brute-force search

irregular facade pattern

The façade is made of eight differently sized prefabricated, concrete panels. They are organized in an irregular pattern that underlies various design criteria – gradient from small to large elements, minimization of cross joints, minimization of continuous lines, minimization of the smallest element.
An optimization routine would have been difficult to implement as there are to many dependencies and goals to work with.
The calculation time for one option was reduced, in order to have an effective brute-force search in a multi-threaded environment, that was able to cycle through billions of options and filter out the best performing patterns.