What a Comfortable World: Ergonomic Principles Guided Apartment Layout Generation
Piotr Nieciecki, Aleksander Plocharski, Przemyslaw Musialski
TLDR
This paper introduces a transformer-based method for generating ergonomically sound apartment layouts by integrating architectural design principles.
Key contributions
- Integrates architectural design principles into a transformer for ergonomic apartment layout generation.
- Formulates differentiable loss functions based on established architectural standards for optimization.
- Optimizes room adjacency and proximity, significantly improving livability metrics.
- Outperforms baselines in ergonomic compliance and maintains high structural validity.
Why it matters
Existing floor plan generators often create ergonomically inefficient designs. This paper addresses this by directly embedding architectural principles into the generation process, leading to more comfortable and livable apartment layouts.
Original Abstract
Current data-driven floor plan generation methods often reproduce the ergonomic inefficiencies found in real-world training datasets. To address this, we propose a novel approach that integrates architectural design principles directly into a transformer-based generative process. We formulate differentiable loss functions based on established architectural standards from literature to optimize room adjacency and proximity. By guiding the model with these ergonomic priors during training, our method produces layouts with significantly improved livability metrics. Comparative evaluations show that our approach outperforms baselines in ergonomic compliance while maintaining high structural validity.
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