Post-disaster Temporary Housing System based on Generative Design Method

Abstract

In the current context of frequent natural disasters in China, this paper chooses to combine computer generative design methods with post-disaster modular temporary housing as a research topic, and studies the architectural generative design method and the temporary resettlement of disaster victims from a new perspective. Architecture is being nowadays radically rethought in the design processes it employs, moving away from the traditional approach of individual 'signature' buildings or from a simply functional design, to the logics of nonlinearity, in which evolutionary intelligence plays an important role. This is a way of creating architectural structures as a result of a programmed system. In particular, the paper aims to develop and explore computer programming processes to quickly generate a modular housing combination method to provide an efficient and scientific post-disaster modular temporary housing design proposal. This research will provide new possibilities for temporary housing settlements for disaster victims in China and a new approach in computational architectural design under this context. 