Voronoi Sketching on Spatial Allocation
That was about six months ago, our study for a design competition required a spatial allocation algorithm. An office building with a rectangular plot and a strict functional requirement forced me to the good old Voronoi diagrams, subdividing a surface. However, there were other design parameters such as the sunlight and orientations of each functional cell. Combining a couple of graph components helped me create diverse solutions later used in the functional-formal interpretation phase. Unfortunately, later on, the competition was canceled and this definition could not reach a final solution.
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