Ebook: Discrete Optimization in Architecture: Architectural & Urban Layout
Author: Machi Zawidzki (auth.)
- Tags: Building Construction, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD CAE) and Design, Structural Mechanics, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Structural Materials
- Series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition – the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza).
The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint satisfaction approach combined with coarse grid discretization. The algorithm for the town square evaluation is based on geometrical properties derived directly from its plan.
Part II introduces a crowd-simulation application for the analysis of escape routes on floor plans, and optimization of a floor plan for smooth crowd flow. The algorithms presented employ agent-based modeling and cellular automata.