Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture

Eduardo Castro e Costa; Debora Verniz; Siavash Varasteh; Mark Miller; José Pinto Duarte

Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture

Eduardo Castro e Costa, Debora Verniz, Siavash Varasteh, Mark Miller, José Pinto Duarte

Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

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Abstract

We present a tool intended to enable non-expert users to apply and manipulate a shape grammar, SMUG, which encodes the urban design of informal settlements such as favelas. Such tool, the Interpreter, was developed considering that students would be its main users, and therefore we consider this grammar implementation to potentially be a multipurpose pedagogical tool since it supports conveying knowledge about urban design, shape grammars and parametric modeling using Grasshopper. This paper focuses on the development of the Interpreter and discusses the results of its use in a design studio, which can better inform subsequent iteration as well as other courses and schools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference
Editors	Jose Pedro Sousa, JP Xavier, Goncalo Castro Henriques
Place of Publication	University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Publisher	CUMINCAD
Pages	349-358
Number of pages	10
Volume	2
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2019

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Castro e Costa, E., Verniz, D., Varasteh, S., Miller, M., & Duarte, J. P. (2019). Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture. In J. P. Sousa, JP. Xavier, & G. Castro Henriques (Eds.), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference (Vol. 2, pp. 349-358). CUMINCAD. http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/BrowseTree=RSS=TIME=10/Show?ecaadesigradi2019_146

Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture. / Castro e Costa, Eduardo; Verniz, Debora; Varasteh, Siavash et al.
Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference. ed. / Jose Pedro Sousa; JP Xavier; Goncalo Castro Henriques. Vol. 2 University of Porto, Porto, Portugal: CUMINCAD, 2019. p. 349-358.

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Castro e Costa, E, Verniz, D, Varasteh, S, Miller, M & Duarte, JP 2019, Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture. in JP Sousa, JP Xavier & G Castro Henriques (eds), Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference. vol. 2, CUMINCAD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, pp. 349-358. <http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/BrowseTree=RSS=TIME=10/Show?ecaadesigradi2019_146>

Castro e Costa E, Verniz D, Varasteh S, Miller M, Duarte JP. Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture. In Sousa JP, Xavier JP, Castro Henriques G, editors, Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference. Vol. 2. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal: CUMINCAD. 2019. p. 349-358

Castro e Costa, Eduardo ; Verniz, Debora ; Varasteh, Siavash et al. / Implementing the Santa Marta Urban Grammar - a pedagogical tool for design computing in architecture. Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of the 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference. editor / Jose Pedro Sousa ; JP Xavier ; Goncalo Castro Henriques. Vol. 2 University of Porto, Porto, Portugal : CUMINCAD, 2019. pp. 349-358

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