The role of latent representations for design space exploration of floorplans

Vahid Azizi, Muhammad Usman*, Samuel S. Sohn, Mathew Schwartz, Seonghyeon Moon, Petros Faloutsos, Mubbasir Kapadia

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Abstract

Floorplans often require considering numerous factors, from the layout size to cost, numeric attributes such as room sizes, and other intrinsic properties such as connectivity between visible regions. Representing these complex factors is challenging, but doing so in a representative and efficient way can enable new modes of design exploration. Existing image and graph-based approaches of floorplans’ representation often failed to consider low-level space semantics, structural features, and space utilization with respect to its future inhabitants, which are all the critical elements to analyze design layouts. We present a latent-space representation of floorplans using gated recurrent unit variational autoencoder (GRU-VAE), where floorplans are represented as attributed graphs (encoded with the abovementioned features). Two local search approaches are presented to efficiently explore the latent space for optimizing and generating new floorplans for the given environment. Semantic, structural, and visibility metrics are evaluated individually and as a combined objective for optimizations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1167-1179
Number of pages13
JournalSimulation
Volume99
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2023

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Keywords

  • Floorplan representation
  • GRU variational autoencoder
  • LSTM autoencoder
  • attributed graphs
  • floorplan generation
  • floorplan optimization
  • human behavioral features
  • isovists
  • latent search space

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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