ARCH-Elites: Quality-Diversity for Urban Design

18 Apr 2021  ·  Theodoros Galanos, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Reinhard Koenig ·

This paper introduces ARCH-Elites, a MAP-Elites implementation that can reconfigure large-scale urban layouts at real-world locations via a pre-trained surrogate model instead of costly simulations. In a series of experiments, we generate novel urban designs for two real-world locations in Boston, Massachusetts. Combining the exploration of a possibility space with real-time performance evaluation creates a powerful new paradigm for architectural generative design that can extract and articulate design intelligence.

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