An urban grammar for the Medina of Marrakech

José P. Duarte; Gonçalo Ducla-Soares; Luisa G. Caldas; João Rocha

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_25

An urban grammar for the Medina of Marrakech

José P. Duarte, Gonçalo Ducla-Soares, Luisa G. Caldas, João Rocha

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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. The methodology used is described, from the initial historical analysis and fieldwork to the identification of three sub-grammars necessary to encode the complexity of the urban pre-existences: the urban grammar, the negotiation grammar, and the housing grammar. Topdown and bottom-up approaches to grammar design are analyzed and compared. The bottom-up urban grammar developed is then described, and a hand-derivation of the existing urban fabric is proposed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Design Computing and Cognition '06
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pages	483-502
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	1402051301, 9781402051302
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5131-9_25
State	Published - 2006

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