M. Kulcke, W Lorenz:
"Gradient-Analysis: Method and Software to Compare Different Degrees of Complexity in the Design of Architecture and Designobjects";
Talk: eCAADe 2015 - 33rd Annual Conference of education and research in computer-aided architectural design in Europe, Wien; 2015-09-16 - 2015-09-18; in: "Real Time; Vol. 1", (2015), ISBN: 978-9-491-20708-2; 415 - 424.

The aim of the research presented in this paper is to provide an additional method and tool for architects and designers as well as students and scholars to analyze the degree of complexity of a design. Fractal analysis (box counting) e.g. is one of these methods already used in architecture to measure the degree of complexity of an architectural design, for example of the elevation of a building. The method of semi-automated gradient-analysis described here focuses on the repetition of gradients and thus of proportion-repetition in a given design as one of several aspects of complexity reduction by redundancy.

Gradient-Analysis, Design-Complexity, Redundancy, Spatial Analysis, Form and Geometry, Proportion

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_240735.pdf