This book presents three projects that demonstrate thefundamental problems of architectural
design and urban composition - the layoutdesign evaluation and optimization. Part I describes
the functional layoutdesign of a residential building and an evaluation of the quality of a
townsquare (plaza). The algorithm for the functional layout design is based onbacktracking
using a constraint satisfaction approach combined with coarse griddiscretization. The algorithm
for the town square evaluation is based ongeometrical properties derived directly from its
plan. Part II introduces a crowd-simulation application for theanalysis of escape routes on
floor plans and optimization of a floor plan forsmooth crowd flow. The algorithms presented
employ agent-based modeling andcellular automata.
