A Computational Model for Mass Housing Design as a Decision-support Tool

Mass housing designs have become increasingly important due to the reasons of protecting urban aesthetic, providing originality and meeting the growing user demands. Accordingly, the need of having alternatives of new design approaches for these buildings has emerged. This paper focuses on the contributions of digital tools as a decision-support tool in the production of these approaches. For this purpose, an interactive plug-in which is applied in different stages of mass housing design has been developed as a computational tool by scripts of 3Ds Max software. In this paper, development processes and an implementation of this plug-in are presented.