Plan Libre: a generator for individualized living

In contemporary housing construction it has become more and more difficult to determine the requirements of future inhabitants because of changing ways of living and an increasing individualisation.That is why the design of multi-storied housing often does not correspond with the inhabitant demands. The goal of the generator is to react to the changing ways of living by introducing individual variability and selection possibilities into the design of floor plans. Instead of accepting a predefined distribution of spaces every inhabitant will be enabled to design his own plan layout. The resulting dimensions of the walls then will be exported as XML-files and used as input for the production of wooden partition walls.

A first prototype

The given prototype of the Plan Libre-configurator realizes step 1, 2 and 4 of the program described above.