Computer-Generated Residential Building Layouts

Paul Merrell, Eric Schkufza and Vladlen Koltum

Stanford University

SIGGRAPH AISA 2010

Motivation

• I want a big house~~~

• This paper propose a framework for generate a residential building

bubble diagram

Tradition Pipeline

floor plans

physical buildingrequirement

bubble diagram

Pipeline in this paper

floor plans

3D modelrequirement

Automatic Automatic

visualization

Main idea

A list of high-level requirements

Computer-Generated Residential Building Layouts

Building Layout Design

• 1. Architectural Programming

• 2.Floor Plan Optimization

• 3. Generating 3D models

Data- driven Architectural Programming

• Bayesian Networks

Floor Plan Optimization

• Proposal Moves

1.Sliding a wall

2.Swapping roomscost function

Sliding a wallSnapping a wall

Cost Function

Accessibility Dimensions

FloorsShapes

Generating 3D models

• TEMPLATE

• Passageways, Windows, Staircases, Roofs

Results

Contributions

• Data-driven generation of architectural programs from high-level requirements.

• Fully automated generation of detailed multi-storey floor plans from architectural programs.

• An end-to-end approach to automated generation of building layouts from high-level requirements.