TY - GEN
T1 - RECTANGULAR FLOORPLANS WITH BLOCK SYMMETRY
AU - Shiksha, Shiksha
AU - Shekhawat, Krishnendra
AU - Rastogi, Sujay
AU - Kondaveeti, Aishwarya
AU - Duarte, Jose´ P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 and published by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The principle of symmetry has beneficial applications in architecture. Symmetry mainly creates order and equilibrium in complex designs. This study presents a graph theoretic approach for the automatic generation of rectangular floorplans with block symmetry. Existing graph theoretical approaches focus on the floorplan’s outer boundary design, different room shapes, and spatial arrangements. This paper introduces block symmetry as a new concept in floorplan generation. Based on this concept, an algorithm is proposed for generating a rectangular floorplan with rectangular blocks for a given adjacency graph if one exists. Further, suppose two blocks are required to be symmetric, i.e., of equal size. In that case, an optimisation framework is used to equate the widths and heights of the blocks, resulting in the generation of a rectangular floorplan with block symmetry. A GUI is provided for users to perform the automatic generation of floorplans.
AB - The principle of symmetry has beneficial applications in architecture. Symmetry mainly creates order and equilibrium in complex designs. This study presents a graph theoretic approach for the automatic generation of rectangular floorplans with block symmetry. Existing graph theoretical approaches focus on the floorplan’s outer boundary design, different room shapes, and spatial arrangements. This paper introduces block symmetry as a new concept in floorplan generation. Based on this concept, an algorithm is proposed for generating a rectangular floorplan with rectangular blocks for a given adjacency graph if one exists. Further, suppose two blocks are required to be symmetric, i.e., of equal size. In that case, an optimisation framework is used to equate the widths and heights of the blocks, resulting in the generation of a rectangular floorplan with block symmetry. A GUI is provided for users to perform the automatic generation of floorplans.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85197170732
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85197170732#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.52842/conf.caadria.2023.2.391
DO - 10.52842/conf.caadria.2023.2.391
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85197170732
SN - 9789887891802
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia
SP - 391
EP - 400
BT - HUMAN-CENTRIC - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2023
A2 - Koh, Immanuel
A2 - Reinhardt, Dagmar
A2 - Makki, Mohammed
A2 - Khakhar, Mona
A2 - Bao, Nic
PB - The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia
T2 - 28th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2023
Y2 - 21 March 2023 through 23 March 2023
ER -