Shape Analysis and Visualization in Building Floor Plans

Building floor plans are an important tool forarchitects to derive new designs or analyze given designs. Here, architects are interested in the analysis of existing designs. Unfortunately, building floor plans need to be analyzed by architects manually, which requires a lot of time. This paper builds on a close collaboration between computer scientists and architects. The provided analytical methods allow extracting geometric primitives in building floor plans, resembles them to superior structures, and analyze their location and number of occurrences in a building floor plan. In this work, we show the effectiveness of the presented approach by applying it to a real-world building floor plan and discuss the results.