Morphological Analysis of Cultural DNA

Abstract

Urban plans are difficult to comprehensively analyze quantitatively because they lack sufficiently detailed information. They tend to emphasize land-use, possibly suggesting general building typologies. Nevertheless, they are generally conceived with respect to objective criteria, such as population targets, plot ratios, gross floor areas, etc. This research suggests a rule-based approach to generate relevant building data that can serve to analyze and assess such urban plans with respect to these and other relevant criteria, requirements and targets. Such generation must necessarily take into account local conditions, building typologies, codes and regulations.