Buildings account for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, but a new algorithm-based method of designing floor plans for apartment buildings could reduce those emissions by ensuring more efficient use of space. The newly developed tool called a “hypergraph” encodes floor plans as a collection of nodes and edges representing rooms and connections between them. It can help researchers evaluate existing floor plans and automatically generate new floor plans to subdivide a given building footprint into apartments or to subdivide a given apartment unit into rooms. Another computer analysis ensures that floor plans can accommodate all the necessary furniture for a given room’s function (i.e. a bed, dresser, and cabinet in a bedroom) while minimizing excess space.
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