Evaluating physical and spatial requirements of apartment unit floor plans

This   paper   demonstrates   an   experience   in   the development  of  a  design  performance  evaluation system that can frequently evaluate building design performance within the design process in a real-time manner.   The   evaluation   system,  that we   call "Vitruvius Studio," is composed of several modules such as a front-end component-based CAD engine, a knowledge base, and a set of design agents. While a computer programmer     compiles     a     set     of programming codes to check compiling errors during the   implementation   of   a   software   system,   an architectural designer can  'compile'  his/her intermediate design product to evaluate design errors during the design process. The compilation can be done immediately at any level or any time during the design process in a real-time manner. We expect that this  compiling  process  will  dramatically increase design feedbacks, and thus result in a better design product.