Computer-aided approach to public buildings floor plan generation. Magnetizing Floor Plan Generator

Abstract

For architects as well as developers and urban planners working on the floor plans or estimating the shape and dimensions of large buildings is always a challenge. This task requires some knowledge and what is more important – even with understanding of the process it is a very time-consuming task. One should take into consideration the arrangement of all rooms as well as adjacencies and connections of main spaces. Presented project can be considered as an exploration of various ways of generating floor plans for public buildings, which was followed by creating a new algorithm for solving that task. Public buildings were chosen as a main target of conducted research because of their complex and non-standardized structure. The aim was to try different previously described approaches, invent completely new techniques and methods, choose the best of them and incorporate them into our own generator. The creation of working generator prototype was an important target of the project and should not be considered as its final stage, since this trial revealed some positive and negative sides of chosen approach and therefore serves as an intermediate stage. Floor plans analysis was conducted in order to understand the structural patterns of communication spaces in built public houses. One of positive outcomes of this investigation is that public buildings do not share a lot of features in common, therefore this field of exploration is rather unobstructed and provides a lot of possibilities for experiments.