[105] User-driven parcellation of high-rise units for future urban habitation: Participatory computational design tools for future urban habitation

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Most residential high-rise apartments currently built to satisfy growing demands for housing, are predetermined and thus, are unable to respond to the increasingly diversifying forms of co-habitation. This research pursues alternative flexible approaches by building on Habraken’s ‘Open Building’ paradigm, where permanent, polyvalent ‘Support System’ layouts are strategically designed to accommodate highly adaptable, user-driven ‘Infill systems’. In this context, we adopt the participatory decision-making approach, by means of a computational framework that facilitates user-driven parcellations of entire buildings into apartments segments. The means is an algorithm that allocates numerous user-preference regarding size and position simultaneously - by searching for parcel permutations through a graph-syntax representation of floor plans. The research forms part of a larger project that aims to evaluate the resilience of mass housing for future uncertain demands.