Two Generative Design Methods of Hospital Operating Department Layouts Based on Healthcare Systematic Layout Planning and Generative Adversarial Network
Hospital operating department layout generation using healthcare layout planning and generative adversarial networks.
Citation
Zhao, C., Yang, J., Xiong, W., & Li, J. (2021). Two generative design methods of hospital operating department layouts based on healthcare systematic layout planning and generative adversarial network. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), 26, 103-115.
About this work
This study compares two approaches to hospital operating department layout generation. The first combines healthcare systematic layout planning with a genetic algorithm. The second trains a pix2pix model on more than 100 annotated sets of department drawings.
The comparison examines functional adjacencies, optimization goals, layout variation, and data requirements. Both methods generate layouts for use in early architectural design.