AnUrban Grammar for the Medina of Marrakech: Towards a Tool for Urban Design in...

• Author(s): Duarte, José ; Rocha, João ; Ducla-Soares, Gonçalo ; Caldas, Luisa
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/2788
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Islamic Architecture; Generative Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Marrakech
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English
• Editor(s): SPRINGER

Description

This paper describes research carried out to develop a parametric urban shape grammar for the Zaouiat Lakhdar quarter of the Medina of Marrakech, in Morocco. The goal is to create the basis for a system that could capture some features of the existing urban fabric and apply them in contemporary urban planning.