Gaps and requirements for applying automatic architectural design to building renovation: Fid-Bau Portal

Gaps and requirements for applying automatic architectural design to building renovation

Jiang, Shaohua / Wang, Meng / Ma, Ling

Abstract The renovation of existing buildings provides an opportunity to change the layout to meet the needs of facilities and accomplish sustainability in the built environment at high utilisation rates and low cost. However, building renovation design is complex, and completing architectural design schemes manually needs more efficiency and overall robustness. With the use of computational optimisation, automatic architectural design (AAD) can efficiently assist in building renovation through decision-making based on performance evaluation. This paper comprehensively analyses AAD's current research status and provides a state-of-the-art overview of applying AAD technology to building renovation. Besides, gaps and requirements of using AAD for building renovation are explored from quantitative and qualitative aspects, providing ideas for future research. The research shows that there is still much work to be done to apply AAD to building renovation, including quickly obtaining input data, expanding optimisation topics, selecting design methods, and improving workflow and efficiency.

Highlights • Providing a state-of-the-art overview of applying AAD technology to building renovation. • Presenting a comprehensive classification of automatic architectural design methods. • Analyzing the research field from functionality, energy-related performance, and economy. • Identifying current gaps and providing requirements for subsequent research.