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

• Autor(es): Duarte, José ; Rocha, João ; Ducla-Soares, Gonçalo ; Caldas, Luisa
• Data: 2006
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/2788
• Origem: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Assunto(s): Islamic Architecture; Generative Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Marrakech
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês
• Editor(es): SPRINGER

Descrição

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.