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Abstract

This paper proposes a design for libraries of European Classical architectural elements based on shape grammars. This design is based on a workflow which develops library objects from 3D CAD primitives using architectural rules to construct parametric representations of architectural elements. In the case of Classical architecture, the design and detail for the parametric objects are based on manuscripts ranging from Vitruvius to Palladio to the architectural pattern books of the eighteenth century. The generation of 3D objects for virtual reconstruction necessitates the application of computer algorithms and rules introduced by the user to generate objects, buildings and spaces from a grammar and vocabulary of shapes. Both the use of graphicly constructed and coded parametric libraries in formal and open-source platforms will be considered here.

Keywords

CAD, Digital Architectural Heritage, HBIM, HGIS, Shape Grammars

Publication Date

2021-09-10

Event

28th CIPA Symposium on Great Learning and Digital Emotion, CIPA 2021

Publication Title

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volume

46

Issue

M-1-2021

ISSN

1682-1750

First Page

479

Last Page

486

Deposit Date

2026-08-04

Funding

Several of the ideas presented in this paper were refined in the course of discussions that took place during meetings of the 3D CRAFT Network, an interdisciplinary collective funded by the UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call (Grant numbers AH/V002333/1 and IRC/V002333/1).'

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