The Inference of Generic Housing Rules: A Methodology to Explain and Recreate Palladian Villas, Prairie Houses and Malagueira Houses

This paper describes the setting out of generic housing rules. These rules were synthesized using a grammar formalism as described in previous papers. This study focuses on the parametric shape rules and its application. Generic grammars were applied in works such as the urban generic grammar for the purpose of describing urban patterns. However the application of generic grammars to other scales has not been performed to date. A generic grammar is a formalism that allows the design of a diverse solutions, unlike a typical grammar which focuses on a specific design language. This work analyzed three languages: Palladian villas, Prairie and Malagueira houses and proposed a single grammar to replicate the examples. This work will showcase the set of generic rules and the strategy used to parameterize each shape rule. The contribution of the work lies in the way each rule is parameterized to cater for each language whilst the shape rule remains the same.