Status: Experiment. This page describes the goal and approach; it will be updated as work is verified.
Engineering context
Early structural decisions — grid spacing, bay sizes, core positions — shape everything after them, yet only a few options are usually studied because each one takes time to model.
Challenge
Make it practical to generate and compare a family of layouts from one set of parameters, with consistent assumptions across all of them.
Workflow
- Define the layout as parameters: grid, bays, storeys, core position.
- Generate variants consistently from those parameters.
- Run comparable analyses and collect the same outputs for each.
- Present results side by side for engineering judgement.
Automation created
Experimental scripts for generating layout variants. To be documented when the approach is stable.
Tools used
- Python
- ETABS
Outcome
Experiment. Findings will be shared only when they are reproducible.
Limitations and scope
A comparison aid for early studies — not a substitute for detailed design.