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ResumoThis work is about the problem of Space Layout Planning (SLP) applied to Architectural Design. The creation of floor-plan layouts is key to architecture, and it is a problem that, because of its complexity, does not have a precise general method for its resolution. An overview and a wide description of the "Architectural Design" process are presented to understand this phenomenon. Secondly we present a brief history and development of the SLP field, and then a description of the state-of-the-art (techniques, approaches and strategies) to implement layout solutions. Concepts such as optimization, generative systems, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, physically-based modelling are reviewed and discussed. Commercial CAAD and BIM software is also reviewed. Conclusions and a discussion about the results and absence of this type of software for architectural practice are presented.O artigo trata do problema da distribuição espacial em planta (SLP, por sua sigla em Inglês) aplicada ao projeto arquitetônico. A criação de desenhos de plantas é uma questão fundamental e, devido à sua complexidade, nenhum método preciso para ser resolvido. Apresentamos uma visão geral e uma descrição detalhada do processo de projeto arquitetônico para compreender esse fenômeno. Em segundo lugar, apresentamos uma breve história e o desenvolvimento do SLP. Em seguida, trataremos sobre o estado da arte (técnicas, abordagens e estratégias) para implementar soluções de design. Os conceitos de otimização, sistemas generativos, inteligência artificial, algoritmos genéticos e modelagem com base na física também são revistos e discutidos. Também são analisados os softwares comerciais CAAD e BIM. Ao final, apresentamos as conclusões e uma discussão sobre os resultados e o impacto deste tipo de software na prática da arquitetura.Key words: space layout planning, computeraided design, automated architectural floor layout, design methodologies. Palavras-chave:planejamento de distribuição espacial, design criado por computador, projetos arquitetônicos automatizados, metodologias de design. Automated floor layout planning: A utopia?One of the most important tasks of architects is the creation of a floor-plan layout for a building. The automation of the creation of floor-plan layouts deals with the use of computers to generate designs, and it is called Space Layout Planning. Research in this field started around 50 years ago. Many solutions have been presented and discussed: prototypes, tests, depth computer programming, and optimization formulas embedded in the architectural field, as well as hundreds of publications with big promises for the future.However, in the end, we, the architects, have nothing on our desks to support our daily task in the office, not a single tool that generates a useful architectural floor-plan layout.No matter how fast, optimal, automated, or parameterized the solutions have been, architects do not use them, and it seems that they will never meet the long list of architectural criteria. This piece of ...

The described study aims to find correlations between urban spatial configurations and human emotions. To this end, the authors measured people's emotions while they walk along a path in an urban area using an instrument that measures skin conductance and skin temperature. The corresponding locations of the test persons were measured recorded by using a GPS-tracker (n=13). The results are interpreted and categorized as measures for positive and negative emotional arousal. To evaluate the technical and methodological process. The test results offer initial evidence that certain spaces or spatial sequences do cause positive or negative emotional arousal while others are relatively neutral. To achieve the goal of the study, the outcome was used as a basis for the study of testing correlations between people's emotional responses and urban spatial configurations represented by Isovist properties of the urban form. By using their model the authors can explain negative emotional arousal for certain places, but they couldn't find a model to predict emotional responses for individual spatial configurations.

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At present, more than half of all building activity in the German building sector is undertaken within existing built contexts.The development of a conceptual and technological basis for the digital support of design directly on site, within an existing building context is the focus of the research project "Spatial Augmented Reality for Architecture" (SAR).This paper describes the goals achieved in one aspect of the project: the sampling of colors and materials at a scale of 1:1 using Augmented Reality (AR) technologies.We present initial results from the project; the development of an ad-hoc visualization of interactive data on arbitrary surfaces in real-world indoor environments using a mobile hardware setup.With this, it was possible to project the color and material qualities of a design directly onto almost all surfaces within a geometrically corrected, existing building. Initially, a software prototype "Spatial Augmented Reality for Architecture-Colored Architecture" (SAR-CA) was developed and then assessed based on evaluation results from a user study.