Evolving Floorplans

Post by sitkack » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 3:34 PM UTC

zellyn wrote: post #25

mkj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you miss the part about "light on two sides of every room"? These evolved designs seem optimised for nothing that actually matters to human comfort.

I took this as an initial exploration of genetic algorithms for architecture. As such, the idea is more interesting than the specific parameters and weights chosen here. You'll notice as you scroll down that this article _does_ vary the parameters and weights. For instance, the one that optimizes for windows tends to create interior courtyards. I could imagine adding parameters and weights for thresholds, areas for c…

Post by retbull » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

ballenf wrote: post #9

lawlessone wrote: post #3

Those floor plans creep me out and i don't know why.

They give the impression of the building being alive. And therefore your presence is potentially a threat that it will deal with and you'll be trapped for an eternity in an endless maze of reconfiguring hallways and dead ends.

Post by lawlessone » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

tw1010 wrote: post #14

ireland352 wrote: post #10

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I was at a vehicle AI conference early this month discussing how AI will only output based on the quality of its inputs. And the fear coming out of that conference was if space wasn't correctly dedicated or allocated, the AI will optimize the systems as much as it can to squeeze out every single ounce of efficiency. Qualitative items such as the ones listed are important for customer focused environments, however, I'…

Like I mentioned, I have high hopes modelling vaguer aspects of customer preference can be incorporated by training a model on rendered generative design (e.g. with data from amazon turk), which can then be used as maybe some kind of penalization on the efficiency loss function, multiplied by a weight to give us a choice in the efficiency-comfort tradeoff-space. There are solutions that I think show potential out the…

Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

riebschlager wrote: post #11

jmilloy wrote: post #2

These kinds of tools are mostly about the input constraints, heuristics, and weights. I'd love to see more about this with more practical constraints (rectilinear rooms and hallways, minimum area for cafetaria/gym, etc) and additional heuristics, such as window area in classrooms, number of hallways/intersections for ease-of-navigation, and building costs beyond just material use.

> building costs beyond just material use Yep. The "optimized" floorplans would be an order of magnitude more expensive to build than the original. I mean, drywall alone would take a lot more time with all the cuts, mudding and sanding more joints. The thought of framing out these walls makes my head hurt.

Post by minutillo » Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

jccalhoun wrote: post #36

I can see this kind of architecture being the next fad in architecture as a kind of next step from the Gehry-style architecture. I can totally see someone pr firm or tour guide bragging "our building was designed by a computer algorithm to be optimized for our needs..."