A computational approach for checking compliance with European view and sunlight exposure criteria

Brembilla, Eleonora; Azadi, Shervin; Nourian, Pirouz

doi:10.26868/25222708.2021.30353

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“…The game engine is implemented in Python utilizing the following open-source libraries: NumPy 42 for implementing the algebraic processes; Pandas 43,44 for structuring and organizing data; topoGenesis 45 for spatial indexing and topological functionalities of the volumetric units; and finally HoneyBee 46,47 and EN 17037 Recipes 48 for performing visibility and solar analyses.…”

Section: Game Engine (Back End)mentioning

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EquiCity game: a mathematical serious game for participatory design of spatial configurations

Nourian,

Azadi,

Bai

et al. 2024

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We propose a mathematical framework for developing social-choice games that are designed to mediate decision-making processes for city planning, urban area redevelopment, and architectural configuration of urban housing complexes. The proposed framework features a digital serious gaming approach for participatory design to support transparency and inclusion in the process of decision-making and ensure an equitable balance of sustainable development goals in spatial design outcomes. The mathematical process consists of a Markovian design machine for balancing the design decisions of actors, a massing configurator equipped with fuzzy logic and multi-criteria decision analysis, algebraic graph-theoretical accessibility evaluators, and automated solar-climatic evaluators using geospatial computational geometry. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework by implementing a multi-player online game that facilitates a participatory decision-making workshop for forming multi-functional building complexes by providing a generative configurator equipped with automated appraisal/scoring mechanisms for revealing the aggregate impact of alternatives. The EquiCity game empowers a group of decision-makers to reach a fair consensual spatial design by mathematically simulating many rounds of reasonable trade-offs between their decisions, with different levels of interest or control over various types of investments. The novelty of the framework is in its capability to encompass decision-making about the most idiosyncratic aspects of a site related to its heritage status and cultural significance to the most generic aspects such as balancing access to sunlight for the site while respecting ‘the right to sunlight’ of the neighbours of the site, ensuring coherence of the entire configuration with regards to a network of desired closeness ratings, the satisfaction of a programme of requirements, and intricately balancing individual development goals in conjunction with communal goals and environmental design codes.

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EquiCity game: a mathematical serious game for participatory design of spatial configurations

Nourian,

Azadi,

Bai

et al. 2024

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“…In this case, the parameter that describes the response to the quality criterion is the angle of the horizontal view that encloses the visual rays that intersect the window. A more sophisticated analysis could be implemented through better structured open-source tools to verify compliance with daylight availability requirements and "view out" quality, such as the one proposed by Brembilla et al (2021).…”

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Home and Healthcare. The prospect of home adaptation through a computational design decision-support system

romagnoli,

Nourian,

Ferrante

et al. 2022

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This paper presents an ongoing research to define the framework of a computational design approach based on the idea of spatial analysis and spatial synthesis to implement multicriteria evaluations and provide evidence of the performance of the design alternatives in the specific case of home adaptation for healthcare at home. The European health systems place among the priority objectives the strengthening of the provision of healthcare at home to guarantee the aging in place of elderly people and to limit, at the same time, the unnecessary use of resources. Therefore, existing homes must provide adequate safety, comfort, and accessibility features to ensure a high quality of life for the care receivers and facilitate the caregivers' tasks. To address the complexity of the requirements to be met, we propose a spatial decision support system (SDSS) to implement multi-criteria assessments to ergonomic design problems at a spatial scale of apartment homes. The system is intended to streamline and assist designers and homeowners in planning interventions for home adaptations for healthcare. Such design problems can be formulated as decision problems with costs and benefits modeled within constraints of validity and quality criteria/objectives. Concerning the specific field of study, the system evaluates the degree of compliance with the accessibility and visibility quality criteria of each design alternative. The reiteration of the evaluation mechanism allows for the classification and supports the selection of satisfactory technical solutions identified with an informed and well-balanced trade-off between the relevant quality criteria.

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A computational approach for checking compliance with European view and sunlight exposure criteria

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

EquiCity game: a mathematical serious game for participatory design of spatial configurations

EquiCity game: a mathematical serious game for participatory design of spatial configurations

Home and Healthcare. The prospect of home adaptation through a computational design decision-support system

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