What a Comfortable World: Ergonomic Principles Guided Apartment Layout Generation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a transformer-based method for generating apartment layouts that incorporate ergonomic principles, resulting in more livable and standards-compliant floor plans.

Contribution

It integrates architectural design principles into a generative model using differentiable loss functions based on established standards.

Findings

Generated layouts show improved ergonomic compliance.

The method outperforms baselines in livability metrics.

Layouts maintain high structural validity.

Abstract

Current data-driven floor plan generation methods often reproduce the ergonomic inefficiencies found in real-world training datasets. To address this, we propose a novel approach that integrates architectural design principles directly into a transformer-based generative process. We formulate differentiable loss functions based on established architectural standards from literature to optimize room adjacency and proximity. By guiding the model with these ergonomic priors during training, our method produces layouts with significantly improved livability metrics. Comparative evaluations show that our approach outperforms baselines in ergonomic compliance while maintaining high structural validity.