THE APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR CONTROLLING SOUND QUALITY BY ARCHITECTURAL FORM DESIGN
Presently, the architectural design responding to the sound environment has become to play an important role in the design process. New technologies such as simulation and optimization models through a computer allow us to discover the possibility of shapes, forms, and materials that respond to a specific condition of the acoustic environment. However, due to the complexity of variables, we have to face the difficulty of how to evaluate the calculated result. How should one know if the said design is suitable successful for the activities in that area? One of the solutions is using the genetic algorithm, which refers to the scenario simulation and adjustment to find the most suitable model. It provides the possibility of shape and materials to be the best result to design the architecture responding to the sound environment. The objective of this research is to propose a guideline for using genetic algorithms for architectural design by using sound quality as the Fitness function to find the best results terms of shape and material used. The proposed process takes reverberation time of sound and audio ray-tracing into consideration. The result of this research shows applications, abilities, and limitations of genetic algorithms in the domain of architectural parametric design.