The significant challenges that urban design faces when moving forward into this new digital era involve the increasingly massive and complex projects must be analyzed developed. need for efficient analysis tools rational methods represent ongoing concerns, while practicable maneuverable applications rather than experimental studies are scarce. This research implemented a framework of description generative grammar block form from perspective morphological complexity. was tested in an...

During urban renewal, multi-story residential blocks face a contradiction of balancing capacity improvement and solar constraint. This paper constructed set automatic workflows for adding new volumes to existing buildings, multi-objective optimization was applied with Wallacei plug-in in Grasshopper optimize the radiation, hours, block capacity. First, this study established three building addition modes horizontal direction, vertical mixed respectively. Three objectives—maximum floor area...

Dramatic changes in the economic systems and land rights recent history of China yielded unique but complex urban forms for many cities. The complexity form is mostly manifested as ambiguous relations between elements physical human behavior. Currently, these ambiguities become obstacles that increasingly hinder regeneration. However, despite fast-growing research on morphology Chinese cities, our understanding their built still its infancy. Taking city Nanjing case study, this study...

The street space of China's inner cities performs the function organizing neighbourhood services. This study aims to understand typological characteristics network structures from a spatial configuration perspective and their impact on facilities' layout. selected four Chinese adopted route structure approach comprising continuity, connectivity, depth distinguish seven types. A correlation analysis between Baidu maps' points interest revealed different types' ability support service...

The rapid urbanization process in China has promoted the active state of urban design practice. In solving complex problems, practical scope gradually expanded. This paper took a institution Nanjing as case study and sorted trends project types themes over past 20 years, which presented partial diverse evolution Concept, technology management were extracted three main dimensions cognitive practice development. relative positions relationships different work interpreted through mapping...

Although various hierarchical structures have been investigated with respect to the different elements of urban form, spatial order access from streets plots and buildings has not adequately explicated objectively assessed. In this article, a new method, structure, is presented bridge knowledge gap. Based on Krop’s generic multilevel diagram types structure are developed symbolically represented. They then quantitatively measured compared using three metrics an associated ternary diagram....

A superblock is a core unit of the built form an old city in China, which various morphological elements are organized and related through hierarchical structure. Existing quantitative studies generally limited to single perspective or object do not support classification types comprehensive analysis methods. In this study, new cognitive framework, hierarchy matrix, presented bridge knowledge gap. It consists four dimensions: configuration network, geometry area, area. These dimensions...

The conservation and renewal of historic areas are facing many complex scattered problems, which not suitable to be completed by a unified method.Designers tried use the typomorphology analyse morphology each micro unit carry out targeted actions.However, any adjustment spatial structure may affect morphological characteristics whole block unit, designers need an efficient method control dynamic changes in real-time.Based on hierarchical typo-morphology, digital model was built.This can...

Neighbourhood community systems in China's old cities commonly exist the form of superblocks. The streets inside superblocks perform function organizing neighbourhood services. This study aims to understand typological characteristics within from a spatial configuration perspective and their impact on layout facilities. Four Chinese city were selected route structure approach consisting continuity, connectivity, depth was used distinguish seven street types. Through correlation analysis...