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The building has 5 metrics that can be used to evaluate it. Some contribute positively to the building, some negatively (cost), and some both. For some of the metrics, the most information can be gleaned with ratios. For example, knowing the volume of the building doesn't help much, but knowing the ratio of floor area to volume or surface area to volume can give insights. Floor area and surface area have associated costs. Floor area also has value associated with it. The final metric is view directness, which is given in a numeric form. There is some upper limit of directness. Each panel on the building can have a maximum directness of 1 using the mapping of values. Panels with a negative directness were changed to 0, and at least half of the panels should have a negative directness. So even though the remaining half of the panels cannot all be direct, that value will be used as the upper limit (24 in this case).

To evaluate the buildings, I decided to use the Floor to Surface Area ratio, the average value per square foot (taken by dividing the total value of floor area by the floor area), and the directness of view. The value had the highest absolute value, with F:SA next, and then directness with a value less than 1. To evaluate, I created a weighted average to place value on each metric. 5% went to value, 15% to floor to area ratio, and 80% to the view directness. However, since each has such different values, these are not true weighted averages. I feel that this gives a good balance to the building, however, and does not neglect any category.

The final building had mid rotation of 100 degrees and top rotation of 125 degrees. Not only does this building have a pleasing form, but it scores well in all the metrics.