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The repository for the NaNoGenMo 2019 novel "Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of any Dwelling"
https://github.com/dluman/nanogenmo-2019

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The repository for the NaNoGenMo 2019 novel "Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of any Dwelling"

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dluman/nanogenmo-2019
• Owner: dluman
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2019-10-29T12:34:17.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-12-08T16:32:33.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-17T05:41:41.721Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 53.9 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# NaNoGenMo-2019: Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of any Dwelling

![The Rachel House (1966)](https://github.com/dluman/NaNoGenMo-2019/blob/media/media/shelter_demo.png)

Repository for "Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of any Dwelling," an attempt to think through narrative via the spatial concept of "shape grammar." To implement this, I relied heavily on the GIS-intended framework [shapely](https://pypi.org/project/Shapely/) -- a Python module which features simple methods for shape unions and general shape-making. Even though intended for a different discipline, I see quite a few applications for it in computational architecture vis-a-vis 2D shape grammars. 

## End-of-month Update

Who knows if it's any good? All I can say for certain is that this iteration is done. When I posted early results to Twitter, one user commented:

> I'd live here. I love the idea of never being quite certain there's not somethig *happening* in an area of the house I can't get to without leaving the possibly illusory safety of the bit I'm already in.

I appreciate how this contrasts/joins with/amplifies the title. I wasn't convinced that anyone would really respond to this somewhat asemic, aleatory operation. The above encouraged me greatly.

This branch of the project ends here. However, I plan to reshape the code developed during the month toward a different set of narrative possibilities. Of course, this means more planning and overall strategy. Much of the code here represents an end-of-the-month dash to get _something_ done (as is usually the case). As such, the PDF is a monster (it's 13,000+ pages), and the architect gets a little lazy with 2/ and 3 room houses, but they're all unique.

The PDF: [Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of Any Dwelling](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJcO_Q_pyPxvqYnhqn-GOYDRT0OSeOab/view?usp=sharing)

FINAL WORD COUNT (purely text): 55,316

COUNTING SHAPES AS "WORDS" IN GRAMMAR: 96,803 (estimated)

## Concepts

* George Stiny. 1980. "Kindergarten grammars: designing with Froebel's building gifts." _Environment and Planning B_.

* George Stiny and James Gips. 1971. "Shape grammars and the generative specification of painting and sculpture." _Information Processing_.

* Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Oswald, Ning Gu. 2017. "A Combined Plan Graph and Massing Grammar Approach to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Architecture." _Nexus Network Journal: Art and Mathematics_.

* T.W. Knight and George Stiny. 2015. "Making grammars: From computing with shapes to computing with things." _Design Studies_.