Functional Formulas for Multi-family Housing: Finding the Value of f(x)
May 05, 2020
4 minutes
Lee Seungteak
co-principal, stpmj
Restriction-Generated Functional Formulas for Housing
he floor area ratio, a calculation system to secure the largest building area, is one of the inevitable challenges and greatest restrictions for architects. In this game, they should present various strategies to design a building and its supplementary spaces against countless regulations. In which direction should such a solution be developed? Designing a floor plan or an exterior volume for building by computer software developed in light of a huge amount of data and algorithms is not very astonishing idea. Accounting for how the housing environment in Korea has developed makes me think that this method might provide more options than those presently available to architects.
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