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ecaade2021_121 |
| authors |
Mondal, Joy |
| year |
2021 |
| title |
Eelish 2.0: Grasshopper Plugin for Automated Grid-Driven Column-Beam Placement on Orthogonal Floor Plans - Formalising manual workflow into an algorithm through empirical analysis |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2021.1.427
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| source |
Stojakovic, V and Tepavcevic, B (eds.), Towards a new, configurable architecture - Proceedings of the 39th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 8-10 September 2021, pp. 427-436 |
| summary |
The implicitly parametric if-else logic of determining column-beam locations is applied manually on virtually every orthogonal design, thereby inflating workhours and cost through unnecessary repetition of labour. This paper presents the development of a generative algorithm (developed as Grasshopper plugin Eelish 2.0) that automates the placement of column centre points and beam centre lines on orthogonal floor plans. The manual process of column-beam placement is formalised as the algorithm through empirical analysis of layouts drawn by architects. The placement is executed iteratively from the largest room to the smallest room. It is guided by local and/or global orthogonal grids that are generated using walls of other rooms and beams of rooms calculated till the previous iteration. The placements are controlled by the maximum and minimum allowed spans of slabs, and four modes of grid generations. The generated layouts have a qualitative 'Satisfactory' or better approval rating of 82.4% by architects and 88.4% by structural engineers. |
| keywords |
Column; Beam; Orthogonal; Floor Plan; Automated; Grid |
| series |
eCAADe |
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| full text |
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