medium · flats · 2 storeys
B0063: a fourplex on a 14.6 × 26.9 m lot
4 dwellings, 22 rooms. The pooled front across all methods holds 81 nondominated designs.
Requirements
- Lot
- 14.6 × 26.9 m (393 m²)
- Street side faces
- 15° (0 = north)
- Setbacks front / rear / left / right
- 3.8 / 6.5 / 1.7 / 1.3 m
- Storeys × height
- 2 × 2.8 m
- Shared core
- yes (access gallery + stair)
- Open space, net of parking
- ≥ 30% of the lot
- Parking spaces
- 1
- Courtyard
- not required
- Tightness (programme / buildable volume)
- 0.598
Programme
| Dwelling | Type | Storey | Min m² | Rooms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U0 | 1BR | 0 | 46 | entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary |
| U1 | 1BR | 0 | 46 | entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary |
| U2 | 2BR | 1 | 63 | entry, living, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom primary, bedroom secondary |
| U3 | 2BR | 1 | 63 | entry, 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
| Method | Solved | HV | Evals | s | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heuristic | 100% | 0.141 | 521 | 2.1 | |
| Random search | 0% | 0.000 | 1500 | 5.4 | |
| Simulated annealing | 0% | 0.000 | 1500 | 5.3 | |
| NSGA-II | 0% | 0.000 | 1500 | 6.0 | |
| CP-SAT | 0% | 0.000 | 0 | 4.6 | solver timeout |
| Random sketch + repair | 33% | 0.040 | 1500 | 5.8 | repair collapse |
| Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II | 0% | 0.000 | 1500 | 5.9 | repair 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.
What stopped designs here
| method | C04 | C05 | C06 | C07 | C08 | C09 | C10 | C11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heuristic | 16% | 37% | 31% | 1% | – | 2% | 13% | 1% |
| Random search | 77% | 100% | 100% | 87% | 36% | 98% | 100% | 97% |
| Simulated annealing | 51% | 89% | 90% | 43% | 12% | 81% | 77% | 75% |
| NSGA-II | 53% | 98% | 98% | 57% | 9% | 81% | 85% | 71% |
| Random sketch + repair | 53% | 80% | 77% | 13% | 15% | 78% | 75% | 64% |
| Heuristic-seeded NSGA-II | 55% | 100% | 100% | 75% | 5% | 99% | 25% | 36% |