Evaluation Methods of the Structures’ Aesthetics – Part I

Abstract

Main component in the process of deepening a field, the evaluation was also applied to the topic of structures’ aesthetics, within the research conducted for the PhD thesis "Study of aesthetics in civil engineering". The present paper discusses these aspects: the critique of structural aesthetics, evaluation criteria, modern ways of evaluating the structures, the opportunity to implement a Decision System in the process of evaluating the structures with its synthetic presentation, the use of fuzzy logic for the above- a Fuzzy Logic Intelligent Decision System, a short presentation of the main elements of fuzzy logic and concludes with our proposal to apply the previously presented elements in the aesthetic evaluation of structure works. Given that the size of the work is extensive, it has been divided in two parts, the first one here, focusing on criticism discussions wore by the
specialized public on the aesthetics of structures, an inventory-guide of evaluation criteria, a short review of the modern ways of assessing the structures’ aesthetics and the presentation of the Decision Support System, highlighting its usefulness to our topic.