FlexPlan: High-flexibility interactive floorplan design based on ArchiGraph

Abstract

AI-aided floorplan design is a longstanding task in computer graphics. However, most of the existing methods focus on generating floorplans by limited architecture-level elements (e.g., room sizes, positions, and adjacencies), which ignore environmental factors and do not support customized designs. In this paper, we propose FlexPlan, an interactive approach for high-flexibility floorplan design. In FlexPlan, we propose a novel graph structure, named ArchiGraph, which enables flexible editing more comprehensive layout elements (e.g., architectures, environments, human needs) in a floorplan. First, we match similar floorplans according to the input architecture and environment features. Then, leveraging ArchiGraph, we interactively produce rooms’ attributes and quickly output the vectorized floorplans. For ArchiGraph, we design a RelationNet to predict room adjacencies, and propose a BoxNet to generate high-quality room boxes. Subjective and objective experiments show that our method is compatible with generating diverse complex floorplans (e.g., floorplans with irregular layout boundaries and room shapes). Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, our method can produce higher quality floorplans, and increase the speed of layout generation by nearly 20 times at most.