Generative design uses the principles of evolution to improve design options iteratively. It adapts the three operators of selection, crossover, and mutation to generate solu-tions and evaluate them on design goals. This study focuses on the potential this method holds for early project stages in the AEC industry. The goal is to produce a basic model of a project and optimize it in the aspects relevant to early project development. When a well-defined vision of the design and a set of relevant evaluation measures exist, generative design can provide profitable solutions. It can help optimize a project and find the right geometry to fulfill non-geometric goals. However, some aspects that might be trivial to the human designer, but hard to translate into calculatable scores, will be elaborate to implement.     «

Generative design uses the principles of evolution to improve design options iteratively. It adapts the three operators of selection, crossover, and mutation to generate solu-tions and evaluate them on design goals. This study focuses on the potential this method holds for early project stages in the AEC industry. The goal is to produce a basic model of a project and optimize it in the aspects relevant to early project development. When a well-defined vision of the design and a set of relevant e...     »