Application of shape grammar to vernacular houses: a brief case study of Unconventional villages in the contemporary context

Figures & data

Figure 1. Shape rule application source: drawn by the author.

Figure 2. Shape grammar and its related theoretical development Source: Ning and Amini Behbahani (2021).

Figure 3. Statistics on the application of shape grammar in vernacular houses research Source: Stiny and Mitchell (1978); Koning and Eizenberg (1981); Downing and Flemming (1981); Flemming (1987); Herbert, Sanders, and Mills (1994); Chiou and Krishnamurti (1995); Cagdas (1996); Chiou and Krishnamurti (1996); Colakoglu (2005); Duarte (2005); Duarte, Rocha, and Ducla-Soares (2006); Said and Embi (2008); de Godoi and Celani (2009); Eilouti and Jamil Hamamieh Al Shaar (2012); Tching, Paio, and Reis (2012); Barros et al. (2013); Güzelci (2014); Erem and Selen Abbasoğlu Ermiyagil (2016); Lambe and Dongre (2019); Ena (2018); Chokyu and Maria Angela (2018); Lee and Gu (2018); Hadighi and Duarte (2019); Yousefniapasha et al. (2019); Verniz and Duarte (2020); Hussein and Hani Ismaeel (2021); Wang, Zhao, et al. (2021); Wang, Agkathidis, and Crompton (2021); Gholami et al. (2021); Zihao (2021).

Table 1. The cases of vernacular houses using shape grammar application for analyzing.

Titles			Research scope		Research purpose		Reasoning method		Research strategy			Implementation approach		Expression form
Time	Researchers	Research Subjects	Single house	Settlement	Feature analysis	Comprehensive generation	Manual reasoning	Automatic iteration	Addition	Subdivision	Grid	Totality reasoning	Selective reasoning	Shape diagrams	Semantic diagrams	Description diagrams
(1978)	G. Stiny	Palladian villa	•		•		•				•		•	•
(1981)	H Koning	Wright’s Prairie Houses	•			•	•		•			•		•
(1981)	F Dowing	Bungalows of Buffalo	•		•		•			•		•		•
(1987)	U. Flemming	Queen Anne Houses	•		•		•		•			•		•
(1994)	T. Herbert	Linear Ndebele Homesteads		•	•		•				•		•			•
(1995)	S. Chiou	Taiwanese traditional houses	•		•		•		•			•
(1996)	G. Çağdaş	Turkish Houses	•		•		•	•	•				•		•
(1996)	S. Chiou	Taiwanese traditional houses	•		•		•		•			•		•
2003	B. Colakoglu	Hayat Houses	•			•	•		•				•	•
(2005)	J. Duarte	Siza’s Houses at Malagueira	•			•	•	•		•		•		•		•
(2006)	J. Duarte	Medina Houses		•	•		•			•		•		•
(2008)	S. Said	Malay Long-Roof Houses	•		•			•	•				•	•		•
(2009)	G. Godoi	Monte Alegre Do Sul Houses	•		•		•		•			•		•
2008	M. A. Ramli	Rudinara Houses	•		•			•	•				•	•
(2012)	B. Eilouti	Damascene Houses	•			•		•			•		•	•		•
(2012)	J Tching	Campinas Houses	•			•	•		•				•	•
(2013)	P. Barros	Maputo´s Houses		•		•		•		•			•	•
(2014)	OZ Güzelci	Turkish Houses	•		•			•	•				•		•
(2016)	Ömer Erem	Turkish Houses	•			•	•		•			•		•
(2018)	V. Ena	Janeiro’s Favelas		•		•		•		•		•		•
(2018)	M. Lica	Rocinha houses	•			•		•		•			•	•
(2018)	J H Lee	Murcutt’s Rural Houses	•			•	•		•			•		•
(2019)	N. Lambe	row houses of Ahmedabad	•		•		•		•			•		•
(2019)	M. Hadigh	single-family house	•		•			•		•			•	•
2019	C. Teeling	Mazandaran Vernacular Houses	•			•	•		•			•		•
(2020)	D Verniz	Santa Marta Houses		•	•			•		•		•		•
(2020)	K A Hussein	Mosul’s Vernacular Houses	•		•		•		•			•		•
(2021)	Yuyang Wang	Beijing Hutong		•	•		•		•	•			•	•
(2021)	Gu Zihao	Jiaoxi Vernacular Houses	•	•		•		•		•			•	•	•
(2021)	S. Gholami	Ekbatan Houses	•			•		•	•				•		•
(2021)	Wang Jiang	North China Rural Houses	•			•	•			•		•		•
percent（%）			81	22	55	45	65	42	58	35	10	52	48	90	13	16

Source: The same as Figure 3.

Figure 4. Three expressions of shape grammar source: 1) Koning and Eizenberg (1981), 2) Gholami et al. (2021), 3)Gholami, Soheili, and Manesh (2021).

Figure 5. The case of vernacular houses research based on shape grammar source: drawn by the author.

Figure 6. Shape grammar of vernacular houses in Mazandaran, Iran Source: Yousefniapasha et al. (2019).

Figure 7. Shape grammar of vernacular houses in Fabulo, USA Source: Downing and Flemming (1981).

Figure 8. Shape grammar of vernacular houses in Ndebele, Africa Source: Herbert, Sanders, and Mills (1994).

Figure 9. Example of the shape grammar of rural “modular” houses and their related design teaching results.

Source: 1). 2). 3) Drawn by the author 4) Belong to architecture design works of Shandong Jianzhu University

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