Apartment floor plans have traditionally been interpreted through qualitative typological readings, but coded floor-plan datasets now enable reproducible quantitative analysis. This article examines architectural metadata from apartment units in Auri...
The lack of energy-saving design in national fitness centers has affected low-cost operation and indoor comfort. Existing studies mainly focus on the impact of lighting and heat on energy consumption in sports stadiums, highlighting the need for the...
In this paper, an evolutionary technique is proposed as a method for generating new design solutions for the floor layout problem. The genotypes are represented by the vectors of numerical values of points representing endpoints of room walls. Equiva...
Most of Italy’s residential building stock predates contemporary structural safety and energy efficiency regulatory frameworks. Today, policymakers face the challenge of choosing whether to prioritise renovation or opt for demolition and recons...
Recent advancements in AI research, particularly in spatial layout generation, highlight its capacity to enhance human creativity by swiftly providing architects with numerous alternatives during the pre-design phase. The complexity of architectural...
Since the 1980s, South Korea has continuously supplied public rental housing alongside the development of new towns. However, systematic studies examining the relationship between qualitative changes in floor plan design and the institutional factors...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology has been widely used in the construction industry in recent years. However, to date, it still cannot sufficiently meet the requirements of construction practitioners in terms of the layout design of flo...
Chalk lines are used to print layouts in construction sites to indicate the location of attaching or cutting objects; printing depends on the skills of workers and is suitable for small-scale work. Moreover, this type of work requires a precise measu...
Object detection is one of the most critical tasks in the field of Computer vision. This task comprises identifying and localizing an object in the image. Architectural floor plans represent the layout of buildings and apartments. The floor plans con...
The spatial layout of urban villages seriously affects the living environment and integrated development of urban and rural areas. Using digital means to assist in the reconstruction of urban villages is necessary and urgent. This study built an urba...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the urgent need for rapid, efficient testing methods at large-scale events to control virus spread. This study leverages queueing theory to explore how different floor plan configurations affec...
Due to their independent structure, piping, and access, townhouses offer great flexibility in floor plan changes and high spatial autonomy, making them the mainstream housing type in Taiwan. This study focuses on row houses and examines 2022 completi...
This paper presents and discusses an optimisation approach applied to spatial layouts in care home building design. With this study, we introduce a method for increasing the floor plan efficiency using a self-organising genetic algorithm, thus reduci...
A well-designed hospital facility layout planning process will enable improvements in operational efficiency, health outcomes, and patients’ medical experience. Older hospital facility layouts are likely to be based only on their designer’s experienc...
Artificial intelligence has increasingly been applied to residential floor plan generation, producing outputs in diverse forms such as semantic raster images, graph-structured layouts, and vector polygons. However, these outputs still require substan...
Seoul is the first city in South Korea to provide affordable social housing, beginning in 2015. Despite the importance of studying its space, configuration, and functionality, which impact the residents’ quality of life, research on social hous...
Designing reasonable commercial transportation space is of great significance to enhancing the overall value of commerce. This study takes the classic cases of three typical plans of commercial wholesale centres (CWCs) as the research object, uses sp...
Singapore’s public housing policies are widely known for their success in providing housing for over 80% of the residential population, with most owning homes. Extensive housing schemes generally offer a set of fixed housing layouts; yet, at th...
Public rental housing complexes in South Korea have played a critical role in addressing housing needs since their introduction in 1989, initially prioritizing rapid quantitative supply. However, challenges such as limited housing quality and evolvin...
Against the backdrop of global energy crises and accelerated urbanization, urban wind energy has garnered increasing attention through its integration with building environments. This study investigates the synergistic optimization of architectural p...
This research proposes a conditional diffusion-based workflow for early-stage floor plan design in university research buildings, addressing complex functional organization, strict boundary constraints, and quantitative area control. The method perfo...
This study adopts neighborhood blocks as the object of study, with the aim of investigating their thermal environment. In addition, the spatial configuration of various lands and the spatial configuration of building combinations are analyzed. The id...
Solar energy is a type of renewable and sustainable energy. Enhancing the acquisition and utilization of solar radiation in urban residential areas is a crucial strategy for advancing sustainable development goals. The morphology of urban residential...
Floor plans are a central representational component of architectural design, operating in close relation to sections, elevations, and three-dimensional reasoning to support the production and understanding of architectural space. In this context, we...
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into residential architectural design faces challenges due to fragmented workflows and the lack of localized datasets. This study proposes the CorbuAI framework, hypothesizing that a multimodal AI system integ...
The curation design of cultural heritage sites, such as museums, influence the level of visitor satisfaction and the possibility of revisitation; therefore, an efficient exhibit layout is critical. The difficulty of determining the behavior of visito...
This paper presents an assessment method that uses weighted graphs to quantify a building’s capacity to support changes. The method is called Spatial Assessment of Generality and Adaptability (SAGA), and evaluates the generality (passive suppor...
Nowadays, speakers are essential components for message delivery in indoor environments, including lectures, public addresses, and emergency announcements. Their physical placement should ensure adequate direct-sound audibility across occupant servic...
Many problems exist in the layout of working surfaces in high-gas mines, such as the low efficiency of roadway excavation, difficulties in maintenance after excavation, and serious resource wastes due to difficulties in recovering coal pillars betwee...
Exit location can influence evacuation efficiency without changing the number of exits, yet its mechanism lacks quantitative characterization. Using a complex single-floor hospital outpatient department floor plan with 186 occupants as the case study...
Adaptive reuse projects frequently involve substantial plan-level reorganization; however, the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchy within interior layouts remains insufficiently examined at the building scale. Background: This study investigates how...
The automatic identification and three-dimensional reconstruction of house plans has emerged as a significant research direction in intelligent building and smart city applications. Three-dimensional models reconstructed from two-dimensional floor pl...
Block layout is the main urban pattern in many city centers in the East and West, and this layout has a long history and will continue to develop in the future. However, there are relatively few studies on the quantitative analysis of this layout, es...
The ability of deep learning has been tested to learn graphical features for building-plan generation. However, whether the deeper space allocation strategies can be obtained and thus reduce energy consumption has still not been investigated. In the...
The facility layout design problem is significantly relevant within the business operations strategies framework and has emerged as an alternate strategy towards supply chain sustainability. However, its wide coverage in the scientific literature has...
Residential architectural heritage in Jilin Province, particularly along the Chinese Eastern and South Manchuria Railways, represents the most abundant and widespread form of heritage in the region. This study investigates the distinctive features of...
The digitization of existing building stock often depends on legacy 2D raster floor plans (scanned drawings, PDF exports, or photographs) because structured building information models are frequently unavailable for older properties. Manual measureme...
Airflow in a multi-zone building can be a major cause of pollutant transfer, excessive energy consumption, and occupants discomfort. The key to monitoring airflows and mitigating related problems is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of pressure...
Multi-story path planning (MSPP) for indoor delivery robots presents unique challenges in modern logistics systems, particularly in efficiently handling multiple deliveries across different floors. This paper proposes a graph-based path planning algo...
With the development of energy-saving and emission-reduction, solar energy as a clean energy with excellent characteristics has bright prospects for development and application in residential environment with high energy consumption. With the intensi...
In traditional industry setups, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) follow trajectories planned together with the layout of the storage or production facility and supported by fixed markers on the floor or on the walls. Traffic rules manage the avoidanc...
Prediction of interior room layout from observations on the exterior boundaries of a unit is sometimes needed in cases of emergencies when unit entry is denied. Seeing that 3D laser scanners are becoming smaller, lighter, and easier to carry around,...
This research develops a shape grammar to generate solutions for the adaptive reuse of historic buildings. More precisely, it proposes a transformation grammar for sobrado buildings, a typology present in the historic center of São Luís...
Symbiotic organisms search (SOS) is a promising metaheuristic algorithm that has been studied recently by numerous researchers due to its capability to solve various hard and complex optimization problems. SOS is a powerful optimization technique tha...
The attempt at a more sustainable land use by increasing urban density may have a negative effect on the daylighting of residential buildings. In densely built areas, obstructions generated by the surrounding buildings can substantially reduce the av...
Innovative design and technological advancements in the construction industry have resulted in an increased use of large, slender and lightweight floors in contemporary office buildings. Compounded by an ever-increasing use of open-plan layouts with...
Despite advances in deep learning for interior layout design, existing bubble diagram methods still rely on manual sketches or dataset retrieval. These methods use a binary functional relationship with simple adjacency logic, limiting end-to-end gene...
Research simultaneously examining building energy consumption and outdoor thermal comfort within urban environments remains limited. Few studies have delved into the sensitivity of design parameters based on building energy consumption and outdoor th...
Active shooter incidents typically transpire quickly. Research reveals that 70 percent of active shooter incidents end in less than 5 min, and that a majority of incidents are over before law enforcement arrive on scene. This study analyzes the level...
Daylighting improves users’ experience in visual comfort, aesthetics, behaviour and perception of space and plays an important part in enhancing the health and wellbeing of occupants inside a dwelling. However, daylighting design is challenging...
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