Student: Joost Meulenkamp

The traditional approach of the architect, i.e. planning from the large urban scale to small scale in detail, can also be reversed. Detailed residential units can be arranged to form a whole. It is assumed that certain functions for economic or social reasons should be grouped in plan.

The floor plans of residential units are generated in Gephi and with the help of Grasshopper and Kangaroo arranged in a circle. Now, if a higher value is assigned to a room type, the formation begins to rotate and the corresponding three-dimensional type of each living unit moves towards the center. Other factors can be turned on that control, the attractiveness of nodes and to avoid overlaps. These tools create new groupings that can be a prototype to discover new layouts.