Interactive urban synthesis: Computational methods for fast prototyping of urban design proposals

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 724, Issue , 2017, Pages 23-41

  Koenig, Reinhard ^a,b,c   Miao, Yufan ^d   Knecht, Katja ^d,e   Buš, Peter ^c   Mei Chih, Chang ^c  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence in design; Cognitive design computing; Generative design; Grasshopper plugin; Procedural grammars; Urban synthesis

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGNS; COGNITIVE DESIGN COMPUTING; GENERATIVE DESIGN; PLUG-INS; PROCEDURAL GRAMMARS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 85025171480     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5197-5_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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