DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE14.108
Authors: DIAS, Maria Angela
Abstract:
Informal urban development is seldom covered in academic studies or professional architectural training. This article sets forth the first stage of a novel study that observes the informal city using a shape grammar. The idea is to recognize peculiarities in the occupation of the land and the volumetric features of the buildings. Rocinha favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is taken as a case study with the primary aim of extrapolating a set of rules for its morphological features so that these rules can be used to generate new shapes, whilst bearing in mind the issues of adaptation and transformation which are so characteristic of informal settlements.
Keywords: shape grammar, analysis of the form, informal architecture
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