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I.      Preliminaries




    

    
    
     5.  Discussion
   
      A fine work of architecture suggests that it is a manifestation of thought. For this thought some kind of processing
      is required. This processing is manifested as a sequence of actions. For example, the dissection of a quadrilateral
      space by a wall parallel to any of its boundaries can be a possible desirable action. The anticipation of this action
      consists in an ability to know that a particular result can be produced whenever such a space is found anywhere in
      the drawing. The proposed action is expressed logically by the following computational rule:
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
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     The application of a sequence of thoughts can proceed in steps, where each thought is expressed by a rule, and
      becomes a step in a calculation. New steps can be introduced by inserting the appropriate rules, while the design
      concept serves a general framework of action, on the basis of which computational rules can be proposed.
      The next chapter II introduces some basic notions of shape computation theory, and discusses in further detail the
      proposition that design concepts can be approached through shape computation.