This paper introduces a design methodology and a toolkit developed as a parametric CAD program for configurative design of architectural plan layouts. Using this toolkit, designers can start plan layout process with sketching the way functional spaces need to connect to each other. A tool draws an interactive bubble diagram and a set of tools reveal feasible geometric interpretations of the proposed bubble diagram in terms of plan layout graphs. Offering real-time Space Syntax analyses at the same time, the tools provide feedback on the spatial performance, which is translatable into the likely social performance of the plan layout patterns.
| Authors | Pirouz Nourian and Samaneh Rezvani and Sevil Sariyildiz |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Venue | Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 1] |
| DOI | 10.52842/CONF.ECAADE.2013.1.357 |
| Source Database | Seed (CumInCAD) |
| Bridge-to-GNN | Category Seed |
| GNN Architecture | Not yet extracted from PDF |
| Graph Encoding | Not yet extracted from PDF |
| AEC Task | Not yet extracted from PDF |
| Cohort | Early Infrastructure (2020–2021) |
| Implementation Framework | Grasshopper / Rhino (heuristic — verify) |
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| Key Finding | design methodology and a toolkit developed as a parametric CAD program for configurative design of architectural plan layouts (heuristic — verify) |
| Frameworks / libraries | graph-tool · Grasshopper / Rhino |
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| Quality (heuristic, 6-flag) | 0/6 · rigor: Low Code/Data: —Benchmark: —Baseline: —CV/Split: —Ablation: —Reproducible: — |
Part of the GML/GNN in AEC Systematic Review (PRISMA 2020) — 112 papers, 2020–2026