Multi-objective optimization of spatial morphology for highrise residential buildings in cold-climate regions of China
Available online 16 October 2025
In response to demands for improved living standards and sustainable development, optimizing the spatial morphology of residential districts is crucial for reducing energy use and enhancing indoor environmental...
Rethinking the basic plan types of architecture
Available online 15 October 2025
The types of architectural plan determine the overall style of a building and the efficiency of its internal functions, making it one of the core issues in architectural research. Previous research...
How to generate a museum floor plan: LoRA for diffusion models, or GANs?
Available online 13 October 2025
This study utilized a comparative methodology to explore the generative design of museum floor plans, addressing the complexity of meeting curatorial, designer, and visitor demands. A dataset of 263...
Ranking and sorting the Pareto front in optimal shell structure design
Available online 8 October 2025
The Pareto front is a collection of optimal solutions and trade-offs between objective functions without hierarchy. The challenge lies in selecting a single solution from this set for design development....
Alternative path to modernization: Research on three construction types in wartime Chongqing
Available online 7 October 2025
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931–1945) witnessed the relocation of China's Construction Center from downstream Yangtze River cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing to the inland...
Enhancing elderly passenger safety in within-station metro transfers: A case study of Xujiapeng Station, Wuhan
Available online 7 October 2025
Withurban population aging, optimizing metro transfer systems for elderly passengers has become a pressing issue. This study employed Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create a detailed 3D model...
Spatial efficiency evaluation of subway station areas neighboring historic districts: Integrate transportation, culture and place resource
Available online 4 October 2025
Recently, cultural tourism has emerged as a key driver for economic revitalization, and subway stations located near historic districts have become important cultural and economic centers. A pressing...
An analytical study of Chinese urban cemeteries based on urban morphology and spatial vitality: Case studies in Nanjing
Available online 4 October 2025
Under the dual influences of traditional Life-Death views and four decades of urban expansion, urban cemeteries, as unique elements of urban form, have transformed, inevitably impacting land planning...
Provincial interpretations and regional diversification dynamics in the classical period of Ottoman architecture: The case of Vezirhan Köprülü Mehmet Pasha Mosque
Available online 4 October 2025
This study investigates the transformation of Ottoman classical-period mosque architecture as it moved from its centralized, geometrically codified form in 16th–17th century Istanbul to the Anatolian...
Data-driven heritage revitalization: Exploring the paradigm of Lifen adaptive renovation evaluation based on space syntax
Available online 4 October 2025
Urban historical heritage conservation and adaptive reuse constitute a critical issue in urban renewal. Addressing the lack of effective evaluation tools for functional and spatial renovations of historical...
Assessing urban park services for children's wellbeing using user-generated content (UGC): A case study of Shanghai, China
Available online 3 October 2025
Urban parks play a crucial role in children's development. With UGC demonstrating their value in capturing granular user experiences, they have become an increasingly important data source in park research....
Performance comparison of deep reinforcement robot-arm learning in sequential fabrication of rule-based building design form
Available online 30 September 2025
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) remains underexplored within architectural robotics, particularly in relation to self-learning of architectural design principles and design-aware robotic fabrication....
The construction wisdom and inheritance mechanism of human settlements unit in Xizang border in China: A case study of Kejia Village in Ali
Available online 27 September 2025
In view of the characteristics of small scale and sparse distribution of Xizang border settlements, and the weak ability of suitability inheritance of traditional construction experience, the concept...
AI approaches to architectural design
Available online 26 September 2025
Fitting equations for the sorption isotherms of cement mortar with salt spray deposition
Available online 20 September 2025
The sorption isotherm of porous building materials serves as a critical hygrothermal property that regulates coupled heat and moisture transfer and influences the energy efficiency of building envelopes....
Between social and sustainable: A collaborative wood upcycling design process integrating AI and mixed reality tools
Available online 20 September 2025
The nature–culture divide, a longstanding conceptual separation between human beings and the natural environment, is increasingly challenged by the pressing need to address climate change. This urgency...
Navigating CLIPedia: Architectonic instruments for querying and questing a latent encyclopedia
Available online 20 September 2025
This paper introduces CLIPedia, an entirely local, highly scalable, multimodal search engine that integrates the structured knowledge of Wikipedia into the latent embedding space of OpenCLIP. Alongside...
Modelling hidden geometry in Madrid “malice houses” (1561–1788): Reversing traces in enlargements to discover original, ingenious designs
Available online 19 September 2025
This paper introduces a pioneering 2D analytical framework for unveiling unique “malice houses” (1561–1788)—low-rise, ugly, and uneven in appearance—in Madrid's historic city. The research focuses on...
Definition of the architectural style metric: An approach to quantitative analysis of design using language-image model
Available online 18 September 2025
This study proposes Architectural Style Metrics (ASM), a CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training)-based methodology for quantification of architectural design's visual characteristics. To address...
Reimagining synergy between architects and computational systems: Insights from web-based generative design applications
Available online 17 September 2025
This study reconsiders the evolving relationship between architects and computational systems in the context of increasingly embedded digital and intelligent technologies. Rather than focusing only...
How does the TOD pattern affect urban tourism vitality? Insights from Nanjing based on land use and urban form
Available online 6 September 2025
A transit-oriented development (TOD) pattern important for alleviating urban traffic congestion and enhancing the intensive use of land. It is also a key factor for promoting the sustainable development...
The Unconventional Village model and its application as a computational design method for compact communities in rural China
Available online 5 September 2025
This paper addresses the tension between standardized planning and vernacular adaptability in the unified development of rural communities in China. Drawing on case analyses of community open-design...
Drag2Build++: A drag-based 3D architectural mesh editing workflow based on differentiable surface modeling
Available online 5 September 2025
In modern architectural design, as complexity increases and diverse demands emerge, reconstructing 3D spaces has become a crucial method. However, existing methods remain limited to small-scale scenarios...
Cognitive preferences for architectural renovation strategies in traditional villages combining subjective evaluation and eye tracking
August 2025
With the implementation of the “rural revitalization” strategy, many traditional villages face the challenges of renewal and revitalization. A scientific and effective understanding of these renovation...
Using social sensing to evaluate the effect of spatial planning: A case study of Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China
August 2025
The increasing impacts of human activities on sustainable development have promoted the use of spatial planning as an essential policy tool to governing human activities patterns. However, the effect...
