Abstract:
Architectural design process has more sequences and is complicated within the
design process so that the architect has to be concerned about the process. In that process, the architect will look for every feasible schematic to make the best decision to be developed in the final process, however, preliminary designs involve both conceptual and schematic design that are concerned with quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. The objective of this paper is about using an assistance method to help architect to design and think in the preliminary design process by using a genetic algorithm to find the feasible solutions for conceptual and schematic design.
Preliminary design tools have been developed under the two main concepts:
quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis.
The quantitative analysis uses a measurement reasonable strategy to make an
acceptable decision for the topological method. The architect specifies desired
characteristics of the building, and the design tools automatically generate a
population of feasible schematic layout for the architect to decide upon a choice.
The qualitative analysis uses the behavior of an object-oriented representation
within the familiar working plan of an architect that allows the architect to interact and adjust the layout plan by guiding and assisting with the flexible tools. The architect will play and interact with the layout plan for two reasons; (1) to help and make a decision for the layout plan that is faster and more acceptable than the tool and (2) to complete with the elements and space for aesthetic and other subjective aspect of the design.
This paper will present the quantitative and qualitative analysis method as a
tool to assist architects in making and designing during the preliminary design phase.
Architects can using a tool to help them quickly explore the design in every scheme by using the computational algorithms to find feasible, and compare, efficient solutions