A Computer-Aided Approach to Complex Building Layout Problems

This paper discusses the relations between locational objectives for activities and the resultant arrangements of built spaces to satisfy these objectives. In particular it is concerned with objectives which are complex, ill-defined, incomplete, and contradictory It describes the logic, and the uses, of an experimental interactive computer program, CLUMP 3, which enables a designer to test the effects on the spatial structure of a built environment of adopting different locational objectives, and alternative resolutions of conflict amongst objectives.