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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology (BRIEFSARCHIDE)
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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.
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Keywords
- Agent Based Modeling
- Aggregate objective function
- Architectural floor-plan
- Backtracking
- Bottleneck
- Coarse Grid
- Constraint satisfaction problem
- Crowd dynamics
- Discrete optimization
- Distance potential field
- Functional layout
- Grid rotation
- Gridization
- Heat map
- Human subjective evaluation
- Multi-objective
- Pedestrian traffic
- Regular (Platonic) tessellation
- Square (Plaza) evaluation
- Square triangular hexagonal grid
Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Layout Optimization & Evaluation
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Crowd Simulation
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Machi Zawidzki’s doctoral research focused on various optimization methods based on CI for the fundamental problems of the architectural design: Functionality, Structure and Aesthetics. His research interests are in
designing built environment, especially in ergonomics and architectural design.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discrete Optimization in Architecture
Book Subtitle: Architectural & Urban Layout
Authors: Machi Zawidzki
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1106-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1105-4Published: 18 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1106-1Published: 09 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-580X
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 105
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 82 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Solid Mechanics, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Structural Materials