Abstract:
The automated generation of architectural layouts is an
intensively studied research area where the aim is to generate a variety of
(initial) layouts for the given constraints which can be further modified
by designers and architects. From a mathematical perspective, one of
the well-known constraints is given in the form of an adjacency graph
which represents the adjacency relations of the given rooms and problem
is to generate multiple layouts satisfying the adjacency relations. In the
literature, the adjacency graph is usually taken as a bi-connected planar
triangular graph. In this paper, we present the results of a prototype
GPLAN that generates multiple dimensioned layouts for any given
planar graph. The larger aim of this work is to develop software that can
produce a variety of architecturally acceptable floorplans corresponding
to the given constraints.