Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical forms of cities, towns,
and suburbs. It involves the arrangement and design of street systems, groups of buildings …

Cities are increasingly turning towards specialized technologies to address issues related to
society, ecology, morphology and many others. The emerging concept of Smart Cities highly …

Researchers have been extensively exploring the employment of generative systems to
support design practices in the architecture, engineering and construction industry since the …

The article presents the application of Hybrid Evolutionary and Greedy-based algorithms to
the problem of Automated Floor Plan Generation. The described optimization issue is part of …

Urban design has been valuable in bringing the principles of transit-oriented development
(TOD) into reality. However, a majority of recommendations summarized by scholars for …

In urban planning, a common unit of measure for housing density is the number of
households per hectare. However, the actual size of the physical space occupied by a …

Integrating deep generative models into urban form generation is an innovative and
promising approach to support the urban design process. However, most deep generative …

The field of generative design strives to enable the automated generation of multiple
suitable urban design alternatives. However, quantitative analysis is typically conducted in …

Virtual models' production is of high pertinence in research and business fields such as
architecture, archeology, or video games, whose requirements might range between …

Syntactic types are defined as sets of designs with particular properties. We are specifically
interested in the definition of deformed grids, a particular type of street network internal to …