Soft Computing in Construction Information Technology

The last decade, civil engineering has exercised a rapidly growing interest in the application of neurally inspired computing techniques. The motive for this interest was the promises of certain information processing characteristics, which are similar to some extend, to those of human brain. The immediate examples of these include an ability to...

Quantifying the Qualitative Design Aspects

Multi-objective design for space layout topology

Architectural pattern generation by discrete wavelet transform and utilisation in structural design

Since computers were introduced in architectural design as a valuable tool, there was a growing need to develop tools that would support the designer from the initial phase of the design till the detailing. In a computer aided architectural design environment it is feasible to stimulate the spatial design ideas and create alternatives in an...

Pattern Grammar within the Language of Architecture

The next generation of architecture within computer sciences