A multidisciplinary model for floorplan design

Maria Gloria del Rio-Cidoncha (1) , Juan Martínez Palacios (1) , Juan Eugenio Iglesias (2)

1 Departamento de Ingeniería Gráfica
2 Applied Physics III

The aim of this work is to develop and implement a model for facility layout design. The first step will be to study the traditional process of positioning, locating or distributing the different facilities, which will be done with the help of slicing trees. Afterwards, the connections between the facilities will be handled, looking for the shortest path that communicates them all, by the means of an expert system. Finally, the original surface's orientation will be treated, using rules from Feng Shui. These three aspects and their different techniques will be integrated into a single application, joining also the knowledge and experience from architects and engineers. The application's room distribution algorithm itself provides excellent results. Apart from that, the application considers the routing problem, especially important in Architecture (not so important in industrial plan design, when there are no walls between facilities). The application also considers the surface's orientation, which contributes to improving the building's comfortability and to power saving. The application's main advantage is that, while being a good tool for solving the facility layout problem, it also considers the building's routing and orientation.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Maria Gloria del Rio-Cidoncha, Juan Martínez Palacios, Juan Eugenio Iglesias. A multidisciplinary model for floorplan design. International Journal of Production Research, 2007, 45 (15), pp.3457-3476. ⟨10.1080/00207540600889550⟩. ⟨hal-00512937⟩