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Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans

Author(s): L. Faggion1, R. Furlan2
1Charles Darwin University
2Lusail University
L. Faggion
Charles Darwin University
R. Furlan
Lusail University

Abstract

Comparative studies of generative space-planning methods are most useful when they move beyond an overall ranking and explain how performance changes across recurrent spatial conditions. This article presents a secondary, typology-conditioned reanalysis of a 50-case benchmark for adaptive hotel planning in existing buildings. The benchmark evaluates three algorithmic strategies for room allocation within fixed floor boundaries: a general-rules tessellation method, a self-organization method, and a mixed corridor-attraction method. The underlying benchmark used a common brief with a target room area of 25 m2 and corridor width of 1.6 m, and it assessed outcomes across I-, L-, C-, T-, and H-type plan families. The present study reanalyzes the published case-level reviewed room counts for all 50 benchmark cases and treats reviewed capacity as the primary outcome because it reflects post-validation usable yield under a common proof-of-concept brief. The article augments whole-sample comparisons with typology-specific descriptive statistics, repeated-measures nonparametric tests, pairwise dominance analysis, winner-share analysis, a leave-one-case-out sensitivity check, and a detailed appendix of case-level rankings. Across the full benchmark, the general-rules method produced the highest reviewed total (1588 rooms), followed by the mixed method (1468) and self-organization (1307). The overall difference was statistically significant (Friedman χ2(2) = 50.51, p < 0.001, Kendall’s W = 0.505), the same hierarchy persisted in each typological subset, and the pooled ordering was preserved in all 50 leave-one-case-out re-estimations. However, the margin of superiority varied substantially. The mixed method remained locally competitive in several I-, C-, L-, and T-type cases, whereas the general-rules method was especially dominant in H-type plans. These findings show that typology-conditioned benchmarking yields a more operational basis for algorithm selection than pooled comparison alone, while also indicating that the evidence should be interpreted within the reviewed-capacity criterion used by the source benchmark. For early-stage adaptive hotel planning under that criterion, tessellation should be treated as the default baseline, the mixed method as the principal flexible alternative, and self-organization as an exploratory supplement rather than a primary capacity-maximizing routine.

Copyright © 2023 L. Faggion, R. Furlan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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APA
Faggion, L., Furlan, R. (2023). Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 37(4), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.66033/japr2022-403
MLA
Faggion, L., and R. Furlan. "Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, vol. 37, no. 4, 2023, pp. 28-42.
Chicago
Faggion, L.. "Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 37, no. 4 (2023): 28-42. https://doi.org/10.66033/japr2022-403
Harvard
Faggion, L., Furlan, R., 2023. Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 37(4), pp.28-42.
Vancouver
Faggion L, Furlan R. Typology-Conditioned Performance, Robustness, and Selection Logic of Generative Hotel Layout Algorithms: A Detailed Comparative Study Across 50 Adaptive-Reuse Floor Plans. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 2023;37(4):28-42.