the key concerns of housing designers i.e. the influence of open space on human satisfaction as well as their attachment to a particular place. consequently, neighborhood open spaces with their meaningful layout seem to be constituent elements of residential complexes. although, architects and designers try to create qualitative areas among buildings, the ...

Describing the architectural design (i.e. the mapping from a logical functional model to a concrete system) is a general problem in software system engineering. While notations have been defined to describe abstract models and implementations, little work has been done in order to define a notation for architectural design. Solutions are proposed in UML for describing the system software struct...

We have presented an approach for automated knowledge modelling and re-use in design through the development of an algorithm that operates in conjunction with the machine learning technique. The approach presented has the advantage that such automated knowledge modelling system works in conjunction with the problem-solving process as the knowledge representation is in an embedded/distributed st...

information. Instead one has to cope with the problem of different theories and typological approaches competing with each other of time. Analogies in architecture depend more on the perception devoted to some theoretical approach than on physical properties of an architectural case. Architects use old solutions as source for inspiration in the design process. We present a model for the represe...