housegen
Housegen is a term used to describe generative design systems that automatically create house designs or floor plans. In architecture and construction, a housegen tool typically combines parametric modeling, constraint solving, and optimization to produce a range of viable housing configurations that meet specified requirements such as site footprint, room program, climate performance, and budget.
Origins and scope: Housegen emerged with the broader adoption of parametric and generative design in the 2000s
How it works: Users provide data—site dimensions, zoning constraints, programmatic needs, energy targets, and material preferences.
Applications and impact: In architecture and real estate, housegen enables rapid prototyping of housing schemes and
See also: generative design, parametric design, procedural content generation, BIM, Grasshopper, CAD.