Evaluation Methods of the Structures’ Aesthetics – Part II

Abstract

Main component in the process of deepening a field, the evaluation was also applied to the theme of structures’ aesthetics, within the research conducted for the PhD thesis "Study of aesthetics in civil engineering". The discussions were started in the first part of this paper, with: the critique of structural aesthetics, evaluation criteria, modern ways of evaluating the structures and the opportunity to implement a Decision Support System in the process of evaluating the structures, with its synthetic presentation. The present paper, the second part of the research, focuses on the Intelligent Decision Support System using Fuzzy logic, the main fuzzy logic elements involved in such a system and the presentation of our proposal to use fuzzy logic through an application for the aesthetic evaluation of the structures. The last subject has two components, further presented: the one dedicated to the public, as the final beneficiary of the entire process, involving it actively in the assessment process, and the component to further help the decision-maker obtain a fingerprint for a structure, through an application that uses the fuzzy logic.