AUTOMATED SPACE LAYOUT PLANNING USING CONIX SOFTWARE BASED ON A CASE STUDY IN EGYPT

Abstract

The designing of the floor plan is one of the most important design steps, which is the post-conceptual design stage. Manual design is done through a trial-and-error process, in return a lot of time and effort is consumed. This thesis explains the concept of automating the design of floor plans, and the approaches of using automation in design in terms of dealing with spaces, relationships, and others. Then clarifying the digital tools that help to produce floor plans automatically with high efficiency that meets the designer's desire. The first Egyptian digital tool is chosen to automate the floor planning and analyzing it in terms of the floor planning automation approaches on which the tool relied. Then applying the tool to two design projects in Egypt to compare the manual design with the automatic design, and the unified design with the multiple design.