A multidisciplinary model for floorplan design

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 means of an expert system. Finally, the orientation of the original surface will be treated, using rules from feng shui. These three aspects and their different techniques will be integrated into a single application, with the addition of knowledge and experience from architects and engineers. The space-distribution algorithm of the application itself provides excellent results. Apart from that, the application considers the routing problem, especially important in architecture (but not so important in industrial plan design, when there are no walls between facilities). The application also considers the orientation of the surface, which helps to improve the comfortableness of the building and power saving. The main advantage of the application is that, while being a good tool for solving the facility layout problem, it also considers the routing and orientation of the building.