Architectural design has always been a balance between creativity, technical precision, and efficiency. However, traditional ...

Programmer Joel Simon has created an experimental research project, Evolving Floor Plans, to explore speculative and optimized plan layouts using generative design. Interested in the intersection of ...

Closed floor plans are making a comeback for added privacy and cozy, defined spaces—but open concepts still remain popular ...

A generative design algorithm devised by researcher Joel Simon could be used to make floor plans more efficient. Simon – who until recently was a lab member at Rockefeller University in New York, ...

For some American families, one kitchen is apparently not enough. What is wrong with having just one kitchen? Well, people cook in kitchens, and when they cook in kitchens, they make messes, and then, ...

If you are thinking of opening a restaurant or renovating an eating establishment that you already own, it is important to design a functional restaurant floor plan so that you will operate ...

Floor planning is among the most crucial steps in the design of a complex system-on-a-chip (SoC), as it represents the tradeoffs between marketing objectives and the realities of silicon at the ...