Productivity · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Startup Generates Every Layout Option for a Project with AI
Arqgen, backed by FAPESP, uses generative design for interior layouts that follow banks' manuals.
- Tools
- Design generativo
- Source
- agencia.fapesp.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 17, 2024
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
The algorithms generate layout options that follow clients' architecture manuals, including those of two large banks, instead of an architect drawing a few options by hand.
How it went
The article contrasts days or weeks of manual work with a much faster process, without citing figures for the product.
Good to know
Results depend on well-written rules: review the manual and the accessibility standards (NBR 9050).
The prompt
Turn this layout manual [paste rules] into a list of verifiable constraints (minimum dimension, adjacency, prohibition), so I can check each proposed floor plan.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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