Abstract
Our research recognized in personal available memories the genetic material for a creative design process. With the aim of offering to designers a tool as a support to the decision during the designing phases we looked at the applied ontology as a medium to translate training memories and personal memories.
The language offered via applied ontology can dialogue with machines for retrieving knowledge that would store already memorized and personalized images and intentions. A starting step of this path has been the attempt to analyse the Architectural Type as a training knowledge shared in the field of architecture and so rich and complex that offers you very many different projectual solutions. At the same time it is a recognized way of organizing knowledge of architectural field.
Specifically we ‘entered’ the monastery type: a kind of organization for space that went across centuries changing forms and functions without losing its identity and recognizability. That repeats some spatial disposition and follows specific rules since the St. Gall planimetry.
Reference
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Cantale, C., Cantone, D. Rinato, M.L., Nicolosi-Asmundo, M., Santamaria, D. F., (2018), The Shape of a Benedictine Monastery: The SaintGall Ontology, proceedings SHAPES2017, ceur-ws.org/Vol-2050.