Free-form Floor Plan Design using Differentiable Voronoi Diagram

Abstract

Designing floor plans is difficult because various constraints must be satisfied by the layouts of the internal walls. This paper presents a novel shape representation and optimization method for designing floor plans based on the Voronoi diagrams. Our Voronoi diagram implicitly specifies the shape of the room using the distance from the Voronoi sites, thus facilitating the topological changes in the wall layout by moving these sites. Since the differentiation of the explicit wall representation is readily available, our method can incorporate various constraints, such as room areas and room connectivity, into the optimization. We demonstrate that our method can generate various floor plans while allowing users to interactively change the constraints.

Xuanyu Wu

Master Student (2nd year)

Kenji Tojo

Ph.D Student (2nd year)

Nobuyuki Umetani

Associate Professor

My research interests include interactive smart engineering design tool using physics simulation and machine learning.