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C o n s t r u c t i n g   D e s i g n   C o n c e p t s :   A Computational Approach to the Synthesis of Architectural Form
Kotsopoulos S, Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005















IV.    Overlaying Partial Descriptions

A calculating device that involves multiple descriptive fragments in the production of a single description is modeled with shape computational means.


     
1.  Introduction

     
2.  What is a Description?

     
3.  Partial Descriptions

                       3.1.   MULTIPLE ALGEBRAS

                        3.2.   SHAPE RULE SCHEMATA WITH
N VARIABLES        

     
4.  Designing with Partial Descriptions

                       
4.1.   FOR N = 2
                                               
4.1.1.  Sheet A
                                                4.1.2   Sheet B
                                                4.1.3   The description A x B


                       
4.2.    FOR N = > 3   
          

     
5.  Discussion

      6.  References