Housing Stock: Automated Building Layouts for Sustainable Cities

The architectural discipline faces a dual challenge: how can we lower energy use and carbon emissions for buildings, while building more to house growing populations? Housing Stock tackles this question through a technological lens by developing new algorithms and data structures that can automatically generate and analyse architectural floor plans. A quantitative analysis and energy simulation of apartments across the world reveals how architectural space can be the most crucial factor for a building’s emissions. Through the artificial generation of floor plans, architects can combine human creativity with machine intelligence to create sustainable urban environments of the future.