Leah Altman
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Housing Stock:
Automated Building Layouts for Sustainable Cities
Project by Ramon Weber, Exhibition presented for the 2025 Venice Biennale
Team: Yuhan Zhang, Leah Mary Altman, Frederic Lam, Linc Ruiz-Truong, Sihyeok Yang, Mia Wilson, Emma Nakaoka, Noël Fäh
The architectural discipline faces a dual challenge: how can we lower energy use and carbon emissions for buildings, while building more to house growing populations?
Housing Stock tackles this question through a technological lens by developing new algorithms and data structures that can automatically generate and analyse architectural floor plans. A quantitative analysis and energy simulation of apartments across the world reveals how architectural space can be the most crucial factor for a building’s emissions.
Through the artificial generation of floor plans, architects can combine human creativity with machine intelligence to create sustainable urban environments of the future.