For decades, from design theory to urban planning and management, from social sciences
to urban environmental science, cities have been probed and analyzed from the partial …

Urban planning and design have a considerable impact on the economic performance of
cities and on the quality of life of the population. Efficiency at this level is hampered by the …

Providing pedestrian accessibility to urban services is a big challenge and a key factor in
creating more walkable urban areas. Moreover, it is a critical aspect of climate-resilient …

This paper deals with supporting the design of building floor plans. Floor layouts are
represented by labelled and attributed graphs. These graphs are generated using graph …

This paper proposes a framework for supporting the design process by defining design
requirements over graph-based representations of designs. First, hierarchical layout …

Existing housing stock must be rehabilitated to meet the new needs of dwellers in the current
information society. Consequently, Information and Communications and Automation …

This research starts from the premise that the future of the real estate market in Portugal will
require the rehabilitation of existing residential areas in order to respond to new life-styles …

Abstract In 1981 Koning and Eizenberg famously developed a shape grammar for Wright's
Prairie architecture that appeared capable of capturing its complex formal properties …

This paper presents a method to synthesise functional relationships and spatial
configuration simultaneously using shape and graph computation from shape grammar and …

The research presented here aims to develop a methodology for rehabilitating the existing
housing stock to meet the new needs of dwellers in the current information society and the …