Examination of Ernst Egli's design language in educational buildings using shape grammar method

An architectural structure is designed integrated with the preliminary data created by considering the user-structure relations. The formation of the structures in the design phase is achieved by understanding the design process. Designers play a major role in constructing the elements in the design process. It reflects the personal choices and decisions that each building designer has made. Therefore, every architectural structure has a language and narrative. With the new design methods developed recently, this language of architectural structures has become formally analyzable. Today, this situation has gained a new dimension with the inclusion of digital design and computer technologies in the process. In this study, a morphological analysis related to the educational structures of Ernst Egli, who is known to have an architectural language with the production of a certain number of buildings in a certain area and has been included in the discipline of architecture, was made and the reproducibility of the designs was applied with both traditional methods and visual programming tools. At the point of making and producing these analyzes, the shape grammar method, which is at the forefront of analyzing design languages and producing similar or hybrid designs for this language, was preferred. As a result of the study, the criteria obtained by the shape grammar method were presented as an input at the end of the design, using a manual method in which the rules are selected according to individual decisions, and a model that can create architectural forms graphically via Rhinoceros - Grasshopper, a visual programming tool, with two applications and result products suitable for existing design approaches has been obtained. Thus, of shape grammar as a lifetime is a method in the analysis of an architect's design language. In the last part of the study, suggestions about what is presented in the following stages are presented.