Complexity across scales in the work of Le Corbusier, Using box-counting as a method for analysing facades
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Since Benoît Mandelbrot raised the question about the length of Brit-ain’s coastline in 1967, it has become obvious that fractal geometry is appropriate for describing irregular forms. In 1996 Carl Bovill applied box-counting, a fractal analysis method, for the first time to architecture in order to quantify the charac-teristic visual complexity of facades. This paper presents an approach utilizing fractal analysis to provide another view on Le Corbusier’s architectural compo-sition. Altogether 17 house designs are considered, 14 of them have been built be-tween 1916 (Schwob Villa) and 1928 (Savoye House). Throughout this paper an implementation of the box-counting method written by the author is used. Besides discussing the results, the implementation itself with its advantages and disad-vantages is explored.- Title
- Complexity across scales in the work of Le Corbusier, Using box-counting as a method for analysing facades
- Author
- Lorenz, Wolfgang E.
- Date of issue
- 2016
- Access level
- Open access
- Copyright owner
- Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Conference title
- CAADence in Architecture, 2016
- Conference place
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Conference date
- 16 June - 17 June 2016
- Language
- en
- Page
- 249 - 255
- Subject
- Architectural Analysis, Fractal Analysis, Box-counting, Visual com-plexity
- Version
- Kiadói változat
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.3311/CAADence.1685
- Title of the container document
- CAADence in Architecture: Back to Command: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design
- ISBN, e-ISBN
- 978-963-313-237-1
- 978-963-313-225-8
- Document type
- könyvfejezet
- Document genre
- Konferenciacikk
- Subject area
- Műszaki tudományok
- Field
- Építészmérnöki tudományok
- University
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Faculty
- Faculty of Architecture