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The Dirksen Variations: Towards a Generative Description of Mies's Courthouse Language
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James Park and Athanassios Economou
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Bob Martens, Gabriel Wurzer, Thomas Grasl, Wolfgang Lorenz, Richard Schaffranek
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Real Time - Extending the Reach of Computation: Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Conference on Education and Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)
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Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Mies van der Rohe, Courthouse design, Generative description, Shape grammar, Ring schema
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A generative description of Mies van der Rohe's courthouse language is presented in the form of a shape grammar. The grounding of the work is based on a set of 135 sketches produced by the office of Mies during the design process of the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in Chicago, and documented in the Mies van der Rohe Archive at the Museum of Modern Art. The work here postulates a set of 39 unique courthouse designs all showcasing distinct variations of the courtroom type in the Miesian language and re-casts them in two-dimensional diagrams to make their differences and similarities transparent. A series of spatial relations between five types of spaces are extracted, including courtrooms, circulation networks, vertical cores, office spaces, and support spaces, and are deployed to specify the shape rules of the grammar. A set of conventions to specify how the two-dimensional diagrams represent three-dimensional models is briefly outlined to prepare the ground for the implementation of the grammar in a three-dimensional shape grammar interpreter.
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