High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
H.O.G.A.R. Project – a tool for efficient house design plus
an immersive user experience
R. Rubio & S. Martin
IDEASCAD Research Group, University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain
S. Martin-Laguna & J.C. Fernández
VORTICA Inc., Spain
ABSTRACT: During 2013, IDEASCAD research group was collaborating with some companies in Spain to
bring out a new tool (based on generative design) for efficient house design based on relevant parameters such
as irradiation, structural efficiency and isolations. Those criteria were chosen from customers’surveys and from
the experience as architects of some of the companies involved. This tool allows us to offer the customers ...