Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference
Subtitle of host publicationArchitecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution
EditorsJosé Pedro Sousa, Gonçalo Castro Henriques, João Pedro Xavier
Place of PublicationPorto
Pages17-24
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2019
Event37th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe and 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society Digital Graphics, eCAADe SIGraDi 2019 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 11 Sept 201913 Sept 2019

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NameBlucher Design Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2318-6968

Abstract

The paper describes a research experiment of incorporating quantitative aesthetic evaluation and feeding the metric back into a parametric model to steer the search within the design space for a high-ranking design solution. The experiment is part of a longer-standing interest and research in quantitative aesthetics. A web platform inspired by dating apps was developed to retrieve an aesthetic score of images (drawings and photographs of architectural projects). The app and scoring system was tested for functionality against an existing dataset of aesthetic measure (triangles, polygon nets). In the actual experiment, an evolutionary algorithm generated images of design candidates (phenotypes) and used the aesthetic score retrieved by the ``crowd'' of app users as a fitness function for the next generation/population. The research is in the tradition of empirical aesthetics of G. T. Fechner (Fechner, 1876), using a web app to crowdsource aesthetic scores and using these to evolve design candidates. The paper describes how the system is set up and presents its results in four distinct exercises.

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    Collaborative Design, Crowdsourcing, Human-Computer interaction, Quantitative Aesthetics, Social Media

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Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design. / Sardenberg, Victor; Burger, Theron; Becker, Mirco.
Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution. ed. / José Pedro Sousa; Gonçalo Castro Henriques; João Pedro Xavier. Porto, 2019. p. 17-24 (Blucher Design Proceedings).

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Sardenberg, V, Burger, T & Becker, M 2019, Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design. in JP Sousa, GC Henriques & JP Xavier (eds), Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Blucher Design Proceedings, Porto, pp. 17-24, 37th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe and 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society Digital Graphics, eCAADe SIGraDi 2019, Porto, Portugal, 11 Sept 2019. https://doi.org/10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_088
Sardenberg, V., Burger, T., & Becker, M. (2019). Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design. In J. P. Sousa, G. C. Henriques, & J. P. Xavier (Eds.), Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution (pp. 17-24). (Blucher Design Proceedings).. https://doi.org/10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_088
Sardenberg V, Burger T, Becker M. Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design. In Sousa JP, Henriques GC, Xavier JP, editors, Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Porto. 2019. p. 17-24. (Blucher Design Proceedings). doi: 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_088
Sardenberg, Victor ; Burger, Theron ; Becker, Mirco. / Aesthetic Quantification as Search Criteria in Architectural Design. Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution. editor / José Pedro Sousa ; Gonçalo Castro Henriques ; João Pedro Xavier. Porto, 2019. pp. 17-24 (Blucher Design Proceedings).
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