The design of an institutional building may have to satisfy a large number of requirements given by the client. Some of these constraints include the type, number, and area of the rooms that the building should contain, and the proximity relationships among those rooms. Although it is important to maintain consistency between the building specifications and layout design, it can be a tedious and difficult task for the architect to verify these constraints by hand repeatedly. We have developed an architectural CAD tool that can perform various evaluations to make certain that the user requirements are preserved during design evolution. We have also developed a new representation for describing proximity relationships between pairs of room types concisely and unambiguously. This new representation provides more flexibility and expressibility in defining the different ways that spaces should be grouped together than the traditional adjacency matrix.
Title
Symbolic Layout Evaluator for Floor Plans
Published
1999-03-30
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
CSD-99-1045
Type
Text
Extent
29 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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