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CityFormGen

Generative and optimisation methods for middle housing, compared under matched compute

RESEARCH GENERATIVE-DESIGN BENCHMARK - NOT CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION OR CODE CERTIFICATION.

easy · flats · 2 storeys

B0003: a fourplex on a 15 × 24.2 m lot

4 dwellings, 20 rooms. The pooled front across all methods holds 118 nondominated designs.

Requirements

Lot
15 × 24.2 m (363 m²)
Street side faces
150° (0 = north)
Setbacks front / rear / left / right
3.9 / 5.4 / 1.4 / 1.1 m
Storeys × height
2 × 2.8 m
Shared core
yes (access gallery + stair)
Open space, net of parking
40% of the lot
Parking spaces
2
Courtyard
not required
Tightness (programme / buildable volume)
0.538

Programme

DwellingTypeStoreyMin m²Rooms
U0studio033entry, living, kitchen, bathroom
U11BR046entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary
U21BR146entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary
U32BR163entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary, bedroom secondary

Required contacts: entry–living, kitchen–living. Doors forbidden between: entry–bedroom_primary, entry–bedroom_secondary, kitchen–bathroom.

Results by method

MethodSolvedHVEvalssNotes
Heuristic100%0.1545652.0
Random search0%0.00015005.0
Simulated annealing0%0.00015004.3
NSGA-II33%0.01715005.1
CP-SAT33%0.02545.5solver timeout
Random sketch + repair0%0.00015004.2repair collapse
Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II0%0.00015004.2repair collapse

Mean over 1 seeds (the heuristic is deterministic: one run).

Representative designs from the pooled front

Each is best on one objective, or the knee: the most balanced trade-off. None is best overall.

Closest attempts that failed

For methods that found nothing feasible: their least-infeasible design, with its violations marked on its page.

Pareto explorer

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Convergence on this brief

Archive hypervolume against evaluations, mean over seeds.

Heuristic
00.151500 ev
Random search
00.151500 ev
Simulated annealing
00.151500 ev
NSGA-II
00.151500 ev
CP-SAT
00.151500 ev
Random sketch + repair
00.151500 ev
Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II
00.151500 ev

What stopped designs here

Share of each method's evaluated designs that violated each constraint.
methodC04C05C06C07C08C09C10C11C13
Heuristic9%39%12%0%2%12%1%
Random search69%100%100%67%22%95%100%93%
Simulated annealing58%90%89%36%12%89%86%79%
NSGA-II57%89%95%35%7%55%73%41%
Random sketch + repair61%89%76%8%7%99%60%70%0%
Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II53%97%93%52%6%100%28%56%

Constraint definitions