AI for Architecture: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Design (CCD 2024)

Name: AI for Architecture: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Design (CCD 2024)
Author: Jiayan Fu
ISBN: 9789819509737

Jiayan Fu

PublisherSpringer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Published2026pages249LanguageEnglishISBN-139789819509737ISBN-109819509734FormatPDF

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Digital Twins for Intelligent ConstructionInteractive Installations and Responsive EnvironmentsVirtual and Augmented Reality in DesignGenerative Landscape DesignUrban Data AnalyticsAI for Urban Planning and PolicySimulation and Modeling of Urban SystemsAI-Generated Art and MediaData-Driven Storytelling and Visualization

About this book

This open access book series includes compilations of selected papers from the International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication. The books focus on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. It not only aims at the most recent research results from the key scholars in the computational design and robotic fabrication, but also offers an in-depth examination of intelligence in design and construction industry, referring to the invention and application of machine intelligence in architecture.The proceedings in this series are related with Sustainable Development Goals 11 (Sustainable Cities & Communities) and 9 (Industry Innovation & Infrastructure). The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers will encounter new ideas about understanding intelligence in architecture.

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7 questions5 chapters covered18 topics

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Chapter 1: Computational Design and Intelligent Construction

How do House-GAN++ and the method by Zheng and Petzold differ in their approach to generating floor plan layouts?

House-GAN++ directly represents a floor plan as a graph, where rooms are nodes and their relationships are edges, and it generates the layout conditioned on room count, types, and areas. Zheng and Petzold differ by separating the prediction of room topology from the prediction of room geometry, using subgraph neural networks for topology and neural-guided plan sketching for geometry. In short, House-GAN++ uses a unified graph-based generative process, while Zheng and Petzold decouple topological reasoning from geometric layout generation.

Intermediatep. 29-49

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What is the role of graph neural networks (GNN) in the cross-modal spatial layout generation method proposed in this chapter?

In the proposed method, the GNN acts as the generative model that receives feature embeddings created by AI agents from text, graph, and boundary inputs, and outputs node and edge features that are converted into a detailed 3D spatial layout. Nodes represent spatial grids and edges represent wall categories, so the GNN learns to infer layout details such as wall types and spatial divisions from the fused cross-modal inputs.

Intermediatep. 29-34

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How does the RoomGNN approach convert bubble diagrams and building boundaries into a format suitable for AI generative models?

RoomGNN first uses AI agents to convert bubble diagrams and building boundaries into structured text. Those structured data are then turned into room feature embeddings by mapping room coordinates inside the boundary, applying a Signed Distance Function to color potential diffusion areas, and overlaying a grid to compute influence probabilities. These embeddings become node features for the GNN, whose edges represent wall categories, enabling the model to generate spatial layouts.

Intermediatep. 30-37

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Chapter 2: Computational Urban Science

What are the limitations of location-based analysis methods (WiFi, mobile signaling, GPS) for studying human behavior, and how do computer vision methods address these limitations?

Location-based methods like WiFi, mobile signaling, and GPS can track spatiotemporal trajectories at large scales with minimal interference, but they only capture location information. They cannot provide deeper insights into micro-level behavioral details, such as gait or body posture, leaving fine-grained behavioral studies difficult to quantify. Computer vision methods address this by adding object detection, tracking, and pose estimation to extract detailed key-point data and enable automated, visual, real-time analysis of micro-behaviors.

Intermediatep. 77-87

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Chapter 3: Computational Urban Design

According to the study by Jiang and Zou, which morphological indicators were analyzed for their correlation with building energy consumption?

The study analyzed twelve morphological indicators; the named ones include building floor area ratio, building density, average height of individual buildings, and weighted average height of building area. Other indicators that appear in the reported analyses include unit area, average building perimeter, standard deviation of building height, average distance between buildings, average shortest distance of buildings, and area.

Introductoryp. 149-161

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Chapter 4: Computational Landscape

What are the four passive renovation strategies proposed for optimizing thermal comfort in Lingnan school courtyards, and how are they evaluated?

The four passive renovation strategies are opening, shading, inner facades, and underlying surfaces. They are evaluated by simulating each strategy on a Lingnan school courtyard prototype with ENVI-met and using the mean Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (mPET) of the courtyard observation area as the thermal comfort indicator. The simulations are run for the summer solstice period, and the results are compared qualitatively and quantitatively to identify the most effective renovation approach.

Intermediatep. 215-223

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Chapter 5: Computational Media and Art

How does the study use semantic analysis of historical texts to reconstruct the urban space of Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty?

The study applies semantic analysis to historical texts about Northern Wei Luoyang using HanLP for part-of-speech tagging and syntactic parsing. This produces semantic trees and abstract meaning representations that identify buildings and spatial relations such as which temple lies north or south of another. By cross-referencing texts like A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang, the researchers verified the relative positions of 48 temples to map the road network, water system, and temple distribution. Semantic analysis at the block scale then used quantitative architectural descriptions to infer building sizes, typologies, courtyard layouts, and street layouts.

Intermediatep. 237-245

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