easy · flats · 2 storeys
B0038: a duplex on a 14.4 × 20.5 m lot
2 dwellings, 10 rooms. The pooled front across all methods holds 377 nondominated designs.
Requirements
- Lot
- 14.4 × 20.5 m (295 m²)
- Street side faces
- 195° (0 = north)
- Setbacks front / rear / left / right
- 4.2 / 6 / 2.4 / 1.1 m
- Storeys × height
- 2 × 2.8 m
- Shared core
- yes (access gallery + stair)
- Open space, net of parking
- ≥ 23% of the lot
- Parking spaces
- 0
- Courtyard
- not required
- Tightness (programme / buildable volume)
- 0.451
Programme
| Dwelling | Type | Storey | Min m² | Rooms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U0 | 1BR | 0 | 46 | entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary |
| U1 | 1BR | 1 | 46 | entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary |
Required contacts: entry–living, kitchen–living. Doors forbidden between: entry–bedroom_primary, entry–bedroom_secondary, kitchen–bathroom.
Results by method
| Method | Solved | HV | Evals | s | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heuristic | 100% | 0.122 | 217 | 0.5 | |
| Random search | 100% | 0.081 | 1500 | 3.3 | |
| Simulated annealing | 100% | 0.142 | 1500 | 4.6 | |
| NSGA-II | 100% | 0.169 | 1500 | 6.1 | |
| CP-SAT | 100% | 0.172 | 41 | 6.8 | |
| Random sketch + repair | 100% | 0.211 | 1500 | 5.5 | repair collapse |
| Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II | 100% | 0.098 | 1500 | 5.9 |
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.
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Convergence on this brief
Archive hypervolume against evaluations, mean over seeds.
What stopped designs here
| method | C04 | C05 | C06 | C07 | C08 | C09 | C10 | C11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heuristic | 10% | 36% | 57% | – | – | 1% | 2% | 1% |
| Random search | 23% | 89% | 71% | 2% | 8% | 68% | 21% | 80% |
| Simulated annealing | 20% | 58% | 46% | 6% | 7% | 25% | 17% | 27% |
| NSGA-II | 18% | 47% | 30% | 6% | 6% | 34% | 14% | 30% |
| Random sketch + repair | 17% | 48% | 41% | 5% | 6% | 28% | 21% | 36% |
| Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II | 30% | 62% | 40% | 6% | 6% | 29% | 12% | 22% |