RESEARCH ARTICLE

Evolutionary approach for spatial architecture layout design enhanced by an agent-based topology finding system

  • Zifeng Guo ,
  • Biao Li
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  • School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Received date: 07 Jun 2016

Revised date: 22 Oct 2016

Accepted date: 07 Nov 2016

Published date: 06 Apr 2017

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2017 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Abstract

This paper presents a method for the automatic generation of a spatial architectural layout from a user-specified architectural program. The proposed approach binds a multi-agent topology finding system and an evolutionary optimization process. The former generates topology satisfied layouts for further optimization, while the latter focuses on refining the layouts to achieve predefined architectural criteria.The topology finding process narrows the search space and increases the performance in subsequent optimization. Results imply that the spatial layout modeling and themulti-floor topology are handled.

Cite this article

Zifeng Guo , Biao Li . Evolutionary approach for spatial architecture layout design enhanced by an agent-based topology finding system[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 , 6(1) : 53 -62 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2016.11.003

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