Adapting principles of developmental biology and agent-based modelling for automated urban residential layout design

Sun, Yuchao; Taplin, John

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“…Cruz et al 79 use CA to allow the basic formation of cells to self-organize to form functional floor layouts. MASs, however, are used in several layout-generating GSs to understand the evolution of spaces within a given environment, 80,81 creating organic-self-organized spaces 82,83 or incorporating the behaviour of occupants to achieve socio-special comfort. 84 GA and ParaD are used to generate layouts that attend to occupants’ physical needs.…”

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Generative systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industry: A systematic review and analysis

BuHamdan

Alwisy

Bouferguène

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Researchers have been extensively exploring the employment of generative systems to support design practices in the architecture, engineering and construction industry since the 1970s. More than half a century passed since the first architecture, engineering and construction industry’s generative systems were developed; researchers have achieved remarkable leaps backed by advances in computing power and algorithms’ capacity. In this article, we present a systematic analysis of the literature published between 2009 and 2019 on the utilization of generative systems in the design practices of the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The present research studies present trends, collaborations and applications of generative systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industry in order to identify existing shortcomings and potential advancements that balance the need for theory development and practical application. It provides insightful observations that are translated into meaningful recommendations for future research necessary to progress the incorporation of generative systems into the design practices of the architecture, engineering and construction industry.

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Generative systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industry: A systematic review and analysis

BuHamdan

Alwisy

Bouferguène

2020

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…For example, these applications include creating testing environments for robot navigation [13], [14], an interactive tool to aid games development [15] and even as a tool to aid in urban design [16]. This section will briefly review previous work into this field of research.…”

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A Time-Line Approach for the Generation of Simulated Settlements

Williams

Headleand

2017

2017 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW)

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Abstract-In this paper we present a model for procedurally generating virtual settlements populated with roads, land parcels and buildings. Our model improves on existing research by considering historical influence on settlement growth. To do this, an interactive time-line is used, allowing for a designer to specify a number of architectural periods. These architectural periods are then used in the generation process, giving the designer a robust tool to interactively generate photo-realistic urban scenes. Our results show that a variety of settlement types and sizes can be generated. In addition, we demonstrate that road patterns within real-world settlements can be created using our system.Index [7]. These algorithms take away the task of manually creating assets to be rendered within a scene, and instead focus on how assets can be created on-demand. They also typically allow for a large set of core assets, through parametrization. This permits a designer to create a large quantity of visually disparate objects with little or no effort, other than the creation of the original algorithm.The large demand for high fidelity scenes has been the driving force for advancements in graphical technology [8]. High quality scenes are utilized in a number of different areas, especially the games development industry and television/film production. As a result, procedural modelling approaches are used in industry as an alternative to traditional approaches. An example of this is the MASSIVE multi-agent system 1 , which was used to procedurally generate large crowds in the production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films.A frequent element seen in games and television are settlements, from sprawling cities to smaller villages and hamlets. Designing a settlement manually is a time-consuming process, largely due to the scale of the scene and the amount of elements used in its composition. As a result of this, interest in researching the procedural creation of cities and other settlements has risen in recent years.1 http://www.massivesoftware.com/ An aspect often overlooked by existing research in this area is providing historical context for the generated settlements. Providing historical context permits the environment designer to define time periods which influence the development of a city, e.g. architectural styles or urban planning decisions.Currently, state-of-the-art algorithms for generating settlements only consider the creation of a city in a single period. Modelling techniques which develop settlements over time do exist [9]-[11], however very little of these approaches use historical context to influence the development of a settlement. Historical influence plays an important role in the development decisions took when developing a city. For example, economic depression has a large impact on development decisions took throughout a certain historical period, due a shortage of resources [12].The aim of this paper is to elaborate on this, to provide a system which permits the automatic generation of virtual sett...

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“…The angularity and irregularity of the road network in Figure 1(a) provide a rigorous test of feeder bus planning and, at first sight, appear somewhat inimical to the insertion of a bus route. However, a planning bias against the cul-de-sac has limited the number and extent of dead-end branch roads (Sun and Taplin, 2017). Furthermore, the high proportion of roads in shared circuits (ringness) not only gives good access between dwellings but also enables a bus route to serve this planned suburban development with little difficulty.…”

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Optimizing bus stop locations for walking access: Stops-first design of a feeder route to enhance a residential plan

Taplin

Sun

2019

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Feeder buses provide a small but important part of the public transport system by carrying people between residential areas and transport interchanges. A feeder bus to a train station planned in advance will attract new residents of a housing development to use the bus. The bus route can influence the location choice of a buyer concerned about access for children, the elderly or anyone not wishing to drive a car. Our bus route modelling starts with the bus stops – not the route – to be reached from each dwelling by the shortest possible walk. In demand terms, people locating close to bus stops are more likely to use the service than those choosing more distant locations, and the nearby residences have higher values. The stops-first application determines a feeder bus route to enhance an irregular residential plan covering an area of one square kilometre. The planned road and housing lot locations provide the data for calculating the access measure from each dwelling to each potential bus stop, the closest stop being used. A genetic algorithm tests potential bus stops to find demand maximizing locations, the propensity to use the bus being formulated as an exponential (increasing elasticity) function of walking distance. Then a ‘travelling salesman’ genetic algorithm finds the shortest route linking the stops, so that an efficient circuit route is generated for each alternative number of bus stops, ranging from 7 to 11. More stops not only give better access but also increase the route length, so that total accessibility must be assessed against route length. The distribution of walking distances shows most between 150 and 240 metres, with none more than 400 metres. The results indicate that planning policy should require prior design of a bus route to achieve good walking accessibility, so that residents become accustomed to the convenience of using the bus. This study shows that, at the planning stage, estimating a bi-objective model giving a Pareto front between accessibility and route length can reveal a policy compromise that shortens the route with little reduction in expected patronage.

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Adapting principles of developmental biology and agent-based modelling for automated urban residential layout design

Cited by 4 publications

References 52 publications

Generative systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industry: A systematic review and analysis

Generative systems in the architecture, engineering and construction industry: A systematic review and analysis

A Time-Line Approach for the Generation of Simulated Settlements

Optimizing bus stop locations for walking access: Stops-first design of a feeder route to enhance a residential plan

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