A Computational Method to Generate One-story Floor Plans for Nursing Homes Based on Daylight Hour Potential and Shortest Path of Circulations

Master Thesis (2020)
Author(s)

L. Jiang (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor(s)

Pirouz Nourian – Mentor (TU Delft - Design Informatics)

Regina Bokel – Mentor (TU Delft - Building Physics)

G. Coumans – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)

Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright
© 2020 Lincheng Jiang
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Copyright
© 2020 Lincheng Jiang
Graduation Date
09-11-2020
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Programme
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Abstract

Design of elderly care buildings like nursing homes usually looks for balances between the livability for residents and the circulation efficiency for staffs and workers. Losing the balance between these two has the potential of either dissatisfying residents, uncomfortable living experiences, or causing low efficiency in operations, which might lead to extra working loads, longer service hours and higher service costs. This thesis first proposes an interactive computational methodology to embed daylight hour potential analysis and pathfinding of circulations into the early stage of the architectural design workflow, then the methodology is implemented to a test design case and the result is evaluated and compared to a manually designed result.

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