Parametric Real Estate Volume Positioning in Geometric Grids

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Solution Overview

Problem

The French real estate industry faces challenges in providing customizable, sustainable, and scalable solutions that meet the diverse demands of users, resulting in a disconnect between desired and produced properties, which hinders urban development.

Innovation Solution

A computerized method for positioning real estate volumes within a building framework, allowing buyers to define parameters such as geometry, position constraints, and degrees of freedom, enabling personalized and adaptable building configurations that can be customized before and after construction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional top-down real estate production methods are used, then regulatory compliance and risk control are improved, but customization and adaptability to diverse user demands deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregulatory complianceVSAvoidcustomization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The building is divided into a modular geometric capable frame with standardized elementary units, allowing the structure to be segmented into reusable components while maintaining overall regulatory compliance. This segmentation enables flexible reconfiguration to meet diverse user demands without compromising the standardized framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from static, predetermined real estate offerings to dynamic, user-configurable volume arrangements. Buyers can define custom geometries and positions for real estate volumes within the standardized frame, allowing the system to adapt to changing demands while maintaining structural and regulatory integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If standardized real estate offerings are produced, then manufacturing complexity and risk are reduced, but product diversity and user satisfaction deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction complexityVSAvoidproduct diversity
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The geometric capable frame serves as a universal standardized structure that can accommodate multiple different real estate volume configurations. The same elementary units and framing system can support diverse building types, floor plans, and volume arrangements, enabling product diversity without increasing production complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

While the overall building parameters (frame dimensions, elementary unit sizes) remain standardized, the system allows parameter changes at the volume level through user-defined geometries and positions. This enables product diversity in terms of internal configuration while maintaining standardized external parameters for construction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If old real estate is renovated to meet standards, then energy performance and accessibility are improved, but costs and implementation uncertainty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenergy performanceVSAvoidimplementation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary standardization by pre-defining the geometric capable frame and elementary units before actual construction or renovation. This preliminary action establishes clear parameters and constraints that guide subsequent volume positioning and configuration, reducing implementation uncertainty and making cost estimation more predictable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4030332A1Method for constructing a building according to a parametric positioning of the real estate volumes
Publication Date: 2022.07.20 MODUS AEDIFICANDI
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AI summary

A computerized method for positioning real estate volumes (5) within a real estate building (100), the real estate building being defined by a three-dimensional geometric grid (2) formed by a set of predetermined three-dimensional elementary units (3). The method comprises the following successive steps: - a computerized parameterization module defines building parameters (100) of the real estate building (100), - a computerized parameterization module defines volume parameters (5) of a real estate volume (5): o three-dimensional geometry of the volume (5) according to a number of elementary units (3) composing it and their relative positions within the volume (5), and o at least one degree of freedom of position of the volume (5) within the geometric grid (2), and/or o at least one constraint of the position of the volume (5) within the geometric grid (2).- a computerized module for combining volume positions (5) determines a combination of positions of the volumes (5), defined by the parameterization module, within the geometrically capable grid (2) according to the parameters of each volume (5) and the building parameters (100), and - a computerized positioning module positions the volumes (5) (3) within the building (100) according to the determined combination.