Harmonic Search Algorithm for Automated Building Plan Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The production of residential buildings, particularly apartment buildings, is complex and time-consuming due to the need to balance technical aspects, living comfort, aesthetics, and costs, with existing methods requiring numerous manual steps and lacking automation, leading to high costs and susceptibility to errors.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that detects and analyzes building surfaces and parameters, generates a building plan using a harmonic search algorithm, and transmits specifications to a server for optimized building production, minimizing manual steps and errors while considering multiple influencing variables.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual methods are used for building production planning, then flexibility in handling individual building requirements is maintained, but production time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The building production process is segmented into discrete parameters (building surface, volume, number of rooms, wall thickness, etc.) that can be independently analyzed and optimized. This allows the system to handle individual building requirements through parameter customization while maintaining automated processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses parameter changes to adapt building plans to individual requirements. By modifying key parameters (floor area, room count, wall dimensions, material specifications) within the automated algorithm, the system generates customized building plans without requiring manual redesign, thus maintaining flexibility while reducing production time.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual steps are used in building production, then complex individual requirements can be addressed, but susceptibility to errors increases
Solution Approach 1:
The automated algorithm incorporates feedback mechanisms that continuously validate building parameters against technical standards, construction regulations, and project requirements. This feedback loop ensures that complex individual requirements are systematically verified, reducing error susceptibility while maintaining the ability to address sophisticated building specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical planning processes with automated computational algorithms. This substitution eliminates human error in calculations and compliance checking while maintaining the capability to handle complex requirements through programmed logic and constraint satisfaction methods.
3Productivity
If automated algorithms are used for building plan generation, then production time is reduced, but complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The automated algorithm serves multiple functions: it generates building plans, checks compliance with technical standards, optimizes material usage, and adapts to individual requirements. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate complex systems into a single integrated algorithm, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-programming building standards, regulations, and optimization criteria into the algorithm before execution. This preliminary configuration allows the algorithm to rapidly generate compliant building plans without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thus reducing system complexity while maintaining high production speed.
4Manufacturing precision
If comprehensive parameters are analyzed in building production, then building quality and compliance are improved, but time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The algorithm applies partial analysis by focusing computational resources on the most critical building parameters (structural integrity, compliance with mandatory standards, spatial requirements) while using simplified models for less critical aspects. This selective approach maintains high manufacturing precision for essential elements without requiring exhaustive analysis of all possible parameters, thus reducing analysis time.
Solution Approach 2:
Comprehensive building standards, technical requirements, and optimization criteria are pre-loaded into the algorithm before the building plan generation process. This preliminary preparation allows the system to rapidly evaluate comprehensive parameters during execution without requiring time-consuming real-time research or calculation of baseline requirements, thereby maintaining high precision while reducing analysis time.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a method and a system for producing a building, which comprises at least one building subunit. In this case, technical boundary conditions for the production of a building are first generated in that a development area and country-specific building specifications are recorded and/or analysed. On the basis of the technical boundary conditions, a building plan is created via a client-server model, a server device generating a building specification optimized for the technical boundary conditions via an algorithm of the harmonic search. Building measures for the building to be built are finally initiated on the basis of the building plan.