A wide range of possible measures for the conservation of energy in buildings are reviewed. The survey is made in the context of the American situation and covers energy use in space heating and cooling, water heating, lighting, and domestic and other appliances. Topics discussed include 'total...

All manufacturing processes can be described by a morphological process model, which enables both the design and the manufacturing engineer to obtain a quick survey of the relevant production methods, their possibilities, and their limitations. Furthermore, such a model is a very powerful tool...

A number of writers are currently trying, as part of an attempt to improve on the relatively impoverished state of architectural theory, to relate the study of building form to Marxism and aspects of semiology. It is suggested here that, although this recent work is provocative and stimulating,...

This is the first of three papers to be published consecutively and which, taken together, provide an account of recent researches into the question of structure -- how that concept can be defined and how it can be used in the context of social science in general and of urban design in...

In previous studies of adaptability in buildings (Fawcett, 1979a) it has been proposed that the number of possible activity schedules for a given population may in part be used to derive a measure of adaptability. This paper examines the concept of all possible schedules and shows how the most...

A complete kinematic chain is a chain in which every link of the chain makes contact at a joint with every other link of the chain. Simple closed-loop chains, semicomplete, and complete chains of mobility unity are investigated topologically to determine the limits within which it is possible...

3-rectangulations are spatial representatives of assemblies of boxes into a box. Algorithms to generate various classes of <nobr>3-rectangulations</nobr> are developed. The method is extended to specify the generation of higher-dimensional <I>d</I>-rectangulations, d >= 4.

An <I>N</I>-omino is a planar edge-connected set of <I>N</I> square cells. The terms polyomino (<I>N</I>-omino) and animal are equivalent, the first attributable to Golomb (1954) and the latter to Read (1962). This paper presents some results derived from a census of three different populations of <I>N</I>-ominoes for <nobr><I>N</I> =...</i></nobr></i></i></i></i>

This paper outlines an approach to the generation of prescriptive information for window design, based on an algorithm for the optimal dimensioning of contiguous rectilinear areas. The problem is defined as the determination of the number, position, and size of windows in a room, in relation to...