In 2011, the United Nations reported that 3.6 billion people are living in urban areas, and this is expected to…
Another way of thinking about design is in how we manage data. Making sense of the world requires a discriminative…
This section provides an overview of computer based design tools available today and how the notion of design and the…
A background of architecture with regard to systems science and complexity science is provided in this section. Systems science and…
The advent of search algorithms that are inspired by biological evolution is a story of co-evolution developing independently in the…
Fractals have significance in many fields and are an active field of research. From building nanoscale fractal architectures in gold…
Fractal geometry is used for measuring “complexity” in a variety of ways (Mitchell, 1996). Fractal measures can identify non-linear relationships…
Alfred Renyi (Renyi, 1961) further generalized this idea and presents a model that relates a number of different measures (or…
The following chapter describes the general method and design process this research will be introducing which combines a GA with…
The following sections describe the case study sub-project which will be developed and offered as a proof of concept for…