Learning to design architecture

好的建筑设计使我们的生活空间舒适、实用、美观，从而提高我们的生活质量。一个好的建筑设计进一步节约能源，在北美，每年家庭公用事业的成本达到1000亿美元；2)减少婴儿、老人或残疾人的家庭生命危险，每年有16万美国人死于家庭伤害。不幸的是，设计一个有效的平面图是可能的，只有专业的建筑师，其中一小部分的建筑（在北美不到10%）聘请设计专业人士定制设计由于成本。自动生成平面图将对万亿美元的房地产/建筑行业产生巨大影响。在该提案中，申请人和欧特克将开发一个用于建筑设计的计算助手，使计算助手能够1)探索与建筑师的草图兼容的设计变化；2)以允许手动后处理的格式生成平面图；3)为设计改进提供交互式反馈循环。该项目对加拿大特别重要，加拿大作为一个发达国家，人口增长显著（七国集团国家中最高），大多数主要城市中心的住房供应短缺。加拿大政府正在推出其国家住房战略（NHS），这是一项10年550亿美元的计划，将1)创造12.5万套新住房；2)使53万户家庭摆脱住房需求；3)修理/更新30万套住房；4)减少50%的长期无家可归者。该项目将降低实施NHS的成本，而潜在的几何建模技术也将促进视觉效果和游戏产业的发展，加拿大在这些领域处于世界领先地位。

A good architectural design makes our living-space comfortable, functional, and beautiful, enhancing our quality-of-life. A good architectural design further 1) saves energy, where the household utility cost reaches 100 billion dollars every year in North America; and 2) reduces household life-hazards for the babies, the elderly, or people with disabilities, where 160,000 Americans die due to household injuries every year. Unfortunately, designing an effective floorplan is possible only by professional architects, where a small fraction of buildings (less than 10% in North America) employ a design professional for custom design due to the cost. Automatic floorplan generation will have tremendous impacts on trillion dollar real-estate/construction industries.In this proposal, the applicant and Autodesk will develop a computational assistant for architectural design, enabling a computational assistant to 1) explore design variations that are compatible with a sketch by an architect; 2) produce floorplans in a format that allows manual post-processing; and 3) provide an interactive feedback loop for design refinement.The project will be of particular importance to Canada, where the population growth is significant as a developed country (the highest in G7 countries), and housing is in short supply in most major urban centres. The government of Canada is rolling out its National Housing Strategy (NHS), a 10-year $55 billion plan that will 1) create 125,000 new housing units; 2) lift 530,000 families out of housing need; 3) repair/renew 300,000 housing units; and 4) reduce chronic homelessness by 50 percent. The project will reduce costs for implementing the NHS, whereas the underlying geometric modeling technologies will also boost visual effects and gaming industries, where Canada is a world leader.