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I considered the case of a high-rise office building. As shown below, the Empire State Building is composed of larger floor areas on the base and goes smaller and smaller as it goes higher. The setbacks were mandated, which intended to allow sunlight to reach the streets. I wanted to explore the human comfort of such structure by simulating the building using simplified 3 blocks on top of each other.
Step 1 - Generative Design Framework
Step 2 - Generative Design Study
Step 3 - Generative Design Study Results
- The plot above is total cost vs rentable area. We would prefer a smaller total cost and larger rentable area. Thus, the lower right direction is preferred.
- We would also prefer a larger common area ratio for the seek of human comfort. Thus, blue is preferred.
- The space efficiency is the larger the better. The size of the points showing that the space efficiency is larger on the topper right.
Based on these understandings, the orange case next to the two red ones is efficient and thus selected and shown below. We can see that the top block height is minimized to 10 since the higher the more expensive cost it is. The common area ratio is also better than the other nearby cases, and 0.25 is a reasonable range. The space efficiency is relatively large as well.
